Evening star., 1924-04-16
Peppers Address In Maine
= Evokes Editorial Criticism

The speech OF Senator Pepper at
the Maine Republican convention,
called by many the keynote of the
Republican campaign and denied Of
flcial sanction by the President, has
furnished delightful rnorsel to the
Democratic editors throughout the
country and brought forth the criti
cism of independent newspapers with
a lavish hand. Some editors Of the
opposite political faith TO the senator
rose, or sank as the case may be, to
bitter words In discussing the speech
that most Republicans have, to say
the least. considered unfortunate.
In the opinion OF the Newark News
independently, "Mr. Pepper was not
consciously trying to be funny when
he blamed the Democrats as obstruc-
tionists, saying that they had hit
America while aiming at the Re
publicans. 1t did not occur to him
to blame the Progressives for traf-
fcking with the enemy. His logic is
akin to that of the youngster who
complained that the plate glass win
dow had no business to get in the way
of the batted ball" The only thing
Senator Pepper can really mean, the
Milwaukee Journal Gndependent} de-
clares,7.'i that 1t is all right for gov
ernment to be granting fayors to spe-
ciaFiHtereSts and ali wrong to let the
public find it out; that it not repub-
licanisn or democracy. Using a great
party for that end is the thing that
dee roys confidence and makes radi-
GALS In q some what sardonic vein,
the Davenport Democrat lDemocraticJ
tried to be honest with his audience
and convince them that, as only three
of ten cabinet members appointed by
the late President Harding had gone
wrong, they ought to be satisfied with
20 per cent efficiency" The New York
Evening World (Democratic) points out
that he expresses mo evidence of
shame because three members of
cabinet have been forced by outraged
public opinion into private life; not
barrassment" The Springfield Re
publican independently agrees that
the Pepper speech was not shining
successin this difficult line; and more
agility than the senator has displayed
is required if the counter offensive of
the Democrats is MOTTO have deadly
results" To which the Brooklyn
Eagle (Democratic) adds, .'The senator's
utterances were distinguished for
their strange mixture of candor and
contradiction" . -
Perhaps, to make his point, the Ell
Paso Herald independently suggests,
''the senator has slightly overstated
the case" For when he lays the third
movement on the doorstep of the Sem
ate Democrats and asserts that the
enemy aimed at US and hit America
the St Paul Dispatch dndependenO
Is confident "the public fully under
stands that here is declaration
which demands a reservation or two.
In this ,2onnection the Lynchourg
News {pomocraticl asks, =" hat would
these partisan Republicans have done
had there been a Fall and Daugher-
ty and a Forbes and a DENLY in the
last Democratic administration? In
the answer may be clearly read the
real hypocrisy which !anirnates the
present Republican attitude--the folly
and the mendacity of it." Whatever
may be thought of the assault on the
Democrats. the Louisville Courier
Journal (Democratic) contends 1T has
not soothed or solidified the Repub-
licans nor helped to remove the possi-
biIity, so terrifying to the speaker,
Of a third party.
AS the Knoxville Sentinel Gnde-
pendent Democratic) puts IT, the peo-
rle are not to be deceived always by
talk, and will show their disgust for
filth and crookedness. in the Novemr
Der elections" When the distin-
guished keynoter, according to the
Kalamazoo Gazette (Republican),
turned aside from candor bitterly to
charge the opposition party with un-
worthy partisan motives in exposing
the bad spots in the administration
his effectiveness disappeared. The
American people can contemplate the
coming of a powerful third party
with much less dread than the DELHI
crate covering up of official corrnp-
ton"
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The Springfield News CDempcratic)
maintains that Senator Pepper is too
intelligent a gentleman to put much
stock in his own charges. He has
tried to divert pubiic attention from