The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-03

by making much worse charges against
two members of Mr.. Wilson's cabinet,
one of the two being the secretary OF
the treasury, Mr.. William G. McAdoo.
! What this Republican senator said in
| the way Of impunging Mr.. McAdoo is
| N, the Congressional Record, and allu-
sfcns to it went all through the country
IN the newspapers. The present writ
er prefers to refrain from repeating
| 1t verbatim. For one thing, it was
about as ibelous an uterance as one
man could possibly make about anoth-
| er. OF course, a senator is not re-
| sponsible in the law for what he says
on the senate floor Neither is a
newspaper responsible in the law for
| printing what a senator says under
! these circumstances. But one may be
permitted to refrain from printing
charges like this for some other motive
than merely to avoid going to jail or
being liable in damages. Let it be sufi-
| Gent to say that this allusion to Mr..
McAdoo, taken in connection with the
circumstances and the context, were
about as ugly as it is possible for any
thing to be.
| BoIshevist Propaganda
Doubtless this Republican senator
thought this was good Republican
propaganda. Maybe, from the stand
point of those to whom politics is
merely matter of getting and keeping
office, through superior energy and in
lgenuity in foOling the public-maybe
to such, this is good Republican propa
ganda. But if it is good Republican
propa uganda, it is even better Bolshe
visit propaganda.
To an intelligent and ardent leader
of the Bolshevik movement, could any
thing be more agreeable than for {
senator of the United States to give
out to the world the implication tina
tn eson-in-law of ex-President Wilson
used his political connections improp
erly to his own advantage?
Every boIshevist every communist
every anarchist, every opponent of or
ganized society, in America and else
where, wherever the fame of Wilson
p was known and wherever America
Y part in the war was known will eX
2 pand it and read into it his own male
t VIOLENT meaning. They will say, ant
f base it on the authority of a Unitet
s States senator, that the statesman il
t whom all the allies believed had in hi
e family man who used the war as
= basis for personal profit They will
Y say that all of Wilson's craftsmanship
and all the idealism in our part in tn
V war. was mere window-dress be
c hind which Wilson's relatives and ar
S pointees were laying their plans to us
g the war for their own advantage.
e Justified BY Speech
All these innuendos, and worse one
" worse ones than any decent perso
! likes to write down-are justified b
the express words of a speech in whic
IL a Republican senator named two men
80 bers of Wilson's cabinet, including hi
T. sOn-in-law, and ended with a phras
II about performance "a smokescreen I
y hide the misdemeanors of Democrat
y cabinet members who served under tn
lie last administration.
lie All the Eolshevists must have hear
Ie of that speech, and exuIted over it. A
III the Lenines and Trotzkvs, big and Ii
tie; all the |. w. VS.; all the enemie
and critics of the present organizatio
n of society must rejoice at this gift
r. propaganda to hem One can imagir
IT Bill Haywood, from his present pos
n ton at Moscow, sending the messas
TO to this Republican senator, Good stu
~ -oSllu us some more Next 10 IN
lie brutal SCATTERING Of the faith Of Il
n world in the integrity and high min
re edness of President Wilson and h
III family, the next most agreeable thir
~ to the Bolshevists must be the i
it nuendO made in the same RepubIica
IS senator's speech, that the attornt
is general who, during the war. was 7
e. sponsible for the suppression of b
OF shevism in the United States, w;
merely another creature getting reat
le to feather his own nest.
IN Results Painful
he These are merely the larger AZ
is graver results of this kind of polite
rs The individual results to Mr. Meade
ct must be painful. Mr. McAdoo is a DO
IL man-pOOr almost to the point whe
II poverty is an embarrassment.
ds It is doubtful if Mr.. McAdoo toda
lie even after three and half years
at the private practice of the law, cou
II pay in full for the Los Angeles hou
NJ he lives in. But the personal iniu
he tees involved in this kind of polite
or cruel, as many of them are, are min,
he --------