The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-05-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
President COOlidge's Nomination
Is Almost Assured


Washington, April DENOMINATION
of Calvin Coolidge as Republican can
didate for President is now assured
beyond possibility of doubt. Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Oklahoma
Fave c;rched it and even the betting
commissioners in New York report
that they haven't a cent to bet on any
other Republican. Incidental to the
primary election in Pennsylvania was
the overwhelming and humiliating de
feat of Clifford Pinchot. He was
showed under by 250, 600 votes, the
greatest defeat ever suffered by can
didate in the Keystone state. Inspired
by an overweaning ambition to be
president, PinchOt strOve vigorously
to undermine the strength of Presi-
dent Coolidge and to that end at
tackled Secretary Mellon, inspired
Senator COuzens to retain at his own
expense Francis J. Heney to add to
the saturnalia of undertaking at the
Capitol, and in ways both various and
devious sought to discredit the adj
ministration. The voters of Pinchot's
own state who know him best, as he
has been their Governor for several
years, administered to him the sharp
est and most humiliating rebuke they
ever gave an ambitious politician,
thus presaging his early permanent
and innocuous retirement from pub
lie life.
Crown Prince McAdoo who, unlike
all the rest of his party, is unaware
that his presidential boomlet is dead
and only awaiting decent burial at
Now Nnrly hos nntnraA hot
denial that he prosecuted the claim of
Albert C. Burrage against the Gov
eminent and procured from the U.
| tense is that he left it to his partner
(and paD Stuart G. Gibboney, to pro-
secute this claim. AS every one knows
that Gibboney's standing in Washing
ton was due solely to his intimacy
with McAdoo and that he was at all
times regarded as McAdoo's alter
ego, and as McAdoo shared, no doubt,
the profits Gibboney made, the denial
would be ridiculous, even were it true.
The records of the Navy Department
show, however, that McAdoo was ex-
tremely active himself in the matter
and the Navy files are filled with
letters and kilograms regarding this
claim, all bearing the signature of the
Crown Prince. 1t is also shown that
McAdoo introduced Gibboney at the
Navy Department with the statement
that Gibboney was his partner and
would present the details of the Bur
rage claim, and one letter from Nc
Adoo's firm fatty states that McAdoo
"has charge of this case" and re-
quests a pOstponement of a hearing
on the ground that "McAdoo is out of
the city"
Both houses of Congress have now
passed the bonus bill in form de
signed to add an amount variousiy
estimated at from 1900 to 4,00J
million dollars to the burden of the
tax payers. In opposition to this bill
Senator Borah made a great speech,
He pointed out that the national debt
is already ,000000,000 and that it
woman and child in the nation Of
S68. Gas compared with a tax Of
lS12.50 per person before the war. I'm
der these circumstances Mr.. Borah
submits that economy is the most
important issue" before the nation, q
conclusion with which few will differ.
Almost in despair, Mr.. Borah inquired
if the people were not Sufficiently in
terested" to punish those who would
so ruthlessly add to their burden,
the cost Of living.
Having passed the bonus bill, the
Senate has now taken up the tax re
duction bill, designed to reduce taxes
by 00,000,000 a year. OF course
Congress well knows that enactment
of a bonus bill and reduction Of the
taxes at the same time are wholly I'M
possible, just as impossible as to save
your cake and eat it too. The pas
sage of the bill is simply a cowardly
method of shifting responsibility to
the President. The members conf
IDENTIFY expect Mr. Coolidge to veto
the bonus bill, while they can claim
credit for having voted for it. But if
they should pass it over his veto, they
well know they will have to increase
ltaXes,-if not before the election, i'm
mediately after. Only seventeen Sen
ators, 8 Republicans and 9 Democrats,
voted against the bonus on final pas
sage.
Senator Walsh is still dragging out
the oil Investigation" getting no
where but spending vast sums of the
Taxpayers money. The sole purpose
of the investigation was accomplished
when the case of Mr.. Fall and the oil
leases was confined to the courts and
the President appointed ex-senator
Pomerene and Owen Roberts special
counsel to protect the interests of the
Government. Since then the "investi-
cation" has reverted to it's original
purpose, an attempt to Offset the OPP
position of the Ku-Klux to Senator
Walsh's reelection to the Senate,
primarily, and secondarily an effort
to discredit the Republican admins
ltration.