The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-19

This is the conclusion everywhere
Impressed upon the traveller through
the Northwest and through the Cen.
trail East, and nowhere more so
than in this State OF Ohio.
In Ohio Harry M. Daugherty,
formerly Attorney General Of the
United States, and a public servant
accused by his enemies of almost
every sort Of public misdemeanor,
In running for delegate at large to
the Republican national conven-
| ton from Ohio on the regular,
official, accepted Coolidge slate.
Thereupon State Senator Bender
Of Ohio, who is Hiram Johnson's
Ohio campaign manager, proceeds
to announce continuously and
clamorously that the issue in Ohio
at this great and critical moment
10 "Daughertyism. It is a funda-
mental issue, says Mr.. Bender, who
III a highly earnest young man.
II is an issue, he says, that goes
down to the roots Of things. It is
q moral issue.
In Cleveland is Stone.
Now it happens that in Cleveland
there are the headquarters Of nu-
Enerous railroad trade unionists. In
Cleveland there lives Mr.. Warren
s. Stone, head of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, head also
Of numerous banks belonging to the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi.
neers, and head also in fact Of the
railroad trade union political activ-
ity which has found its expression
in the highly influential organiza-
ton called the conference for
progressive political action.
The railroad trade unionists 60
in for ''progressiveism.
Mr.. Bender is a progressive" Of
the Roosevelt tradition. Senator
Hiram Johnson, Mr.. Bender's Presi-
Dental candidate, is our most emf
nent loving progressive" of that
tradition. How does Mr.. Bender
get along in persuading the railroad
trade unionists to come into the
Republican primary on April 20
and fight for the Lord and purity
and ''progressivism" at new
Armageddon against the diabolical
and horrid influence of that wicked
man, Harry NJ. Daugherty?
he does not get on with this task
notably well at all. The railroad
trade unionists love to attack Mr..
lDaugherty because of the injunction
which he caused a Federal Judge in
Chicago to issue against them dur
Ing the shopcraft strike of 1922.
They rejoice in charging Mr..
Daugherty with all the wickedness
1nfn fW1eN
him. When it comes, however to
bothering about defeating him in
the Republican primary, they most
ly have other things more i'm.
portant to do.
They mostly, in so far as they
are guided by the general policies
Of their unions. have to spend their
time laboring to secure the Demo.
cratic Presidential nomination for
William Gibbs McAdoo, whose EN-.
ployment as a lawyer by Edward l..
Doheny, the alleged wicked oil mag
nate, is no wickedness to them in
view Of the fact that Mr.. McAdoo
is a friend of theirs.
Let 1t be granted that their
loyalty to Mr.. McAdoo when he is
under fire is as creditable to them
Washington friends would have been
exhibited 1t. Mr.. Daugherty's
friends mostly deserted him. Mr..
McAdoo's railroad trade union
friends are mostly sticking right
along with him. He helped them
when he was director general Of the
railroads during the war and they
expect him to be what they call
just and fair to them il he should
become President.
Mr.. McAdoo agrees with them on
economic subjects. They accord
ingly have no time to waste on mere
moralities. Few Of them will bother
about eliminating Harry M. Daugh-
erty from Ohio politics. The mass
Of them, in so far as their union
policies and union suggestions sway
them, will try to get the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination for
William Gibbs McAdoo, and then, If
they fail in that attempt, they will
swing to the Republican senior
Senator from Wisconsin, Robert
Marion La Toilette, to be an "inde.
pendent" Presidential candidate.
Parties Mean Nothing.
Democratic, Republican. independ.
ent-the words are all the same to
them il only the man behind those
words is going along with them in
their solution Of the railroad ques.
ton, and they will overlook many
things IL only upon that question
there is agreement between them
and him.
The rock.b bottom reason why Hiram
johnson is not running any better
as q candidate for the Republican
Presidential nomination is that there
is no genuine agreement between
him and our new economic PRO.
gressives" who are represented es.
pecially and dominantly by the great
| and powerful trade unions Of rail.
road workers. Mr.. johnson is speak
ing better to audiences than ever
before In his career. He is preach.
| ing the good old Rooseveltian doc
| men and bad men. 1t does not gain
him converts from among the votes
| who now are not so much interested
| in goodness or badness as in solving
| the railroad question and the agri-
cultural question their way.
Thus similarly as Senator Medill
Mccormick Of Illinois gets defeated
on the face of the returns for re.
nomination to the United States Sen.
ate, while the railroad trade union.
lists Of Illinois, instead of voting for
him on the ground of his being an
old Rooseveltian progressive, go and
vote for Newton Jenkins because
Jenkins hates the Esch.C ummins
railroad transportation law exactly
as the railroad trade unionists hate
1t.