Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

and some other things in the cam
paign limelight.
There is no denial here by Repub
licans that at least two of the in,
vestigations which have been ordered
and are being conducted are justified.
and they say that if they were being
pressed only along lines seeking to
the punishment of the guilty ones,
there would be no word of criticism
today from the members of the Re
publican party.
They charge, however, that other In
vestigations, present and future, are
and will be for political purposes only.
This the Democrats deny. Republican
campaign managers hold that such
was the ease with which the Demo-
Gratis frightened Republican congress-
men into acQuiescence with all that
was being done, that it is unques-
tionably the intention of the Democ-
racy to induce the country between
now and next November to believe
that every department of the govern
ment from Interior to State Is in
bad way and that the doings of all
high officials should be turned to the
light.
The number Of inquiries ordered or
contemplated already IL astounding
So far as some of the departments
are concerned, there never has been
so much as whisper of wrongdoing,
but nevertheless the feeling is here
that investigations will go on until
they are no longer serviceable either
for punitive or for political purposes.
Disclosures Hurt the G. o. P.
1t unquestionably Is true that doings
which have been disclosed in the In
terror department and the veterans
bureau already have hurt the Repub-
lican party. This the leaders of that
party admit, and they also admit there
has been no adequate offset for their
troubles to come from the admissions
Of some Democrats formerly high in
the public service that they acted as
lawyers or WOrkers-in-chief for GER
tain men who have been brought into
the limelight Of oil. 1t is admitted
that one or two Democratic presiden-
tial candidates have been put out of
the running, but the Democrats claim
that with this Republican achievement
has stopped.
Now the Republicans say that the
Democrats, having realized that the
determination Of President Coolidge to
run the guilty to earth has injured
their chance Of making great head
way against Republicanism generally,
instantly formed determination to
start other Investigations, not because
they will lead anywhere, but simply to
stir up suspicion and thus to strengthen
the cause Of Democracy in the coming
campaign.
The Republican party as represent
ed here in congress and out of it still
is divided into two groups, one of
them in congress apparently willing to
bow the head to any blow that Democ-
racy may choose to deal, and the other,
represented by the national committee,
ready to stand in the open, upright,
and to hit hard.
National Committee Hits Back.
Action of the Republican national
committee in its attack on the senator
who is chairman Of the committee in
vestigating the doings Of the Depart
ment of Justice apparently meets with
the approval Of militant Republican,
ism. 1t is true that the attack on the
chairman appears in the National Re
publican, the editor Of which is the
secretary of the Republican national
committee. This journal generally Is
recognized as the party and prepa-
ganda organ of the committee, and
therefore the assault is just as direct
" committee one as If it came from
Chairman Adams Office.
Republicans here in discussing the
matter of the present Investigations
and of the apparent plan Of the Demo
Gratis to force others, say that if the
campaign managers Of the Republican
party were to follow the example of
Republican senators and representa-
tives and take things lying down,
there would be no hope for party VIC
tory in the next campaign.
No inclination to take the agrees
sive ever has been manifest by the Re-
publican senators. Even the example
of the party managers seems to have
given the senators no stomach for a
fight. They sit in their seats and
smile sadly. Their action has remind
ed one Republican here of the rhyme
in the original book Of nonsense about
the man who trembled in the face of
COW and decided to sit on the stile and
continue to smile, procedure which
he hoped might soften the heart of the
COW.
Certainly Not