The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-29

of fidelity to Wilson and Wilson's
League of Nations.
When Reed has been in a slightly
less benign mood he has made allega-
ions tnat Long, although running on a
ory platform, serves liquor at his
olnners IN his Washington home. Out
or TINS allegation Reed erected a char
acterlstlc epithet which speaks of Long
as the camel fish, and ingenious ap-
pellatlon OF which the significance is
OBVIOUS. He has also made cryptic but
easily understandable remarks about
men VINO think one way and drink
another"
because Long has a rich wife, the
Term squaw man" has entered the
missouri political v~ernacular for the
or this campaign. 1t has been
aIleged that Longs wife owns the pa
per mil which supplies a good many
VI the country papers of Missouri with
.heIr raw material; Reeds character
sue way OF expressing this has been
70 say mat Long controls this mill by
consanguinity and affinity
Long was the third assistant secre-
tary OF state during the Wilson admin
!slratlon, and Reeds way of express
ing TINS IS TO say that Long was the
onclal greeter" of the Wilson admin
lstratlon, and that as such his chief
duty was to carry the baggage of visit
ing european ambassadors and poten-
tates n to mix cocktails for them.
Opposes League.
OF the League of Nations and Longs
Ildellty to 1t as a Wilson doctrine.
heed mas, of course, made the most.
ne mas spoken of Long as "a little
nan with copies of the League of Ma
tlons SUCKING out of his pockets and
holulng TO Woodrow Wilson's coat-tails
-that IS the way he is running for Of
ice. What would he do should the
man VINO has been doing his thinking
suddenly and unfortunately die?"
VI the League of Nations itself. Reed
mas, OF course, rehearsed all the ia
miliar arguments about American
boys sent to Asia to fight the hordes
of Moslem."
The fountains o. Reeds vitupera-
tlon are so abundant that no n not
even a personal political
can absorb his complete capacity.
When he has felt a little energetic,
Heed mas spread his vi~tuperation out
mlscellaneously. He has attacked
herbert Hoover as "a Britisher at
neart, and has claimed that but for
Hoover's food regulations during the
war the farmers of Missouri would
nave got as much as IS a bushel for
their wheat.
Another of Reeds maIevolent as
sauits on Hoover has charged him
with causing Americans during the
war to live on bran, shorts and mid
dllngs, while he sent good American
wheat aboad to feed foreigners"
Other Detectives.
Reed has included among the obiac-
yves OF his far-flung vituperation
George Creel, Secretary Mellon, ex-
PRESIDENT Taft, and President Hard
ing. or the latter he has said that he
served with Harding in the senate and
mat ne was about the easiest picking
We a down there"
Reed has tried to allure the Demo
cratic voters on the theory that he
can make a better fight against the
hepuDIlcans in November than Long
can. With indirect but obvious refer,
ence to the League of Nations as a
dead horse. Reed has said: 81 have
a i've horse to ride, and it's one ON
winch we can win. 1t is the corrnn.
ton and i~ncompetency of the Hardine
administration"
But the thing that the shrewder and