The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-06-14
THE MANNING TIMES, Manning, s. C.8

charge of the company. In the iaves-
| tigation as to it's ownership Otto
Helms, representing the German own
ers, declared its value to be So, $780,
900. It's stock was finally sold
through my direction at an open pub
lie auction sale, after wide ADVERTISE
ment, for $4,150,000 to the highest
bidder, representing q syndicate Of
more than, a hundred American bank
ers who organized new corporation
to make the business a 100 per cent
American enterprise"
Congressman Walton Moore, in dis
cussing Chairman Campbell's remark
| able flip-flop, said in part.
"The chairman of the committee on
the 3rd of May voted for the resolu-
ton, and except for his SO voting it
could not have been passed, and now,
| forsooth, the chairman stands here
| and says the criticisms he hears in
regard to the Attorney General and
in regard to this whole business,
makes him think of the issue from the
mout hof sewer. Yet he is respon-
sible for those criticisms having been
! deliberately considered and for the re-
solution to investigate having been
adopted After The Attorney Cen
eral had been in the office for more
than a year, listening to and consid-
ering the charges against him, the
chairman of the committee was instru-
mental in having the resolution passed
by his committee and directed to be
brought before the House.
"Now, I wish to say this-and
speak for myself, and l think can
speak for every member of this side
of the House-that anyone who direct
ly or indirectlc charges that we who
favor an investigation, who favor it,
among other reasons, cecause the
sentiment of the countrd calls for an
investigation, that we are endeavor-
ing to prevent the prosecution and
conviction of malefactors can receive
but one answer. If any such asser-
tion should be made with respect to
me or any of the gentlemen who sur
round me upon this side it shall be an
swered in only one way, and that by
a sharp, short word Of three letters.
"When l have the time. and
strength, not as partisan but as an
American citizen and Representative
and as an American lawyer, I am 60
ing to discuss the record of the At
torney General since he took office. If
the opportunity is afforded me, shall
undertake to show that his conduct is
unparalleled so far in the history of
the Department of Justice, and that
if there ever was an official anywhere
who ought to court investigation, if
innocent, and, if guilty, ought to be
brought to the bar of the Senate, it
is the Attorney General; and when l
deal with the subject, I shall not con-
fine myself altogether to the war
fraud cases, SO called, but shall in
clude cases which have arison since
the close Of the war"
The Central Control of the Republi-
can party got another distinct shock
from the nomination Of Brookhart
for the Senate in Iowa. Henry Wal
lace, who , runs an intensely partisan
paper in Des Moines, and who tries
to make the farmers vote as he die
tates, will have much to swallow if he
supports Brookhart in November.
Wallace proved, at least to his own
satisfaction, that Brookhart is thoro-
ughly untitled for the job.
Daugherty, in his effort to take
public attention from scandals affect
ing his administration Of the Depart
mcnt of Justice, gives it out that some
| fish pirates are trying to steal all the
| fish in Alaskan waters. That would
be nice scheme, if it would work.
Just at this juncture, however, Mr..
Sutherland, Republican delegate in
| Congress from Alaska, bluntly an
| nounces that the whole thing is lie.
Mr.. Daugherty should first have made
sure Of Mr.. Sutherland's sympathetic
cooperation.