Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-26

the nation itself" Theirs is the
Spartan morality. Not the corrup-
ton but the discovery constitutes
the crime. Instead of applauding the
they make war upon
the investigations. Instead of con-
demning the exposed and praising
the exposure, they praise the exposed
and condemn the exposure. Decry
them as they will, the American peo-
pie know that it was these investi-
gatiOns-cOnducted by Democrats,
yes, but through Republican COM
mittees-that sent Albert Fall to
Three Rivers a disgraced man and
proven criminal. 1t was these inVesti-
cations that revealed such a gross
and utter incapacity of
the navy department and compelled
Edwin Denby's retirement from the
cabinet. 1t was these investigations
that unfolded a condition in the de
partment of justice that shocked
and drove Daugherty
back to Washington Court House.
1t was these investiga tons that
CodoVu COIlS pr dIOLS dS dIIlSI IISIl
to take their own lives
rather than tell the truth and I'M
bosom the eliminating secrets
their own criminal allies. 1t
was these investigations that pointed
to the immoral orgies of Forbes and
scandals in the veterans
bureau. 1t was these investigations
that put a Republican congressman
behind bars and dashed Newberry
from the senate. 1t was these in
vestigatiOns that informed the
public that the first official
act of Calvin Coolidge was the APP
pointment of private secretary
who had traded and trafficked in
public patronage. 1t was these in
vestigatiOns that led a Republican
senate to convict its own Republican
national committee for FRA ming a
Democratic senator because he dared
to do the right.
In this campaign let the CON
scienceless leaders of this admins.
tration deride Investigations. Let
them accuse the congress Of de-
teriorating let them continue to shield
those who cOnSpired against the
but in this dark drama
the American people know and pre-
fer the highly patriotic and cleans
ing work of Thomas j. Walsh to the
foul infamy and thievery of Albert
j, Fall
Nothing in burlesque or opera
bouffe is comparable TO the scene
recently enacted at Cleveland in the
efforts of the silent Sphinx OF the
Potomac To exile and eXpatriate
those Republican senator's who dared
to oppose his mandate 1t is some.
what a pathetic story-the treat
sena toTial friends.
But yesterday the word of Caesar
might have stood against the
world;
Now lies he there, and none so poor
to do him reverence.
They dared to vote an investiga-
ton of a member of the presidents
official family, and they are penal
lied for their decency.
They dared disregard the protest
of the world protiteers to respond
to the appeal of the soldiers who
fought our battles on the fields of
France, and they are punished for
their justice.
Boss Ridden Convention
BY every device known to trained
by every subtle process
of legerdemain, the Republican nom
inee. in true pharisaical fashion,
sought to divorce himself from his
former comrades in arms. The plan
is obvious the plot is futile. Neither
the president nor his F'alstaffian
headed by General Butler and
Sergeant Stearns, can conceal the
ugly fact that the Cleveland COnven-
ton was the most highly organized,
boss-ridden, and OleaginOus ever
held in America. The American peo-
pie will not be deceived. They will
not permit themselves to be used
as pawns in a game of hide and
seek"
1t was peculiarly app ropriate that
the Republican nominee should have
conscripted one of the best minds
from PARKWAY Mexico to write the
platform for this campaign and a
lame duck to preside as the per
manent chairman of the convention.
But assignments for that convention
were most fitting--One was available
because of the theory that dis
lance lends enchantment to the
view" and his lack of knowledge of
things that are; the other because
he was the only public man in the
United States willing to offer liI L
self as a living sacrifice upon the
senatorial affairs of Wyoming in de
Tense of the Teapot Dome.
The mask is off. Piercing through
the political Vaccinations of that
convention we see the sinister lips
of special privilege. The leoTard
does not change his spots overnight.
Neither can the Republican party
be reformed by resolutions nor by
presidential ukase
The American people will know
that they are dealing with a sys-
TEN; that even though Hanna.
Quay and Penrose are dead, their
spirits go maching on in the per
sonaSes Of the Three Musketcers Of
present-day RepubliCaniSm-B
Stearns and Slemp. These bosses
are doing business in the same old
way according TO the same old rule.
The Republican organization Is
now trying to salvage something
from the wreck of the old party.
The proceedings and platform of the
Cleveland convention rortend the
loss Of the congress. and they are
now madly fighting TO save the pres
idency.
No Blot on Democratic Party
With an administration honey
combed with graft and rorroded
with corruption II IS hing 70
reflect upon the innumeutEIe EApuh-
lican Investigations into eXrNndi-