Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
PARTY TRUCE
IN CONGRESS IS
ABOUT TO END
Open Criticism of Democratic
War Program Is
Expected

Washington, Aug. 26.-The selec-
ton of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
of Massachusetts, as spokesman for
the Republican party, by virtue of
his selection as Republican leader
in the United. States Senate, has
given tho progressive element in the
present minority party prominent
place in the party councils.
The first TASK to be undertaken by
Senator Lodge will be soliditication
of the party ranks for the 1920 cam
paign IN conjunction with VIII Ii.
Hays, the Republican national CHAIR
man, along the same lines followed
by MIR. Hays in uniting the various
party factions throughout the coun-
try for the congressional campaign
this year.
Progressives in Congress believe
that Senator Lodge, who has long
been close to Colonel Roosevelt. will
not ignore the element in the Re-
publican party which they represent,
as the "standpat" leadership of the
party has done since the split of
1912, and they expect to have full
share of the work of organization
and drafting the party principles
for the future campaigns.
Party Stirred to Action
The selection of Senator Lodge
has galvanized the Republicans il
Congress into action during the last
few days on a scale they had not pre-
viously attempted since the United
States entered the war and politics
was adjourned"
Partisanship has been revived in
the discussions in the Senate and
House of Representatives on all
measures that are not absolutely es-
sential for the prosecution of the
war, and even on the war measures,
such as the manpower bill, the Re-
publicaus are taking advantage OF
whatever opportunities present them
selves TO hurl criticism at the Ad-
ministration whenever they believe
they can make out clear case.
Senator Lodges keynote speech,
delivered to the Senate Friday, and
President Wilson's active participa-
ton in congressional campaigns in
nearly a dozen states, in spite of his
declaration that politics is adjourn
ed" have injected partisanship into
the program of Congress.
The criticism directed at Secretary
Baker during the debate on the man
power bill in the Senate, for what
Senator Penrose termed evasion oil
the necessity Tor enlarElnB lne uTdIti
and the shock given the organiza-
ton of Federal employees by Repre-
sentative Madden, of Illinois, in his
efforts to amend the manpower bill
so that civilian war workers would
not be exempt from the draft, were
forerunners of the Republican pro-
gram in Congress for the next few
months.
A bitter fight against the census
| bill, which would create jobs for 81
900 deserving Democrats" through
out the country, will be launched as
one of the minor partisan moves.
Will Demand High Tariff
The Republican program includes
a campaign for the adoption of q
high tariff as one of the principal
| features of the economic reorgani-
zation that will follow the war, and
demand for strict accounting OF
! the expenditure of the billions oi
dollars appropriated by Congress II
| the last two years.
! The party leadership. too, will be
! purged of all taint of disloyalty and
| pacificism asspeedily as possible. The
| first leader slated to go is Represen-
! tative Frank P. Woods, of Iowa
| chairman of the Republican Con-
i gressional Campaign Committee.