Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-10-26
a .DEnoCRATIC YEAR
Signs Of Republican Dlsaifection In
creasiug Over Country.


With election day drawing nearss
the Republican situation in many sec
tions looks desperate and in many
others hopeless, says q Washington
dispatch to The Times. ontirmat,on
OF this view is found in the fact
that President Harding has felt con-
strained to write letter to Repub-
illcsn Floor Leader Mondell designed
to raise Republican hopes, and in
which he pleads for the reelection Oh
the present Republican do-nctI in.
Congress-; that William X. Wood,
chairman Of the Republican congres-
siohal committee, has been compelled
t. revise downward his prediction oI
u Republican majority in the next
house. and that practically every
member Of the presidents cabinet has
been sent out on the stump.
The Republicans, panic stricken,
are playing their last cards and ex-
hausting their last resources. The
Democrats, on the other hand, are
approaching election day with conf
dence. They are indulging in no ex.
'travagant claims. They have placed
all the facts concerning this Congress
and this administration and the is
sues OF the campaign accurately be-
fore the public and they feel now
that; no amount OF letter writing the
president may do >or belated campaign
oratory by members Of the cabinet
hn ,nka Itn1,
constitute the record Of this Republi-
can Congress. They cannot explain
away the following outstanding facts
OF that record:
That this Congress passed a profit.
eers' tariff bin which taxes the
American people from billion to !
billion dollars yearly. an amour.
equivalent to the total sum necessary
to run the government, and which
will greatly increase the present hi sh
cost of living.
That this Republican Congress
passed tax bill which relieved the
big corporations and multi-milllon
aire taxpayers OF more than half
billion dollars, and increased the
taxes Of every small corporation,
while granting no relief to tie small
individual taxpayers. D..
2 That Truman H. Newberry was
siven a purchased seat in the senate
of the United States, with the open
support OF President Harding, and
was condemned by the very men who
voted to seat him. '-r
That the administration is now
facing an admitted deficit OF $50 mil
lion dollars for the current fiscal
year, which will be at least 800 mil
lion before the end Of the year, while
pretending that it was economizins
and saving money.
That the expense OF running every
single department of the government
has been largely Increased by this
administration when fairly compar-
ed with the last Democratic admins
tration.
That the last of the naval Oil re-
serves in Wyoming were secretly
leased by the secretary of the interior
TO subsidiary Of the Standard OH
company, with great loss to the ma
tiGn and the State and to the United
States navy and the oil burning
ships Of the American merchant ma
rine.
That the administration Is now at
tempting to put through legislation
TO dispose Of 3 billion dollars worth
OF the finest merchant ships afloat
for one-tenth of their cost, to pay $50
million bonus to the purchasers, to
AcId them 125 million at per cent
and to exempt them from taxation.
That under an executive order Of
resident Harding q midnight raid
was made upon the officials OF the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
and that men and women who had
won their positions through merit
were cast into the street with sus-
p!cion amounting to the charge oil
dishonesty against them, which has
been disproved, but brought them No
redress.
That the civil service has been
trampled under foot and supplanted
by the spoils system, and that IN
some instances II Is charged that APP
pointments have been bought and
sold outright.
That without exception every riece
OF beneficial lsgislation passed by
this CongIess had the support II
Democrats, and much Of the bad leg
islation passed would have been still
worse except for Democratic amend
ments which won the support Of the
small progressive aIemsnt among
Republican legislators.
That the one bCastid achievement
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