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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920
WILSON 15 ISOLATED;
HARDING ONLY HOPE
Hearing Declared Denied to
European-Envoys.
STATEMENT IS SHOCK
Advances of French Representa
tives Reported Recognition
by Europe of Change.
THE OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU,
"Washington, Oct. 18. Senator Hard
ing's statement that he had been ap
proached unofficially by France on
the league issue undoubtedly came
as a shock to several high officials
of the government, but is understood
to have been no surprise whatever
to those in touch with diplomatic
circles.
Whatever the French government
may lvve to say, it. is understood
here that not only was the matter of
& new association of nations present
ed informally to Senator Harding,
but the French ambassador, it is as
serted, has consulted Senator Lodge
and several other senators relative
to some method of establishing order
out of the present international
chaos.
Envoys Kept From President.
It Is true that under diplomatic
etiquette it may look like some one
has been guilty of a slight breach,
but if so, there will be a disposition
to excuse it on the grounds that the
president has for months denied him
elf to the representatives of for
eign governments. On top of this,
it will be pointed out that the for
eign diplomats have been compelled
in dealing with the state depart
ment to confer with a secretary of
state new to the job and wholly
without experience in diplomatic
functioning.
To some diplomats dealing with
the American state department It is
declared by critics of the adminis
tration ha? been about as unsatis
factory as all the attempts made to
get an audience at the White House.
Jt will be recalled that with Dr
S ray son. Whi te House physician, and
Secretary Tumulty declaring through
out all of last winter that Mr. Wil
son was rapidly recovering and was
feeling fit as a fiddle. Viscount Grey,
dispatched here on a special am
bassadorial mission, returned to Eng
land without being allowed to see
the president.
AYIIison A pproacn Held Useless.
European nations, it is said, are no
less wise to what is going to happen
on November 2 than are the people
of the United States. They appreci
a te. it is asserted, the futility of
further negotiations with Mr. Wil
on and, they say to themselves, why
confer with the state department
when only a few months ago a sec
retary of state who was familiar
with all the details of what went on
in Paris was summarily dismissed
from office for attempting to func
tion In tho president's absence?
This government is at a standstill.
I'rcsiden t Wilson is unable to act if
he would and the election two weeks
off is expected to show them that
t lie people of this country reaffirm
their expression of two years ago,
when they repudiated the present ad
ministration in the congressional
elections.
Democratic T)rfeat Sensed.
Tt takes time to do big things and
It is no surprise here that represen
tatives of" foreign governments should
be starting unofficial negotiations
with the leaders of the party which
is expected to take the reins of gov
ernment next March.
European nations, with the possible
except ion of only one or two, are
aid to have lost hope of ever bring
ing the United States to subscribe to
the present league ot nations cov
enant. These nations appreciate that
the manner in which Mr. Wilson en
gineered the matter for the United
States and the secrecy which he un
dertook to throw around the nego
tiations at I'aris have caused such
widespread suspicion and distrust
among the people of the United
Slates that some kind of a new start
will be demanded.
October 17, 1920, I rind a statement f
dated St. Louis, October 16, which I
purports to report certain utter
ances of.yburs. In it occurs the fol
lowing: " 'Replying to criticisms of bis pro
posal for an association of nations,
he said in a rear platform speech at
Greencastle, Ind., that he already had
been approached "informally" by a
representative of France, who asked
that the United States lead the way to
a world fraternity
'T write to ask if this is a correct
quotation and if you really said what
is attributed to you. I need not point
out to you the grave and extraordi
nary inference to be drawn from such
a statement, namely, that the govern
ment of France, which is a member
of the league of nations, approached
a private citizen of a nation which
is not a member of the league, with a
request 'that the United States lead
the way to a world fraternity
"The department of state has always
found the government of France
honorably mindful of its international
obligations and punctiliously careful
to observe all the proprieties of in
ternational intercourse. I hesitate to
draw the inferences to which I have
referred unless I am assured by you
that you actually made the statement.
- "Very truly yours.
"WOOD ROW WILSON."
FRONT PORCH CROWDS BIS
HCXDREDS FAIL TO GET CLOSE
EXOUGH TO HEAR.
REPUBLICAN LOSSES
T
Slight Ebbing of Strength
Due to Waning Interest.
TIDE UNLIKELY TO TURN
Harding- Asks Women Voters Xot to
Segregate Themselves Into
Party of Their Own.
MARION', O., Oct. 18. The Ions suc
cession ot political pilgrimages to
Senator Harding's front porch reached
high tide toaay in a gathering; that
deluged Marion ana swirled' about the
vicinity of the Harding home in a
roaring human whirlpool.
