, 1922-02-07
COMPLAINT NOT WELL FOUNDED.

IN Chronicle makes complaint that hepup-
I,ean newspapers of Wyoming nave I iAe as"ta ~ th;s
- Kendrick for campaigning in the state q ! "a
- ,,d for boosting the fortunes OF te sv
ume hIort y an association of members OF the con
orcss TO further agricultural interests i~
,y,v the Chronicle states the natter
q ~ ia saving about it depends entirely on whose
~ ;s being gored is about as true today as eNef: 40
Senator John B. kendrick VINO mas soyoral
.t.to for the past two weeks ana maue -
~aoches, and in almost every one OF them mas lei =.
81 The agricultural bloc of which he is a memoe., ~
likewise been assaied by almost eva s,oc and thew
naysnaner for being a member of SAID nioc anu ne'
NC binted that the bloc was not the proper lnns.
.ssar. comes President Harding and appoints oena-
tor Kenyon of Iowa as circuit ,uoge % w u. ,Sn state
t.;rt- and every Republican newspaper IN te s aS
snoats of Senator Kenyon as chairman OF ~ sen ~
ate agricultural bloc and lauds him ana M WIN "
that connection. -. t-o,hrer that
,ohn Xendrick. Democrat, draws nothing but scathing
rebuke for being a member OF a certain sroup,
John Kenyon, Republican, is gwen sant;.aI grounsp
tson for being chairman OF that same identcai GROUP.
80 far as we have observed Republican newspapers
have done little or no "assailing" OF SENATOR - san
10y hut many of them have, on the contrary, peen
- n and even complimentary in speaking of MN.
1be brethren have questioned the good taste Oh n
senator's Matching up political fences wheh N ousns
70 be in Washington attending to senatorial - a.
70 "a ,nrcb of any under a Republican administra.
too But the most criticism noticeable was a,ouuseu
br the attitude the senator has assumed upon rne IA
- az tbe protective tariff, a policy wholly hepuphcah.
r. b,ve a Democratic United States senator pretend
70 so far stray from the beaten path of tariff Tor rev,
enue only as to embrace one OF the funaamentas o.
Pcnublicapism made occasion for considerable tw1t-
ting. Republican editors quite naturally declined TO
take any stock in TIE alleged conversion OF the senator
to the Republican faith. ~.
As to the senator's connection with the farm pioe'
II would make little or no difference what particular
congressional aid society he Joined. Pohncs is poh-
tics. And if an agricultural or any other question pc
came a political one Senator Kendrick could be de-
nended upon to vote with his Democratic party.
A lining up of any special interest, Ike railroad
trntherhoods. labor, agriculture, manufacturing or
what not, to put over legislation strictly for the benc'
81 of the special interest is bad business. whoever en-
cages in it. Although we have noticed no particular
criticism of Senator Kendrick on that account.
There could be no objection raised If Republican
newspapers accorded Senator Keyon due credit for
his ability and accomplishments when the president
appointed him a federal judge. He is perfectly quail
fed. Would the Chronicle have Republican ne~spa-
pers abuse him like a pirate because OF his farm bloc
leadership? The farm bloc matter is nothing but a
phase in Legislative progress to something better for
the country's agricultural interests for which most
people hope. If Senator Kendrick has been special
~ maltreated by Republican newspapers on account
Of utilization we have failed to note 1t.
Then if the Chronicle will correct the name of Sena-
tor Kenyon from "John" to William" we all feel
more certain of just who is being written about.