The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-08-18
Scandal MOngerS Are
Working at Expense
Of The Candidates
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
CN7yrtght by Tho lntellIGenc"r

WASHINGTON. AuS. tT--Most people
hale an .iea that A. EoSs!pS. women
arc TO worst offenders. but anyone VII"
S1"raS several days in Ohio studying
"0ced that ~" raal" "t 80 species IS
'~o-" deadly than the female.
For campaign whispers and lies haN"
t"Su0 the'r i0s.di"uS journey 70 m"
The 0-iNa'" lives OF Senator Harding
ard Governor ,'0N have been thrnuEh,y
rSnvaSSCd and II" trails Nt SIandr-
which played % prominent a part IN INC
ave been started at7"sl with respect
- both presidential candidates
The ;rouhlr s that people who have
,.vSd for Years n he same towns or
CITES p.tn thN respective candidates and
whose minds ar" Co,o-Cd by grievances
o. N-Clud,rcS and sometimes by imaGl-
native powers not confined 10 politics
alone. have given free rom 10 thCir tom
cues. And what person says who
claims 70 have known IN" one Canfidat'
or the other for years - apt TO say
- frequently repeated a. absolute truth.
Most ntstasteful.
7, IS perhaps the most d!StaStetu,
paaSe OF the presidential campaign and
were I not for the fact that II IS play
'uS already so prominent 4 part IN the
word Of mouth propaganda oi the CAM
paiGn Il could De ignored. Many Eeoric
who would otherwise judge the cAnd'-
dates on What they say IN print or
What IS said about them II newspapers
may be swaySd ~ their judgment by the
poisonous tales. and not one Of them,
NsthNr aIth respect 70 Senator Harding
o. Governor Con, has anything more 10
DO with tn" qualifications Of these mcu
% &c pres dent % The United states
than the private lives Of voters who
Will do the tlcct!Hc n"Nt November
Il j. not necessary tn describe even
the nature ot those stories. TOR let II
49,
ever been charged against persons in
public life = hs:uS said about Harding
and COX. Not satisfied to inquire INTO
the domestic relations Of each OF the
candidates the tSl"mong"rs har" even
gone back - rcsurrCct skeletons or
moral iaXity.
ANY one who listens carefully to the
s'crtes told by bo'a SIDES rannot but
he impressed with the fact that the m
vesuEation in each case afford ah$o-
lutclv no index to character. The trouble
IS that party workers have an idea ms
= me th!Ug that makes votes and vale
81 the subject OF party, WORKERS: tnS
enough t. become convinced that IN"
Democrats and Republicans N the wards
and precincts where th;s propaganda IS
Degrading Practice.
Somehow IL appears TO a dlSintereStcf
observer as If the national and state
managers could put stop 70 TINS Sort
Of thing WHICH - as Degrading as II -
politically unpopular. There arc plenty
Of faults in the policies and promises H'
Harding and Cox for the voter % de-
te-r1lrr which man - better abba 70
manage the pubic business ~ this coun"
Try for four long and interrupted years
Some politicians IN Ohio haven't given
q ,"ry good example, of political cniNaIrN
At iaast iHC part" workers maven
- ,ne nsUsplrN!rr"n who a." attached
90 The t!nln being with Senator HarolnS
Or those Who are with Governor toN
were % confess All the stories that pre-
JUDGED Republicans and Democrats have
cndeavcred 70 plant "n them u
would be as shocking as prooa bly, IN.
credible 70 those who do not understand
the extremes 70 which somo politicians
w;lI 90 70 accom- plish tEHtr purpose.
ANY man or woman who permits his or
nor vote - % influenced by these
stories hCwcvc. c,rrumStantai - may
arnca- will hc doing An injustice 70
Senator Harding ard Governor cox. Tor
u.-Ia both are human beings. th"E H~H
honorable and honest men with NOR
s';,v and conscience far above the aver
age and al! tn" stories about dri1N'nS.
gambling. business deals. domestic
;-nuhies ancestral weakness and the
like can be dismissed As having No
more rnlatlNnShip - ~" 'ru" worth OF
.hc p-rs,dential candidates than tAH
roio- of their HAIR or the shade nt their