The Idaho recorder., 1922-01-20
|NOCRATS Aim TO
REGAIN CONGRESS

J. CHARGE G. o. P. FAILURE
I'D REACTIONISM IN FALL
IvE-I SSUE SCATHIN G
lATEMENT.
J ASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Demo-
leaders here are much en-
ged over reports from back
and will make a determined
to win back congress in Novem-
This effort they will have the
hal assistance of former Presi-
Wilson. 1t is not asserted or
eted that Mr.. Wilson will go on
bump or make a single speech,
will analyze the failure of the
&licans to make good the prom
1.-THE people that caused the over
of the Democrats in 1913 and
$nds of the ex-President declare
keenly following every develop
i'm national public affairs now
II be ready to give able aid to
Fty in the fall.
hin the last sixty days Demo-
workers have become very ag-
e. They believe that the Re-
ms will fall far short af their
gn pledges, and the people
ome will hold them to a strict
liability.
otA houses OF congress individ-
enN Ncrats will expose anything
oKs like Republican efforts to
political capital.
Eli Drive Against G. o. p.
er the leadership of Cordell
the Democratic National Com
viii undertake an elaborate
{gorous campaign against the
Iicans. This was manifest in a
ent issued from headquarters
reviewing tn e Republican
fstration in 1921 and the ont
u 1922. 1t reads:
one outstanding great achiev-
tthe Borah resolution for Con-
on Limitation of Armament
breed through both houses by
4 a coalition of Democrats and
Bsive Republicans.
two achievements, if such leg |
can be called achievements,
reactionary group were the Z
bncy Tariff Act and the Tax
n Act.
Emergency Tariff Act was
heralded by the reactionary'
leans as their specific for the
1.-THE farmer, but, in reality, it
only high protection for the
&cturer, increasing the cost of
hing the farmer bought, and
of raising the price of his
IS and enlarging his market
in rapidly decreasing prices
6cultnral products and more
Lily choked off agricultural ex-
Fhich are vital to the farmers
Hty.
Pas a brazen attempt to fool the
i trusting to luck that condi-
4ould improve, and was thor
EeXposed prior TO its passage.
of fooling the farmer, it has
i'm the first big concrete illus
*of the fact, well-known to all
lists, that a high protective 1
enefits only the manufacturer
2clally favored classes, and in !
lmost to the point of destru-
le agricultural and other ma
Industries. +.
other act of Republican re-
Pm, the Tax Revision Act. is
psfactory to almost every class !
hyers. The Republican lead
Fit it is botch and will have (
Pne over. Its only redeeming ]
were in the form of amend
proposed by Senate Democrats
Simmons of North Carolina.
administrative records of the !
Fan Party for 1921 have been
but not quite, as bad as the |
I've record. :
Record of Reactionism." !
saved from unqualified con- {
ton by the calling of the Arms
pee and by upholding the for
icies of the Democratic Adj .
fd to act in a specific case. 1
Fhe other side it is a record o
appointments, of the nulfii- i
p the principles of the Civil v
OF discrimination against ex-
men in the matter of ap- S
pts, of catering to special |,
of attempting negatively to Q
legislation and of reaction
|ali o fit smost Objectionable t
sbrlefiy, is the platform upon e
ne Democrats will go to the .
Pm November and ask that t
elected to Congress. The a
pts are going to charge from e
hump in the United States +
Republican Party has drifted n
e the hands of the ultra re- 81
pes and is governing for the i
not for the people. il
FratS in Congress assert that f,
Puolicans have made a botch b.
y piece of legislation they
|ndertaken and have failed Il
h promised programme of
SSmen who started the agi-
pr reorganization of Govern Il
fpartmentS Saa l;++Io ,banoo \.