New Britain herald., 1918-09-03
SHERMAN BOMBARDS WILSON AUTOCRACY'
SCatbing Attack on Administra- ton Made by Illinois Senator
ATTACK ON COLONEL HOUSE

GOmpcrs, BurlCson and Mc-Adoo Ac-
 cuscd of Scizing Power to Elect Party Candidates Now and Prcsi- dent in to2O-Politicians ill Saddle. .a Washington, Sept. 3.-In a lengthy prepared address on what he called "unoificial and personal government" :" Senator sherman of Illinois, republt- can, made a scathing attack in the senate today on President Wilson and his administration and particularly Col E. M House, the presidents personal friend and adviser.
 With ironicul references to the presidents recent statement that politics is adjourned the senator as- serted that, having elected the presi dent "almOst single -handed", Col House and cotcrio of Texas polite ans are in the saddle and they are doing politics in the same old way"
 Under pretense of war poWers he 1~Baid. the administration is placing control of the country in the hands Df few politicians and labor leaders, to be used relcntlcsEy for the cleC- lion of party candidates now and a president in 1920.
 "I den0uncc," he said. "a political Rutocracy covertly engaged, when She nation is in the stress of war. n ndermininginstitution civil lib- Erty.
 House 'AsSStant President"
 Colonel House was characterized by Senator Sherman as "this alleged, unclectod unofficial assistant .presi- dent" The senator save an analysis of a novel said to have been written by Colonel House, which he de- seribcd as an autobiography telling IT tale of politics, civil war, love and reform with a meat axe showing how to get rid of the constitution.
 Tn criticising Colonel House, Sena- tor Sherman said as personal repre- sentative of the president while abroad he "exercised unofficial and usurped powers of government" and his gratuitous advice to settle the >G-boat dispute provoked the derision pf Germany and the impatience of the Allies"
 Secretary Baker was referred to as "onc who thinks of the war as three thousand miles away, talks glibly of quantity production of combat air planes, delays three months the draft Raw amendment of 1918, opposes uni gersal military training and says Washinaton's soldiers at Valley Forge were drUnkarGs and chicken thieves, only to be declared by executive proclamation to be the most capable official that distinguished functionary Ever llnew.'
 Regarding Secretary of Commerce Rcdfeld Senator sherman said he had made some sparkling contrbu- uQns to trade" including the "shock- Gg information that high cost of iving was caused by too many de- livery wagons; an epic on fish and aIam5 along with a sonnet or two on hccp '<juiu4 dogs"
 Former Secretary Bryan the sena- lor Get:arcd rcsiSned when he had played second fiddle long enough and sas power for harm Waned."
 Politics Never Adjourned.
 Politics began there and have never adjourned since in domestic lffairs,'' said MT. sherman. Was here ever more sordid revelation Sf selfish, time-serVing politics with N Bhe first executive office next only to Tv4F president shufied about as pnder to suit partisan ends?"
 PDeclaring the administration seeks 1Ven to dictate republican candidates n republican states, the senator said, Ford is to be made senator from Michigan by executive order"
 Denouncing what he described as Jocianstic plans of "a coterie of politicians gilded and plated by group T. ,theorizing, intolerant intellectuals" IeSator Sherman continued:
 "Government control is 9 mere name. As now exercised by this Administration, it is the threshold of permanent political ownership and operation.
 "On all questions related 10 labor sompers virtually is president. Bur cson controls the physical agencies Tor communication Of thought and kIcAdoo the railways and country's finances. Strip off the mask of al~ eged governmen ownership ard see Yehind it the revealed political owner
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