Evening star., 1924-09-01
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ing under the dictatorship of a small
class that controls the financial re-
sources of the country.
Defines One Main Issue.
There is but one issue before the
country today. 1t is: Shall the con-
troll of the government be left in the
hands of the small group that has
cornered the national wealth and ex-
plotted the people? Or shall the con-
troll of the government be returned to
the representatives Of the people to
be administered in the interest of the
masses, to be SO administered that the
right of every man, woman and child
to food and clothing and shelter and
health and happiness is placed above
property rights and the claims Of
profit?
Gen. Dawes Il use the title general
in memory of his gallant service as
commander of the minute men in his
war on organized labor) says the is
sue is conservatism VS.. radicalism. He
attempts to picture Coolidge and
Dawes as representing conservatism
and La Toilette and Wheeler as rep
resenting radicalism.
"'The general, bluff soldier that he
is, finds no issue between his party
and the Democratic party and names
none. He could tell the truth by ex-
planning that behind the word con-
servatism there is hiding Big Busi-
ness, representing less than per
cent of our population, who want
things to go on as they are, and, if
he could tell the truth, by further
explaining that by radicalism is
meant the desire for a change for the
better on the part of the great mass
OF the people who produce the wealth
of the nation.
Ready to Fight 1t Out.
He would have you believe that
all those who desire that the people
and not Wall street, shall rule are
radicals. We will meet him on this
day by day until it shall finally be
settled at the polls next November
by the people themselves.
Most of our political problems. in
fact, are economic problems. What
except an economic issue is at the
bottom of the spectacle of corrup-
tfon at Washington which has shock
ed the people Of the country the past
few years? This corruption in the
executive branches of the Govern
ment Is not simple matter of in
dfvidual dishonesty, but is a natural
outgrowth of the system by which
PRESIDENTS and and Vice Presidents
nominated
'1n all my studies of political his
tory, l cannot recall an adminfstra-
tional more venal, more corrupt,
more destructive of the rights of the
people than the administration of the
Republican party during the last
three and one-half years. We need
Albert B. Fall. Edwin DENLY and
Harry M. Daugherty driven from the
cabinet by an outraged public senti-
ment. l ask you, Mr.. Coolidge, to
explain to the people of your own
State, II you can, why Fall and
Forbes and Daugherty were allowed
to go scot free.
SRys Guilty Are Escaping.
"As a matter of fact, the guilty
are not being prosecuted and will not
be prosecuted as long as the Daugh-
erty spirit remains in control OF the
Department Of Justice. Mr. Coolidge
says the law will be enforced. Judg-
ing the future by the past, they also
know that the law will not be en-
forced against those within the inner
circle as long as the Republican ma
chine controls the administration of
justice.
The time has come in the life of
this nation when 1T is necessary to
create q new party because OF the
patience OF the people is worn out
with the broken pledges of the two
old partfes-broken pledges that strew
the political plains Of this republic
as corpses strewed the battiefields of
the Vosges!
The facts regarding the corrup-
tion that was brought out by the
investigating committee were gem
orally known In Washington, and vet
this unspeaking, mythical man who
sits silent in the presidential chair
while reading the debates in the
senate concerning the corruption in
official Washington and the misuse
OF the Department Of Justice, as Vice
resident and then as Chief Execu-
tive of the United States, stood by
and allowed all these things to go on
without lift of and eyebrow. 80
Asks Reply by Collidxe.
True to his masters command.
PRESIDENT Coolidge went to Wall
street for = successor to the recent
Attorney General, and finally to ex-
press his contempt of public opinion
and comman decency he left in the
Department of Justice the same men
who had 30 badly assisted Daugherty
In his Efforts to protect the corrupt
interests that have been lootfng his
country.
president Coolidge is a candidate
for President of the United States.
He has a record and must be Judged
by that record. Mr.. Coolidge, you
are before the bar of public Judgment.
Stand up and answer for your deeds
OF omission. Knowing Mr.. Daugh-
erty, as you did, why was 1t neces-
sary for the legislative branch of the
Government to expose the corruption
In the Department OF Justice before
you would take . step to remove him
from ofhcs3 Why, Mr.. Coolidge. do