The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-06
Wilson Tightening hits
Reed.

president, mas IlSAt "
mind after nine years. Praises Ut
tered at SO remote a period narais
can he warmed over without the
consent of the author.
AT least that seems TO be the Al
most universal opinion OF the news
napers of the country in discuss
ling the recent correspondence pc
! tween former President Wooaio"
] Wilson and United States SenaI'f
James Reed Hardly without
cention they concede the right ot
the former president to repud mate
the use of the federal reserve let
ter in the present primary cahi-
paign in Missouri
"Reed has done so much TO Pc
tray his own party" in the opinioii
4 of Senator Carter GLASS; LyncE-
burg. Va. News, (Dem-), so much
to outrage the sensibilitles, SEMI
ments and convictions OF his own
neople. so much to make his very
name execrated by millions OF
Democratic loyalists Throughout
the Tilted States, that it would ap-
near little short of a party caian'-
ity should he secure rehoihina-
ton in the Missouri primaries Ell
dorsing this sentiment the Ne"
York Evening World, (Dem-), pc
Iieyes that Reed is neither gool
Democrat, nor a good senator; nS
ia only Jim Reed He should h'
read out of the party. The sooner
the better"
| The rebuke, in the opinion OF tn'
| Indianapolis Star, Gnd. Rep)' Wa
well deserved" as Reed was
| sore SPOT before the war, durln'
| the war and has been since. I'M
! fact that he was forced 10 =
eight and a half years out Of IN
jway" to have found pleasan
j word from Woodrow Wilson, leao
T the Minneapolis Tribune tRep.l,
: observe that Ibis nerve is eve
y stronger than his gift of oostruc
n ton and nagging." Regardless c
/. the result of the Missouri primarle
h tie Boston Christian Sciece Mon
J. tor Qnd.), calls attention to Ia
e fact that the former president
d interference in state and local p'
ir Iitical campaigns has never bee
IS profitable either to himself or
r his party =,
r Use Of the Wilson name by II
is Reed forces in the Missouri can
is paign is characterized by the -
III lumbia s. c. State. (Dem.l. as
al great piece of effrontery," the III
IN of which has seldom been wltnes
Mt ed in the American republic, az
d. it adds that "Mr Wilson is an ade
IN at placing his finger on Democra
al of frail integrity and he is L
to friend of the party when ne tei
the people in precise terms wh
"A manner of person this Jim Ike
,v is" The Wichita, Kan. Eag
o. Qnd.), is led by the exchange
h remark that Now Jim Read kno'
~ how the kaiser used to feel ait
~ the delivery of the morning nj
9 from America" and the action
"a the senator in quoting letter VT
: ten in 1913 appears to the New 10
&C Tribune. tRep0, to be a case
&C "blatherskite impudence.
- Suggestions that the vlgor OF
-, Tumulty ard Reed letters indlcs
20 the comeback" into active polit1
tof Mr.. Wilson do not appeal to
rs Ann Arbor Mich, Times-Ne
-. QndD, which thinks that u
:, health is hardly such as to index
~ that it will be possible for him
do more than exert letter writl
oli influence in either the fail ca
us paign this year or the president
III campaign in 1924" The New Yo
ey Herald, Qnd.O, however, entertal
!" Il a directly opposite opinion sugge
ne ing that those who feared
hoped that the Wilsonian bark
"a forever left the main stream OF p
cir tics for the peaceful coves of sc
7y- tary reflection, must be disappol
ed. pleasantly or otherwise"
. The former president has dc
the country a service" by repu
ating Reed in the view Of the Sou
4 II Bend. Ind, Tribune, Qnd. Rel
which causes the Detroit F.
= II Press, (Ind), to suggest that I'd
cling up an old letter about de
. issue and using it to soften
hearts of the Wilson men can ha
I'm. " be regarded as master strt
Oh of politics"
lg's I'VE hold no brief for Presid
&c Wilson" says the ST Louis Clio
TO Democrat, (RepD, but we are
ard tirely in sympathy with him in
antagonism to Senator Reed
for much the same reason. r
de- can tear down but he cannot II
Ilne up. There is not place in
Il present economy for the wrecl
$ The people of Missouri should
nm to it that he retires into the OBJ
'lii- ion of the forgotten yesterdays.
| the opinion of the Richmond,
en- Times Dispatch. CDem.), the
the pudiation was deserved and cl'
ing ly invited" and the Jacksonv
be Florida Metropolis, Dem),
the lieves that Senator Reed is a
iers grace to the party he is suppo
Inc to represent and the Democrat!
am Missouri could render no better
ker' vice to their party than to rel
to renominate him because 10y
Is. is a characteristic unknown
o. him."