Paragould soliphone., 1922-06-14
WERE DECEIVED IN
 RECENT RACES
Posing as Progressives Both Bcveridge and Pinchot Are Aligning Themselves With Harding Regime.
By RICHARD LiNTHICUM. (Snecial COrrespOndenCe.)

who supported Beveridge in one ln- stance and PinchOt in the other, have been misled or were selt-de- ceived as to what they were voting for. It is becoming plalner every day that the contest between the former progressive leaders and the present reactionary leaders ill those states was not for or against any set of principles but was for faction al control of the party machinery for use in 1924. The men and women who voted for MT. Beveridge in h. diana and for Mir. Pinchot in Penn sylvania, were unquestionablv sin cere in the belief that they were vCt- ing for progressive principles and policies of government in some in stances or registering protest against the reactionism of the pres ent Republican Congress and the ad- in others.
 MT. Beyeridge is no sooner nom mated than Senator James F. Wat son of unenviable notoriety in 1he Mulhall lobby expose, who voted to confirm the purchase of a seat i'll by Truman H. Newberry, who is ex- plotting the infamous Profiteefs Tariff bill as the perfection of Re publican economic legislation, who openly advocates in the Senate return to the corrupt spells system of making Federal appointments, and who rushed headlong to the de fense of Attorney General Daughter ty, is selected to make the keynote speech of MT. Beveridge's campaign. Not only this, but MT. Bveridge ap- pears unon the same platform with him and eulogizes the reactionary Watson as "Indiana's own gifted son, statesman and matchless or ator," with a pean of praise for the record of the reactionary Republican leaders ill Congress.
 In the case of Clifford Pinchot, OHc tl Hio III Dl ttto tALtCl bSliS1 assured of his nomination was to ask Attorney General Alter, his op- ponent in the primaries, represent ing the most sinister element in the Republican party of Pennsylvania, including the contractors combine against which Mr. Pinchot preSuIna- bly Was Waging var, tG a conference to arrange for the support at the polls of the element he was pre- ending to fight in the primaries.
 MT. Pinchot's attitude was well defined by John A. McSparren, Dem ocratic candidate for governor, when he said:
 "The people of Pennsylvania will look at our friend Pinchot and ad mre him for his fight on conserva- ion in state and nation and will hail with joy his announced de- to clean up at Harris burg, if made governor.
 Then We shall see standing with i'm Joe Grundy. the eXploiter of ;hild labor and the leader of the powerful Manufacturers Club, which | ,as for years blocked all legislation |
 lxing capital stock even when roads | md teachers salaries were at stake. l They will see Devin, the Penrose | ,enchman of Philadelphia, at his ide. They will see Johnson of | earnestly piling upl ,otea for him. They will see Bill friest, the standing boss of Lancas | CT county. in the bunch. and Bill Finn, the contractor boss, from |, as one of the bell weth ITS of the flock"
 With the Newberry and Nat Gold
 tein scandals still assailing the public nostrils, Mr. Pinchot admits hat he and his wife spent upwards ,f $10O,G00 in his primary fight and iefiantly asserts that he would dol t again. Newberry, at least, claim ed in justification of the huge sum spent in his behalf that it was spent his knowledge. It would
 ppear that when it comes to the expenditure Of hugs sums of money for the purpose of controlling cleo ion results there is no difference between the methods of the reac tionary and the so-called progressive leaders.
 Even the reactionary members Of the Republican Senate, in the reso- lution seating Senator Newberry. felt obliged to condemn the prac- tise and point out the dangers, as follows:
 "The expenditure of such excess i've sums in behalf of a candidate. either with or without his knowl- edge or consent. being contrary to sound public policy. harmful to the honor and dignity of the Senate, and dangerous to the perpetuity of a free government, such excessive are hereby severely con demned and disapproved.
 During the primary campaign both and Pinchot were appar-