The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-10-18
CHAIRMAN HULL FLAYS
LETTER TO MONDELL'
Says It Is Only Hafding's Round About
Way to Ask Vote For His
Congre IS.


Washington, Oct. 17-The letter OF
President Harding to Representative
Mondeil prais.ng the work of Congress
which was maue public Sunday, was
declared by Chairman Cordell Hull Of
the democratic national committee in
IA statement tonight to be in effect
a plea for the reelection of his repub
/ lican do.nothing Congress"
with the exception OF the republi.
can members defeated in the pri.
maries, Mr.. Hull said, practically
the entire membership OF this Con.
gress are candidates for reelection
and when President Harding asks the
American people to approve Of this
Congress, he asks for its reelection.
1T Is BETTING to appra!se the gen
eral results (of the Congress), said
President Harding, which have been
so helpful to American welfare that
they will not fail to appeal to the ap'
proval of the American people"
This is the Harding round about
way OF doing what President Wilson
did in 1918 in direct way when he
asked for the election OF a democrats
Congress to aid him in making just
peace, for which he was criticized and
abused by republican leaders, repub.
lican speakers and the ieactionary re
publican press.
President Wilson's plea for the con
tnuance of Congress to sustain an
administration which had entered up
on and was successfully conduct ng O
great war which he deemed necessary
| to the making of a successful and just
peace. IL came at time when repub
| licans in the Senate were plotting tc
| disparage him and deprive his admin
| istHtion OF the credit for wha, " mac
| already done and what il planned L
| d..
President Harding plea, on tn,
other hand. in effect asks the Ameri
can people to condone the faults o
Congress already discredited in tn
eyes OF the American people and repl
dialtd and denounced by REPUBLICAN
leaders. including a member Of hi
own cabinet, and the honest and int
! gent element OF the repID. cal
press.
: Secretary of War Weeks has sal
+ that the sitting Congress has reaohe
the lowest ebb in the history Of tn
country. Chairman Wood OF the r.
: nub lean congressional committee ha
: declared that everybody is giyin
this Congress hell because II has don
moth. ng to stimulate business or I
benefit the farmer Senator Boral
| republican,, Idaho, has said Il; Is ii
possible to get any where in Congress
and that conditions just move a.on
until We get into this hopeless an
absolutely deplorable mess. TIL
Boston Transcript. republican gosp'
for all New Eng and. declared tia
this is the worst Congress in 20 year
and this opinion has found an echo |
the press of all parties.
I'm what way can republicans VIII
criticized President Wilson for as
ing that his administration be su
tanned in a great war crisis. justii
the plea Of President Harding in as
ing American voters to give their a
proval to republican Congre;
which has imposed upon the poop
the worst tariff bill and the worst u
bill in the history OF the countr
that has broken practically all of |
campaign promises, that has dol
nothing to relieve post war distres
and that will be remembered chief
| for hnviuu cantpd Truman ~ No
berry in a purchased Senate seat?'