Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-12
Incon1betent and Coyrubt

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IF every American voter would read with
an open mind the arraignment of the
present Washington administration by
the New York World in its issue of June
6, it Is doubtful that the Republican ma
tional ticket in the forthcoming elections
would carry single state. Certainly no
this Indictment, every one of which rests
on legal evidence or confession, without
surge of wrath that public trusts should
have been so shamefully betrayed by spos-
men and grafters high in the counsels Of the
administration, while its respectable mem
bers looked impotently on. Nothing hereto
fore unknown to the public is now dis
closed by the World, and nothing is charged
upon heresay. But the cycle of corruption
is depicted with deadly truth, from the time
Republican bosses began spending their
eight llion-dollar campaign fund four
years ago, on to the eve of the Cleveland
convention, when the Massachusetts Calvin
Coolidge Finance Committee" announces
''There is no limit to the amount an indi-
vidual may give"
Were the administration record scrupu-
lousy clean in matters of governmental
business, still it would stand condemned of
having set the lowest ideals and the most
materialstic standards within half cen
fury of federal politics Elected upon ap-
peals to reactionary interest, it has coddled
national selfishness and has repudiated the
heroic faith for which Americans poured out
their treasure and blood in the World War.
But hear the Worlds indictments:
''This Administration stands accused of
dishonesty, charged that in the person of
Forbes the disabled veteran was betrayed,
in the person of Fall the public property was
looted, in the person of Daugherty justice
was corrupted. 1t is accused OF shielding
dishonesty, as demonstrated by the support
of Newberry and the inexcusable delay and
reluctance in dismissing Forbes and Daugh-
erty. 1t is accused of obstructing investga-
ton, of resisting exposure and of lending aid
and comfort to dishonest men. 1t is ac-
cused of permitting its agents to terrorize
public officials in their pursuit of wrong, by
the use of spies against Senators LaFollette,
Caraway and Walsh, eliminating in the at
tempted frame-up of Wheeler. Finally, the
respectable members of this Administration
are charged with slackness in proven ting
wrongs committed by their associates in the
Cabinet with timidity and partisanship in
failing to assist their exposure, with COM
placency resulting in a bad moral example
for failing to condemn publicity and I'M
eQuivocally the dishonesty they have wit
nessed and it is charged that, however
honest they may be personally, they are
neither vgilant enough nor courageous
enough nor possessed OF sufficiently stern
standards of public duty to justify any con-
fidence that they could prevent in the flu
ture the dishonesty they did not prevent in
the past
The Republican majority that delayed for
two and half years the Senate's consdera-
ton of the Newberry case. and that finally
voted to sustain the defendant. even while
1t condemned his defense. could hardly be
expected to recoil at any instance of corrup-
tion. Truman H. Newberry, whose election