Evening star., 1924-03-03
M'ADOO ExCORIATES
SENATOR J. A, REED
Missourian Called Man Who Re-
sorts to Most Glaring Disre.
gard for Truth.
CANDIDACY SEEN AS BLIND
Wants State Delegates for Trading
> Purposes, Says Californian.
BY the Associated Press.

itOlnindlloN ldSt D1snt ItpiiSo " a.
tacks by Senator James 4. Reed. de-
bouncing his Missouri opponent in the
presidential race as a man who re-
sorts to the most glaring disregard
Tor the truth in his personal attacks
on me. because j would not stay out
OF Missouri"
The statement by Mr. McAdoo, III
re form of Il letter to c. &. Oliver, st.
Louis, chairman of the McAdoo cam
paign' in Missouri, said, in part:
Senator Reed Of Missouri stated
5.eccntly as the reason for the Vlci ious
attacks which he is making upon me
personally that 'Mc-sdoo publicly an !
snounccd he did not intend 10 enter the
lists against any home candidate, but
Tor reasons which doubtless are salts
factory to himself he has singled me
out as an exception to his genera
rule. lie has come into the state OF
Missouri and is receiving some sup
port> These conditions force me 10
snake personal references Whlch !
would have entirely omitted had
heen extended by McAdoo the same
courtesy he has extended TO olhers'
Tells OF Conference.
.tIere is a real patriot who resorts
lb the most glaring disregard Tor inc
ruth in his personal attacks upon
me because l would not stay out oil
"On January 81 last Mr. Sam For
rJvce, representing Senator keeu'
called on one Of my Washington
friends and said if L entered Ntssouri
The senator would contend against me-
espcciaIly in Georgia and California.
MY refusal TO submit TO such po-
Iitical blackmail was promptly FOL
lowed by Senator Reeds move on thc
floor of the Senate to compel tue pup
lie lands committee, investigating inc
renuhIjcsn oil scandal. to introduce
into the record wholly imnaterlai
and irrelevant testimony having hotn-
sSing whatever to do with inc SCANDAL
for the sole purpose of drag ns' my
~tamc, without justification, into the
oil inquiry.
Reviews Reeds Record.
Who is this man who without re-
gard to truth and justice attacks me
for the furtherancc of his ambition?
He is the man who, because OF his
dfsloyalty to the democratic party,
was in 1920 thrown out OF the demo-
cratic convention of his own state Of
Missouri.
HE is the man VINO was repudia ted
and denied a seat in tho 1920 demo
cratic national convention at San
Francisco.
"He is the man who was denounced
by the legislature of South Carolina
as a traitor to the democratic party.
He is the man who for weeks
hampered and obstructed demo-
cratic President and the democratic
party in the Senate in their efforts
to achieve for the country a great
federal reserve act, which was the
only thing that saved the nation from
bankruptcy during the world war.
J Says He Fought Suffrage.
"He is the man who had to be
forced by democratic caucus to act
With his fellow democrats in framing
hat act.
lie is the man who fought woman
suffrage to the last ditch.
lie is the man above all others
who has scoffed at the plea of the
fathers and mothers. daughters and
sons Of America, who believed and
who still believe there is a way IN
which civilization can avoid the
brutality of war in the years to come.
He is the man of whom Woodrow
Wilson wrote in 1922, To those who
has closely observed Mr.. Reeds
career in Washington he has SHOWN
himself Incapable of sustained al
1egiance to any person or any cause.
He has repeatedly forfeited any claim
to my confidence that he may ever
have been supposed to have and l
shall never willingly consent to any
cites Law Practice.
.'ge is the man who criticizes false
ly and rccklessly the law practice of a
private citizen and yet, as a senator
of the United States, welding great
political influence through his power
over appointments and his opportunl-
ties to shape legislation, is actively
engaged in the practice of law. How
far it may we'll be asked, are his
professional employments induced by
reason Of his political influence?
'On February . 1924, the public
press carried the significant Informa-
tion that throughout Il great part or
his senatorial careN, Senator Reed
has been employed as special counsel
of. the Universal Oil Products Com
pany, the chief proprietor Of which
lis j. Ogden Armour, the principal
figure in the packing interest, and the
fec Senator Reed was to receive IN
the event of victory was estimated by
his envious confreres at anywhere
from S250.000 to S1,000.00O.' Some au-
thorities said it might be twice or
three times either of these figures
quoted.
He is the man who bitterly op
poses the present widespread heart
felt desire of the American people to
cooperate with other nations of the
earth to work out in common cause
the problem of world disarmament
and world peace.
Suit in kansas City.
He is the man who falsely said
in recent speech that NO living man
can point to y single great lawsuit
which McAdoo ever tried in court
THE records in United States dis
trict court in Kansas City, Reeds
own home. refute him, because / tried
ono of the most important lawsuits
in the history of American juriS-
piNdence before Judge Van Talken-
burgh, in 1919. / refer to the case of
Smith W.. the Kansas City Title and
Trust Company, in which the farm
mortgage bankers who had bled the
farmers. by usurious interest rates
and hard conditions in farm mort
cages attacked the constitutionality
of the federal farm loan act.
'The farm loan banks We're estab-
lished by the Wilson administration
under my direction as Secretary of
The Treasury, and were Sodsend
Hughes and George w. Wickersham
were associated with me. We won
the case in: the lower courts and the
decision was sustained by the Su-
Thus the benefit of this great farm
mortgage system was saved to the
American farmers.
= Sees Plan to Trade.
'Of course. the people know that
Reed, with his experience in politics.
has no idea that the democracy of
America, which repudiated him in
state and naticn four years ago. will
now turn to him and exalt him to
tho highest office within the gift Of
the American people. OF course, the
people know Reed is seeking to OBJ
tain control of the delegates from
the, state of Missouri for trading
purposes in the New York conven-
tioM
.xsnator Reed saws he is a man of