The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-26


warren of the Michigan Sugar Com
pany told how the sugar trust aided
Congressman Pickett, the republican
speech. The letter said: "Mr. Pick
EFT of Iowa will make one of the
speeches in opposition to the sugar
measure that may be brought in.
Mr. Palmer (the head of the sugar
lobbyists) is. now at work on the
necessary data. He will take the
question up from the standpoint of
it's being a retiner's propaganda and
also from the agricultural end. Mr..
Mondell of Wyoming, also wishes to
enter the fight on the floor, and to
be equipped with the necessary in
formation. 1t is for him that !
want Mr.. Hathaway to prepare a
brief 1t is we'll to have the ques-
ton approached from two different
viewpoints" So when Mr.. Pickett
and Mr.. Mondell, the two republican
members, made their speeches, II
they were ever made, they were not
voicing the convictions of their con-
stituents, but were speaking the
words put in their mouths by at
tOrneys for the sugar trust.
The way the press was utilized to
spread misinformaton also was ex-
planned in one of Hamlin's letters.
He said: 'Visited one big town each
day of my trip and invariably sue
ceeded in getting our story in at
least one of the leading papers.
He mentioned several, among them
two Iowa papers, the Des Moines
n
Leader. Hamlin continued: while
in Indianapolis l took up the mat
ter of publicity with the American
Press Association. This concern
furnishes matter for the country
press. 1t goes on the outside of the
paper as news. Believe We can get
big line of publicity at a very
reasonable figure in this manner.
Numerous letters told of a large
force of workers in Washington
whose principal occupation was turn
ing out petitions and resolutions to
be passed by county and state polltl-
cal conventions, commercial associa-
tons, farmers organizations and lab
or unions, and then forward to con-
gressmen in an attempt to show an
overpowering demand for the re-
tention of tariff on sugar.
The sugar trust did "pay some at
tention to the elections but their
efforts were unsuccessful. President
Wilson halted the activities of the
sugar lobby with an appeal to the
country and congress has shown the
lobby's hand.
Only the sugar lobby is being in
ND 1oa1arS in
congress declare that the same per-
nicious activity of lobbyists in be-
half of other protected interests
would be shown if the investigation
were extended.
Evidences are multiplying that
the new administration is democrat
ic in fact as we'll as in name. The
latest example of this was given by
President Wilson when he stopped
the arrangements being made for in
stalling the White House refrigerat-
ing plant. 1t has been the practice
in summer to keep several tons OF
ice stored in the White House cellar
and powerful electric fans were then
set in motion. and cooling breezes
we're swept through the White
House and the executives offices,
lowering the temperature twenty de-
grees cooler than the usual Washing
ton summer weather. When prepa-
rations were made to install the re-
frigerating plant this year, as it
had been last year, the president
called a halt. He wouldn't have
himself or his family enjoy privi-
leges that the members of his cabi-
net or the members of congress
could not enjoy. If congress was to
be kept in session during the heated
spell to pass legislation to which the
party was pledged, the President
could stay on the job under the same
as the congressman.
Another evidence President Will
sons democratic spirit has made
manifest by the announcement that
the military aide as White House
adjunct would soon be a thing of
the past. The president previously
had set his foot down on the practice
formerly in voge of having a uni
formed military aide accompany him
on his trips. 1t happened that Maj.
Rhoads, who succeeded the late
Capt. Archibald Butts az White
House military aide, shared the ex-
ecutive aversion to gold. lace and
dummery. Major Rhoads, who is
an army surgeon of note, would
rather be working in the army medi-
cal corps than be social figure at
the White House functions and he
has asked to be relieved. 1t was
given out at the White House that
Maj. Rhoads will be permitted to re-
turn to active service in his profess
sion and there will be no military
aide at the White House only on for
NAL occasions when social custom
demands the presence of such an Of
fetal, and then President Wilson,
and Maj. Rhoads, if he consents to
serve on such infrequent occasions
in the capacity of aide, will accept
it as necessary evil and make the
best of it. ~
Social Washington finds itself
playing a smaller part in this admin
istration than in former years.
Where the president and congress
sional leaders in the democratic ma
jority have interested themselves in
purely Washington affairs it has
been to aid the plans for an emer-
gency hospital, the plans for play
grounds for the children and remOV-