' U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18019, 6 November 1920, Page 11

' U.S. PRESIDENCY.

THE POSITION OF AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Irreconcilable Republican Senators assert that the election ends the fight to have the United States join the League. This view is not shared by other Republicans, who say thgt the League was not the real issue of the election, and America’s entrance into some form of association was always assured. The question now agitating Senatorial circles is whether President Wilson will return the treaty to the next session of the Seijate, beginning in December, with the intimation that Mr Lodge's reservations will be acceptable. Some I friends of President Wilson say he is undaunted, and will press for the ratification of the Treaty before he leaves office. It is pointed out that the Senate will be well able to say that the people have repudiated President Wilson and his handiwork, and refuse to consider the Treat}' further. VARIOUS OPINIONS. NEW. YORK, Nov. 4. Senator Johnson declared that the election meant the end of the League of Nations. No amount of sophistry could obscure the issue. That menacing, entangling League had been emphatically repudiated. The American spirit responded to th# endeavour to denationalise. Mr Bryan declares that President Wilson laid the foundation of this disaster, and Governor Cox completed the structure. The President ; attempted to drive from public life I every Democrat who dared to differ I from him, even in the minutest de- ' tail. Mr Henshaw, chairman ot the Prohibition National Committee, telegraphed to Mr Cox that he,believed the League of Nations as advocated by the Democrats would have been victorious if it had not been so in- : separably hitched to the booze wagon by the Administration at Washington and the convention at San Francisco. REPUBLICANS’ GREAT TASKS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Republicans, who seriously analyse election results, say that Mr Harding and the Republican Party will enter into control in March, committed to great tasks, and facing serious responsibilities. Mr Harding has been elected President by the whole of the people. Above all the election shows that the people are no longer so loyally attached to a party as in times past. This latter symptom of the election is giving Republicans real food for thought. They see in it a real national display of political independence, and cannot fall to recognise that unless the Republican Party in the next four years justifies the verdict of the voters, there will be a decided swing of the pendulum o either the Democratic or some other party. THE WOMEN’S POSITION. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Political experts have begun to analyse the vote to determine the exact position of women. It is selfevident that women like men voted ior Republicans, but the cause of his is considered complex. Mr Cox’s plea on behalf of the League was expected to attract women, but failed to do so, not because men’s influence on women’s votes appears to have been predominant. It is predicted that women may be expected during most elections to vote like the men, giving, during so-called landslides, great pluralities to successful candidates. It is felt that on few issues can it be expected that i women will vote contrary to men. | The belief that women can be depended upon to cast an independent vote is regarded only as an illusion. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. None 'of the minor parties figured in the Presidential results. Marion Lang, the first woman Socialist elected to the New York Assembly, was a successful candidate. SUGGESTION BY MR BRYAN. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. Mr W. J. Bryan made a statement at Chicago suggesting that as a result of the election President Wilson should resign immediately, allowing Vice-President Marshall to assume office. Then Mr Marshall should appoint Mr Harding Secretary of State, and himself resign. The laws regulating the Presidential succession would thus place Mr Harding in the President’s chair and enable him to carry out his programme immediately, instead of waiting till March.