An appreciation of Mr. Harding written at about the time that he assumed office in 1921, by an anonymous author gives an elucidating impression of the ian, It was published in a book entitled the "Mirrors of Washington," and the writer said Mr, Harding once drew this idea of politics. "If 1 had a policy to put over I should go about it this way,'' he said. "You all know the town meeting, if not by experience, by hearsay. Now if J had a programme that I wanted to have adopted by a town meeting I should go to the three or four most influential men in community. I should talk it out with them. I should make concessions to them until IT had got them to agree with me. And then I should go into the town meeting feeling perfectly confident that. my plan would go through. Well it's the same in the nation as in the town meeting, or in the whole world, if you will. I should always go first to the three or four leading men."
Mr. Harding thinks of polities in thisypersonal way. He does not conceive of it as the force of ideas or the weight of morality moving the hearts of mankind.
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