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S - - -..- V Harding and Not Senate THE MORNING STAR, 'WILMINGTON, N- C SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1921. ' ... ... , . I ... , . . ...... " "'" " SEVENTEEN 7b e Country 's Leader He Has Already Given Evidence of His Confidence In His Leadership and the So-called "Sena torial Oligarchy" Is Def erring tifTHim, Mark Sullivan Writing Prom Ohio Hy MARK SUIiL.IV AX (lvrrzht U0 by N. Y. Evening Post) MARION, O., jan. 1. At - the time o Harding s nominauvii it was universal - said that a group of his fellow sen ?tnr''h?.d b'en tn chief instrument in of Harding's personality, the that the public has of him, has liingi'iiT 11 aDOUI-- io a oegrree-iiiat was true. Harding's initial entry into ,jie race was probably half-due to the iHM-siiasions of some of the Republican senators: at several tinges durinfcthe re-convention months when Harming rather wished he were out of the race hpe same senators were influential in i j t veiling on mm 10 smy in. urn the precise extent to wmcti the 'natmal group was potent in finally brlntrlnc about Harding's nomination 'doos "not matter for the purposes of tliis article, panose confused events of the closing days of the Republican con tention are to ol(i for news and-not , id enough for history. t. j aiude to the senatorial group mere ,. for its bearing on the thing. we are living to get at now, the duestion of wiiat kind of a man Harding is. It is Undoubtedly true that the public con ception .. i-vii-tiire ei by that early association of a group cpnators with his nomination. A False Picture That early and widespread associa tion in the newspapers' gaye rise to the s ml. - n n f n.i ii 1 Alirrarnhir" n phrase liic oc hi i-v w..(3Hi.viif m.,vi "- that' phrase in turn became a constant-,'-.itaitiii ramnaiern sloeran of the "rmDosition. The result of all this, with some other factors, has been that to a decree the public has thought of Hard ing: not as a leader in his own right, but as the representative of a group; as a mouthpiece for the Republican The public has thought, and to a - large extent stm tninics, or iaraing ns the amiable, easy going, rather pliant ort of man who would be contented nd happy in that kind of role. V People have thought of him as hav ' in a neutral personality, even a nega- .tiv- personality, destined as President to bo the reflection in the white house of a group of stronger and more posi tive personalities in the senate. They have pictured the Republican" senators running the country, with the white ,iouse registering their decisions. That picture of Harding js as far f.rom the facts as black is from white. Harding is the leader, kndws he .is 'he 1- ader. and ' will live up to that role. lie will do it in a way airierent iroin the way "Wilson did it ana ciiterent from the way Roosevelt did it. Rut he will be the leader no less surely than there two were. Right now for Example, Senator Harding is believed . ;,y "'all' the Republican senators ito be the process of making up hisl'mind on a decidedly important matter' Fully five-sixths of the Republican senators who are supposed to Compose '"the senatorial oligarchy" deplore the decision which they fear Harding is eoing to make; they would like jto see the decision go a different way; they would like to aavise jnaruing against -it. But none of them is sufficiently sure of his footing to do so. j This particular decision, to be sure, it? iminiie an I no t tvnical. To tell it as if it were typical would give a false view of Harding. On ordinary .subjects the Republican conVtnri --ui aiwavq havfl 'ekv afccess o the new President's mind. The-par- , . iieular instance is a cabinet matter, and has other aspects that make it intimate .and personal. . But while not typical the1 incident will serve to Hlustrate what Is unques- - tionably the fact as it exists today, -. namely, that Harding is the leader and that the Republican senaorritnow he ." is the leader. Hardine- is" confident in his leader ship and the senators are deferential in-the role of advisers. The truth is that Harding, with all his genuine courtesy, with his almost tender consideration for, others, ana ' with his very marked personal unsel fishness, has a decided mind of his own, ' and in essential matters always follows it. Harding misht, without serious in accuracy, be called an unusually deter ' nined man. Harding Hard to Persuade It vould te more difficult to persuade naming out 01 a position ne naa u A at through his own mental processes than almost any other' public man I can think of. I once discussed with him a certain passage in a sneech-he Miad made. "Yes," he said, "Mr. A. wanted me to leave that out; and Ocn sressmani B. said