The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-25
AMERICANS TO
BE ON TRIAL
AYERS WALSH
Senator, Permanent Chairman
of Dem Convention, Talks
of Oil Scandals
ONE ISSUE, He SAYS
Whether Party in Control
During Period Shall BE
Returned to Office
ONE ISSUE. HE SAYS

New York, June 25-The American
people will be on trial before the
world in the coming presidential cam
paign, Senator Thomas j. Walsh of
Montana, declared today in an ad-
dress upon assuming the permanent
chairmanship of the democratic ma
tional convention.
The issue, he asserted, will be
whether they will continue in power
the party now in control of the gov
eminent Notwithstanding the sean
dals which have been disclosed in
senate Investigations.
II can not admit the accusation"
can people are Indifferent to the cor
roding influence of corruption in Off
&C, in high or low. But we shall see.
They are on trial.
"If Notwithstanding what has
transpired the party now in power
by the choice of the people Of the
United States, apparent or real, what
judgment must be passed upon them
by the world?
"They enjoy the distinction of hav-
ing erected and maintained Il gov
eminent whose officers are as free
from suspicion of venality as those
of any nation on earth, and they
will not, | venture to predict, for.
felt it,"
Attempts at Palliation
Charging spokesman of the repub
lican party with attempts at palla-
full public servants Senator Walsh
declared that it is in "this easy
tolerance of turpitude in public
Office that the real peril to free gov
eminent lies rather than in its
casual occurrence
"The president of the United States
himself" he continued, "has not hest
tated to endeavor to shield the de-
linquents from the public odium to
which their derelictions have sub
jected them by joining in the hue
and cry against the investigations
authority of the senate and against
that body for authorizing them. His
message on the subject had for its
plain purpose the suppression Of an
inquiry into the official conduct of
member of his cabinet"
Recalls British Case
Senator Walsh said President
Coolidge had historic warrant for his
attitude, recalling that when the
British house of commons sought to
investigate the Duke of Buckingham,
Charles would not permit it.
Charles lost his head the senator
added, land Calvin Coolidge may
profit politically by his example"
Declaring the republican party to
be impotent in the face of can i'm
pending national calamity Senator
Walsh said that because Of antagon
isms within it's ranks it had ceased
to be an organization through which
the business of the country can be
carried on.
at has no remedy, it offers no re-
lief from the paralysis that aflilcts
agriculture, threatening every form
of industry" the chairman said.
"Moreover it finds itself plagued with
representatives in both houses of
congress, holding views So radically
antagonistic to those of the dominant
factor in the party as to preclude
the possibility of uniting on any
program of legislation"
Efforts of the dominant faction to
shake off the insurgent members is
as ludicrous as it will prove futile"
the speaker continued, adding that
they could not be shaken off because
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