Milford chronicle., 1924-04-18
MUD.GUNNERs OF THE SENATE

There will come day when Washington will recover
its lost sanity When that day comes, the Senate OF
the United States will wish might blot from its records
all Thursday, g. 1924 that day sank
to a low level in it's history.
For weeks its mud guns have belched and splashed
What great deliberate body has been resound
ing to the partisan yelpngs of little and the
and snars of character assasns They have made charges
under the protection of the Senate they would not dare
utter to They have made the oil investigation
the orgy of partisan denncation the like
which had been in the Senate and hardly
where else in America
The country has looked on in growing amazement.
The public has been shocked and finally dsgusted by this
brazen exhibition of pOisontongued partisanship pure
malice and tWittering hystera.
Thursday capped the climax. That day two private
kilograms from the President of the United States
read into the record of of many senatorial inquiries
This done in the hearing of the same Senator Walsh
chief nQuisOr of that committee who had taken exceed
ing great pains to that certain kilograms and letters
exchanged between himself and E. L. Doheny "e-
planned before they spread the records Walsh
and his committee took such pains with the White
House messages would have been easy for the nves
gaors to establish the irrelevancy of these messages
fore they made public with round flourish They
chose to do nothing of the kind.
Did these White House messages relate in any way
the oil scandal They did not Was there anything overt
in them? If it does not appear They in fact
such messages sent matter official routine
and ordinary courtesy by any man in public life. The
White House explanations of both adequate and
clear
But they did not convince the narrow and hatefled
minds of Senators. Hardly they in the
before the th-bateries of the Senate manned by the
Three Mad Characterization of Mississippi Caraway of
Arkansas, and Hefn, of Alabamawent into action Sen
ate rifle pits spat The drumre Senate nnuen-
do was laid down upon the White House.
Not of them all had a scrap of evidence No
for hours they mOuthed insinuatons and be-
pateped the of the President United States
with sinister implications.
In all the Senate only had the courage to
stand against them Senator Lodge has known the Senate
its greater days When rose and made dgnfed pro-
est against these savage nnuendoes and feerng vfca
ion, the rabd pack turned him wolves wheel and
snap. They would not be cheated of their daily of
nate As they turned to victim whatever is left of
he decency political fairness and honor of the Senate sat
mute many dumb, eowed and driven cattle.
When the Senate was the Senate, there who
would have risen and read these whirng dervshes from
Dixie lesson in elementary decency. Where they
low, these older Democrats Republicans? Where were
he saner fairer Democrats today-Underwood GLASS;
Bruce Simmons and Raston? Do they condone such ex-
bitiOns? Where the courage of those Republicans
Who sat silent and shivering leaving the whitehared
lodge to stand alone and fight aone Where instance
we're Curtis Watson, David Reed Moses Pepper and Will
is Where was Pepper paladin of fair play and Borah
he pure Of heart?
The situation in the Senate has be impossible
'he house has worked itself into frenzy It has
made itself the home Of arsenic squads poison repu
atoms and of wel-pOisoners who destroy character
Weeks it wandered afar from the main and principal
inns of its Investigations It is the haunt of political
If these the breed of Senators that popular
Oe sends to Washington, then evil day the
Iation when it approved the Seventeenth Amendment.
Disgust with Senate tactics is rising to danger mark
he people Of this country air-mnded and believe
air play. They realizing that the Senates
the very pth pettiness There is
ctual danger Of backre Of national disgust that will
iscredt all Investigations and all investigators
ID and resenul people about ready to cry out to both
artes, "a plague on both your houses!"
Gentlemen of the Senate you will do well to get back
nd partisan tactics that dsgacing great body
he country is weary of it. It is beginning be weary Of
You rant and pose and talk too much Get back to
our original Investigations and hold to them Quit try
g to make political capital of everything you touch
Your attempts to the White House with oil will
act upon you. Nobody is going to believe the word
crossroad politician that President Coolidge got any
money, is protecting anybody who did or that he is
inted by this black thing that stalks in Washington
Gentlemen Of the Senate, be good enough for your
sake to put your political mountebans your partisan
and your Godsakers back in their paces You are
milling with your regulations and dicng with the
cd reDute Of the Senate-Phiadelphia Public Ledger