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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 1920
TALK OF REPUBLICAN
SPLIT EXAGGERATED
Even Democrats Pledge Their
Support to New President;
TROUBLEMAKERS IN" BAD
Harding Prepared to Give Anybody
All of Figbt He Wants if IVo
Other Method Works.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Capyrlght. 120, by New York Evening
Post. Inc. Published by arrangement.)
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Special. j
It is commonly said that Senator
Harding, when he returns from Pan
ama to America, and to political ac
tivities two weeks trom today, will
return to the menace of a divided
party. It is said that a split is al
ready developing among; the Republi
can senators, and in the party as a
whole.
Much more Js made of this than the
facts warranfl Fightin- is more dra
matic and interesting than harmony,
and the hint of a fight gets into' the
head-lines when a more obvious and
vastly more important condition of
harmony gets no attention. .
Old Situation Changed. . t
It is true, that the materials for- a
split and a f ight are inherent in the
situation, though not exactly in the
form in which it is most frequently
discussed. People commonly speak of
It as a division along the old lines
of progressive versus reactionary.
They picture it with the reactionaries
in control under the leadership of
Harding, and the old progressive sen
ators and leaders of the Insurgent
element In the party conducting an
assault.
But the fact is that so far as the
materials for a split exist, they do
not line up that way. It is not a re
assembling? of forces along, the lines
of the old progressive and reaction
ary fight.
It is conceivable that, that may
come later. ' The economic conditions
that are plainly ahead of us are of
the kind that give rise to radical
movements. But that particular rift
Is not yet in sight.
Senator Harding's friends say that
his talents -as a harmonizer will pre
vent it; they claim, further, " that
however correct the common assump
tion may be that Mr. Hardmg in the
past has always stood with the con
servatives, his conception of his new
responsibilities will lead him to be
sufficiently sympahe':2 to progres
sives to prevent a row.
There is some reason to justify this
hope on the part of those who hold It.
For example, the newspapers recent
ly have given wide circulation and
much emphasis to the rumor that the
republican administration is going
either to lead, or at least give sym
pathetic support to, a fight against
labor on the issue of the open shop.
There is nothing in this.
Labor May Lose Position.
Economic conditions in the near
future may make it difficult for la
bor to maintain' its present strength
In the matter of collective bargain
ing. Positions early won by labor
during five years when the demand
for labor exceeded the supply may
not fee easy to hold during a period
of reversed conditions, when the de
mand for labor Is going to be less
than the supply. Whether the unions
can hold the position in which they
are now entrenched remains to be
seen.
That, however, is a purely eco-
nomlc issue. So far as it is to be af
fected by politics, the plain fact is
that Senator Harding has again and
again expressed himself as sympa-
thetic to collective bargaining, and
has expressed even more extreme the
ories In the field of what is called
the rights of labor. The further plain
fact is that the republican platform
this year contained the following
plank:
"We recognize the Justice of col
lective bargaining as a means of pro
moting good will, establishing closer
and more harmonious relation be
tween employers and employes, and
realising the true ends of industrial
Justice."
Poretga Relations lasue.
No, the threatened rift in the re
publican party, eo far as it can be
aid that such a threat now exists. Is
not along the old lines of .progres
sive versus reactionary; it Is a new
cleavage altogether.
On one side of this new cleavage
old conservatives like Elihu Root are
lined up with old progressives like
Mr. Hoover, and .against them old
conservatives like Senator Knox are
lined up with old progressives like
Senator Johnson. '
The subject of the new cleavage. If
It should go so far as to be called
a cleavage, is our foreign relations,
or, to put it in a phase more nar
row and more easily understood, al
though less accurate, the league of
nations.
The larger number of republican
senators and leaders, including such
men as Klihu Root, Senator Smoot,
Senator Hale, Senator Colt, Herbert
Hoover, ex-President Taft and others
believe strongly in an association of
nations approximating the league of
nations in the purpose of reducing
armaments and maintaining peace, al
though differing fro.-i it materially
In form. A smaller group of repub
lican senators in the east oppose
them. But both the quantity and the
degree of this opposition is exag
gerated. Even Borah Has Alternative.
