Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-11-02

The republican candidate for Con-
gress, Mr.. w. F. Clouse, has pitched
his campaign upon low plane. He
is presuming upon the intelligence of
the voters of the Fourth Congression-
al District and resorting to the arts
of the demagogue in a desperate effort
to retain his seat in Congress. But
the people will not be deceived. They
know Mr.. Ciouse and they know Judge
Hull, and their discriminating good
sense will lead them to know the
truth.
An illustration of Mr. Clouse's reck-
less statements is his ridiculous claim
that he is entitled to credit for the
work at Lock 8 on Cumberland river,
when the plain truth is that this river
improvement had been provided for by
the federal government long before
the people made the mistake of send
ing Clouse to Congress. 1t is known
of all men that it was through the
interests of Judge Hull while in Con-
gress, aided by patriotic and interested
citizens along the river, covering a
period of several years, that work was
resumed on the Cumberland river, and
that Mr.. Clouse had no more to do
with it than "the man in the moon."
Again, Mr. Clouse, who never heard
gun fire during the war, although
he was in the draft age as finally fixed,
| is going over the district "slobbering"
over the ex-service men and seeking
to poison their minds against Judge
Hull who saw foreign service as a
gallant Spanish American war soldier,
and whose every official act has shown
him to be the loyal and consistent
friend of the soldier. The charge from
any source that Judge Hull voted
against the soldier bonus or that he
was unfriendly to the measure, is alb
solutely false. He favored and sup
ported the bonus in committee and on
the floor of the House. As a member
of the Ways and Means committee he
did insist, as he should have done, that
the big corporations and individuals
who had made their millions during
the war should pay the bonus, and OPP
posed the provisions that certain re-
publicans were seeking to tack on to
the bonus bill which would require
the cosumers of the country to pay it.
The controversy in the committee was
over the, method of raising the revenue
to pay the bonus and not over the
bonus itself at all. Mr.. Clouse knows
this, yet he persists in seeking to poi
son the minds of the soldiers against
one of the most loyal friends they ever
had in Congress.
On the other hand, the republican
party has been guilty of the basest
perfidy in its treatment of the soldier
1t has betrayed them in the most in
; famous manner. Republicans have
, been in control of both Houses o.
J Congress since March, 1919. The,
: could have given the soldiers a bonu.
any day since that time, had they de
| sired to do so. During the campaign
} two years ago they solemnly prom
lsed the soldiers bonus. They hav,
I broken that promise. Why? The an
: swer is simple. The big corporation
and millionaires of the country, VIII
D put up the money to buy elections fo
, republicans, and who control the poll
r cies of the republican party, will no
permit the enactment Of soldier bonu
legislation, for fear they will have t
!. pay a good portion of it.
I What do the republicans do? The
go through the farce of passing a be
q nus bill without pretending to provid
any method Of raising the money wit
which to pay the bonus, and being tol
: all the time by the president that h
: would veto the bonus bill they wer
: framing up. Little republican cor
gresham vote with "a whoop" for thi
: thing that had been cooked up" an
rush back to their districts, ClOus