The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
REPUBLICANS FATE SEALED FOR COMING. CAMP PAIGN, |SBEL|EF|
Senator Watson Says "Hand- writing on Wall, But Wilson MiSruIe Can't Be Wiped
 Out in Year"

Washington, May 2f-(SpeclalJ- In the forthcoming congressional campaigns. the republicans, it is al- ready clearly discernible will depend on the prejudice. sham and hypoc- rIsy which stood them in such ex- cellent stead in 1920.
 Appeal to Prejudice
 The republicans believe, with or without reason, that the American people are not only embittered against the League of Nations. but against Woodrow Wilson, himself. If they can appeal to prejudice, 1t will not be necessary for them to defend the innocuous record of Con- gress. or certain failures of the Harding administration.
 Senator James Watson of Indiana has sounded the campaign keynote Pared of surplus verbiage. his speech in Indianapolis-subm to the people with the approval of the Pres ident-was this: "We cannot be cru cified for having failed entirely to redeem the country in 14 months from the wreck caused by the eight year misrule of Woodrow Wilson"
 Under the Cloud
 There Is no doubt but that the re- publican party as represented by US leaders. is in great distress. Pri- mary election results in various states of the union, in various sec tions of the union, constitute the handwriting on the wall.
 Their trouble Is not based entirely on the inability of Congress to func- ton. It is apparent that a cloud be- gins to settle over the Harding ad- minfstration. There is a skeleton In the department of justice which two republican members of the House, Representatives Woodruff of Mich igan and Johnson of South Dakota, insist on parading at ever recurring intervals. In addition to the near scandal involving fraudulent war contracts. past history. recently in- voked, involves Attorney General Harry M Daugherty In tho release from the Atlanta penitentiary of Charles R. Morse. who when given opportunity to die in freedom, re- fused to do so.
 The shame of the Newberry scan dal settles around the Congress and the administration like a pail. The Presidents recent appointment of Nat Goldstein, St. Louis politician who partook of the malodorous Low den slush fund, and of c. W. Upton of Dayton, who had no other qualified tions than his relationship to Harriet Taylor Upton, his wife. who in 1920 enlisted the women vote for the re- publican ticket, both of which nomi- nations were withdrawn under the intense fire both of upstanding demo- crats and republicans-has contrib uted its mite to the encircling gloom.
 Hull Asks Question
 Apparently all that remains for the republican strategisus is to ap- peal to the passion and prejudice of the people, and attribute enormous war expenditures during the Wilson administration to inefficiency. If not corruption. Tn the event they ascer- tain that the gullibility of the voters is not as pronounced as they antict- pate. they have already established a second line of trenches for their retreat Senator Watson, in his | keynote" address. 'Iet the cat out of the bag" This is what he said. Even if we have failed, certainly you could not turn again to the democrats who practically ruined the country In their reign of eight years"
 Where are the legs on which they can stand? This query comes from Cordell Hull, chairman of the demo- crat national committee. He proceeds
 
 turned, and that the countrys re- storation following the republican panic was achieved under the minis tration of a democratic tariff; that saving in administration outlay, by virtue of a non-reduction In taxation, Is myth wrought by figure juggling and inspired bookkeeping: and that even the Washington conference Drought about by democratic votes . and insistence and made successful by democratic participation is some- what eclipsed by the administrations dogmatic and negative procedure re- spectng other international problems and crises.
 Underwood's Challenge
 The democratic committee declares that the republicans must face the real issues. Republicans would go again to the people as protestants against the entrance of the United States into the Leagu eof Nations Although democrats stand for a league, they realize. just as republi- cans do, that the league question Is not the question of the hour Senator Underwood. democratic leader, speaking formally in the Senate, challenged the republicans to go to the people with their tariff bill as an Issue. That bill involves all domestic questions and it typifies the line of demarkation between demo cratic and republican principles. It will be the issue, whether the repub- 1icans are willing or not. The people, It Is apparent will make 1t the is- sue. It increases the price of every thing they wear and eat, and every thing that goes into the homes they would build. It divides into separate political entities 'big business" and the consuming public
 Albert J. Beveridge, who recently defeated the administration candi- date for a senatorial nomination In Indiana, agrees with Senator Under wood that the issue is a domestic and business issue. His declaration adds to the fast developing republican panic.