South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-08-29


United States senate from Michigan Paul KiEg his
campaign manager. also said It wasn't so, and
threw a nice handsome NJ when the time came
him face the federal jury lie was having
nervous prostraton the "fasty' OF the charges
Nor were Mr. Newberry and Mr. King alone in
lhese deniais. f. hundred others
Just al emphatic and the g. o. Z. press OF the VOL
VERNE state roared praises Nevberry's mod
est expenditures" loud and long Some four score
u the number indicted were "nolIe pressed"
cause the evidence showed them dupes than
culprits. Several pleaded guilty. Approximately
score the heart, and rng-leaders OF the conspiracy
were found guilty before republican Judge and
eight to four republican jury.
The denials OF Candidate Harding, G. o. P Ma
tlonal Chairman Hays and Treasurer Upharr. of
Gov. Cox's "sIush fund" charges. sound very much
Ike an echo from the Michigan scandal Of last
spring; echoed. however. through a megaphone
Isn't Il nice to have unofficial ways and means
committed" separate and distinct the recog-
nzed official organization to decide uIon the amount
Of money needed for a campaign, where get IT,
and how TO spend g. thus TO relieve tho organization
from the responsibility? Someone with
republican leadership must have made a consider
study OF Thomas W. Lawsons story of the
amalgamated" back IN the early days Of the cen
tury Mr.. Newberry admitted his trial in Grand
Rapids that he had read It. Paul King admitted that
he had. For wheel within whee:" methods the
Michigan Newberry club process. the &. o. p
ways and means committee. have Iawson's "frenzied
hnance" backed OF the corner.
An. but. says one authority even the ways and
means committee expected to raise any such
amounts. The allotments made up and dis
sributed to enthusiasm" Great, again! Hav-
ing no issues arouse enthusiasm with the ways
and means committee presumed TO find another
way" another means" They would arouse en-
.husiasm. they declare to save their faces
by system OF humbuggery; would humbug
people with false pretenses Of huge campaign fund
playing the PEOPLE for snobs and fools! The dec
aration Is a splendid compliment TO American in
telIigence. Anything fool the The decara
ton, quite without doubt is a subterfuge being too
Newberryesque for truth. The g. o. p. management
would rather be regarded as mere frauds than
criminals. That is all It amounts
This ways and means committee is not new
thing in the republican party. That ways and
means" accounts for a number things. 1t leaves
the national committee to send speakers. pay
expenses. indulge advertising, and legitimate things
Of that kind 1t devtses the ways and means" Of
doing other things that might seem unethcal If
done by the Official organization" and maybe
der its campaign bills too enoromus for seeming
grace; sending its emissaries the country for
one instance say 70 post big money election
bets big odds-Iess interested the odds or the
bets. than the psychological effect upon the sporting
traternfties.
Republican psychologists know that America is
considerable OF a nation OF band-wagon climbers;
that nothing attractive to the masses as an air
Of rostveness. 1t is great game They know too
the splendid effect of organizing First Voters clubs
getting president. secretary, treasurer, am few
members, and then slipping them some names where
they 90 nd get nd 10 tbair
Tor their candidate They go and they get the money
for Il has been solicited IN them and
not knowing this the young men imagine they are
Of some Importance, and with the money thus OBJ
tanned they get out make big show and work
like nailers.
This year the republicans are adding to their
First Voters club system. Harding organizations
Of different nauonaltes; OF the Germans the ItaI-
ians the Irish and heaven only knows what ALL that
Is. heaven and the ways and committee"
only know. womens clubs Will now no doubt be
added TO the brace. The system is as efficient as
daylight II "cliques" the work and the national
Official" committee doesn't have to account for the
expenditures.
Gov. Cox does propose that these detached
aid societies" connected by an invisible string.
with the unofficial" committee on ways and
means as their godfather, going TO get away
with it this year. The may not reach the situa-
ton, but If there is any semblance OF an enlighten-
ed public conscience in the United States that con-
science viii reach t-and that is what Messrs Hard
Ing. Hays Upham al are afraid Of II was only
70 be expected that they would fare back with
charges and insinuatiOns about democratic "slush
funds" but Messrs. Newberry, King ct al, nared
back with such charges in Michigan too-yet were
careful never 10 attempt force them.
There is such thing as moral conscience with
out law: indeed. it usually precedes law. Mr. Hays
may talk much as he pleases about the republican
oamIaign contributors having sinister" motives
and being OF the best citizenship OF the country"
II he means in point OF wealth, no doubt his con-