Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-24
SENATOR SHERMAN FLAWS PRES.
lDENT AND SOME OF HIS CHIEF
ADVISERS.
lNJUDlcloUs EXERCISE
OF POWER ALLEGED
Overn,an Bill Debate Brings Forth De-
nunciation Of Secretaries Baker and
Wilson, Postmaster BurIeson and
George CreeI-Points to TownIey as
Dangerous Pro- German.

| Washington. April PA vehement
attack on President Wilson and some
of the members of his official family
by Senator Sherman, of Illinois, re-
publican, marked the last day of I'M
limited debate in the senate on the
Overman bill. which would give the
president general powers for re-
organizing government agencies dur
| ing the war
In long speech opposing the mea-
| sure and asserting that the executive
had not used properly authority al
| ready possessed the Illinois senator
| criticized particularly Secretaries
Baker and Wilson, Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson and George Creel. chair
man OF the committee on public in
! formation. He declared the president
had surrounded himself with socialists
and that he should Scatter the bunch
of economic fakirs and bowling der
wishes" now in office.
In an effort to hasten action, after
three o'clock this afternoon, each
senator will be limited by agreement
TO thirty minutes discussion of the bill
itself and to twenty minutes on each
amendment offered.
Frank distrust of President Wilson's
use of power was expressed by SEN
ator Sherman. Reviewing the conduct
OF affairs between the United States
and Russia, the Illinois senator said
that thru it "the president carries in
his hand blazing brand and doesn't
know it," He asserted the president
had made an unwise use of executive
power in sending to the bolsheviki
government q IIeG5aSG which < used
TO further its own aims.
I'VE have thus the spectacle of our
country putting its arms around a
government not bit better than the
kaiser's." Senator Sherman asserted,
and he quoted Samuel Gompers with
the assertion that the American labor
leader understood better the situation
in Russia than did the president.
The Presidents Company.
Now there is some company the
president associates with himself"
Senator Sherman continued, which
gives me some reason for distrust. His
secretary of war, Mr.. Baker is half a
socialist and the other half pacifist.
He went into office convinced that he
could help end war, not BY making
war, but by moral persuasion, by
argument.
Then the secretary of labor, Wilson
who made his debut into public life by
getting into Jail at Cumberland. Md,
by violating his country's laws
Senator Sherman charged the presi-
dent is surrounded by socialists AMI
demanded that he get rid of them be-
fore he would be willing TO grant the
chief executive more power.
Secretary Wilson and Postmaster
General Burleson, the Illinois senator
declared, are state socialists. Mr.. Bur
Lesson, he said. is carrying around with
him the earnings of convicts employed
on his farm in Texas and, he said. is
the last person in the world who
should be talking government owner
ship"
Attacks Post.
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary
of labor" Senator Sherman continued,
thinks as does Leon Trotzky, that the
middle class should be externinated,
and he declared that the publication
The Public, in which Mr.. Posts family
is interested, defends the I. W. w.
John II. Walker. president Of the
Illinois State Federation of Labor, and
now a member of the advisory commit
tee of the council Of national defense,
is Socialist of the most radical type.
who is "instigating strike and the
murder of peaceful men in the Illinois
coal fields.
Senator Sherman referred to Carl
yrooman, assistant secretary Of agr
culture as a 'parlor socialist
Senator Sherman charged that A. c.
Townley, president of the non part
san league, while representing himself
TO represent the oppressed farmer
really represents pro- German influ-
ence. Townley, he said, is influential
with miners in the great lakes region
and that there will be strike there
eventually.
TownIey Assaulted.
Il charge that he represents pre-
German influence in this country, that
he has got pro- German money some
place and there will be strike in the
iron country Senator Sherman
shouted.
The name Of D. C. Coats, former
lieutenant governor Of Colorado. and
later connected with the non -part
san league, also was included in the
list of men whom the senator branded
as socialists and unfit to administer
government"