The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-23
AS WE SEE 1T

The first plank in the Democratic
platform will be scandal, according
to press reports. So will the rest OF
the lumber The Democratic party is
"a scandal and so is the Republican
party. What the reports have refer
ence to is the Teapot Dome exposure
and the revelations of graft in the
+, Republican cabinet Yet it is worthy
of note that great majority of the
delegates gathered at New York to se-
idge and his gentle grafters are will
ing to have McAdoo, the Doheny
white-haired boy, as standard bearer
Fall only got 100000 from Doheny
and few old cows from Sinclair, but
McAdoo got $4,000 from Doheny
and promise of the best part of one
million, provided he succeeded in rap
ing the Mexican republic for the bene.
fit of the oil king. There you are.
A religious war is brewing in New
York over the fight between Al Smith
and McAdoo. A war for political pur-
poses. The leaders in the struggle
have no religious convictions that
would cause them any loss of sleep,
but their followers have. If AL
Smith is elected the cry of Rome
rule" will be raised, regardless OF the
fact that at this moment with Pres
byterian in the White House his holt
ness is getting all the consideration
he wants from the United States gov
eminent. y. P. Morgan is not a Cath
Ollie, yet he is the financial agent Of
the Vatican here in America. Per-
haps the Ku Klux Khan is not aware
Of this.
AL Smith and McAdoo are not fight
ing each other because they worship
Jehovah under different auspices.
The religious differences of their fol
lowers will be used to jack up their
enthusiasm until the need for further
action is over, then the main rivals
will shake hands in front of camera
and unite for the sake of the Demo-
cratic party, and the spoils of office,
which is the important thing. The
various factions in the REORGANIZATION
fight at the Democratic convention
prove that they are to be reckoned
with, and no matter who wins they
must be considered. 1t is a better
policy to buy off the head of power
full faction than to annihilate him, IL
he is at all reasonable.
The Democratic leaders will try to
capture the vote that is disguised
with both old parties. 1t is true that
four years is long time for the aver
age voter to bark back to, so the
crimes of the Wilson administration
may be forgotten in face of the more
recent If no less rotten crimes of the
Harding Coolidge Doodle grabbers.
Democratic keynoters will call the
origin of the jackass party to the at
ltention of the convention and pro-
claim their mission is now again to
clear corruption out of public life. A
fine set of scavengers!
At st. Paul party was founded
pledged to clear up corruption by get.
ting down to rock bottom and abolish
the system that breeds corruption
The corruption we are after is that
which robs the worker of the product
Iof his labor Under capitalism, graft
ers rob each other and except for the
propaganda value it has in showing
the workers what gang of thieves
they are ruled by, it has no interest
for revolutionists. Rival groups OF
capitalist gangsters are quarrelins
over the spoils. That is all. Now IL
is Coolidge and his merry men who
are on the inside. They have theip
: hands to the elbows in the gold pot.
Naturally the outs raise devil of q
cry and call on the voters to let them
get in and clean out the robbers
They get in and then 1t is the Repub.
lican opportunity to call attention to
the dirty work.
But the worker is being robbed Of
the product of his toll, robbed Of his
energy and tissue every day in the
factory, and these political scaven
gers never protest. Democrats ana
Republicans both stand for the same
robber system, that is based on the
Exploitation OF labor. rhe Farmer
Labor party organized in st. Paul IL
out to abolish that system. Only
when the Communist idea Of recon.
structtng society on the basis Of
from each according to his ability
Q and to all according to their needs>
/ will corruption be eliminated. "Cor
. Iruption" in the mouth OF capitalist
4 party politiciapdsr s~meani9s)es. ~
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