Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — “WIGGLING AND WOBBLING” [ARTICLE]

“WIGGLING AND WOBBLING”

A sense of bedeviled bewilderment will overtake Senator Hiram Johnson and Senator Brandegee, if not the whole American people, on reading George W. Wickersham’s statement after conferring with Mr. Harding on the league of nations. In bls speech of Aug. .28, Mr. Harding declared in so many words that the league “has undoubtedly passed beyond the possibility of restoration.” Senator Johnson thereupon jubilantly ejaculated, "the league is dead!” and Senator Brandegee, another irreconcilable, wired to Mr. Harding: "Glory hallelujah! God reigns and the government at Washington still lives." Mr. Wickersham, who has always favored the league covenant, eVen without reservations, after laboring several hours with the candidate, now reports that Mr. Harding “would not wholly and finally reject the league” because he recognizes that the league is interwoven with the fortunes of Europe. And this within a fortnight after Colonel George Harvey, “an outstanding American,” to quote Mr. Harding himself, had spent three zealous and perspiring days at Marion filling the candidate with the true gospel of the bitter-enders. More comment from Senator Johnson and Brandegee is in order.—Springfield Republican. „