The Washington times., 1922-09-12

mOtlOn W n e III
Sssz choked off the.
WILLIAM HARD II ouse inquiry
into Attorney
General Daugherty's failure to MAKE
any notable progress toward putting
war fraud profiteers into Jail or to-
ward collecting back from them the
scores of millions of dollars which
they in justice owed the United
Mr.. Daugherty had progressed
thing at that time. He has now
progressed about an inch and a milii-
meter. The four Congressman from
Maine can be depended on not to
hurry him or any other party leader.
They are honorable men, but hurry.
Is not their watchword.
Senator Hale of course. was keen
for hurrying into the League of Ma.
tions. He was also keen, on the other
hand: for electing Warren Gamaliel
Harding to be President. The Hale
family was just about the first
family in Washington to perceive
the Presidential desirability Of Sena.
tor Harding. They have reaped the
legitimate benefits OF that alert per-
ception ever since. Senator Hale has
stood continuously close to the Presi.
dents elbow and perhaps also to his
ear. lie does not seem to have been
able 10 give him any particularly
enticing or convincing news about
the League OF Nations, but perhaps
he has been able to confirm him in
his idea that the way to stop strikes
on railroads Is TO nave Senators vote
against them in the Senate.
Senator Hale. when the present
existing transportation act was be-
Ing passed by the Senate, votel sew.
eral times to put into IL a provision
declaring strikes unlawful. II SEN
ator Hale could have a League Of
Nations suppressing everything
everywhere in the world and a rail.
road labor board taking ND the slack
by suppressing everything that
might be left to be suppressed at
home. he could have his career quite
we'll started. He is a conservative
and a coercionist by ancestry and
by instinct, natively and honestly
and altogether unmaliciously and
personally nicely. He Is not the
agent of any sinister forces. He is
simply a conservative-which Is his
right; and the State or Maine, know
ing him thoroughly, wants him for
Senator-which is the right of the
State Of Maine; and the progressives
of the country might just as well see
that their ideas are not esteemed on
the Atlantic coast eastward from the
Ne wHampshire frontier.
As the antidote to Senator Hale,
the State OF Maryland yesterday
started Senator France back toward
his seat in the upper house of Con-
gress in representation there Of an
advanced progressivism. 1t started
him back there also in outright rep
resentation of a demand for the re-
peal of the Volstead law and for the
repeal also of the prohibition amend
ment to the Constitution.
The vets Of Maryland gave a
strong Endorsement to Senator
France and overlooked his opponent
in the Republic primary-John w.
Garrett inclined toward the League
Of Nations and was suspected Of in
clining toward dryness. The league
and dryness got a joint wallop in
Maryland just as in Missouri and
in Wisconsin. DO far as those States
are concerned, IL will be a long time
before any super-Government gets
q chance to make the whole world
dry throughout the enactment OF
universal international Volstead Jaw
passed at Geneva and enforced by an
international fleet and army.
The gentleman nominated by the
Democrats Of Maryland to oppose
Senator France in the election this
fall is very moist, IL not fully wet.
The new active voluntary organiza-
ton called the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment did not
indorse this gentleman - whose
name Is Bruce-and II did not en-
dorse Senator France, but Mr..
Bruce's friends assert with conf
dence that although he made no
great stir toward the idea Of repeal
ing the prohibition amendment he
is thoroughly sound in his devotion
to the idea Of modifying the Volstead
law in such a manner as to give the
country its full OF light wines and
beers.
Maryland, therefore, may safely
be regarded as having been held
firmly In the grip of the anti.
Volstead forces. They still have
Maryland and are still hanging
grimly on the flanks Of the District
Of Columbia and the approaches to
the terraces Of Capitol Hill. This
point aside, however, the return
Of Senator France to a new nomi-
nation by the Republican party of
Maryland for seat In the United
states is the greatest proof 80 far
this year given us of the decline
OF the terror caused by the
promiscuous singing Of words like
''radicalism" and rbolshovism."
, Senator France got called a "radi.
cal and n ''bolshevik" more than
other Senators, and. In yaot. moro
than 0thpr nfftraholharo o., the ,Vhofa