So great was the crowd that- Its
fringes packfcd the streets a block
away and hundreds were unable to
go close enough to hear the nominee's
speech on the obligations of the Amer
ican voter.
Delegations from many states and
representing many special groups
were in the crowd, which paraded to
the Harding residence shouting and
singing and greeted the candidate and
his wife with an uproar of political
enthusiasm. More than a score of
bands marched with the paraders and
serenaded the nominee for two hours
after his address, while he and Mrs.
Harding shook hands with a stream
of visitors.
The senator's speech, largely de
voted to a discussion of the obliga
tions of the American voter, was ad
dressed particularly to those who are
to exercise the ballot this year for the
first time. He pronounced use of the
franchise a duty as well as a privilege
and urged that the two-party system
be preserved as the most practical
means of securing efficient govern
ment. New women voters he asked
especially not to segregate themselves
in a party of their own.
MacSWINEY S WORSE
Bulletin Reports Lord Mayor's Con
dition to Hare Changed.
LONDON, Oct. IS. (By the Associ
ated Press.) The condition of Lord
Mayor MacSwiney has taken a change
for the worse, it was announced in a
bulletin issued by the Irish Self-determination
league at 5 o'clock to
night. In an earlier bulletin the leagrue
said a doctor told MacSwiney that his
condition was becoming more preca
rious. When MacSwiney becomes un
conscious, the doctor was said to have
declared he would feci bound to do
all he could to save the lord mayor's
life and would feed him as far as he
could while he was unconscious. Mac
Swiney was quoted as saying that if
any attempt was made to feed him
under such conditions he would again
begin his hunger strike as soon as
he revived.
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As Sentiment Is Today, So it Will
Be on Election Day, Is Pre
diction of Sullivan.
BY MARK SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 19.
(Special.) It Is hard to conceive that
the election wiil be materially af
fected by anything happening be
tween now and November 2.
Elections, or at least one presiden
tial election, has turned on an event
that occurred during the last two
weeks, but no such thing is likely
to happen this year. As it stands
today, so will it go on election day.
Undoubtedly there is a slight ebb
ing away from republican strength,
which was at high tide three -weeks
ago. This Is due not so much to
democratic gains as to republican
loss of interest. Elections are largely
a matter of crowd psychology and it
is hard to keep the interest of the
crowd at top pitch for five weeks.
Campaign Too Ripe.
The republican campaign ripened
too early. It is like a crowd m i
theater. If a play were so ron
structed as to come to a climax at
the end of the second act. with the
plot all clear and the outcome easily
apparent, under such circumstances
it would be difficult to keep the
crowd in the theater and their inter
est on the stage during the last two
acts.
In one section of the country this
ebbing of strength Is enough to turn
what might have been several repub
lican victories into genuinely doubt
ful fits. The republican claims about
the border states and the south have
been beyond what the facts have jus-
tinea ai any Lime.
Daniels Langhi at Assertion.
The republicans have talked about
carrying North Carolina. I have
made no survey of that state. I asked
Josephus Daniels about it, and he
laughed in a way that seemed to me
to have evidential value. I don't
think the republicans will carry Ten
nessee either or even come close to
carrying it.
But undoubtedly there was at one
time, and to some extent still is a
condition in Tennessee that justifies
the republicans in expecting to do
better than ever before. There are
several elements in It. but one of the
most substantial is quiet disaffection
of a good many democratic business
men, large and small. They disap
proved of many features of Wilson's
administration.
The other day I overheard a south
ern business man, who had been
whipped between the falling price of
cotton and the rising price of coal,
say to his neighbor: "If you make
money, you're a profiteer and the
government prosecutes you and takes
it away from you. If you lose money,
what are you? .A lositeer then and
does the government give it back to
you?"
Resentment Evenly Divided.
This kind of grouch generally ex
presses itself in a vote against the
party in power. Among business men
there is almost as much of that kind
of resentment in the southern and
border states as elsewhere.
Nevertheless in all four of the bor-
derstates the condition today is close.
with no signs now and hardly any
possibility later on of the republicans
achieving the landslide in these states
as some of them have been talking
about.
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50c to 75c
MERCHANTS'
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60c
TABLE D'HOTE
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HARDING MAKES REPLY
(Continued From First Page.)
government has maintained that great
respect torn your position to which I
myself subscribe.
"With great respect. I am.
"Very truly,
"WAURKN O. HARDING."
WILSON QC1ZZES HARDING
"Vacation" Involves Two
Mines in State.
PITTSBURG, Kan., Oct. 18. Five
hundred Kansas coal miners began a
"vacation" today.
Two mines were Involved.
