Show HARDING FEELS FULL FORCE OF DAUGHERTY'S STATEMENT I I i President Finds Many Many Now Now Regard Him As Politician Seeking Another Term When He Is Striving to Be Executive for All the People D B HT ROBERT RODERT T S lift t of 01 l Itan nl Copyright 1923 1023 WASHINGTON April 14 14 trou trou- troubles Pr President political bles which wore were Impatiently awaiting his 11 hl return t tom from om the tho Flor Flor- FlorIda Florida In leap loP leaping leaping ida vacation lost no time ing Ine- full upon him It was wan not un- un until un until til in lio ho e got rot bade back to the White noise to take up the burdens once mol more ot of his office that Sir JIll II the political position Into he ho has ILS been placed plad by a II acomb om comb It nation of ot cIr circumstances over wh I h he at least ast feels be II had ad no control In Iv I Florida the president smiled complacently when he read the In- In Int In I t Ie phen Ih n out by Attorney General DIl Daugherty virtually placing ing him In fn the field Ild a ai an aspirant for tor a second and aud o see see- sec second ond term But Dut here hero In Washing Washington ton tho the hot I resentment t of the comment mad madee upon the Daugherty announcement and nd the Inferences drawn from It hM has flared forth on more than one occasion oc- oc occasion oc occasion casion POLITIC POLITIC L Ti DELUGE nd The president hAS found that with only a little more than halt half haltof ot of his term gone a II political deluge has hs broken about him and Md that strive as he may map to do his hie full tull duty as president ot of all the peo- peo people peo people already ho he Is being judged In Inthe Inthe Inthe the light of ot a 11 politician seeking further tenure of the tho high office he holds It is Js certain that At- At Attorney Attorney At Attorney torney G General Daugherty did lid not the tho lull full l force and effect ot of nil that ho be said that beautiful Saturday afternoon among the palm trees of ot Miami Beach He thought merely to squelch a few tew little presidential that were springing up here and there and threatening to become trouble trouble- troublesome troublesome some some to In time Hn HI did not e ethe the extent to which he was robbing rob rob- robbing rob robbing bing Mr Harding of o his presidential presidential seclusion and projecting hIm once more full tull upon the screen ot of national politics IS FRANK Mr Harding today however realizes the latter phase to the fullest and le ho frankly has stated that It If 1 lie be 0 Is to be bo regarded as play play- playIng playing playing ing politics In all that he may say or do during the tho next fear ear he will stay strictly at home borne In the WhIte House say MY ay as s little as pos pos- pos sible and fl fight ht It out Ith B Lad Laddie Lid Lid- die Boy The Tho president trope napes that frankness and a demonstration of at his determination not to play pin politics at this time In any of ot his ht official acts or views may ameliorate ate the position in which he find himself Heis He Is Is like a 11 breasting an adverse current fighting the ebb tide whop when he ha ev et ex expected peeled the tho flood Deep as ns he ho rl'S resents the tile attempt I I to strip him of ot his presidential robes and nOlI stand him forth nakedly re election Mr a a II candidate tor for Harding has discovered In the last 48 43 hous hou's that his advocacy of AmerIcas AmerIca's entrance Into the tho I international inter Inter- international national court organised by the th league of oC nations has touched the well spring of ot added opposition within his party pirty and d whereas II a afew afew few weeks ago ngo O I he could count e antagonIsts only those progressives or radicals It if you sou ou will who felt that Mr 1011 Harding was perhaps too toc much of th the llio l stand pat type typo he hI Is belnA opposed today by elements ot of the party upon whish which h he S h r s had to count for tor his surest sup sup- support support sup support port In the past CANNOT SHYLY TF I ISSUE SUE The Tho seriousness ot of the situation s la confronts the tho president b by even his closest blends and sod advisers rs H Having Hi Ing advocated ad- ad advocated ad advocated the tho orld court having approved the tins plans of Secretaries See tarl 8 Hughes and Hoo cr to make malce a 0 speaking campaign to arouse sen- sen sen sentiment in favor tavor of ot th the l plan the president cannot no now sheh sheho 0 the Issue He fac the that thai ino greatest part ot VL tho ii i next u ses- ses session slon oi-a-slon sion of congress will be devoted to a a- bitter debate In which I he residents resident's first forward looking Idea in a proper foreign policy polley for this his count country will bo he clamorously lIed by b- members of his own and warmly supported byI by bythe bythe the he Democrats t The same senators w vho o stirred the nation to a ri- ri r olt against tho the league of ot nations are re getting Into action against the larding Harding orld court plan and hero no longer Is any doubt ot of the he havoc they can wreak once hey are In la full tull cry with Mil kill head The opposing senators ell senators Il all the ormer members of ot the tho battalion ot d death with a number of hale and nd hearty will recruits-will recruits will make tho welkin ring all through the corn com ing In summer and tall fall so that they will be In perfect tune when the congress assembles In Decem I It Is a certainty that that the fight upon the Harding plan carried on In his lis own part sill aill be pro pro- prolonged pro prolonged longed so as to run through the primary periods ot of t next neat spring it if ot of the na na- na not up to the very eve convention The effect of nf this sort of tight fight upon the president's dents dent's chances for tor and d election re-election can easily be he conJectured con con- con conjectured Instead of ot an harmonious party standing together to taco face the corn com common com common mon enemy there I Is every Indica Indica- Indication Indication tion today that th tho l ranks of ot the I IG G a 0 O P will bo stirred with in I warfare carfare This Is not a aI partisan view of the tIll outlook It Is I I the ot of o the tho Republican leaders themselves end and the they are arc at their wits end to find a 11 way o out ot the I strife strite and s e struggle ruggie which seems to bo ho just lust ahead ahad When senators of the school ot of Jim Watson ot of Indiana who s 's everywhere known to be as ret ret- rep ular War ular a aa as rain when It comes to party affairs warns the presIdent that there are breakers near opinions In general ral begin to sit up and take ake notice notice oo 00 |