Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-04

Britain Thursday night, Senator George | r. Mclean made answer to Thomas J. Spellacy's demand that the senator reply | to the charges made against Spellacy | through the publication of memoranda | by the republican state central committee. | He also attacked NIT. Speilacys position on the tariff and took Homer S. Cum l mings to task for misrepresenting his votes in the senate. !
 Summa rizing his attitude towards the publication of the Spellacy memoranda, Senator Mclean said:
 "A private secretary. anyone conf dentially employed, who steals private correspondence from his employer if it is of purely personal nature, if it involves no moral terpitude affecting the public in terest, or third parties, a man who will do that is beneath my contempt but if it involves the public interest. the pub lie character, if it involves the moral terpitude which affects the interest of third parties, then the man who works for such employer is particops crimin- is (party to a crime) if he doesn't give 1t to the public.
 'The private secretary of the presi- dent of bank who knows that the pres ident is embedding the money of the bank, should resign; and I doubt if he has the right to that if he knows that should he resign, the president of that bank will continue to embeZzle the funds of that bank.
 If a man does a diShonorable thing and anyone in his employ knows it and fails to disclose it. how would public | wrong ever be righted? In the war you know our secret service-its first duty was to find any papers and all papers | that disclosed anything that was treas enable. or dishonest.
 Men who are dishonest do not tell about it themselves.
 If Mir. Speliacy when he was employed | by the government neglected his duty and followed another occupation and ment, I think the people of Connecticut are entitled to know it.''
 SpelIacy and the Tariff.
 Quoting several statements by Mr. Spellacy on the subject of the tariff, Senator Mclean went on to speak in part as follows:
 Tn an article which MT. Spellacy pub | lished shortly after he was nominated he said that he stood for protection in every industry. His exact language is ] When an industry needs protection ii should be accorded it. That is first class republican doctrine. There could not be anything better than this: but
 in view of the fact that his party had
 taken the opposite stand for seventy-fi
 years, I wondered why it was that MT
 Spellacy was the only protectionist i1 the democratic regiment. keeping step. 1 "The democratic platform of 1920, the very last one says:
 We reaffirm the traditional policy
 ot the democratic party in favoring { tariff for revenue only
 l. "l call MT. Spellacy's attention to that
 Soon afterwards he made another speech
 and to my astonishment he said tha the rates in the Fordney- -McCumber biI were crime in the sight of God anc
 man. That's f1rst-rate democratic doc
 Urine. Those words could have dropped
 from the lips of Richard Cobden, al though l don't think MT. Cobdon eve, 1 claimed to know what the Almight, thought of the tariff question.
 ''They might easily have dropped iron
 the lips of the democrats that fought m and my colleagues for nine months il
 congress, for there wasn't a rate in tn , bill that they. didn't try to reduce called his attention to that circumsta nee
 and then he picked out wool and suga as two rates that were inexcusable ant indefensible. I asked him why he didn' pick out something that voted in Con nectlcut-very strong for protection take the tobacco growers: they vote il : T CallSQH nlS aILenIlOn t the fact that there are a great many oth
 CT industries in Connecticut, all of then having rates much higher then those ol wool and sugar. Wouldn't he point ou
 such as inexcusable and indefensibl rates? sHe said he didn't know; h couldn't tell; he hadn't sufficient inform l ation; that that was. a matter for
 commission. If he didn't know whethe they were too high or too low how di s he know that they were a crime in tn
 face of God and humanity? Anybod l who knows anything of these two, woo . and sugar, knows that they need pro
 lection as much if not more than an
 industry in the country.
 . "Mr. Spellacy is a protectionist wh = believes in a tariff for revenue only. r you can tell me what that is, you ca
 tell me how to mix oil and water Wh,
 anybody who knows anything about tn
 subject knows that a tariff for revenu " only means tariff for revenue onl N and excludes every idea and symptol l. of protection. Tariff for revenue onl n is placed on non-competitive goods. f If you want a man that is for pro j. lection on Monday and tariffs for re, 3 enue only on Tuesday; for protectio e when it rains and tariff only for reveny e in clear weather; if yau want a ma
 
 denying it to his neighbor; if you wal l. man who is for protection in Connect h cut where it counts on election day, ar y would deny. the same consideration e all the other great industries that don d vote in Connecticut don't vote for m ,r that's all. I imagine such a man mig]
 have phenomenal success in some occ1
 pations If you want protection bast
 on broad national principles if yc
 | Y1f aRnfn hot 1T
 industrial life of this nation, and tz fair to all, all I have got to say is tn " you have got it; and having it, if yc -a want to keep it, why not vote for u ,e men who got it for you.
 s: Democratic Performances. r. You remember something always ha Id pens to save the democratic party vh
 it gets into trouble. In 1912 they Ii; s4 their chance. Of course, you know he is they got it Two great men fell ou Ie Theodore Roosevelt, the great polite o- genius of his kind, and William Howa
 Taft, great jurist, a man we all lil
 fell out; and the democratic party f
 in; rather they crawled in through Id crack in the republican tent and to or possession. You heard them say, wh f. they would do if they had a, chanc oh certainly those of you who are over thir of years of age will remember how t es democrats used to talk about turni b. the republican rascals out, if they ey na had a chance ; they would, cut taxes; :; of crease wages; reduce prices supprt od monopoly; make the political blind { of and the economically lame walk. Tn TT had their chance. They had char pr, in 1892 when Cleveland, was elected. Tn O. got enough of it then to last fifty ye:
 if it hadn't been for the war When ,e war came on, of course we had raT embargo against everything from fo .rs eign countries. The treasuries. of { or nations of the earth were bidding agai