Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — “ANSWER" HARDING HECKLER [ARTICLE]

“ANSWER" HARDING HECKLER

White Says G. O. P. Nominee Is Between Two Fires. New York, Sept. 29. — George White, chairman of the Democratic ‘national committee, yesterday Issued a statement in which he said he I could tell the public why Senator Harding “did not answer" the question of a heckler in his Baltimore ‘ audience night before last as to “whether he stands with Senator Johnson to ‘scrap the league.’ ” Mr. White said that Senator Harding first had said that “if I believed in one-man government I could answer the gentleman’s question,” and then had said he was at present 'without a specific program for foreign affairs, that he was not in ’ favor of going into the league of nations as negotiated and that the first thing he would do as president would be to find a program of world association and co-operation. “I can tell the public why the senator did not answer the heckler’s j questions,” said Mr. White. “It is because, if he admits he has promised Hiram Johnson in a letter to ‘scrap the league’ he will cut the ground away from under th® feet of Mr. Taft, Mr. Wickersham, Mr. Root and many other prominentn Republicans. If he indorses the league he will at once draw the fire ot Senator Johnson and his group. “So he endeavors to remain in

status quo, which the Texan said to Bret Harte meant ‘in a hell of a fix.’ ” Mr. White in his statement also said It was “significant that the Independent candidate for congress who asked him about the liquor question was thrown out of the hall."