The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-28
LIVE news OF
WASHINGTON
STATESMEN
Corresp dent Claims
Repub leans Help
less to Relieve Stu
alton
By M1iLLicE R.assFoRD.
1speciaf Nsws corresponaens}

Rs MsiII4lCE B.assFoRD.
Special News correspo ponaent)
washington, Jan 2o-speaker
ssiIlett appears to have at last
given up the belief that the Re-
publican party can produce pros
perity bs the mere fact Of its being
IN power He has written dismal
NAH to his constituents up at
Springfield Mass After promising
them a new Federal building. which
appears TO have been promised for
some years. he uses these tru' nfui
but gloomy sentences: receive
many expressions OF disappoint- :
1nent with the work of Congress
This is quite natural. Some of our
legislation, notably the tax bill. has
excited great disapprovaI. do
not pretend that have supported
an that we have done. On the con-
. trary. some OF the measures have
passed against my energetic op-
s position The industrial dep ession
sntensifies the criticism Of Con-
sress. Men suffering from idleness
Cor ruin look to US to save them;
nothing can bring prosperity again
except self-denFing economy and
iicessant productive work With
those frank admissions going over
the ccnnfry in cold type from the
man who heads h.s present Con-
gress, It is difficult TO see how the
: Isepuhiicasssean can ask for reelection
next fall az fhe hands OF those
suffering from ialeness or ruin, :"
which the Speaker admits har party
IS helpless to relieve.
no one IN Washington who obs
serves events has any doubt that
the Associated Press report as to
HaraIngss aSzituGe on the naming
..of dirt farmer on the Federal
Reserve Board was correct. Tn
! quesIiona5iy, In heir view. the
lsresiden went ul, in the air. when
Z the grsup Of progressive senator's
mad the request but By the nes-.
day he saw the poor peaificse in his,
curt refusal, and then insp sr.a s
statement to the effect that :: ws::s
All q mistake that he had been op-
posed. To those Who haze grow,a
ased TO the stiff, backbone eS
cleveland. Roosevelt anG Wilson,
this rapid caying-in tendency of
the president is not conducive to
confidence in the strength Of the
executive. Prom time ont OF mind
sve: have ad dmired the man who was
-reputcd TO carry the fist Of steel
III he silken glove, but no one
loves the president whose fist Of
slnush IS concealed in q glove of the
same.
While Senator Penrose carefully
provided in his will that there
s,Rsuld be no inventory or account
ing made of his estate. he over
looked an item of s226.060 in cash
which he had In a safe deposit box
IN Washington, partly in ten-thou-
sand dollar bills, mere loose chance
saved from his salary. Everyone
recalls that at the tiEae OF the
Z Chicago convention Of 1920 he was
very Ill. Vow his physician comes
forward and tells how the big boss
Was unconscious for hours. then
came to himself and asked what
was going on at the convention
Upon his secretary informing him
that the convention was deadlock
ed. he replied: TELL en- to throw
It to Harding. And yet there are
millions Of patriotic men and wo-
men wffe grew up in the Republi-
can party, some of whom were for
General Wood. some for Lowden or
senator Johnson. who have fondly
imagined that they were having
something 10 do with the nomina
tion of a candidate when they went
TO the primaries and cast their bal
lots Under the boss-ridden party
of today they have no more to do
with selecting the candidate than
/ if they lived in New Guinea. Pen
rose, big boss OF the lesser bosses.
Just told them what TO DO, and he.
Z ID turn. was told. what was wanted
by the Mellon-Dupont outfit. Once
in q while fhespeople still rise up
in their might and do something
proving htat they still have the
power-for instance, the dry laws
but power unused is like the
hoe that rusts in the shed-it pro-
duccs no crop.
The ren1rhlicanS arn havinc