Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — AMONG THOSE PRESENT [ARTICLE]

AMONG THOSE PRESENT

Yesterday Mr. Hughes visited Marion and discussed foreign relations with 'Senator Harding. Tomorrow Herbert Hoover is to meet Mr. Harding in counsel. Colonel Harvey is a visitor at Marion. Others will come and go with the days—friends of the league and enemies of the league and middlffof-the-road men. . After the great and solemn referendum ot early November a second referendum, not so great in numbers, but perhaps more solemn in its consequences, is now under way. Yet the list of visitors to Marion will not be exhausted by the names which the newspaper correspondents send over the wire. There will be present around Mr. Harding’s round table visitors whom the reporters will not even see, whom Mr. Harding will not see with the corporeal eye, but of whose presence he will be acutely aware. Who are those unseen guests? In part they are of the same type that sat around the peace table in Paris and shaped the treaty through the hands of Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Their name was Facts. Russia was not present in the body at the treaty table, but Leuine’s Russia helped to write the treaty. Germany was not present in the body, but Germany helped to write the treaty. The havoc of war, the hopes of nations and the fears of nations, the wounds of victory, the stupor of defeat, the past and the future wrote and signed at Versailles. So at Marion Mr. Harding will consult with men, but before he is through he will have cbnsulted with facts. He will have taken counsel with a war-exhausted world in need of all the co-operatif® forces it can rally; with the starving populations of Europe, who can not be rescued without our aid; with industry lagging and commerce crippled; with American business men who voted not to be involved in Europe and now find their interests largely dependent upon a revived Europe; with American farmers who voted against involvement and now clamor for European markets; with many other men and groups who voted no to the hard yes of fact. Mr. Harding may have a hard time with the irreconcilable senators. He is sure to have a hard—and instructive —time with the irreconcilable facts.—New York Evening Post.