The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23
COUNTRY To HEAR
ISSUES DEBATED
PRESIDENT, LAFoLLETTE AND
OTHERS TO MAKE SPEECHES
ON LEADING QUESTIONS.
DEMOCRATS ALSO PLANNING
Orators Likely to Discuss League
of Nations on the Stump-HardinG
Stands Firmly for Membership In
World Court.
By EDWARD g.. CLARK

Westinghouse is as clear as future
things can make themselves that the
country this summer Is to zeal the
various sides of various questions"
which have reared their interrogation
marks in the field of legislation and
international relations during the last
year.
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette of Wis
consin Is to take to the stump to ad-
dress public gatherings soon after
President Harding has done the same
thing. Naturally the politicians in
Washington are considerably interested
in this intention of the Wisconsin SEN
ator, for, as the country knows, ne
does nc look at many matters with
the same eyes that President Harding
views them.
Washington has been told more or
less directly that the LaFollette inten-
ton Is not to trail the President on his
tour nor is 1t his intention to make it
sharply apparent that he is engaged in
an ~"offsetting campaign" The Repub-
lican leaders here, whether they be of
that school of Republican thought or
of another, are finally convinced, how
ever, that the Harding and the LaFol-
lette speeches will in considerable
measure be zone against anotner."
The Democrats on their part expect
to have a somewhat lively speechmak-
ing summer of it. 1t is said arrange
ments are being made for speeches.
here, there and elsewhere by the
friends of men, and perhaps even by
the men themselves, who have presl-
Dental nomination ambitions or who
IRE suspected of having them.
viii Debate League of Nations.
1t is said in Washington political
circles that the League of Nations will
have its strong Democratic supporters
on the stump during the summer, and
that as a natural consequence some of
the Democrats who are opposed to the
league will take the stump ard deliver
themselves of more or less antagonistic
remarks.
So it seems that If the Republicans
are to have speechmaking party difh-
culties the Democrats also are to have
them. All of the campaign this sum-
mer, as politicians here view 1t. will
have its direct bearing or the campaign
of the summer next to follow and its
bearing unquestionably upon the cam
paign for the presidential nominations,
and especially weighty bearing on that
for the Democratic nomination.
Politicians in Washington are WON
dering today whether or not Senator
LaFollette, in picking speeches out of
the collection which he will carry in
his travelling bag, will hit on the out
line of one of his legislative plans to
deprive the Supreme court of much
of its power under the Constitution.
It Is known that President Harding is
staunchly opposed to the taking away
from the high tribunal any of its pres
ent power. Senators LaFollette and
Borah and some others of their gen.
eral school of thought are strongly in
favor of constitutional amendments
which will deprive the court Of some
of its authority.
It would seem from what some of
lIle dulllihiSll iANPhbitNb'o
say that, generally speaking, they
would not object to giving the Presi-
lent an opportunity to answer argu-
ments in favor of weakening the
courts authority. 1t car be taken for
granted, however, that the President
will not in any of his speeches make
1t appear specifically that he is an
swering anything which is being said
ON the stump at that time by any Re-
publican speaker whose views do not
agree with his.
Harding Firm on World Court.
In his speech before the Associated
Press in New York President Harding
made it clear that he intends to stand
by his international court proposition
In the face of opposition which has
come from some members of his party.
This means unquestionably that he is
going to carry the matter to the peo-
pie. The opposition also will carry
the matter TO the people and this in
itself will add to the general liveliness
of political and party conditions one
wear in advance of the real campaign.
Thus far the Republican party lead
ers, the men charged with the work of
forwarding the party's fortunes, have
not taken a position either positive or
negative on the world court matter.
If the opposition on the part of the
Republican party to the Presidents
proposal in this matter shall take it.
self into hiding, it is understood in
Washington that soon the Republican
national committee will present, In ar
gument form, the advantages of Amer
lean membership in the court. If the
opposition continues and the opponents
of the plan seem to rank in numbers
with its proponents, the feeling seems
10 be that the campaign committee
ignore the subject, although there
are Republicans who say that to ignore
It is the worst thing the committee
can do.
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