it would undo a lot of hard work he had done: and vor pressman C. said it would endanger his - district; but I thought it ought to go in." The three men he mentioned are strong men in themselves and import- ' ant in their official positions. The naive lack of self-consciousness with which Hardinig recited his overruling "f their advice was a revealing glimpse ' f tlu; imperturable steadiness of hip purpose in a course he. has once com r ' .t through his own mental processes, vVitfi equal imperturbability he resists virginss to do this or to do that. Since lils election nearly every one who has ?ifQd access to Hardine. has regarded mea?CtCess as an opportunity for well meant importunity. Excited advisers have wanted him to makea speech on this or a speech on rTJ f-,; , Ke- ce"am appointmentsim mediately; to indorse one piece of leg islation or to oppose another. All thso ?iFftl0n? hae 3ust eded off his un ruffled surface. A multitude of sugges tions ani promptings sink into him as mto a quicksand and leave the surface unmoved; what apeals to him as bailed tor he does in his own. way and in his own- time. All this resistance to im portuiuty ho manages to accomolish with perfectly good-natured serenity, His lack of susceptibility to excitement arund him is one of his most obvious characteristics and is the more remark-' able considering that he has imagina tion and sensitiveness to a marked de gree. 1 r - .-Harding Does Not "Blow fjp Toward the end of the campaign when lader after leader showed signs of the nerVous strain, and when not a few of them more or less "blew up," Harding himself, except in a- few sen tences, in one or two of his rear plat form speeches on the closing day, neveF showed any sign-of emotional disturb ance. During all the suppressed com motion that accompanied the subterra nean scandal, and in the final explosion attending it, Harding was the least dis turbed oT" all the campaign managers. He had the air of taking the position that there are some hings a gentleman ignores and assuming that a falsehood cannot in the end do harm to its vic tim. It is almost too trite to even allude fto the importance of the position .that Harding will have during the year 1 hot begins today and in the era. that' fol lows. Harding's relation to the coun try, and the relation of our country to the rest of the world contains possi bilities, that are almost literally beyond an- orfiinary imagination. Any adeauato observer, looking at Harding with the intentness that his position invites, is likely to find justification for confident hopefulness that Harding has it in him to rise to the greatest of these possi bilities, and live up to the opportuni ties. I say "has it in him" to do so. The only doubt implied is whether the po tentialities that are within him will flow out as abundantly as they might from a man of less static temperame-nt. Harding Is not a person of great initia tive. There are two types of executive. One keeps the outgoing telephone wires busy; the other "occupies himself morS exclusively with the incoming calls. One is active in starting things and putting them through. The other at tends conscientiously to what is laid before him for decision and action. Harding is of the latter .type. Handing's Changing; Standard Of any group of alternatives that come' before his mind. Harding can be depended on absolutely to -take the course that appeals to his conscience and judgment as best. That is not nec essarily a complete guarantee of sat isfaction, for everything depends on what are the chooser's standards of conscience and Judgment. Harding Is just now going through the process of changing standards in that respect. -uo twiner's standards in the past nave been rather exclusively determined by fidelity to the Republican party organ ization. On some occasions in the past he has acted according to tne nmiiea outlook of Ohio politics. But in the past those who were chieflythe stand ards that his responsibilities called- for. Right now it is apparent to any intent observer that Hardlng is in the process of taking on the higher standards de termined by his new relation to the world. M , . This, like every process of growth, is attended by some pain. It accounts for a perceptibility increasing austerity and seriousness, a new quality of con centration in his actions and mental processes. It can be stated with confidence that Harding-has the imagination to reach and grasp the highest-standards. This is the judgment of ien of great in sight who have had much opportunity to observe him closely, of course. "The same thing is frequently said "by loose minded Republican leaders who would say it under any circumstances. They do not matter. But I know it Is be lieved hy men whose judgments of other men do matter. They believe that Harding has imagination and taste in the degree that will enable him to live up to anything that fate may con front hlmvith. These men whose judgment of othep men is most depend able believe that Harding has it in him to give the country an administration of. historic elevation. - A Painful Choice Being the sort of man who functions best in deciding among the things that are laid before him, it follows that much importance wlH be in the chan nels through which things will come up to Harding, in the persons who will have access to him. That is one rea son why the choice of his cabinet is im portant. 