Politicians

The political football game between the Chairmen of the Democratic and the Republican National Committees, with President Harding watching as a vitally interested spectator, continued its alternate progress.

Chairman Hull of the Democratic Committee charged that Chairman Adams of the Republican Committee and President Harding had already divided over the World Court; that Chairman Adams was touring the country to secure Republican backing against the Court; that failing such support Adams would resign.

Meanwhile the Republican National Committee reiterated Chairman Adams' demand that the Democrats say where they stand on the League. This the Democrats avoided. Attached to the Republican demand were two other questions:

" Who is putting up the money for such immense propaganda as the League of Nations' Non-Partisan Association is carrying on in our country?" and "What interest or interests are so anxious to have the United States join the League of Nations and would so profit thereby that they are financing such a campaign?"

These questions the Association took upon itself to answer:

" Mark now how a plain tale shall put you down.

" To June 1, our Association has expended a trifle less than $45,000. This sum has been contributed by 3,100 persons. The World Peace Foundation subscribed $15,000, of which $5,000 has been paid. The balance has come from individuals. The two largest subscriptions are $10,000 each, of which one came from Mrs. Emmons Elaine, a Republican and well known philanthropist, and a like sum from Cleveland H. Dodge, also a well known philanthropist, a Democrat. The next largest subscription, $5,000, was made by John H. Clarke, a Democrat, and the balance was made up by individual subscriptions ranging from $1 to $2,000. This is ' the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.' "

The President himself on preparing for his Western trip was forced to consider two ends: 1) the political situation in the West, which Republicans hope he will bolster up for them; 2) his World Court proposal, which has received knocks from many Westerners of his party. The problem was to conciliate them and to dissuade them from opposition to the World Court.

In Wisconsin the legislature had repudiated the World Court proposal. At the Capital enterprising foes of the Court had drawn up a list of 28 Senators who would be opposed to the Court without reservations. Meanwhile Senator Moses, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, was pressing the President to speak on agriculture and on industrial prosperity for the Congressional elections in the West.