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Show Iebert CERTAIN ! I OFELECTION Germany Taking Little Interest in Campaign, Harden Asserts By MAXTMTJAX HARDEN Gmruinr'n rYrrm1 PiilrflrlM- fCopyrlght. 192J, W The Standard-Examiner) Standard-Examiner) BERLIN. Oct. 14. In seven weeks. J tfor th firat time, the German poople will Host president. Ebert It will be roraJled. was namM In hy the national assembly without a plrb-H plrb-H J-ltv Why this mandate outlasted the enernl assembly which elrctel htm and why the Relchstair never until un-til no-w mnsulted the popular will, must Interest the people of tl)- Unit-! States. Those who remember the, hated. often ssvsjre, electoral X " lei In America. Am-erica. Kranre. Mexico. even In quiet fiw!t7.erland. might lmfil Ijllnir. violent ajrltatlon here. Should they listen In the trains. In Street rnr. inj restaurants the conversation so over-, heard would all be about the hlfrh1 prices which are unbearable, taxi tariff, unh'ard of workfrs' H orrnslonally of attempts to poison tOO talkative accomplices In Rathetiau'el murder with chocolate. ut .Imost never about the presidential Hortlon which is so uninteresting thai f dldates yet havr appeared. Is the president's power o restrlct-H restrlct-H H Mn hl person does nnt mutter? i H Wilhelm Von Hohenr.o! lern, in hll tedloun hook, which hr.ii. author demands an annihilating an- J ewer, boldly declares even the kaicr was without real power and was fort - ed to rlald to the chancellor's win The man who writes that. for 30 H ye-rs had and used despotic rlphts named and dismissed chancellors ministers min-isters of itate, Mcretarles made them wait like la-keys or travel a whole day to report to hltn for twenty minutes min-utes In some hunting lodg, ihlp, train, j station or theatre; called them Insult-1 InK names In mnrjjinal notes on th lr reports and bshavsd li.' Turkish ultan in his Intercourse with the greatest ministers and most eminent tatesmen of modern t.mes. The Into Wilfred S Blunt, relates In hlB Interesting hoV. " M Dial i how Sultan Abdul Hamld advised the kaiser to dlsmlsM the all too powerful Blsmarok. BUITAN shows now " 'Would you Hke to seo how I treat my grand vliler?' "Instantly Knmll Pasha stood before; T ihlm with bowed head and folded! J hands. The sultan let him stand un-jj un-jj noticed for awhile and then said i I I tially: ! "'You needn't wait. Its nothing Im-f Im-f portant. Go'.' I "And tho vizier went Wllh( Im took II the lesson to heart and dlsml ''1 th' : , chancellor hardly leas brutally." i Of courso, the president solute powers but those h has an' luf- flclent to make the choir. Importunt Tbey are less, of course, than Pr dent Harding s, but quite M i those of most European pr Iden ol j republics The president cannot nn;y -prevent almost anything he dr. rn bad, j Put can exercise a positive Influence lj on th whole manacemont and spirit; ,of tho republic If he possesses the H right porsonnllu reasons rxnt ixniri kui-m i: Reasons for the Indifferent j maDy. The German nation nlw has : 'been the easiest to rule, put II should I I not be despised for this 1" efflclen- ay In aclentlflc. industrial and artlsticl work, which after all determlnt n B - j .tlon's fate can still, under most un-J favorable conditions, compete with all others but the exaggerated respect for ,person8 In authority has survived the I :kalser'a fall. Secondly, th.- Germans! H have repeatedly been told their I er was due lolely i" tiu- malice f for-I elgners and thai fortune can i 1 only with foreign help and am n.'if-H n.'if-H help la lmpossltle under the muhclous I preaeure of th" war vlcto That Is false but readily believed hy a people whose political Instinct, never I highly developed now I blunted bj 1 the struggle with miseries, t'orelgn-ere. t'orelgn-ere. however sympathizing cannot I realize how demoralizing Is the f i.-l j H that the thousand mark note, which formerly kept a family comfortable fori two months now i Insufficient to buy a shirt or a pair of theatre tli k. - Thirdly, the idea has been implant- i ed that for tactical reasons the pres. Idency must go to n Sr.-l., 1 kih.k rat. and If a Social lemocrat. why not H Ebert This Heldelber; son. saddler. SX-edltor of h email paper.! Innkeeper, party secretary. Is popular i among the bourgeolse After violent speeches again" repressive lawe and. rule, ho as iresiJ. nt calmly pulled in? ; ggg flag of the Ideal'M from Its pole. WORKMEN BllOT Under his preld n thousands of workmen and republicans have been I shot and Imprisoned, while the nmn- ; I archist plotters are untouched. Th principle of equality before the law has been Infringed and special Juris- t prudence Involved for attacks and slanders against the president. H minister" and deputli Bvan the kaiser did not dare to maki laws to prqtect himself. The monarchists and nationalist' desire no otHer president this htrd winter than 'his little, portly, cunning gentleman who greeted our returnlns troops as "our UnoonQOercd arm ." Unpopular with his own party, hated by the best elements of labor, still, If no really popular candidate I or unless Ebert himself, feeing dan- II gers in the people's mlserj ret In to u lees responsible position, he will H succ.-ed himself This Is exceedingly to be regretted for the moral depression of the peo-pie peo-pie equals their economic misery and the needed new spirit cannot tc awuk , ened bv a man who takes principles once called all-healing remedies, out of H if. lndow like n rn I kl" "I OO |