The daily times., 1921-09-09
BOTH The PARTIES
FIGHTING BACK ON
THE OLD LINES
REPUBLICANS AFTER PIE
Gust Democrats From Office
and Excluded Them From
Hearings of the Ways and
Means Committee on Taxa
ton and the Tariff. Comp
ers-Pershing Controversy.
(By David Lawrence.)
Copyright, 1921, by The Daily


Copyright, 1921, by The Daily
Times.)
Washington, Sept. S.-After six
months of a truce that was more ap-
parent than real, the Democratic and
Republican parties have come out in
the opon ana some back to partisan
politics. The Democrats have begun
an attack on the Administration and
as usual the incumbent party fights
back With assertions of great achieve
ment.
Behind the scenes there hasn t
been any truce at all. Deserving Re-
publicans have been clamoring for
offices and ousted Democrats have
reluctantly let go. Chairman George
White of the Democratic National
Committee started out with a plan
of Standing behind the President"
for patriotic reasons and kept his
henchmen from kicking over the
traces too soon in partisan attack.
But the action of the Republicans in
excluding the Democrats from the
| Ways and Means Committee meetings
at which the tariff and tax measures
were discussed indicated that the
non-partisan days of the war were
not to be repeated and that it was a
free-for-all fight along the same lines
as existed before the war when the
Democrats framed their administra-
tion measures in party conferences.
AS an indication that things are
back to normalcy in politics, much
comment is heard upon the fact that
President Harding's letter to Senator
Mccormick attacking the method by
which the Democratic Administration
/ managed the war has not been re
garded as an impropriety although
Mr.. Wilson's letters to Democratic
apropos of congressional elections
were made the basis for widespread
criticism.
| The difference today is that the
apologists for the administration
arguing that President Harding is
the greatest president since Lincoln
and opponents contending that most
and that dire predictions about a
business depression have been con-
firmed The amusing part of the
Ispectacle-for most of it is too arti-
Y iol 70 10 that
the Democrats are shouting about
/ the good old days of Democratic
prosperity when workingmen'
wages were high and the business
mans profits were plentiful while
the Republicans in turn are pointing
the finger of blame at the war ex-
travagance of the Democrats in plllng
up a tax burden that seemingly can't
be reduced.
Meanwhile General Pershing and
Samuel Gompers are having a news
paper debate on the subject of after
dinner speaking and are reviving the
controversy as to who won the war
Mr.. Gompers is disappointed with the
attitude of the Republican Admins
tration toward labor and is making
speeches saying that five million mer
out of work is proof of the fact thai
the workingmen who wanted a
change got what they voted for.
Other labor leaders are crying thai
while Congress takes vacation
there are millions of workingmeI
who are also taking a vacation" bu'
without pay.
All the partisan pickering however
will not be Immediately of avail tt
either side for disintereste politica
observers are confident that nothing
; has happened as yet upon which tt
} base definitive judgment concernlns
the congressional elections of mex
: autumn. The contest in New Mexico
; where special election is being helt
; to fill the vacancy caYsed by the re