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"Ground Hog"
Cabinet Scored
By Poindexter
?Will Which Crushed Their
Independence of Mind
May Yet Conquer Allies,''
Says Senator to Press Club
Advisers Were Deceived
Describes How Lansing's
Mind Failed to 'Go Along'
With That of President
front The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. IT. Senator
Miles Poindexter, speaking to members
of the National Press Club to-night,
iijaiM President Wilson for his dom?
ination of members of his Cabinet.
Tha Senator said the will which had
crushed "whatever independence of
mind they may have had" might yet
win the controversy with the Allies
oTer the Adriatic problem and enable
the United States, "to make 'the su?
preme sacrifice' of merging our for?
tunes with those of Europe."
"What is left of the mutilated re?
mains of the Cabinet ought to be called
the ground-hog cabinet," said Senator
Poindester. "It. undoubtedly, will be
afraid of its shadow and stay close in
its hole for more than six weeks. One
safe bet is that their minds will 'go
along with his' hereafter; that is, what?
ever independence of mind they may
have had. It is true that they havo
been quite pood in thav respect here?
tofore. None of them can be success?
fully charged with any undue boldness
of assertion cf opinions or any ob
?tinancy of opposition.
Cabinet Deceived
"It is true they met in conference
fctit then we should take a lenient view
of this. There are many things which
may have misled them. Something
may have been said by Dr. Grayson 01
Mr. Tumulty that led them to believe
that the President knew that they wen
meeting and would allow it. Daily bul
letins were given cut to the effect tha
th? President was kept fully advised o
the important affairs of governmen
and it seems that messages were ex
changed between the President and th.
Cabinet in session. It is even suit
that Pr. Grayson, straight from th<
President's bedside, pretended to brinj
messages from the President to his ad
visers and carry their greetings to him
It is said that he actually occupied th
President's chair at the Cabinet sit
tings.
"Giving a charitable construction t*
the Cabinet's action, it may be seei
that they were deceived by this int<
thinking that the President really wa
advised of their meeting. Now. how
ever, it appears that he knew notkinf
about it and only discovered it by thi
Inquiry he addressed to Secretar;
Lansing the other day.
"Secretary .Lansing, himself, wa:
also the victim of unfortunate eircum
stances. It may be true, as charg?e
by the President, that Secretary Lan
sing's mind did not 'go along with his,
but nevertheless Secretary Lansinj
went along with him. Evidently du<
to these irresistible circumstance;
there was a separation between Sec
retary Lansing and his mind. An early
as January, 1919, it appears that ho
entertained opposing views in matters
of momentous consequence. He was
one of the chosen envoys of the United
States in the great matter of the re?
organization of the world.
Mind Did Not "Go Along"
"Secretary Lansing, :t now appears,
revolted from the prospect. His mind,
he now confesses, did not 'go along'
with that of the President, who had
assumed responsibility for this move
which set up. in but another form,
the same universal rule which wo had
spent so many thousands of lives and
so many billions of dollars to prevent
the Kaiser from establishing. The
loyalty of Mr. Lansing to the President
only fully appears when it is consid?
ered that be eivdently placed it above
his convictions of what was right.
"He must have realized the momen?
tous consequences of the schemes of
world control which had been thrust
upon this conference and yet he made
no public protest against it, nor is it
clear that he made any kind of pro?
test, notwithstanding the sovereign
powers and independence of the United
States were involved. Certainly a {rood
case can be made out for Secretary
Lansing and for his colleagues on this
great mission of entire subserviency
to the President, although for the
time being the latter, by ? peculiar
metamorphosis, liad resolved himself
into the character of a mere delegate
appointed by the President*
"It may bo Secretary Lansing Was
misled by tho espionage act, getting
the impression that was held by many
good men, that it prohibited any one
from forming or expressing any opin?
ion different from that of the Presi?
dent. This, of course, was a wide?
spread delusion, but nevertheless it
still persists in many quarters.
"There was also constantly in his
mind the reprimand which the Presi?
dent had delivered to the American
prople in October, 1918, for presuming
to discuss the question of the Ger?
man armistice, when it. will be re?
membered he told them to confine their
activities to raising money and to leave
the talking about the armistice to him.
Later on he also had the example of
j the Senate, which was rebuked for de
! siring to discuss the peace treaty until
! such time as it might bo permitted to
ido so by the President,
World Just Escaped Peace
"As an indication of what slight cir?
cumstances may change the destinies
of the world, there was a moment when
; the President, on the George Wash
; ington in March, 1919, amid the vernal
storms of the wild Atlantic, was hast
I ening back to Paris. At that moment
the world was perilously near the goa
of peace. Mr. Lansing and his coi
leagues in Paris were busily engag?e
: in disposing of the final agreemen
: to the treaty of peace and had sep
! arated from it the league of nations
Nothwithstanding the effort which bar
| been made to weave into its fabric tht
red thread of internationalism, the;
j had found no difficulty in separatinj
il from the Sreaty. The ambassador:
of the Allies were on the point o
leaving for home and deferring fo
mere matureyconsiderat'on, the formu
! iMion and establishment of a constitu
tion of centralized world government
"If at that moment the wireless hai
broken down, so that our peace dele
! gation and their colleagues at Pari
! could have completed their plan, uncon
scious of the fact that their minds wen
not going along with that of the Presi
dent and without his knowledge, th<
world would promptly have been re
stored to peace.
"One of the best things that tin
President has ever said was container.
in his recent announcement that if the
I agreement which was arrived at to?
other day for the ' settlement of the
Adriatic controversy was carried ou
I he would withdraw from participatioi
in European affaira. If the Allied rep?
resentatives will only buck up and with
their backs to the wall fight for the
agreement which they have made, we
may at once have peace in Europe.
Of course it will bo. hard on America.
We can no longer boast that when there
is dangerous work to do we aro the
first that are called on to perform it.
"It might even bo that we would be
denied the privilege of remitting a lit
tie item of $430,000,000 of interest on
European loans. Our people would be
denied the necessity of taxing them?
selves this amount to tako the place
of the remitted interest. It might even
be that we would be deprived of the
honor of helping to guard the Adriatic
and would loso the opportunity of rais?
ing an army to police Turkey. But
still there is no certainty about this.
The President may yet gain his point.
The Allies may weaken, as they have
before; we may yet be able to make the
'supreme sacrifice' of merging our for?
tunes with thoso of Europe. Of course
we would have the compensation of
having Europe merge her fortunes with
ours."
Bailey Out for Governorship
Former Texas Senator Will An?
nounce Candidacy To-day
DALLAS. Tex., Feb. 17.?Formal an?
nouncement of his candidacy for Gov?
ernor of Texas will be made by former
Senator Joseph W. Bailey, after his ad?
dress at Gainesville, to-morrow, he told
friends here to-day.
Mr. Bailey headed the faction of
Texas Democrats which, in conference
at Fot Worth last fall, declared for
reconstruction of the Democratic
party, national and state, on the "prin?
ciples of Thomas Jefferson."
?-*?'
Johnson to Resume Campaign
WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.?Senator
Johnson, of California, who returned
to the Senate to-day after an illness
of ten days, announced that be would
go to North Dakota next, week to ad?
dress a delayed series of meetings ill
connection with his campaign for the
Republican Presidential nomination.
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