The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-07
SENATOR LADD
HITS AT G. 0.P
LOYALTY TEST
North Dakota Senator Chal-
Ienges Present Leaders of
Republican Party
KESENTS THE CUSTER

Washington, Jan. SENATOR Laid
OF North Dakota, one Of the four IN
surgent Republican Senators read
out of party councils by the RepublI-
can Senate conference, has thrown
down the gauntlet to the regular par
ty forces with Il challenge to their
leadership and an arrangement OF
their policies as subverslvc Of the
true principles Of publicanlsm.
In sharply phrased and lengthy
address in the Senate late yesterday,
the North Dakota Senator assaulted
the would be" leaders of his party
us arrogantly setting themselves up
as Judges of party loyalty.
Asserting the camp followers Of
''the old Republican party have be
come the vanguard of the new Re
publican party" senator Ladd de-
clared that if "to be Republican,
meant he must subscribe to a party
policy of surrender TO Financial bac-
cancers" and tariff magnates" he
could not "qualify.'
His assault on the regular party
forces drew a defense of the Senate
conference action from Senator Edge
of New Jersey. who declared the test
of party loyalty was in the support
of the party candidate for President.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
then injected little merrment into
the discussion by instancing the
vote "of several Senator'S to over
ride the Presidents, veto of the postal
pay bill ''as an example of party
loyalty and asked what is the test?"
Asserting that the curtain had not
yet been rung down on this act of
the "notorious' conference, Senator
Ladd charged that 1.-The camp follow
ers of the old Republican party have
become the vanguard of the new Re
publican party-leading it backward
and downward from the heights
where Lincoln left it when he fell"
Drunk with power and forgetting
its traditions, he said, the Republi-
can party has preceded to a surren-
der OF the nations money functions
to Financial buccaneers" and to
surrender its taxing power to tar
if magnates'; has, squandered it's
natural resources and public lands;
made ventures in Imperialism for
the sole benefit of partisan seat
raps" and transformed the govern
ment "of the people, for the people,
into "a government Of the masses
by the classes
'If to be ii Republican, he added
81 am to accept and ratify, defend
and promote political policy OF
! party that cXults in the accomplish
ment of these results without pro
test-without exhausting my abili'
ties to correct these fatal errors OF
the past and prevent their repetition
in the future, then / cannot qualify
"If the election of a Republican
as president with a reliable working
majority in congress means nothing
more than an extension for -four
years Of an unlimited license {
plumber the American people, the
/ cannot be Republican.
Party Of Lincoln Doomed
"If the transfer of billions OF
capital values from the farms ant
producers of America of the swolle!
fortunes of monopoly, within three
weeks time, is a triumph of the Re
publican party. then, indeed, is thu
. party of Lincoln doomed"
Sharply criticizing senators 70
setting themselves up as judges o
party loyalty, Senator Laid said hi
duty first was to the people o
North Dakota, and that he woul
continue to serve them. He denie,
that the Representatives of Massa
chusetts, New Jersey, or Pennsyl
vania should dictate the limits o
his party loyalty.
The North Dakota senator said h
: was proud Of the friendship Of Sen
ator LaFollette, who was the indie
/. pendent candidate for president, an
OF the other senator's read out o
| the party councils.