For example, Senator Borah is com
monly and correctly listed as an "ir
reconcilable." It Is true that all his
publio activity in regard to the
league of nations has been an effort
to beat it, but it is also true that Sen
ator Borah has always had in mind
an alternative which he regards as
better adapted to maintaining peace
and which does not differ too mate
rially from the alternative in the
mind of Mr. Root. Others of the so
called "irreconcllables" are in the
same position.
After these have been eliminated,
however, there does remain a number
of irreconcilableB who are irreconcil
able and nothing more. ' They are
"aginners," and do not accept any
responsibility for an affirmative or j
luiinLi uvjlivc Kiiciuauva 10 l II e league
of nations. Their position is either
that they believe that war can't be
prevented and that no step toward
preventing it is desirable, or else that
their political position in regard to
their own constituencies is such that
their most expedient course is oppo
sition solely.
Whether there are enough of these
extreme Irreconcilable to make head
way against the larger number who
believe in an association of nations
remains to be seen. The greater
likelihood is that this small group
will turn out to be in so weak a po
sition that they will not feel encour
ged to make much of a fight.
All Desire Harmony.
The reason for this likelihood lies
portant of the conditions thai Sena
tor Harding will find in this country
when he makes a survey of things
for himself. That condition is the
wish for harmony, the dislike for con
tentiousness. Whenever so large a
group of people, and so large a num
ber of differing factions, unite, as
they did unite in the election of
Harding, It Is a sign of a general
unanimity of purpose and of mood. It
means a most unusual amount of
agreement upon the part of the pub
lic as to what it wants. The public
mood which expressed itself in this
way is going to be easily irritated by
any leaders who try to capitalize con
tention. This disposition toward harmony
characterizes not only the republi
cans, but the democrats as well.
Nothing is more apparent In Wash-
ngton than ths disposition of the
democrats to - aid in what is to be
done rather than to fall in with the.
notion of obstructing merely because
obstruction is the traditional function i
of the opposition party. !
The two foremost democratic lead
ers Governor Cox and Mr. McAdoo
have both given public expression of
the wish to facilitate the new presl-i
dent's work, and have publicly re
buked those minor democratic leaders
who seem disposed to adopt tfcetra-;
ditional policy of obstruction. Thei
democrats in the senate and the
house are decidedly with these two
national leaders tn -this disposition to
help in the difficult times ahead
rather than to obstruct.
Senator Also Is Kirm.
' The net of all this is that with the
strength' o'fthe franchise given him
by so large a vote, coupled with the
disposition of -democrats to help him,
Senator Harding la in an enormously
strong position. The public notion
of Senator Harding's personality Is
that his policy and his temperament
are all for harmony. This Is true
enough.' But it is also true that, due
to .circumstances too minute to go
into here, the public has not been
made acquainted with the possibili
ties of extreme firmness that are also
in Mr. Harding's personality. w
The. very fact that a temperament
Is disposed toward harmony makes It
equally disposed to be Intolerant of
persons who foment lack of harmony.
If there are any senators or leaders
who want a fight just for the sake
of a fight, they will probably be able
to get it. That the huge majority
behind Senator Harding, coupled with
the wish of the democrats to help
him, gives him an extremely strong
club, is the most apparent element in
the situation.
SOLID SOUTH SOON
BE
SuHivan Says Future De
pends on Republicans.
WHITES SUPPORT HARDING
Welcome to President-elect at Jfew
Orleans Taken to Indicate
Sew Era at Hand.
WESTON CASE NEAR S END
JURY SOOX TO DECIDE FATE
OP ALLEGED MTiRDERER.
Attorneys for State and Defense at
Bend1 Fling: Char-res and
Challenges.
BEND, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
With the Weston murder case nearly
ready for the jury, attorneys argu
ments were given In circuit court
here tonight In the final endeavor
to decid-e the fate of the man who
s charged with the murder of Rob
ert Krog,. aged hermit rancher of
Sisters, on March 24, 1919.
H. H. Dearmond opened the argu
ment for the state, reviewing the
chain of circumstantial evidence on
which the state relies In its effort
to convict Weston of second-degree
murder.
R. S. Hamilton charged the defense
.with tampering with the official rec
ord of the coroner's inquest after
Krug's death, and pointed to the fact
that a majority of the witnesses for
the defense are relatives.