'Right-now, I suspect, Harding is in volved in the probably' painful busi ness of choosing between a cabinet Imade up of old political friends and as sociates and one made up of men of thigh character and proved ability re- KaiTiiess or wnether or not tTnv ars eympathetic and comfortable to his personality. He -sees that he cap pick men who superficially will lseem to promise the ease and comfort of an old shoe; or he can pick men who at first may press upon him painfully but in the end -will carry him further, last him longer, and give him a' distinguish- ea , aammistration. In that choice Harding's destiny lies. This is the judgment of the same men who believe that Harding has in him latently the possibility of rising to any heights " that may be adequately de manded of him. The men-who express this belief and hope frequently add: "If he will sur round .himself with the right men. If, iti choosing his cabinet, Harding has the good fortune to see the alternative in a clear light, he can be depended on inrauiDly to choose the higher one." A Virtue That Could Be Fatal One of Harding's most aLppealing vir tues as a human being could readily be come a fatal fault in the President of the United States. It -Is not yet certain that Harding has risen above that school of politics which regards "the organization" as a band of brothers, , sort of sworn fra ternity of one for all and all for one. In that school . loyalty is the highest virtue, and to be., "an ingrate" is the deadliest sin. N Whether Harding is to achieve the position that a 'distressed world is beckoning Rim to do, and which he has the innate qualities to fill, depends largely on whether he can see, soon enough, that in those more exalted heights loyalty to person becomes in ferior to loyalty to colder ideals of service. IT Conway CONWAY, SS C., Jan. 1. Mrs. Paul Quattlebaum and children are visiting friends and relatives at Marlon. Jesse W. Jones, of Fairmont, K. C, has accepted . a position with A. C Thompson. Mr. Jones moved here this week, - Harmon Dusenbury . and Jennings Thompson, of the University of South Carolina, are spending the holidays here. , Mies Helen Bahret, of Poughkeepsie, N. .Y., spent last week-end here with Miss Essie Elliott Miss Bahret. left Tuesday to visit friends at Florence and: Darlington before returning home. .S. A. Gravely, who 4s pleasantly re membered h6re, having managed the Horry tobacco warehouse last season, was here from North Carolina this weice. . j W. Salmon and Charles W. Adams spent last week-end with friends in North Carolina. Walter Harliee. of Rembert, S. C, spent last week-end here, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. McQueen Quattlebaum. . Gary G. Oliver has returned to the city after spending the holidays with' friends and relatives at Swansea and other points. Ross Johnson, of Sumter, spent the first, of the week here with his .pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Johnson. " Wylie McMillan who has been visit ing his mother, Mrs.. Sue McMillan, left this week for Maysville, Ky. Bert and Dock Jones, who have been visiting friends and relatives in the city,N have" returned to Sumter. ' Mayo Dusenbury, of Florence, spent Christmas here with his mother, Mrs. C. Dusenbury. j " LaVerne Adams, of Rowland, N. C. is visiting his brothers, Charles W. and W C. Adams. Miss Essie Elliott spent several days of this week with, friends at Florence and Darlington. Grover -Richardson, after spending several days here with his father, S. C. Richardson, left Thursday for his home at Chadbourn, N. C. Mr.- and Mrs. W. D. Woodward, of Mullins, spent Christmas here with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram. T. Scoggin, of South Boston, Va , arrived here last week to spend several days with friends and relatives. Miss Mary McMillan, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Sue McMillan, has returned to Columbia. Miss Jessamine Burroughs, of Boston, Mass., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Burroughs. 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