The Washington times., 1924-01-15
COOL IDGE
WISHES
FAIL
President May Repudiate Cap
itoI Leaders in Campaign
to People.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

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platform is headed toward being
1T important points a reputation
Of Congress and an appeal by
President Coolidge from Congress
to the people. Such is the con-
elusion to which many Of the best
political managers and observers
In Washington are coming today
as they watch the course Of polit-
ical developments in the White
House and on Capitol Hill.
johnson Policies Win.
On Capitol Hill the policies
particularly associated with the
personal platform of Hiram John
son seem to be triumphing. john
son has been vigorously for q
bonus; and bonus still seems
likely to retain at least a majority
Of votes in both houses. Johnson
has been continuously In favor Of
revising the Mellon taxation re-
ductiOn plan; and a revision of it
by both houses now seems highly
probable. johnson has been fatty
against the world court; and at
this moment the chances are that
the world court resolution in the
Coolidge and Hughes form will not
be able to get through the Senate.
These three issues have been the
politically outstanding issues OS the
legislative season. On each of them
1t seems likely that on Capitol Hill
In the proceedings Of Congress the
Johnson policies will win and the
Coolidge policies will be defeated.
The Coolidge managers and ad.
, herents do not by any means there
upon lose courage. They claim, in
The first place, that President Cool
idge will get the Republican nomi-
hatiOn irrespective of the Con-
gressional fate of his legislative
Policies; and they claim, in the sec.
ond place, that if Congress repudi.
ates the Mellon taxation plan and
the Hughes world court plan, the
next Republican national conVen-
ton will repudiate Congress and will
go to the. country on an anti-Con-
gress pro-Coolidge program.
World Court Sllunbers.
In the matter Of the World Court
there has been a. strong suspicion
"a highly informed quarters that
many friends of the World Court
resolution are hoping to keep it
locked up in the Foreign Relations
Committee Of the Senate in order
to save 1t from outright defeat on
the floor of the Senate and in order
thus to preserve it in it's present
form for insertion into the next
Republican national platform.
They argue as follows:
II the World Court resolution Is
permitted to get publicly shot to
pieces on the floor Of this hostile
Senate, it may be popularity dam
aged beyond repair. Therefore the
best thing to do is to let it stay in
the Foreign Relations Committee
asleep and then take it to ClevO-
land intact and put it unimpaired
into the Coolidge Republican ma.
tional platform.
1t is assumed, in other words,
that the next Republican national
convention will be so thoroughly a
Coolidge convention that in Cool.
idge's name 1t will take the present
world court resolution and establish
1t. absolutely as a binding part of
the Republican national creed.
Then all good Republicans In the
next national campaign will have to
fight for 1t, and then, also, all good
Republicans in all Congresses as.
sembling thereafter will have to
vote for it.
Such Is the argument and such Is
the intention which many world
court advocates are believed to
cherish.
johnson Men Pleased.
Meanwhile the Johnson followers
are equally courageous. They say
that their candidates policies
domestic and foreign-have been
spectacularly supported and verified
by Congressional sentiment and be.
havior. They say that increasingly
between now and the time Of the
converting of the Republican national
convention it will steadily appear
that President Coolidge at numerous
important points of national decision
Is quite out Of harmony with public
opinion as manifested through the
Representatives of the people" In
Congress, while Johnson is clearly
altogether in line with 1t. They
claim-and at Cleveland they viii
still more loudly claim-that theil
candidate accordingly is the candi
date who at the polls in November
could be actually elected.
The question is therefore raised
Does this present Congress really
represent the public opinion of the
country or does It not?
The Administration is moving to
ward answering that question IL
the negative and toward taking ar
appeal at Cleveland first from Con
gress to the Republican convention
and then from Congress to tht
whole electorate.
Copyright, 1924, Washington Press
Service.)