Allen R. Joy of Portland charged
that many of the minor witnesses for
the state are relatives of the chief
witness, Joe Wilson, and emphasized
the possibility of accidental death
He declared that the two chief wit
nesses for the state, Wilson and
George Stillwell. are either plain
liars, or, if Krug was murdered, are
accessories after the fact.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright by the New York Evening Post,
inc. UDUsbed by Arrangement.)
NEW jORLEANa. La.. Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) When Senator Harding was
addressing the open-air crowd in
ftew Orleans on Tuesday, Just before
sailing for Panama, I -stood on the
city hall steps behind him with the
owner and editor of one of New Or
leans' newspapers, a man who Is not
only a democrat by conviction, but
Is so tied .-to that party by tradition
and official association,- that it Is
possible to speak of him as a Brahmin
among democrats.
The remark which occurred to this
man as we watched the upturned
faces was this.
The significant thing about that
crowd is that there is hardly negro
in it. on former occassions. when
republican presidents visited New
Orleans, the occassion was regarded
by the negroes as their particular day.
and more than half in ths crowd were
negroes.
Crowd Is Representative
"The crowd- that has come to hear
Harding,", he continued, "is repre.
sentative of the people who voted for
him.
'They are as good as. any people
m our city. in some respects thes I
are the best people in our city.
'The people who voted for Hardlnsr
inciuae most of our banking people,
most of our mercantile people and
most of the people connected with
our leading industries. Actually two
fifths of the people of this state voted
for Harding, and most of them weu
people or this class.
The negro element In the vote
that Harding got was a negligible
fraction, not more than three of four
thousand at the outside. With the
votes of the people of the best class,
Harding carried several districts of
this city and oame close to carrying
tne city as a whole.
. Satisfaction Is General. '
"If the republicans had been well
organized and had made a real fight.
ix tao aemocrats had not been
stimulated by the fact that a pro
posal ior a new constitution was
voted on the same day, Harding might
well nave carried Louisiana as well.
All these things and others to the
same effect, the democratic editor
sakl, and be said them not with bit
terness or regret, but with satisfac
tion, and this satisfaction with the
prospect that the south may soon
cease to be a solid unit, politically
and may become a normal section like
every other part of the country,
doubtful as between, the parties and
with both parties contending for it
in each election. The satisfaction
over this prospect is general with
the class of democrats of whom this
speaker Is typical. .
Party Monopoly Considered Bad.
In some parts of the south this
satisfaction is true, on the ground
that It is more wholesome for a com
munity to have two parties contend
ing for its votes than for one party to
have a monopoly of It. They cite the
educational value of political cam
paigns, political delegates and polit
ical pamphleting.
In Louisiana the satisfaction over
the republican victory Is not entirely
altruistic Louis'ana is less a cot
ton state than the other southern
states. Louisiana Is a sugar state,
a rice state and lumber state and
all three of these industries need, or
think they need, protection.
One Annmstios Imvertast.
When Senator Harding crossed the
state from wept to east on his way
from Texas to New Orleans he passed
throtagh- no community that Is not a
sugar or a rice community.
All this satisfaction with repub
lican victory on the part of those
southerners who enter in that satis
faction includes one Important as
sumption. It includes the assumption
that the republican party if and when
it becomes equal in power to the dem
ocrats in the south, will take the same
attitude that the democrats take
toward the ngero voting. It goes on
the assumption that wherever the
negro population is half or close to
half of the whole, that element shall
not be solicited to vote and become
a balance of power between two
white factions.
Repnblieana Win Confidence
If the south thought the republicans
would be likely to do in the future
what they have in the past to stimu
late the negro to vote so as to give
that many pawns to unscrupulous
politicians, to bribe the negro and
buy and sell his power in the national
elections if the south thought the
republicans were going "to continue
these practices, the republican party
would have no better prospects here
in the future than in the past.
But the south has come to feel that
nearly everybody new agrees about
what is best to - do about the negro
as a voter In communities where he is
so numerous that his vote would be
the determining factor.
"Aside from the satisfaction of
sugar people, tha rice people, the
lumber people and the other commer
cial and financial classes, with his
election. Senator Harding made in
New Orleans the same impression of
simple friendliness that he has made
elsewhere la the south, and received
from the audience a tribute that was
clearly intended to make him feel
that he had their good will and good
wishes."
