The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-06-23
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondent
SDecial CORRESPONDENT.

! Especial Correspondent
Special Correspondent
Washington, d. C., June 5.-Shortly
before the election of President Hard
ing, Senator Lodge, Judge Hughes
and some twenty-nine other men,
whose names were thought sufficient
ly impressive to make the people be-
lieve an otherwise improbable tale,
issued a statement in which they said
that the way to get into the League or
Nations was to vote for Harding. 1t
is far from the province or the inten-
ton of this writer to fall afoul of
those who may have their own views
on that momentous question, but it is
healthful and harmless to laugh and
to rejoice at having been born Mis-
sourian. with all of the Unborn incred-
ulity of that race or Disciples of Ar
I istotle For was ii not that great
Greek philosopher who said that In
credulity is the source of all wisdom"
How Lodge and Hughes and the 9TH
er twenty-nine must chuckle at the
gullibility of the average voter! Thous-
ands fell for it, Thousands are now
falling for that other great piece Of
bunkum. the Presidents claim to
great economies in the administration
of the government. When this session
of Congress adi<urns along in the Dog
Days OF August, or later, it Will be
found that the appropriations Tor the
support o. the government Will be
! fully as large as for the previous year,
and that saturnana OF extravaganza
was also a Republican financial de-
bauch.
1 IL. II. Kohlsaat, for many years the
editor of Chicago's great Republican
newspaper and the friend of Mckinley
and Hanna, tells in his autobiography
a little tale of Lodge which, had it
been known in the fall of 1920, would
have caused the nublic to take with
Il grain of salt his promise that Hard
ing would lead the country into the
League of Nations. OF course his
manifesto was given out in order to
hold to Harding those Republicans
who favored the League Kohlsaat
tells how he urged Hanna to show to
Lodge the draft of the financial plank
on which Mckinley was to run-a
1 plank sawed out in the offices of j
p. NJ. e. Co, in Wall Street, just OPP
posite the New York Stock Exchange
Hanna swore mighty oath and re-
/ fused. saving that Lodge couldn't be
/ trusted to keep it under his hat, Kohl
saat over-persuaded him, however,
and with Hanna's reluctant permits
sion. showed the plank TO Lodge, who
begged a copy on promise of secrecy
/ What was Kohlsaat's chagrin to find
that the Boston papers had it the next
/ morning with Lodge headlined as the
author of the plank, and the Assoeiat-
/ ed Press wiring 1t to St Loais under
Boston date-line! And thus Lodge
! slipped under the canvas and made all
/ Massachusetts believe that it was his
brain that achieved that monumental
/ financial hocus-pocus that fooled tae
/ people in the year 1896. Now the
question paturally arises, who enei-
neered the hocus-pocus of 1920? No
matter W 20 is entitled to wear the
leather medal as the champion bull
shooter o: the party, certain it is that
they always have a number of both
experts and amateurs warming up y
take their place in the pitchers D3X
in case the mar assigned to this Job
Should blow up.
ssThe Memorial Day exercises in
Washington were very IMPRESSIVE;
the hub and center of the days cele-
bration was at the beautiful Greek