Foch, that "above men is morality." This knowledge brought him many
victories. But at critical junctures, as in his 1918 appeal to the
voters and in the treaty fight, he forgot that morality was above
one man, himself. He excelled in appeals to the heart and
conscience of the nation, a gift Mr. Harding has not; the lesser
arts of the politician, tact and skill in the handling and
selecting of men, were lacking.

He forgot in his greatness and aloofness the national passion for
equality; which a more brilliant politician, Mr. Roosevelt,
appeased by acting as the people's court jester, and which a
shrewder politician, Mr. Harding, guards against by reminding the
country that he is "just folks"; and in the end the masses turned
upon him, like a Roman mob on a defeated gladiator.





GEORGE HARVEY


There is something inscrutably ludicrous in the anxiety, bordering
upon consternation, that lurks in the elongated and grotesque
shadow that George Harvey casts upon Washington. The Republican
fathers, who now feel a sense of responsibility, after a lapse of
many years, for the future of party and country, do not yet know
how to take him.

As a campaign asset his value could be expressed in intelligible