The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-24
MASS. DENIS and
REPS BUCKLINC
DOWN TO FIGH 7
Denounce Each Other as
Bankrupt: We Agree
BY SYDNEY BLOOMFIELD.


of tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, the
republicans and democrats, have now
buckled down to action with clear
the decks" as their battle cry. But
If they actually mean to clear their
decks they have an awful dirty job,
for both Mr.. David l. Walsh, president
of one bank and vice-president of an
other and corporation lawyer for the
B. & M. Railroad, who is the demo-
cratic candidate for senator, and Mr..
William NJ Butler, millionaire public
utilities and textile mill owner and
Calvin Coolidges wire puller, the re-
publican candidate for the same office,
have pretty shady records, even
if one were to allow for the single
fact that they are both candidates of
finance and Industrial capitalism.
Because the fate of Calvin Coolidge
lies in the outcome of Massachusetts
choice for United States senator, the
campaign in behalf of Butler and the
whole republican state ticket is pro
ceeding in a most vigorous and ex-
pensive manner. A tremendous cam
paign is being waged by the republi-
cans, even to the extent of attempts
at sacrificing such yankee republican
office seekers as Alexander Lincoln and
Arthur X. Reading in favor of one of
foreign descent, Elijah Adlow, who,
the Boston Transcript says, would
make certain on Beacon Hill the sort
of cooperation among the executive,
legislative and judicial branches that
is part and parcel of good govern
ment" Adlow was republican candi-
date for Encouragement in the three
cornered republican primary fight, but
lost out in the race.
Hunt Foreign Vote.
The republican state committee has,
in an open official statement to the
press, implored it's adherents to vote
for Adlow, as against Lincoln and
Reading, all three being republicans,
not because the machine was opposed
to either of the three candidates in
the primaries, but because Adlow was
a concession to the foreign voting ele-
ment which is steadily increasing in
this state and which the democrats
usually capture.
The democrats realize the impor-
lance of electing Walsh, who opposes
Butler. They realize that with Butler
eliminated Coolidge may be elimi-
mated as a presidential candidate,
which, in turn, will enhance the
chances OF a national democratic ad-
ministration being elected. The con-
test In this state has been popped
up somewhat with the appearance of
book of facts" issued as a cam
paign book by the national committee
of the democratic party and bears the
signatures OF Senator Peter Goelet
Gerry Of Rhode Island and William A.
Oldfield Of Arkansas, chairmen, re-
spectively, of the senate and house
congressional campaign committees.
This book is intended to furnish am
munition for the speakers of the dem
ocratic party during the next few
weeks.
Cal Bankrupt, Say Democrats.
The book pays its respects to Coo
lidge and his administration by saying
that alike in its foreign and domestic
policies, the republican administra-
ton, more especially since Coolidge
went into the White House, has been
morally and intellectually bankrupt.
1t also takes a crack at the admins
tration's subserviency to big business,
saying:
1.-THE record reveals the administra-
tion of government by that party dur
ing the last six years as one which
has been consistently subservient to
big business, even to the point of
packing the trade commission in its
interest, which has continually in
creased expenditures on normal gov
ernmental activities, which has failed
utterly to deal with such problem of
vital national import as that OF farm
relief, which has depressed agricul-
ture, the textile industry, the small
banker and the small merchant, and
which has robbed the United States
Of that worldwide respect we enjoyed
during the last democratic administra-
ton"