Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-08
MISREPRESENTATION

MISREPRESENTATION
In accordance with the Press policy that election
campaigning should be cleanly conducted we publish
the following editorial from the San Bernardino Sun
of August 5, 1924.
Misrepresentation is not often winnino card
IN politics. and the opposition to Congressman Phil
Swing is caught with the merchandise Coolidge vot-
ers IN san bernardno county are properly indignant
at the receipt of the following sent ont over the sp
nature of j. r. Gabbert of the Riverside Enternrse
but concocted in the political bureau of the Los An
gees Times which is exerting its every influence and
spending plenty of its millionaire owners money to
defeat Congressman Swing because Swings ideas of
the control of the Colorado River and irrigation of
OF the imperial Valley do fit in with those of the
owners of thousands of acres of Mexican lands south
OF the international boundary:
July goth, 1924.
Dear Coolidge Supporter:
Coolidge supporters in the Eleventh Con-
gresslonal District are asked to support Senator
Ed P Sample for Congress Sample was chair
man OF the Coolidge organization for San Diego
county and is a straight Coolidge candidate His
opponent is being endorsed by the anti-Coolidge
workers of the entire district
We will appreciate anything you can do for
Sample In your particular territory.
Very truly yours,
j. R. GABBERT
Chairman Coolidge Eleventh Congressional
District Organization.
'Of course that is plain attempt 20 make it ap-
pear that President Coolidge is using his influence
against Congressman Swing, which is only untrue,
but is resented by the thousands of Republicans in
San Bernardino County who for President Cool
ldge in the primary and who for Congressman
Swings denomination. Coolidge supporters in the
Eleventh Congressional District asked to support
Senator Ed P. Sample for Congress- Who asks them?
The intention is to create the impression that
President Coolidge asks them but instead, the request
comes from some bushwacklng politicians who hid
ing behind the Presidential coattails and who betray
the paucity of argument in support of their
when they stoop to such methods.
They know the truth is that Phil Swing stands
high at Washington, and at the White House, and
paraeled with this request for votes, Republicans
might ponder this letter from Republican Leader Nick
who Ike not opt fort tbo Iioap
ganizaton in the House of Representatives but for the
President we'll when he sent this to Mr.. Swing:
Honorable Philip D. Swing
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Colleague:
! have your letter of the 1st, and am surpris-
ed to know that criticism has been made of you in
your district to the effect that you failed to coop
crate in legislation backed by the Republican lead
ership of the house.
To my mind there is no ground for such crit
cism While you have exercised, as very
proper, independence of thought and action in
some instances, | can recall no instance in which
basic Republican principles were involved that
did not have assistance and cooperation from you.
Of course, need not say that personal
relations have been and of the most cordial
character
Wishing you every in the coming cleo
tion am,
Very sincerely yours,
NICHOLAS LONGWORTH.
$50 voters have their choice between this
straght-out endorsement from the Republican leader
OF the mouse OF Representatives ana Ine SPOKESMAN
for President Coolidge on the floor of the House,
the request for sent out by organization which
if it exists at ALL to have lost all of the
and is willing to drag the President of
the United States into false position by making it
appear that his representatives in this district
thorized to oppose the denomination of Mr.. Swing,
when Private Secretary Slemp is at the time
his confidence in Swing by soliciting dis
trct information from him.
''The Sun very much regrets that any partisans
of Senator Sample have far forgotten political
ethics to do thing like that. But the effect will
be to make the Swing vote in this county well-nigh
unanimous, and it is not unlikely that discriminating
supporters of the President in other counties will be
similarly affected"
.
MINISTER'S AND AMBASSADORS ...-.-. A..
The absurdity of the old diplomatic distinction be-
tween ministers and ambassadors is in the stua-