Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1922-01-19
Washington Correspondence.

Washington, D. o., January L.
The most of the Senate Republicans
evidently take the view that the seat
belongs to Newberry because he
bought and paid for it, for there can
be no other reason for their attitude.
The price was bit high, for several
hundreds of thousands have already
been accounted for, but just at that
time the Senate was practically tie,
and control in the hands of the big
interests was very important.
A new party is being orgsnized In
Nebraska-or the revival of an old
one-called the Progressive party.
The Wall Street Journal doubtless dis
covers danger that it may grow into
something that will take from the Re-
publicans a few seats in the Senate,
for it has not forgotten the Populists,
the Silver Republicans, the Bull
Mooser and the Nom Partisan League.
1t is curious what an attraction those
parties have for the Northwestern
farmers. Probably 1t is due to their
having repeatedly been stung by ac-
cepting Republican promises. Ger
tainly the moral is plain-they might
vote the Democratic ticket. The
Journal devotes the best part of a
column to crushing the new party in
its very inception--which would be
some Indication of its possessing both
virtue and possibilities.
Cordell Hull, the able chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
recently made a speech in which he
devoted two hours to some of the fall
ings and shortcomings of the Repub-
lican party. The Washington Post
promptly took up the cudgels in de-
fense of the administration and took
occasion to warn Mr.. Hull of the en-
barrassing position he would be in
ssif somebody in the audience should
ask for an accounting of the money
spent during the war;" Has every
one forgotten that the last Congress
constituted the Graham smelling
committee" to go into that very
thing, for the purpose of digging up
enough scandals to keep the Demo-
cratic party out of power forever?
The committee spent nearly q year
on the job and finally agreed that
there was one corporation toward
which the finger of suspicion might
well be pointed-a great Pittsburg
steel corporation of which Secretary
Mellon is director! This doesn't
seem to have hurt the gentle Secre-
tary greatly with the Administration,
for he is still handling the peoples
money and has been of great aid to
the big rich fellows in getting them
s'unsoaked'' in the matter of income
and excess profits taxes, but it aug
gests that Republican editors might
find it less embarrassing at times to
be better informed.
Mr.. Frear of Wisconsin is Repub-
lican Congressman; on page 1872 OF
the Congressional Record, January
8, he said: Congress is repeatedly
charged with soaking the rich while
preparing to skin those least able to
pay. Is that charge true? 7 :
In this session OF Congress it is pro-
posed to pass consumption or sales
tax that will lay new tax burden
and increased prices on necessaries
of life consumed by four to five mill
lions ofidle laborers and their families,
on millions Of farmers and other
laborers and their families who are
now fighting for bare existence, and
on over three millions of ex.eoldiers
and their families, who are told the
price of any compensation bill is q
consumption tax.n Andye the Con-
gress has sent 20 millions to Russia to
feed people no more starving than
millions here in the United States.
WALLACE BAssFoRD.
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