Evening star., 1924-04-29
Editors View Seating of Bloom
AS of More Than Normal Import

| Ordinarily the seating or unseating
of single representative in Congress
means very little. The action of
| Congress, however, in seating Sol
Bloom. from the nineteenth New York
| district, is held to be important by
| editors. 1t may have an effect on the
| election of the next President
Blooms possession of the seat puts
the vote OF the New York delegation
in the Democratic column should the
next election go into the House Of
| Representatives. In view of the pos
sibility of a third party at this time
editors look on tho result through
more or less partisan glasses.
| The Des Moines Register Gnde-
pendent Republican, points out that
"the seating of Representative Bloom
means that in the event of election
of President by the House the single
vote of the state of New York would
probably go to the Democratic nomi-
nee" and with the House divided as
it now is, this might readily be
determinative" therefore, ct con-
ceivably could prove to be a decision
that made n President" Manifestly
| "the vote on this issue was controlled
on both sides by a desire for political
| advantage" in the opinion of the
Detroit Free Press independently,
\ which says "the entirely Irrelevant
argument growing out of q remote
| possibility that the electoral college
will not choose a President was de-
cisive-partisan prejudice overcame
| judicial duty" The Free Press con-
siders that all this had nothing to
do with the question whether fraud
was committed in Blooms district.
In this connection, the New York
| Herald Tribune (Republican) declares
there is no question that sordid
| corruption elected Sol Bloom to the
| House of representatives" because
| the record in the case is one of the
| most disgraceful this Tammanyized
| city has ever seen" yet the holier-
| than-thou radicals of the Republican
| party and the Democrats who have
| spent most of their Legislative winter
expressing horror at the alleged cor
! ruption Of Republicans join hands
| TO indorse and protect this proven
case Of Democratic corruption
T. x x x
Since this newspaper has not been
! sued for libel, the Grand Rapids Her
| aid (Republican) assumes it must
| have stated q fact, yet in the face of
that fact, Sol Bloom is accepted into
| the companionship of i Congress
which is supposed to be particularly
keen about unhorsing corruption" >;
| furthermore, "a majority of the House
! elections committee, which heard the
evidence and inspected the record, de-
/ cided against Bloom" all of which
| leads to the conclusion that "the con-
| gressional popularity of assaults upon
corruption seems to depend entirely
too much upon whose OK is gored."
The Grand Rapids Press Gndepend-
ent), however, suggests that 'if ac-
| tual corruption is proved to have oc-
Cured in the election of Sol Bloom
| it is rather remarkable that he has
| not been convicted IN the courts" be-
cause there has been time enough to
| bring a case" and 'If the horrendous
| practices complained of sre not ex-
aggerated, surely Mr.. Blooms oppo-
nent can still obtain his seat by plac-
| ing Mr.. Bloom in Jail" But Congress
1 man blOOUl, the SAVANNAH HTeSS
| (Democratic) is confident, will "stay
| where he is" As the New York Eve
ming World Independent Democratic)
sees it, "the brazen partisan conspir-
| acy for the unseating of Representa-
| tive Bloom has failed because the Re-
| publican insurgents insisted upon vot-
| ing on the evidence" and "the radi-
/ Gals in this case were the reaction
! aries of the dominant party who had
| planned a partisan lynching for a COL
| league; perhaps this was to have been
| expected, but it was not to be expect
| ed that President Coolidge would at
| tempt to interfere in the decision of
| the House" The Scranton Times
| (Democratic) also mentions that
| the charge was openly made that Mr..
Slemp, private secretary to President
| Coolidge, was active in urging Re-
publican progressives to stand by the
party by voting to unseat Mr.. Bloom,
| and the Times asserts "the New York
Evening World fittingly describes
| Slemp's activities as natural to him,
but beneath the dignity of a Presi-
| dent of the United States" Though
| it can readily be seen, continues the
! Lynchburg Advance (Democratic),
| why the Republicans made every eff
/ fort to oust Bloom and secure control
| of the New York delegation; but hap
! PLY, the fairmindedness Of the west
Lern progressiyes prevailed against