The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-06
SHERMAN SCORES
WILSON POLITICS
Illinois Senator Knocks
Administrators
Methods.

address on what he called Unofficial
and Personal Government" Senator
sherman, of Illinoise, Republican,
made a strong attack In the Senate
today on President Wilson and his
Administration, and, partiCulaTiy,C Col.
Il. NJ. House, the Presidents person
al adviser
with ironical references to the
Presidents recent statement that
politics is adjourned, the Senator
asserted that having elected the
President almost single handed
Col. House and a coterie of Texas
politicians "are in the saddle and
they are doing politics in the same
old way"
Under pretense of war powers, he
said. the Administration is placing
control of the country in the hands of
n few politicians and labor leaders, to
be used relentlessly for the election
of party candidates now and Presi-
dent in 1920.
81 denounce, he added, "a politi-
cal autocracy covertly engaged in
when the nation is in the stress OF
war in undermining constitutional
civil liberty"
Attacks Col. House.
Col. House was characterized by
Senator Sherman as this alleged. un-
elected, unofficial, Assistant Presi-
dent" The Senator gave ANALYSIS OF
a novel said to have been written by
Col. House, which he describes as an
autobiography telling tale of poll
tics. Civil War, love and reform with
a meat AK showing how to get rid OF
the Constitution.
Secretary Baker was referred to as
zone who thinks of the war as 5000
miles away, talks glibly of quantity
production of combat airplanes. de-
lays three months the draft law
amendment of 1915, opposes military
training, and says Washington's SOL
diers at Valley Forge were drunkards
and chicken thieves, only to be de-
clared by executive proclamation to
be the most capable official that dis
tinguished functionary ever knew.
Regarding Secretary of Commerce
Redfeld, Senator Sherman said he
had made "some sparkling contribu-
lions to trade" including the shock
ing information that high cost of liv-
ing was caused by too many delivery
wagons; an epic on fish and clans
along with a sonnet or two on sheep
killing days"
Former Secretary Bryan, the Sena-
tor declared, resigned when he had
"played second fiddle long enough
and his power for harm had waned. q"
Politics began there and it's never
adjourned since in domestic affairs, y
said Mr. Sherman. WAS there ever a
time-serving politics with the first
executive officer next only to the
President shuffied about as plumber
to suit partisan ends?"
Usurped Government Powers.
In criticizing Col. House, Senator
Sherman said as personal representa-
tive envoy of the President while
abroad he exercised unofficial and
= usurped powers of government" and
"his gratutious advice to settle the
U-boat dispute provoked the derision
Germany and the Impotence of the
Allies"
Declaring the Administration seeks
even to dictate Republican candi-
dates in Republican States, the Sen
ator said, Ford is to be made Sena-
tor from Michigan by executive or
der"
Denouncing what he described as
Socialistic plans of "a cotere of pol
iticians pilded and plated by a group
of theorizing, intolerant intellec-
tuals," Senator Sherman continued:
Government control is a mere
name. AS now exercised by this Ad-
minstration It is the threshold OF
permanent political ownership and
operation.
ION all questions related to labor
Gompers is practically President.
Burleson controls the physical agen-
cies for communication of thought,
and McAdoo the railways and coun-
try's finances. Strip off the mask OF
alleged Government ownership and
see behind 1t the revealed political
ownership and control of Gompers,
Burleson and McAdoo for partisan
purposes, to be used relentlessly to
elect party candidates now and in
1920 a President.
politics adjourned. Worse, more
rampant, rancorous partisan politics