SURPLUS IN ROAD FUND
Lane County Has $85,769 Left
Over for 1922 Programme.
EUGENE, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
The sum of $35,769 was left in Lane
county's market road fund this year
tc be applied to next year's fund, ac
cording to announcement of P. M.
Morse, county engineer. While the
sums set aside for some of the proj
ects were overdrawn during the year
practically nothing was drawn from
the fund set aside for the Blachly
road, which is designated as the
Eugene-Florence road and over which
there has been so much controversy
between the members of the state
highway commission.
The total amount expended on
market roads during the year was
155,169.89.
Work on the Blachly road contract
soon will begin, according to county
road officials. -
The budget for other market roads
has not been made up by the county
court.
EASTERN CLIME DISLIKED
Salem .Man Reports Slashing of
Prices by Merchants.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
The contentment of the people of the
eastern states is due solely to their
ignorance of the wonderful climate
and natural advantages in Oregon, ac
cording to W. H. Patterson, promi
nent Salem business man. who re
turned last night after several weeks
passed at Cleveland, O., and other
eastern cities.
Mr. Patterson said the merchants of
Ohio and other commercial centers of
the east are making determined ef
fort to return to normal conditions,
and as a result prices are being
slashed on every hand. Despite this,
however, Mr. Patterson said buying
was slow and a number of industries
'have been forced to close down and
many men are out of employment.
BOX FACT0RY PROPOSED
Prineville Interests Considering
Erection of Modern Plant.
PRINEVILLE, Or., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) G. M. Cornett contemplates
erecting a box factory at this point in
the near future.. The plans provide
for the erection of a plant of suffi
cient capacity to care for the output
of the local mills.
The structure would be provided
with electric power, individual mo
tors for machines and other equip
ment to make it a thoroughly mod
ern plant throughout.
Mr. Cornett is connected with the
lumber interests, generaL ' merchan
dising and banking business of .cen
tral Oregon.
Legion Post Opens Bureau.
HOQUIAM, Wash., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) A service department has been
opened at the headquarters of Ho
quiam post No. 16, American Legion,
with Miss Beatrice McKay in charge.
It is expected that this new depart
ment will expediate the setlement of
allotments, retainer and compensa
tion claims against the government,
and also assist men in renewing war
risk insurance. . This Is said to be
the first department of its kind' sart
ed in the Northwest.
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DIVINE HEALING TESTIMONY
THE CHURCH AT PORTLAND, John G. Lake, Overseer.
Notifies the public that Miss Edith Marble, whose affidavit appears below
will give public testimony at the afternoon service at 3 P. AL. and at
the evening service 8 P. M. Sunday.
We, Mr. and Mrs. Marble of 1004 E. 32d St., being first duly" sworn
under oath, depose and say that we both are of mature age and of soaitd
mind and make the following statement fully realizing the sacredness of
such an oath. Our daughter, Edith May Marble, seventeen years of
age, contracted flu eight months. ago, which caused pleurisy and developed
Into tuberculosis. She went down to death and by September 15 she was
in the very throes of death. We had had six doctors, but she steadily
grew worse. She was operated on and seemed some better for a few days,
but again sank rapidly. Mr. Wright of Rev. Lake's Healing Rooms was
Called and prayers offered. A week later she vomited quantities of digi
talis which had accumulated in her system during her sickness, which
was given her in course of treatment. She began to recover and the
wound healed. She is now up and walking around, praising God. eating
well, taking on flesh rapidly. We desire the public to know of this miracle
of God's power and give thanks for these godly people who brought the
light of Divine Healing to us. "
(Signed) MR. AND MRS. H. H. MARBLE,
Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Notary Public for the state of
Oregon, this 11th day of October, 1920. My commission expires January
29, 192. "
(Signed) T. N. McINTURFF.
Witnesses: Notary Public
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In case of a revision upward (which many authorities predict,
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Johnson and United States "Senator of the Aberdeen Chamber of Com
merce yesterday. Members of the
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the present Grays Harbor lighthouse
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and that a new ligrhtehip is further
needed because of the low shore line.
The project was first taken up with
congressional delegates last March
but no action was secured.'
Chamber of Com- and that a new lightship is further I but no action was secured.'
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