South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-23
51.O.P. WANT MANN
BACK FOR LEADER
MondeiI Economy Hypocrisy
Losing Out With Party
Senate is Disguised.
BY JOHN J. CARSON.

NeWs-l Times Warrington lorresponQent. 4
WASHINGTON. July 23-Kep. F
James r Mann has been called upon .
hv his friends in the house 20 come /
3ut Of retirement and assume leader .
ship There IL no indication as set
what would be done with Rep. Frank
". Mondeli Of Wyoming. elected 20
the leadership some time ago. but
unless Mann or some other leader
assumes control the republican or
SANITATION viii rapidly go 10 pieces. /
II legislative battles were the
pivots upon which elections turned,
the democratic candidates in the
next campaign would have no diff
Guilty winning-that is. providing
M0ndel retains his place as leader.
Tie democratic leaders. Champ
Clark and Claude Kitchin have de-
feated Mondell at every turn and so
disrupted the republican opposition
that IL Is noted now for its internal
ni@Sensions and the family SQUAD
bles
Hear From Senate.
There Is one question OF the ut
most importance wherein the house
leadership showed the worst kind OF
judgment and for which IL is now
being denounced by the republicans
OF the senate II IS in the appropria-
ton OF money for the airplane serv-
ice OF the war and navy departments
Neither department got one-half or
what Il wanted and both depart
ments were asking far less than that
appropriated by Great Britain and
other countries
But we were in for a period OF
show conomy-economy which act
ually saves nothing but which pre-
sents a fine false face for the drama
OF politics. The program Of the mili-
tary air forces was cut 10 pieces
Even the republicans OF the senate,
seeing where the blind folly OF the
Mondell forces was leading, pleaded
stTenuously for some degree Of rea-
son and got only abuse for the plea.
There must DO a show OF economy
and the air service must suffer
Points 20 Mexico.
Now Sen. Wadsworth, chairman OF
the committee on military affairs.
Informs the senate that We will be
confronted by having practically no
air force at all IN the event Of any
trouble with Mexico, and in the event
or trouble one airplane there would
he worth thousands OF men. The air
service has been riddled. shattered
ard thrown on the waste heap. and
all the development Of the great war
period has been laid aside 10 waste
snd in the name of economy.
But that Is not ali. There are
Other reasons for which Mann is be-
ing recalled. The republican leaders
seem 20 know nothing OF what they
are doing or trying 70 do. II is now
admitted by them that their per-
formances do not live up to the high
" dramatized stories Of the highly
paid publicity department OF the re-
publican national committee. The
session so far has been one Of ora
tory. so much so that republican
newspapers Of the east are cartoon
ms the capitol with an elephant hav-
ing wings attached, lowering around.
a winged donkey lies shattered. The
republican newspapers, admitting
the lack OF ability in the house and
even in the senate. intimate the
question as 20 whether the repubIi-
can elephant soaring on oratory
will fall as did the democratic DON
key. 1t is an unusual crrtoon for a
republican newspap--
PrOhis DenOunce MOndcU.
Now the radical advocates of pro
hibition are denouncing Mondeu for
refusing 90 give them any ABIDE
nOuncing him at times so vehement
IL that their remarks can be over
heard in the galleries And the
''wets" and those prohibitionists
eounseling the adoption OF legisla-
ton not SO stringent, are denouncing
the republican leadership for not
preventing a republican committee
chairman from bringing on the floor
such a measure as the Volstead en-
forcement measure.
OF the. floor the republican com
mittee chairman have run wild. each
playing what appears 20 be an in
dividual game, and no one eudeavor-
ing TO get team work. The result has
been some ridiculous statements
written IN a fiction style by highly
paid publicists Many Of these have
some from the committee investigat-
ing the war department The day
following. invariably. the chairman
OF the committee is shown by tes-
timony and evidence presented. TO
have run wild IN his statements
Rep. Mann viii be welcomed by a
sTeat majority OF the house mem
borship. Regardless OF what person
A. dislikes the republicans may have
To- him, IL must be admitted no re-
D llican on the floor had a better
grasp OF legislation and legislative
problems than did he He kept
personal touch with every bill pre-
scented and knew all about IT, His
greatest offense seems 20 have been
that he took the trouble now and
then 20 pay the president a conpIi-
nlent, and 20 attack the partisans
who forgot every pretense OF being
constructive and devoted their time
only 20 works Of destruction.
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