Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
Attack on Harvey Shakes
Capital.

J,odpe. leader Of the Republican par
ty in the senate, is still resentful that
Senator Harrison of Mississippi, Dem
ocrat. discussed the appointment by
the president of Colonel George Har-
vev to be ambassador to Great Brit
ain. and his confirmation by the SEN
ate.
He is in high dudgeon. He tells
newspaper correspondents, when
messed for the statement of a rea-
SON. that Senator Harrison was in
violation of the spirit of the rules
regarding the executive session OF
the senate; and that Senator Harrl-
son should not have discussed an ac-
4ion that had already been taken
when such discussion would neces-
sarilv embarrass the man who will
represent this country in England.
Senator Harrison is amused at
Senator Lodge. He reminds his ques-
TONERS that he asked that the con-
firmation of Harvey be conducted IN
the open, in that the people OF the
United States might know just what
kind of a man he is; and that Lodge
objected because he knew, among
other things, that certain Democrats
would review the political history OF
Harvey. He adds that the senate
made public the vote by which Har-
yey was confirmed, and this act en-
titled senators to explain just why
they voted for or against the ap-
pointee.
Irrespective of the nicely of that
point in parliamentary ethics, the
senate debate regarding Harvey was
not only sensational, but almost epo-
chal. 1t shook the capital. Its effect
will long be felt in the country at
large, and must of necessity, have a
reflection in the countries of Europe.
For in course of his Incompatible
diatribe, Senator Harrison proved
Harvey, in his paper, had ridiculed
Lloyd George as heartlessly as ne had
ridiculed Presidents Roosevelt, Taft
and Wilson, and various members OF
the United States senate.
Fed on Own Words.
It was. stated in this correspond
ence some weeks ago that Senator
Harrison would make just such an
address. The senator was we'll helped
as far as facts and language were
concerned. He. convicts Harvey, if
convicted he was, out of his own
mouth, his editorials having been
made the basis of practically all that
was said. His charges were sensation
al beyond all question.
Senator Reed, Democrat, took ad-
vantage of the Harrison opening, to
defend Harvey, the Republican party
and the appointive power; to ridicule
former President Wilson and the
league of nations; and to gloat over
the fact that last November the Re-
publicans carried many states which
in normal times are Democratic.
Senator Lodge followed with an at
+empted rebuke to Senator Harrison,
and a reference to- the mentality OF
Harvey. Senator Hefiin, in his turn,
hayed the traducers of the former
president, the Democratic party, and
the league of nations. Senators Nor
ris. and Ashurst contributed their
mites. All in all, as result, the day
was epoch making.
Senator Harrison charged, and read
Harvey's editorials to substantiate
his charge, that Colonel Harvey sup
ported a party in desire of personal
preferment, and that he turns against
a party when his ambition is not
eratified. He charged that Harvey
not only ridiculed the president, who,
was helpless as an invalid, but that
he ridiculed Mrs. Wilson; that he
ridiculed Taft, and Roosevelt and
even the Virgin Mary.'He concluded
with contention that Harvey can
not properly represent the United
States in England because he has
made the bitterest attacks against
Lloyd George, attacks in which he
sought by ridicule to make the first
man in England appear a tool in the
hands of interested people. Regard
ing the journalistic temperament OF
Harvey, Senator Harrison said.
Harsh in Criticism.
.Few men in the history of journ-
alism have possessed to more re-