The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-03-10
A Typical Republican FalsehOod
Refined

A Typical Republican Falsehood
Refuted.
Despite the misrepresentation OF
Republican reactionary leaders and
press in the last national campaign,
both with respect to the issues and the
candidates, and particularly the false
hoods directed at President Wilson,
many of which have been thoroughly
exposed and their falsity now under
stood by the public, some members of
the Republican reactionary press keep
right on with the campaign of false
hood and especially those malignant
falsehood directed at President Will
son.
Occasionally these shameless exhi-
billions of mendacity are of such i'm
portance that the prominent victims of
them must expose them in order to
prevent serious injury to the public in
terests.
One of the instances of this kind re-
Gently came up for comment on the
floor of the United States Senate
where the mendacious publication was
exposed and refuted in the following
statements by Senator Glass Dem,
Va.,) and Senator Robinson Dem,
Ark.:)
Mr.. GLASS. Mr.. President, being a
newspaper publisher myself, l very
rarely take notice of the mistakes
which are ordinarily and inevitably
made with respect to public matters,
because readily understand how easy
it is to make mistakes in the rush and
hurry of daily papers routine; but
there appeared yesterday in the Wash
ington Herald statement to this eff
feet:
Senators Glass and Robinson, Demo-
Gratis, are considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of attempting to organize Democratic
opposition and hold the 20 in line.
Glass has recently had talk with
Woodrow Wilson and is said to have
brought back word that the former
President remained firm in his decis-
ion not to fight the treaty openly. Will
son opposed it, however, Glass was re-
ported by Democrats to have told
them.
Mr. President, that is the purest in
vention that ever appeared in Il public
print. have seen former President
Wilson but for moment in perhaps
three months. called at his home on
his birthday to offer my congratula-
tions. He has never opened his lips to
me on the subject of any one of these
treaties, nor have sought in any
way, directly or indirectly, to ascer-
tain his view of any one of them.
do not know what his view is, and he
does not know what my view is.
imagine that he does not greatly care
what my view is, if may be said to
know myself what is my view. I have
wanted to hear the discussion and to
take my position in accordance with
my best judgment. 1t is shameless
for newspaper deliberately to print
a falsehood of that nature upon so i'm
portant a question as that to which the
Senate is now addressing itself.
Mr.. ROBINSON. Mr.. President,
had heard of the press report which
has just been quoted by the Senator
from Virginia (Mr. Glass; and charac-
terized by him as without any founda-
ton whatever, but ] had notseen it.
Inasmuch as my name is coupled with
that of the Senator from Virginia in
an alleged undertaking on the part of
the Senator from Virginia and myself
to organize political opposition in the
Senate to the fourpower treaty, deem
it appropriate to say that no such pro-
posal has ever discussed between us,
and that there is no foundation what
ever for the statement, so far as my
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