Evening star., 1925-03-15
WARREN DENOMINATION
HELD FULL OF DYNAMITE
Presidents Action Considered Futile bv
Some 6. o. p. Senators-Hughes and
Stone Backed Nominee for High Post

against either the ethics or the prsc-
tices of Mr.. Warren what time he
was associated with business affairs
President Coolidge had a high opin-
| ion of Mr. Warren's character, the
ability he had manifested in the
diplomatic service, and with this re-
port of his chosen advisers before
him he felt justified in insisting that
the nomination should be confirmed
AS subsequent developments increas-
ingly pointed out that party and fac
tional capital was - be made out Of
the case, and as the drift of affairs
persistently indicated that his right.
given by long custom, TO selecting
his own advisers in tho cabinet was
being made a playthinG' of politics
and factionalism, it may be readily
conceived that the PresidenF resent
ment was aroused.
AS he viewed the case, here was his
appointee to be slaughtered upon the
altar of political expediency-or
rather, it should be said, of political
ortunism-humiliated and reject
ed. 1t may be pictured that another
thought was in his mind, too. There
had been indications OF weakened
strict party loyalty in the Senate,
forecasting future likelihood of fac
tional troubles in the Senate, and ii
is possible he thought that If a crisis
over party loyalty were impending
it might'as well be precipitsted now
as later-it might a we'll be threshed
out once and for all and let the fact
he determined as TO who is who IN
the party lineup. If the fight is
bound to come, let's go TO 1t and have
1t over.
Demanded Party Loyalty.
r-ba prasider+ AZ the outset of his sec
ond administration let no doubt exist
as to where he stands on party loyalty.
In his inaugural address he sald 40
one would deny that there should be
full and free expression and an oppor-
tunity for independence of action wlthlh
the party. There is no salvation in a
narrow and bigoted partisanship. But
if there is to be responsible party gov
ernment the party label must be some
thing more than mere device for Sc
curing office. Unless those who are
elected under the same party designa-
ton are willing to assume sufficient re-
Sponsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty
and conference, so that they can CO.
operate with each other in the support
of the broad general principles OF the
party platform, the election is merely
a mockery, no decision is made at the
polls and there is no representation of
the popular will. Common honesty and
good faith with the people who support
party al the polls require that party,
when it enters Office. TO assume the con-
troll of that portion of the Government
to which it has been elected. Any other
course is bad faith and a violation of
| the party pledges"
That was the state of mind in which
| the President found himself when the
| most overt act of party facConalism
| took form in the consideration of the
| Warren nomination. There can be no
| question in the minds of the average
man that the effect of the joining of
several Republicans with the solid
phalanx of Democrats adhering together
to oppose politically the nomination con-
stituted a partisan attack on the Presi-
| dents administrator.