The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
POLITICAL WATERS QUIET DOWN AGAIN FOLLOWING STORM
Daugherty Harding Friend ship Not Broken by Flor
 ida Incident

WASHINGTON, March 3o.-Po- litical waters have calmed down after week of squalls which had the nerves of the nations foremost po- litical figures in both parties taut and ready to snap back with loud reports.
 For day or SC, the lifelong friend ship between President Harding and Attorney General Daugherty was re- ported to have come to an end be- cause of the 1atter's announcement that the President would be candi- date for second term.
 A real quarrel between Harding and Daugherty would be as sensa- tional an event as the break be- tween Wilson and Col. F. H. House. Harding and Daugherty have been closer friends than the latter two ever were. The association has been personal as well as political and has extended throughout the political ca reers of each, dating back to the dim days of Mark Hanna and Joseph B. Foraker, when the President and his Attorney General were serving their apprenticeship in Ohio politics.
 No III Feeling.
 Harding has gone through his first two years in the White House with cut breaking with any of his i'm portant advisers. Albert B. Fall re- signed from sthe cabinet because he felt he was out of step with the President. But there was no Ill feel ing on Harding's part.
 The President sought to dissuade Fall from quitting and later offered him a supreme court appointment Fall may have felt a grievance be- cause he was not consulted by the President on foreign policies. But on Harding's part there was every uri1 n d. ship. In fact, the President expects to visit Falls ranch at Three Rivers. N. M., on his western trip next sum mer.
 SUGAR QUESTION
 Both parties are sprinkling sugar about freely wherever there are votes to be caught. The democratic national committee charges that the republican tariff Is responsible for 9 or cents of the increased price of sugar. Harding retorts that this is untrue but at the same time he asks the tariff commission to inves- tigate the sugar duty with a view to reducing 1t 50 per cent as per mftted under the Fordney-McCum Der act. Housewives are beginning to feel that suffrage may have some practical effect on the weekly grocer bill after all.
 DENOUNCES WINE AND BEER
 The only other development of tho week likely to have any important political effect is the letter of Sem ator Arthur Capper to Gov. Al Smith denouncing the beer and light wine proposal made by the New York leg islature at Smiths suggestion. Cap per consulted a number of leading drys in preparing his letter. It Is expected to be used as a pamphlet n n and light wine movement. Governor Smith Is expected to reply to Cap per shortly. In view of the proba- bility that the New York governor may seek the Democratic presiden- tial nomination. his answer is eagerly awaited inasmuch as it will indicate whether Smith intends to push the wet issue. There have been in timations recently that Democratic leaders have tipped him off that the party cannot afford to be jostled over the wet side of the argument by republicans attempting to create the impression that they have a cor ner on dry platform blanks.