MISSING LINK SOUGHT
(Continued From First Pa (re.)
l'acts Regarding Approae1i' or
T'rcneifc Ficpcscntative Souglit.
WASHINGTON". D. C. Oct. 18. Pres
ident Wilson took steps to day to as
certain whether the French gov
ernment had given authority to "a
representative of France" to approach
Senator Harding "informally" with
the request that the republican pres
idential nominee take tne lead In the
formation of an association of na
tions. The White House also ?ade pub
lic the text of a letter addressed to
Senator Harding by President Wilson
inquiring as to the correctness of a
statement attributed to the senator
in a dispatch, dated St. Louis. October
16, in which ho was Quoted as having I
said he had been fo approached. j
"I need not poTYit out to you." the j
president wrote, "the grave and ex-
traordinary inferences to be drawn!
from such a statement, namely, that
the government of France, which is
a member of the league of nations,
approached a private citizen of a na
tion which is not a member of the
league, with a request 'that the Unit
ed States lead the world to frater
nity. "
Neither officials at the White
House nor at the state deDartment
would comment on the nature of the t
inquiry directed to the French gov
ernment. It was understood, how- i
ever, that the note was transmitted 1
by the state department to the French j
government through Ambasador Wal-
lace in Paris. At the French embassy
it was stated that no such communi
cation had been received there for
transmission.
Secretary Tumulty said that no
reply had been received by the White
House either from Senator Hard
ing or the French government.
Declaring that the state depart
ment "had always found the govern
ment of France most honorably mind
ful of its international obligations
and punctiliously careful to observe
all the proprieties of international
intercourse." the president wrote that
he hesitated 'to draw the Inference
to which I have referred unless 1 am
assured by you. that you actually
made the statement."
The letter of the president to Sen
ator Harding follows:
"Klghteenth of October, 1920. Mt
must have lived approximately 500,000
years ago.
"With the exception of the Java
specimen, all fossil human fragments
have been diiscovered in continental
Europe or England. Nevertheless, the
leading scientists of the day believe
that Asia was the early home of the
human race and that whatever light
may be thrown upon the origin of
man will come from the great central
A sin rt pi a tea ii."
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WHERE WAS THAT QUAKE?
Jolt 5330 Miles From Chicago Re
ported East of Seattle.
CHICAGO. Oct. 18. An earthquake
shock starting at 3:24 A. M. today
and continuing at 9 A. M. was re
corded on the seismograph at the
University of Chicago. C. A. Donnell,
in charge of the bureau, said the
quake was of moderate intensity,
about 5350 miles from Chicago.
SEATTLE. "Wash., Oct. 18. An
earthquake shock of moderate inten
sity, beginning at 3:40 A. M. today
and continuing to 5:15, was recorded
on the seismograph of the University
of Washington. Dean Henry Landes,
In charge of the laboratory, said the
shock probably centered at a distant
point almost due east of Seattle.
AIR INSPECTOR ON DUTY
Everything That Goes T7p Is Xew
Official's Charge.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Oct. 18.
George H. Harrison today entered on
his duties as air traffic inspector
here, under appointment from the
newly organized county air commis
sion.
Everything that goes up in the air,
including kites, will be his charge.
MAN SLAIN; WIFE IS HELD
Body of Male Is Found "Wrapped
In Blanket on Bed in Home.
EASTLAND, Tex., Oct. . 18. With
the throat cut and head crushed with
an ax, the body of Will Dunn was
found wrapped in a blanket on a bed
at his home last night.
liis wife was placed under arrest.
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and declares that the charges against
him that he sold $10,000 worth of
notes under fraudulent representa
tions were framed up.
preme court today refused to review I embezzlement and sentenced to an In- I La Salle Street Trust & Savings bank,
the case of Charles B. Munday. for-I determinate penitentiary term. Man- J of which former Senator William
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Tillamook Cashier Returned.
Thad Robinson, former cashier of
the Tillamook County bank, who was
arrested in Portland Sunday charged
with obtaining money under false
pretenses, was taken to Tillamook
early yesterday. He was in custody
of Deputy Sheriff Perkins of Tilla
mook. The arrest was made follow
ing a secret Indictment. The prisoner
is a bond and mortgage broker here
Whey-Fed Hogs Top Market.
A carload of hogs fattened on whey,
a by-product of cheese, topped the
1'ortlana market yesieraay at me
union stockyards. The shipment was
consigned to the yards by Rudolph
Zweifel. who operates a cheese fac
tory at Mohler, Tillamook county,
Oregon. The carload contained 83
hogs, averaging 200 pounds each.
This is the second carload of hogs
sent to Portland by Mr. Zweifel within
a month.
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