The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
Money Makes the Donkey Go

California-the oil king Doheny's own
satrapy- a desperate effort to-
limp along in the march. Wyoming,
sacred home of the Teapot Dome,
pushed the Californians into line.
/ All in all, the parade betrayed
weeks Of preparation, which was APP
parently inadequate.
Walsh lnvokes the Dead.
When Senator Walsh mounted the
rostrum, he followed in the footsteps
Of the temporary chairman, his col
league, Senator Harrison, right after
the dead. In mingling his apprecia-
ton of the dead leaders Of the Demo
cratic party with words of concern for
the masses of the country, Senator
Walsh exerted himself with visible
and strained excess in such words:
"The nation expects you, yea de-
mands of us, a leader who exemplifies
the principles of government associ-
ated with Thomas Jefferson, leader
whose heart is attuned to the pulsa-
tions Of those who labor on the farm
and in the field, in the mills and work
shops, at the forge and in the mines,
at the desk and in the household, who
heeds the cry of all the people for
larger life, rather than the plea of
the few, the favorites of fortune, who
are eager to exploit their fellows"
The permanent chairman then de-
veloped a trotting pace in his speech.
Yelled praise of Wilson, the mailing Of
Hanna's and Aldrich's hides to their
coffin covers, a bitter denunciation
of Forbes, Fall, Daugherty, Fielder,
Warrington and Means, followed in
quick succession.
A plea to return to the 14-point
ideals of Wilson, was the occasion for
another demonstration. This time the
marchers displayed better discipline.
To the ancient martial tune of "Over
There! Over There! the Yanks Are
Coming" Georgia, the Canal Zone,
Kansas and Oklahoma fell in line for
another hike around the Garden. Then
someone in the galleries let loose a
white dove. The innocent bird was
rushed out as a symbol Of the Viii
sonian peace, as the personification
of the peacemaker, who helped pre-
pare the vicious Versailles treaty.
Hits Coolidge.
Walsh was really democratic in
throwing bouquets at his friends, dead
and living, big and small, and in
throwing brickbats at his republican
competitors of yesterday and tomor-
row. He wallowed in a somewhat in
effective repetition of the republican
corruption stories recited by Harri-
son yesterday. Coolidge was charged
with having shielded delinquents
From the public odium which their
derelictions have subjected them by
joining in the hue against the investi-
cations. His message on the subject
had for its plain purpose the suppress
sion of an inquiry into the official
conduct of a member Of his cabinet"
The time dishonored, democratic
tariff buncombe was offered as the
remedy to end the agricultural crisis,
in which 40 per cent of all farmers
in South Dakota, AZ per cent in Colo
RADIO, 81 per cent in Montana, 81 per
cent in Wyoming, and 25 per cent in
Iowa and Minnesota were driven into
virtual bankruptcy.
Flirting With "Progressives."
Additional light was shed on the
tactics of the Democratic party to-
wards the LaFollette insurgents. The
democrats are angling to liquidate
what is left of LaFolletteism after
the last congressional session, in
which the insurgent Republicans sur
rendered their identity and played
into the hands of the senate and
house democrats.
Referring to the "progressives," "
Walsh declared: with their aid the
democratic members of the congress
wrote the revenue act lately approved
in defiance of the recommendation of