U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1920, Page 7

U.S. PRESIDENCY.

'• LEAGUE OF NATIONS ISSUE. 13y Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Nov. 3. Mr. Harding's paper, the Star, says that the country ha* spoken so clearly in it solemn referendum regarding the League of Nations that there can be little chance for misconception.—Renter. , Washington, Nov. 3. _ None of the minor parties figured in tho presidential results. Marion Lang, the first woman Socialist elected to the Now York Assembly, was a successful candidate. Senator Johnson declared that the election meant the end of the League of Nations. No amount of sophistry could obscure the issue that a menacing 3|id entangling league had been emphatically repudiated. The American spirit had not respondm° t" ™ dcavollr 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 every Democrat who dared to differ from him, even in the minutest detail.

Mr. Henshaw, chairman of the prohibition national committee, telegraphed Mr. Cox that he believed that the League of Nations, as advocated by the Democrats, would have been victorious if it had not been so inseparably hitched to the "booze wagon" by the administration at Washington m & the convention at San Francisco.

The Republican Party will enter into control in March, committed to great tasks and facing serious responsibilities. Mr. Warding Ims been elected President by the whole people. Above all, the electorate shows that it is no longer so loyally attached to party as in times past. Ihis latter symptom of the election is giving Republicans real food or thought. They see in it a real national display of political independence and cannot fail to recognise that unless the Republican Party in the next four years justifies the verdict of the voter* there will be a decided swing of the pen-' duh.m to either the Democratic or some other party.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn

REPUBLICAN VIEWS DIVIDED.

Washington, Nov. 4 Irreooncilible Republican Senators assert that the elections ends the fi»ht to have the United States join the League. This view is not shared by other Republicans, who sav that the Leame was not the real issue of the election and the entrance of America into some torn of association was always assured _ ine question now agitating Senatorial circles is whether President Wilson will return the treaty to the next session of the Senate at the beginning of December With an intimation that the Lod"e reservations will be acceptable. °Some friends of President Wilson say that ho is undaunted and will press for ratification of the Treaty before be leaves onice.

• It is pointed out that the Senate will be well able to say that .the people repudiated President Wilson and his handiwork, and refuse to consider the treaty turther.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

WOMEN'S VOTE STUDIED. Now York, Nov. 3. J-olitical experts have begun to analyse the vote to determine the exact position of women. It i, self-evident that women, like men, voted for Republicans, but the cause of this is considered complex. Mr. Cox's plea on behalf ot the League was expected to attract the women but failed to do so, not because men's influence on the women's vote, appears to have been predominant ft is predicted that women mav be expected during most elections'" to vote like the men, giving during the so-called land-slides," great pluralities to successful candidates. It is felt that on tew issues can it be expected that women will vote contrary to men. The behei that women can be depended upon to cast an independent vote is regarded only as an illusion.— Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.

AN INTERESTING SUGGESTION. New Y'ork. Nov. 4. i ™- H ' J ' T3ryiln 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 eliair and enable him to carry out his programme immediately, instead of waiting till March.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.