The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-28
Charges of Nepotism Are Made
 With No Basis of Fact
HIS EYES|GHT Is VERY BAD
Senator Has Been Aided By His Fam fly in His H1rfg Because of His lnfrnnity and No Others
 Could Fill Place.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington. December 27.-tSpecial.)- )- Senator Hernando DeSoto Money of Mis- sissippi, recently chosen leader of the democratic minority in the upper house of congress, has been done what his friends consider an especially sad injus- tice by the circulation of stories about the makeup of his official family.
 The senator's secretary is his son. and his daughter also holds an appointment in the official menage of the minority leader. A good deal of criticism has been aimed at Senator Money on the ground of the impropriety of the nepotism charged against him.
 The facts in the matter are that Senator Money has for more than a generation been compelled most of the time to use borrowed eyes. His own eyesight failed while he was soldier fin the Confederate up his command because his bad eye sight was a menace to the troops under him.
 Despite this misfortune, which makes it impossible for him to do his own read
 
 Ing. he has been a persistent student. But he has accomplished this only through the devotion of his wife and children, who have handled his docu- ments, read necessarily to him, and liter ally supplied him with eyes Although the senator is not totally blind. his afflic- ton Is so serious that his case, so far as concerns reading and studying, is nearly parallel to that of Senator Gore of Okla homa, whose wife has been his secretary and has enabled him to keep in touch with all the worlds affairs.
 Senator Moness~ f1Hiiy have teap af' voted to hirn, aid t n2l6 be impossible for him to l.eeo up his public duties with out their assistance. He has never de- voted himself to the social side of Wash inston life. but spends his time working, with the assistance of his son, daughter and daughter-in-law, in his library. Like Senator Core, he has developed a won ly to discount the misfortune of bad sight.
 When he became democratic leader, Senator Money simply did what he had done for years before. He kept the mem bers of his family around him to assist him in the more arduous work of the new position. He has made no protest against the unkind things that have been printed about his nepotism, but his friends have felt that the country was entitled to know the facts. No man in the senate stands higher for punctiious observance Senator Money.
 Move Against Insurgents.
 House insurgent republicans have for months believed the efforts of the re- publican congressional committee, which is fully controlled by Speaker Cannon and his friends, would be exerted against the insurgents in their districts.
 They have had good reason to believe that not only would they be fought by the influence of the republican national committee for recollection and democratic candidates given encouragement in some cases In preference to themselves but that they would be given trouble for renom- ination.
 They have been informed that in dis tricts where it seemed feasible regular candidates would be encouraged to come out so as to embarass and defeat if possible the insurgent candida te who was seeking another term. Fresh evidence on the course of the republican congress sional committee has come to the atten- tion of some of the House insurgents. It indicates. the insurgents believe. that a. systematic campaign against them is being engineered from the oongression- al committee headquarters. Speaker Can non has repeatedly dwelt on the idea that the insurgents ought to be treated as Bryan would be treated by the re- publicans The insurgents think this doctrine is being carried Into effect.
 It appears a press bureau campaign is being waged against the Insurgents by the republican congressional committee. The matter came to light by the receipt by Representatives Kendall of Iowa lately of the proof of a Washington news letter which had been received by an editor in his district. The editor forwarded it to MT. Kendall
 In addition to containing much news matter it also contained several attacks on the insurgents. Both Senate and House insurgents were attacked. They were characterized as followers of Car rie Nation, as weak, as dissatisfied and wanting publicity.
 These attacks were in some degree disguised but cleverly made.
 It was not so much the attacks that MT. Kendall gave regard to. and which have attracted the notice of the insur gents generally, as the fact that in con nection with the news letter went mo- tice to the editor that if he desired this service continued he should write the headquarters of the republican national congressional committee at Washington.
 f.t,o; AoKfp1au of he nrr1tf an vehemently denied some weeks ago that the committee would oppose the insur gents.