The Washington times., 1922-10-02
SPELLB|NDERS
ARE FORTIFIED
FOR ELECTIONS
Campaign Books Of Both Par
ties Conspicuous for Point
ing With Pride.
BY WINDER X. HARRIS,
Universal Service.


The open season for spellbinding
is now on.
The Republican and Democratic
campaign books are out with enough
ammunition for their oratorical guns
to insure a continuous barrage up
to election day.
The G. o. =. generals supply their
field forces with forty-eight pages
of food for talk, while the Demo-
cratic strategists find difficulty IN
squeezing their stuff for the stump
into 1913 pages.
The two outstanding features Of
the rival documents, from the view.
point OF an impartial observer, are.
first, an entire lack of modesty on
both sides. and. second. an equally
conspicuous absence of respect for
each others veracity.
Both Claim Credit.
II there is any one thing that
has been done in the last decade
for the good of the nation that
either side has failed to claim credit
for, ii does not suggest itself after
very careful reading of the two
books. And by the same token
neither side has overlooked a
needles point in charging the op.
position with responsibility for all
lis. aches and pains that have besrt
the people in these troublous times.
Every assertion made by one is
flatly denied by the other, with
facts and figures" given to sub.
stantiate both.
1t sticks out all through these
guides for speakers and campaign
workers that the fight is to be
waged on domestic issues, with
tariff and taxation occupying the
center OF the arena. Foreign poll.
cies are touched on, but are notice
ably subordinated to dissertations
on home tapiCs.
1t Is quite obvious too, that neither
side to the struggle is going to be
placed on the defensive. Where the
Democrats have undertaken to take
The offensive, the Republicans like
wise have attacked. An illustration
is had in the respective chapters on
the tariff. The Democrats charge
that the Fordney.McCumbcr law, re.
Gently enacted. was written for the
nrofiteers and will add billions to the
burden upon the consumer. The Re.
publiCans come back with warn.
ing" that return of the Democrats
10 power means a revival OF the
'ruinous free trade policy" Protec-
tive tariff. they declare. insures pros
perity and employment for all.
Urging its "Claim for a renewed
mandate from the people TO enable il
to finish the work begun" the
G. o. p. says:
&. d. =. Is Praised
I'm this campaign, the American
man or woman who would under.
stand the issues must look back over
the last years. and look abroad. over
the Rio Grande to the other Amnri-
cas-. over the oceans to Europe and
Asia. to See that America alone
among the great states of the world
is emerging solvent and sound today:
that America alone has been able to
relieve her citizens of a great burden
Of taxation; that America alone has
been able to find work and comfort
for her sons and daughters.
The economic recovery OF Amer.
iCa, due in part to the courage, the
energy. and the resourcefIlness of
her people, and in part to her geo
graphic situation and natural riches,
has been greatly accelerated because
two Republican Congresses and the
Republican President were deter
pined to put aside the ways OF war
and resume the habits of peace"