The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29
The Good Brer Tumulty and the
Wicked Partners.

Brer TUMULTY has puDllSned his
reply to Chairman HAYs's exhibit Of
the political advertisement urging the
Wisconsin soldiers to vote for JOSEPH
e. DAWES for Senator because such
was the desire of president WILSON,
your Commander in Chief" Brer
TU1luLTY has procured from the d.
rector Of publicity Of the Democratic
National Committee a,statement that
the advertisement in question was
written, inserted and paid for by a
non-commissioned officer from Wis
consin, acting on his own initiative.
The Democratic leaders and cam
paign managers Of adjourned politics
had nothing to do with 1t. We in
vite attention to Brer TUNULTY's
painstaking explanation Of this dis
tressing incident.
On Thursday We printed the highly
political and manifestly improper ap,
peal of Mr.. VANCE McCoRMICK's
Democratic National Committee to
the voters of this country to support
the policies of President WILSON as
War President by electing only Demo
Gratis to the Sixty-sixth Congress.
To-day we submit to Brer TUMUL-
T1,s official consideration the posi-
tive fact that here IN the Empire
State the United States mails and
the man power Of the postal service
and the fast dwindling paper stock
Of tho FEDERAL Government are now
lavished in the shameless old politi-
cal way by wicked partners.
Eight months ago to-day, before
politics was adjourned by Presden-
tial decree, MARTIN GLYNN Of Al
bany printed in his newspaper there
q rather silly and splurging editorial
article under the portentous title;
1T Becometh and Behooveth Mr..
wADswoRrH, Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, Mr.
ROOSEVELT and All Their Phono'
graphic Cult to Chirp Like Cricket,
Not Roar Like a Lion" Mr.. GLYNN
then accused Colonel ROOSEVELT Of q
crafty and cautious attempt to blow
President WILSON out Of political ex
istence. He charged Senator LODGE
with lending to this plot his "unctious
Isicl Observation-Disclosures, in Mr.
GLYNN's vocabulary laboratory the
word "unctious" may mean. He not
fed the public that under Democratic
war management 1--WE have no round
Robin [sicl letters from presump
tious (sicl inferior officers" The ar
ticle itself Is not important except
as illustrating in Government type
and at the taxpayers expense Mr.
GLYNN's refusal to spell the English
language correctly.
But Brer TUMULTY will agree witt
US that the present manner Of EN-
ploying this violent and vituperative
IL misspelled, document Is somewha
important, in view of the President!
adjournment Of politics. 1t Is printed
at public expense In Government inl
on Government paper on Government
presses by Government labor. 1t Il
circulated through the United State'
mails as part Of the COngressiona
RecOrd-to which 1t belongs only In ,
mendacious sense-under the fHanl
of Scorr FERRIS, a Democratic Rep
resentative from Oklahoma. It
mailed, as the envelope shows, no
from Washington, where the Hor
ScorT FERRIS is on official duty, O
from Lawton, Okla, where Scor
FERRIS has his distant home, bu
from the Albany post office, wher
Scorr FERRIs's frank has no negoti
4 able value as substitute for the tw
cent postage stamp. This alien an,
originally unofficial political docu
ment, therefore, must have bee
transported in bulk from Washing
ton to Albany. gratis. over Mr.. Nc