The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-18
ATTACK SENATOR WHO OBJECTS TO
 INVESTIGATION
Campaign Expenses Will be Probed Despite Shoots
 Protests.

Washington, June 1s-An unusual scene, showing the reactionary ten denotes of the dominant element in the Republican party, was enacted in the closing hours of the Senate ses- sion when Senator Reed Smooth of | Utah, of the G. o. P. 'Old Guard,' at- tempted to choke off an investigation of campaign expen ditures during the approaching campaign
 i Senator Pomerene of Ohio, Demo crat, asked for consideration of his 1 resolution extending the scope of the i Senate investigation into primary mpaign expenses and contributions and providing the inquiry should con- tinue until the November elections l and cover all campaign committees and presidential candidates Ad- journment was only an hour away, and Senator Smoot objected
 ''The Utah Senator, one of the l standpat Republicans who trains with the Penrose-W Watson-Crane- Lodge combinations at national con- ventions, persisted in his objection I until two minutes before the hour set for adjournment sine die He withdrew it only after a sen sational speech by Senator Bor- ah, progressive Republican, a bit
 
 a significant statement from Senator Knox that --I hope the objection will l be withdrawn
 l Senator Borah virtually warned I Shoot that if he prevented the cam paign investigation, the Republican l party would regret 1t before the ides of November Evidence already | brought ont before the Senate sub 1 committee converting the excessive costs of pre-convention campaigns by 1 General Wood, Governor Lowden | and others, prompted Senator Borah l in his plea to his own party not to l continue its attempt to hide disagree l able and scandalous facts.
 l The speech of Senator Borah, di- l rected at one of the -Old GuaTd I leaders of his own party, was one of | the most remarkable utterances ever | heard in the Senate. Deman ding that l the Republican party "clean house"
 or be repudiated by the American 1 people at the polls. Senator Borah said in part-
 1 'It is not a party question: It is a l simple proposition of whether or not 1 there are enough men in this country | to stand between those who have l made up their minds to control poli- l tics through the sheer use of money, l l plish their ends in that way, and the l American people
 -I do not know what my party will 1 do in the next 10 days I know what l the party which was organized under l the exalted leadership of Lincoln l ought to do, regardless of individuals; | and that is. by it's course of conduct, l when it shall assemble in convention | to eliminate from consideration any | man who undertakes to dominate a l great political convention from the l sheer use of money It ought to re- | ject from its consideration men who | will accept unconscionable sums of l money to be used for personal polit- l ical advantage As l have said, this
 is a matter which Is not controlled
 by candidates or parties< and we ! should rise to meet the issue It is a ! question of protecting the citizenship l of this country If the Republican | party does not clean house between 1 now and next Saturday night, just as l surely as patariotism is yet virtue I in this country some way will be l found by the people to protect our ! institutions against these political | profiteers-
 "Men who have gathered their un- ! told millions in this war. men who ! nave p9OnleeIeu WhIt yOunS men l were sacrificing their lives upon the
 battlefield, men who, looking into the 1 future, thought that they saw dis | turbances on account of their prac- ] tices- men who have gathered their l wealth and propose at all hazards to
 defend it are proposing to control | American politics, not by the presen-
 tation of great constructive measures
 which will relieve the conditions in
 the country, but by the use of the 1 money which they have thus acquired
 '-Mr- President, I say here, with al 1 the solemnity I can gather that this l party can not succeed by denying tc
 the people knowledge of how it pro-
 poses to succeed
 --I ask my friend from Utah to re-
 consider this proposition: let the Re publican party stand upon it's record | If there is a contribution coming to l the Republican party. let it be adver- 1 tised to the world If it is not adver- | tised- it is a self-evident proposition 1 that it is crooked If it is not adver ! tised, it is a self-evident proposition 1 that we ought not to receive it. If i i is not made public, it is a self-eviden l proposition that those who are giyin: I it have a sinister motive and sinis 1 ter purpose in giving it.