Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
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hClanLd JOuGHdI NEWS BUREAU
40S Evans Building,
By THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-The
Republican campaign textbook, is
sued here yesterday. today was as
sailed by Chairman Glenn l.. Shaver.
| of the Democratic national commit
tee, mot so much for what it con
| tains, but for what it Omits."
Thus, the Democratic statement
urges, the Republican textbook
soft pedals" upon the activities of
| former Secretary of the Interior AL
bert B. Fall and the leasing of the
naval oil reserves, so that IF one
depended on the campaign book for
his information he would never sus
| pect Mr.. Fall was ever a cabinet
officer" The book fails also to
{ mention the bureau of engraving
| scandal" or. Secretary Slemp's con
nection with the collection of money
! for the sale of Virginia postoffices,
| TIE Democratic chairman C~Ntinues.
! and ''neolects even to record that
| Colonel Charles r. Forbes was at
one time director Of the veterans
| bureau, or that he is now under in
d;ctment."
Daugherty and Fall Forgotten
The Republican book "is as silent
on the Mellon tax plan as is the
| Cleveland PLATFORM adds Mr.. Sha
yer, and Harry NJ. Daugherty will
never know from d perusal of The
book that he once held the high Of
| flee of attorney general"
by some strange circumstance,
says the statement, the authors and
compilers of the volume omitted
even to mention his name, much
| less discuss the achievements of his
administration, of which the country
heard so much only a few weeks
ago, and will hear more during the
impending campaign.
Chairman Shaver observes that in
the Republican chapter on the de-
partment of the interior, which
omits all mention of former Secre-
tary Fall, there is a disposition of
the G. O. p. to talk about the actiV-
tiles Of the bureau of Indian affairs
I and of the fact that the patent of
flee has increased it's output while
t-pedaling on Fall"
And from the brief mention that
is made of Teapot Dome" continues
Chairman Shaver, one would sur
mise that former Secretaries Lane
and Daniels and Senator Thomas J.
Walsh were the real culprits, and
Fail, DENLY, DOheny and Sinclair
the guardian angels of the navy's
oil reserves.
The Civil Service
The Democratic chairman added:
in the chapter on civil service,
the campaign book, mortified by the
ft iy1I of
the New York postoffice once com
mitted a theft of money and securi-
ties, and that they "entered the
service under the Democratic admin
istration." But it fails to mention
the bureau of engraving scandal, Or
the many other raids on the civil
service which have taken place dur
ing the present administration,
among them Secretary Slemp's COLI
nection with the collection of money
for the sale of Virginia postoffices.
as disclosed by the famous series of
Dear Ben" letters, including the
one on the Meadows Of Dan"
There is also an interesting chap
ter on the veterans bureau. 1t
records how may millions of dol
lars have been appropriated for the
care of sick and wounded service
men, and how many millions of doi
lars of insurance the latter have
taken Out--for which they paid so
much per thousand-but it neglects
to even record the fact that Colonel
Charles II. Forbes was at one time
director of the bureau, or that he
is now under Indictment, and that
under his administration there was
an orgy of graft and corruption that
49, h. =
counted for the wasting or stealing
of more than $200,O00,OOO of money
intended for the care of the disabled
service men
Humor in Tax Claims
THE book tells Now the treasury
department bears after-war bur.
dens, but is as silent on the Mellon
tax plan as is the Cleveland conVen-
ton platform. And it attempts to
show a reduction of taxes by the
Republican ad0~in abstraction by offer
ing as an exhibit table comparing
the income taxes that will be paya-
bic under the 1924 revenue act with
those imposed by the war revenue
act of 1918.
Passing over the unfairness of any
comparison between peace and war
IotA6S, II 10 MS MY uuIlIOIO Jus even III
a Republican campaign book, to
claim for this administration credit
for tax reduction in the 1924 tax
bill, passed by Democratic and HI
dependent Republican votes over the
determined opposition of President
Coolidge, Secretary Mellon and ad-
ADMINISTRATION Republican leaders in
both branches of congress.
The chapter on foreign relations
is as indefinite as has been the adj
ministration' foreign policy. There
IS a boast that General Dawes and
the other unofficial Observers ETC.,
who went over, opened the way TO
the economic rehabilitation o FLU
rope but no mention of the fact
that their status was wholly unOffi-
cial. as explicitly announced by the
administration at the time of their
going, so that had the negotiations
broken down, the administration
could have washed its hands of Gen
eral Dawes. as well as his asso-
GATES"
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