The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-06-25

Washington-(FP) - Three million
dollars, it appears, was spent in the
Pennsylvania primary. Most of this
money was spent by the Mellon inter
president of the Pennsylvania Manu-
facturers' Assn, to renOminate Pep
/ per to the Senate and to nominate
John S. Fisher to be governor. A
/ lesser amount was spent in cash
which left no trail-by the Ware gang
centered in Philadelphia, to nominate
Ware for senator. Gov. Clifford Pin
chot wasted $4,000 of his own and
his relatives and friends money on
the senatorial race without coming
within gunshOt of a chance to win.
Against the massed wealth and harsh
authority of the MELONS, Ware threw
his organization which for 80 years
has been delivering election returns
in Philadelphia that were grotesque-
ly in defiance of the known interests
and opinions of the working people
who MADE up a majority of the cleo
tOrate. Wholesale fraud was evident
on the face of the returns, as Chair
man Reed of the Senate investigat-
ing committee openly charged.
Yet nobody in political life in
Washington predicts that any revolt
of the decent citizens of Pennsyl-
vania will follow these disclosures.
All that is hoped is that the Ware and
Mellon gangs will agree to let their
legislatures grant certain reforms in
the election laws. The prOgressives
hope that their percentage of chance
to have their votes counted in future
will be increased, say, from to 8.
William H. Lamar, who was soi-
icitor of the Postoffice Department
during the eight years of the Burle-
son regime, earned the title Of
Thought Controller" He it was
who debarred hundreds of publications
from the mails during the war peri
cd and the years of terrorization CT
radicals following the Russian revo-
luton. He declared the ruin of scores
of small publishers of workying-class
papers throughout the country. To
him came influential men, begging for
tolerant treatment of this or that
labor or Socialist paper Lemar was
dictator. He was the eager coadjutoI
of Mitchell Palmer in "quelling the
reds" :t
Today this same Lamar is issuing
leaflets and pamphlets in favor of la
Dor in the name of Thomas Jeffer.
son, and is sending them into the
South in order to pull the Democrats
of that section to the support of wet
candidate in 1928.
He has organized a Thomas JEFF
ferson League" and in its behalf Is
issuing a series 81 states rights plea:
against the Volstead Act He in.
vokes the name of the author of the
Bill of Rights which he as Thought
Controller kicked into the discard
and reminds the Southern brethren
that Negro slavery was abolished by
federal power in defiance of states
rights. Unable to deny that Jeffer
son was an abolitionist, he claims tina
jefferson wanted no federal interfer
ence, but believed that if left to thei
own economic adjustments the indi
vidual states would have finally got
ten rid of slavery.
without the constant pressure o
an acute political rivalry" says La
mar, "between Northern and Southern
interests, made irreconcilable by tn
unbridled abuse of direct-action re
formers, slavery would have been de
MED by the will of the people of tn
individual states"
Lamar never stood for reformerS
whether direct-action or otherwise
He was not among those Democrat
. who voted the individual SOuther
: states dry before nationwide prohi
| bition took effect.
/ Staff experts for the Republica
: national committee have received ba
t news from the country. The farmer
: are against Coolidge and Mellon be
f cause Congress is adjourning withor
offering any help to agriculture. Tt
] committee now is convinced that tn
e Democrats are likely to control tn
f House as well as the Senate in tt
next Congress. The House now he
IS PAT Republicans, 1873 Democrats,
: Farmer-Labor, Independent and OF
e Socialist in its membership. To ccl
i troll the House, the Democrats mu
S gain 35 seats. To lose control, tt
O administration must lose about
= seats, since 10 or II of its Republ
: can group are rebels who follOwt
LaFollette.
: Of course the transfer of nOmin
t control means little to the workers
the United States, because Republics
S and Democratic reactionaries vote T.
gether on issues affecting wage
profits. civil rights, militarism, con