The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-05

next congress and fight the seating
of Smith and Ware.
1t should be an interesting strug-
gle as 1t 1t must reveal, not so much
the corruption of the electorate in
order to put this or that candidate
into congress, but instead expose
the use Of money by the great cor
porate interests to finance and con-
troll the old political parties. The
substituting of the capitalist parties
is thus shown to be, not merely all
incident, but quite the regular thing,
in season and out of season, on
the theory that the control of the
smallest precinct is the beginning of
the fight to win a national election.
The republican party can have
but one defense in Pennsylvania and
Illinois. That defense has already
been advanced by Senator-elect
Smith and he will no doubt vigor-
ously adhere to it in his effort to
retain his seat in case his right to
1t is challenged. Smith will make
an effort to line up the republican
party machine in support of his
style Of defense, even demanding
the support of the sanctimonius
Silent CaI' Coolidge.
The Federated Press correspond
emit at Washington states that Smith
says, in effect, to Coolidge:
"You were nominated and pro-
noted and elected by the wool trust,
the steel trust, the aluminium trust
and lot of other special interests
that fatten on the tariff. You knew
they would demand payment thru
tariff gouge of the masses Of the
people, and you gladly accepted
their help. After you were elected
you paid the price. That is to say,
you made the public pay the price
to these trusts. Now when l get
100000 cash from Sam insult ana
Studebaker and other public utility
millionaries to buy my nomination
to the senate, when l am the heaG
of the state commission that fixes
the tariff the people must pay their
utility corporations, what moral diff
ference is there between you and
me?"
Thus Senator-Elect Smith will ar
que that it is good form, in capitalist
politics, to collect campaign funds
from the interests the old party can
didate expects it to serve after
election day. Smith asks:
When the president of the Unit.
ed States is a candidate for re-elec-
ton does he resign because the
steel trust, the sugar interests, the
national wool trust and other big
financial and industrial companies
interested in the protective tariff
contribute to the campaign fund or
the republican party? You know
the president has arbitrary powers
to lower or raise the present tariff
rates 10 per cent if he thinks the
economic conditions warrant such
action"
In fact, It is pointed out, this is
a sharp reminder that Coolidge did
exercise his arbitrary power to help
the sugar trust in 1924, and he "gol
away with it."
The picture should therefore be q
little clearer to the workers and
farmers of the land. Instead or
seeing the pockets of a Ware, Smith.
Doheny, Sinclair or Fall, stuffed
with loot, and becoming quite cal
loused to the sight, these same
workers and farmers must behold
the old parties themselves complete
ly in the pay Of the great capitalist
interests, to do their bidding every
day thruout the year.
Realizing therefore that these
capitalist parties are the creatures
Of the exploiters of labor, the work.
ers and farmers must clearly see
that what they need is a party OF
their own--a Labor Party-to fight
in their interests. This should be
the beginning made in this cam
paign that will lead 70 the exercise
OF greater wisdom in the struggles
ahead.