The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-10-28
4 Business NJ a n s
Scathing Arraign-
ment of the Admin
istration Of Federal
Government By a
Band Of Partisan
Politicians

citation here today. United States
Senator n. 8. Dial bitterly at
tackled the Republican sdministra-
ton as a bunch of Office sellers
and job hunters" and declared
that the people of the whole Unit
ed States are sick and tired of the
pernicious politics being played in
Washington by the party in power.
During the two hour speech SEN
ator Dial came back time and again
to his attacks on the administra-
ton. He declared that President
Harding was a good fellow" per-
sonaIlyl but was under the do1ni-
nation Of the congressional
gang"
The Republican majority in both
houses was trying to put it over on
the people and override the provis-
ion of the constitution in order to
hold their power and get votes,
the senator said.
He urged the people to rise up
and dethrone the party that would
sell offices and give patronage to
those who have committed crimes
against the government and the
constitution. The Junior senator
from South Carolina also attacked
what he declared were efforts by
the Republicans to put the su-
preme court under the control of
congress, and thereby make the
constitution mere scrap of paper.
In referring to the judiciary,
Senator Dial spoke Of the recent
senatorial controversy over K. NJ.
Lands, commissioner of organized
baseball and until recently a Uni
ed States circuit judge. He de-
clared that he had -.run ascertain
western judge OFF the bench"
The senator criticised President
Harding's recent unemployment
conference as gathering of the
"disgruntIed elements of every in
dus.ry. come to Washington to try
to make the government furnish
them with jobs and a living"
ct is not the governments place
to give work to anybody" declar-
ed the senator. "In January.
1920. the congress appropriated
100000 to get employment for the
unemployed. Six months later you
could not get any one to do any
kind of work for you. and six
months later than that we had
bread lines and soup kitchens all
over the country" he added.
Washington. he declared. was
crowded with incompeten.s. peo-
pie who have failed in everything
else, come to get a fat government
job. He bitterly criticised the ship
ping board, and declared that it
was robbery to pay $4,000 year
of the peoples money to the men
"hired to run few ships"
Switching his attacks to the ap-
preparation of s20.O00,000 made by
congress to supply food to the
starving Russians, Senator Dial de-
clared that he would like to see
some public spirited citizen enjoin
the treasury from making payments
on such appropriations which, he
said. were clearly against the con-
stitu.ion Senator Dial declared
further that he would never con-
sent to the cancellation of the Eu-
ropean debts to the United States.
ct is high time for the United
States to quit being the rzeasury
of the world. Europe must stop
coming to us With a hat in the
hand asking for money and must
go to work. If we had gone into
the league of nations, as we
should have done. We would now
have some influence in European
affairs and could make them stop
fighting and go to work, the SEN
ator said.
After digesting long enough to
criticise the tariff bill of the Re-
publican majority in congress as
pernicious. and harmful to Ameri-
can industry. the senator jumped
on the railroad labor board. de-
claring it resembleG a packed jury
in a criminal trial. with parties
vitally interested sitting in the box
The government has no business
mixing in the quarrels between the
railroads and their employees. 1t is
absurd ITO try to impose the same
conditions on the railroads in
South Carolina and those in New
Jersey. even if the government did
have the authority under the con-
stitution to do it. That is just one
example of pernicious interfer-
ference by the government in bus
mess and industry.
..No more has the government
the right under the constitution to
fix the price which shall be
charged fer any article sold. Wher
Mr.. Hoover started his fue
administration, / wrote him and
asked him for his authority to fl,
prices or anything else. He side
s..epped the issue. and then | took
it up in the senate. and Mr.. Hoov-
er's fuel administration came to al
abrupt end.
anyhow. l believe that the in
terests stirred UP that coal strike
just so they can rob the consumer
They-or somebody-have robbed