The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-09-04
SEN SHERMAN
HO1ILY SCORES
president ! ON
PERSOlllIbI BIAS

Illinois Scion Also Flags Col.
House, Wilson's Personal
Friend and Adviser
..UNoFFIcIAL, PERso oNAI
GOVERNMENT IS CHARGE
Politics Rules Administration, A
Is keynote of address;
Ironical eferences Made
Washington, Sept. 4 In a lengthy
prepared address on what he called
and personal govern
ment e Senator Sherman Of Illinois,
Republican, made a scathing attack
lin the senate yesterday on President
particularly Col. E. ING I. House, the
President 8 personal friend and adj
s wiser. 3sss
with ironical reference to- the
4 Presidents recent statement that,
politics is ad djourned, n the senator
asserted that, having elected the
h President tas. almost single handed, !"
Colonel House and a coterte of Texas
politicians Hare in the saddle and
they are doing politics in the same.
old way
Under pretense of war power, he
4 said, the administration is placing
control of the country in the hands
& Of a few politicians and labor leaders,
! to be used relentlessly for the election
of party candidates now and sa presi-
dent in 1 92O. 5iS3i3 81
81 denounce Z, " he added, po-
zlitical autocracy covertly engaged In
when the nation is in the stress of
war in undermining Institutional
civil liberty, /. .s5
Colonel House was characterized by
Senator Sherman as this alleged un-
elected, uno fficial assistant presi-
dent. Sts5 ss555
The senator gave an analysis of A
novel said to have been written by
Colonel House, which he describes as
%an autobiography telling q tale Of pol.
itics, Civil war, love and reform with
a meat ak showing how to get rid Of
the constitution
Secretary Baker was referred to as
one who thinks Of the war as 5000,
miles away, talks glibly of quantity
productions of combat airplanes, de-
lays three months the draft law,
amendmentBof of 4 918 opposes univer-
sal military training and says Wash,
\ ington's soldiers at Valley Forge were
drunkards and chicken thieves, only
3 to be declared by executive proclanna-
;8tion to be the most capable official
that distinguished functionary ever
knew. = sys
Regarding Secretary Of Commerce
Redfeld, Senator Sherman said he
I had made "some sparkling contribu-
f5tions to trade, including the Shock
/ ing information that high cost of liv-
ing was caused by too MANY delivery
wagons, m epic on fish and CLANS,
along with a sonnet or two on sheep
killing dogs. 4 s5s..5 II. NJ
Former Secretary Bryan, the sena-
I tor declared, resigned when he had
"played second fiddle long enough
and his power for harm had
EWaned. q
1. Politics began there and it never
adjourned since in domestic affairs, :"
said Mr.. Sherman. Was there ever a
more sorllid revelation Of selfish, time
serving politics with the first execu-
tive office next only to the President
4 shuffled about as plumber to suit par
tisan ends = ,jj-.f K. y w
In criticising Colonel House sena-
tor Sherman said, as personal repre-
sentative envoy Of the President while
abroad, he exercised unofficial au-
4 thority and usurped powers of gov
ernment,'' and tthis gratuitous advice
to settle the U-boat dispute provoked
the derision of Germany and the I'M
patience Of the Allies"
Declaring the administration seeks
even to dictate Republican candidates
i'm Republican states, the senator
said: Ford is to be made senator
from Michigan by executive order.
Denouncing what he described as
Socialistic plans of "a coterie of poll
ticians, gilded and plated by a group
of theorizing, intolerant intellect
uals," Senator Sherman continued
Government control is a mere
name as now exercised by this ad-
ministration. 1t is the Threshold OF
permanent political ownership and
operation. = r--. 8
'.On all questions related to labor
Gompers is practically president. Bur-
Lesson controls the physical agencies
for communication of thought and NC
Adoo, the railways and the country $
finances. Strip off the mask of al
legged government ownership and see
behind it the revealed political own
ership and control of .Gompers, Burle-
son and McAdoo for partisan pur-
poses, to be used relentlessly to elect
partisans now and in 1920, a presi-
dent.
Politics adjourned? Worse, more
rampant, rancorous partisan politics
never abused the patriotism and gen.
erous confidence of great nation.
Against the clandestine partisan
politics of this administration, hidden
under thick clouds of war, raise my
voice seasonably in remonstrance." -