The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-27
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while McAdoo kept disc~oetiy silent.
Democratic leaders know full well that
the Republicans would like to see Nc
Adoo nominated because they regard
him as the easiest TO beat Of the pos
sible candidates; but even his Geor-
gia victory does not seem likely to
help him much in view Of the atti-
tude Of the Democratic press. The
New York Times remarks that he is
against all interests, all save those
interests which employed him at mag
nifcent fees because of his beautiful
blue eyes and great legal ability" and
the New York World ends its ed
torial on the Georgia primaries with
the remark that his actual candidacy
remains as impossible as it was be-
fore"
Senator LeFollette has disclosed
the fact that ne has never recovered
from that presidential ambition he
has long cherished and which nearly
ended his public career when, in his
rage over Theodore Roosevelt's can
didacy, he collapsed before Phila-
delphia audience in 1912. LaFollette
/ lets it be known he will cheerfully
head third party eff Coolidge is
nominated on a conservative plat
FORM" and those who know the ex-
/ tent of LaFollette's ambition know
that whatever the platoon it will be
''too conservative" for him. LeFol-
lette's admitted presidential ambition
makes clear to all the reason for his
long, persistent efforts to wreck the
party which has insistently declined
to favor him with a nomination.
Although deaf to President Cool
idge's earnest plea that it grant a 25
percent reduction of the income tax
before March Is, the House has pass
ed, practically without debate, a sol
diers' bonus bill which, should it be-
come law, would add over S2,000,000,-
600 to the national load and proba-
bly, prevent any tax reduction for
years. Had the House acted on Mr..
Coolidge's recommendation it would
have saved the taxpayer 100000, 1000.
But members feared the beneficiaries
of tax reduction would not bring them
as many votes as would the eX-sol-
diers, so the taxpayers were cheer
fully sacrificed. There is every rea-
son to believe the Senate will also
pass the bonus bill and that the Pres
ident will veto it. Whether or not
there will be votes enough in the Sen
ate to pass it over the President S
veto remains the only uncertainty.
The Senate, under the leadership of
| Walsh ard Wheeler, of Montana, con-
tinues to wallow in the muck and the
, slime of scandal. What should have
been investigations have degenerated
into inquisitions. No witness, how
= ever disreputable, is not too untrust-
worthy to be heard and his scandalous
: tales broadcast to the country as Sen
ate testimony. After two days of
RoXie Stinson's bedtime stories, the
, Wheeler committee spa: another two
{ days listening TO CASTOR B. Means, 6
dismissed Department Of Justice de-
tective whow as tried for the murder
OF his patron, a wealthy widow (she
, was mysteriously shot at target prac-
tice) who tried to procure for himself
her large estate by an alleged will
which the Court denounced as a for.
gerry; who achieved notoriety as &
. German spy during the war: who is
now under Indictment fer bribery. The
Walsh committee has been devotine
! its time TO listening to Henry Wood
: house, an Italian whose real name
vas Mario Caselegno, who served {
term in the penitentiary for murder.
ing a fellow cook in Troy, N. Y. Thus
far all the Wheeler Testimony has
2 reflected on Jesse Smith who, having
committed suicide, cannot defenC
e his name. The only reflection on Mr.
. Daugherty has been by inference
Anyone with a spite to satisfy anC
t willing to give testimony against Re
4 publcans will be cheerfully welcomed
by Walsh, Wheeler & Co. (No truth
e fnl witnesses Iced appiy)
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