The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-03-03
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN
ADMITS DISSATISFACTION
Congress Riddjck Frankly Tells Par
~ Leaders That The Party Cannot
Go Before Country Upon Its
Record

~ Leaders That The Party Canno
Go Before Country Upon Its
Record
I v aShingtOn, MarCn 1.-The Strik.
Ing confession that no Republican is
/ entirely satisfied with the results sc
far accomplished by the Harding
administration and that conflicting
/ opinion and counsel in the party
! tends to confusion, delay, cOmpro-
mise and even failure, is contained
| in the official literature appealing for
funds sent out by the publicity CON-
mittee OF the Republican Congress
! sional Committee
/ President Harding may tell of gov
! ornamental savings which disappear
! upon examination of the official fig
! ures, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
I (NeWberry Republican may key
note to his hearts content about
what he calls the remedial legisla-
| ton enacted by the present Con
gress. - which also disappears upon
examination of the official record, but
neither Of them apparently are MAX
ing any impression upon the Chair
man of the Publicity Committee of
the Congressional Committee of their
party. This official, Representative
Carl W. Riddick of Montana, is aprac
teal man. He knows that the par
ty is not making good. He knows
! that there is confusion and comprO-
mise and even failure in what it does
or is trying to do. He knows, too,
that in all the forty-eight states
there is not single Republican who
is entirely satisfied with the results
so far accomplished by this admins
tratiOn.
Moreover, he has the honesty and
the courage to say so, and he wants
those who have not yet lost faith in
te party to come across with so
much per annum. payable quarterly
on the instailment plan, in order to
meet the menace of radicalism, rev
Olution, confscation. and all those
awful things that always menace the
pure and noble party of Lodge and
LOrimer, of Du Pont and New
berry, ct al.
That no wrong Interpretation may
be placed upon Chairman Riddick's
statement, the following verbatim en-
tracts from the letter he is sending
out are given:
The Harding administration is
obligated to carry out the Republi-
can platform pledges -FrOm the diff
ferent interests and different sec
tons come differences of opinion and
counsel that tend to confusion, de-
>lay, compromise, and even failure.
The counsel and the misrepresenta
lions in the sO-called independent
press and in radical and opposition
papers add to the confusion
1t may be pointed out that Chair
man Riddick's denunciatiOn of the
independent press for having pub
lished the facts concerning the Hard
in~ administration is inconsistent in
view of the confession he makes in
the following paragraph:
No Republican Is Entirely
Satisfied With Results So Far
Accomplished"
This confession, coming from such
a high official source, means not only
that no Republican is entirely satisf-
ed with the results accomplished so
far, but that the Republicans as a
whole are keenly disappointed at the
lack of results.
TO quote Chairman Riddick YER,
batim again:
The only other alternative if the
people lose faith in the Republican
party is radicalism, revolutionary
and cOnfiscatory, that will spread
ruin and failure everywhere. That
menace is real and must be met"
Presumably this has some refer
ence to the agricultural bloc" al
though that bipartisan body of pro-
pressives is not mentioned by name.
Those who remain true to the re-