Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1926-09-26

we near Hlucn THESE Gays from
the Republicans about 'unex-
ampled prosperity Chairman
Oldfield continued, but we hear
nothing from the employees of
the textile mills, or the shoe fac
tories, or the small merchants
and bankers or the men in that
greatest of all industries that sup
Flies the first necessities of life,
the farmers. Only recently Sec
rotary of Commerce Hoover stated
that the prices of agricultural
products were 10 points lower
than this time last year, and Sec
rotary of Agriculture Jardine
said the wheat farmers need not
expect any greater prices this
year than the world prices, show
ing quite plainly that the agri-
cultural tariff of AZ cents a bush
Ell on wheat helps nobody except
Republican politicians who use it
to fool the farmers.
while the Republican Chair
men are clamoring for additional
tariff burdens for the farmers
and everybody else, they are silent
on the exposure of the huge poll
teal corruption in the senatorial
primaries of their party in Penn
sylvania and Illinois. The Re-
publican Senatorial Committee.
however, headed by it's multi-mil-
lionaire Chairman Senator Phipps.
has decided to support Frank L.
Smith, the Illinois Republican
nominee for Senator, in whose
interest much more money was
spent than was spent for New
berry, nearly all of which was
contributed by the men who con-
troll public utilities in Illinois.
They contributed this money to
the campaign Of the man who is
Chairinan of the State Board
which regulates public utilities in
the State and the rates they may
charge the public.
las soon as Secretary Mellon
gets back from Europe it is fair
to assume the Committee will al
SO decide to support Ware in
Pennsylvania, the successful can
didate in the three million dollar
Republican primary. Senator
David A. Reed, whose law firm is
the attorney for Mr.. Mellon, is al
ready pledged to Ware against |
that fine Democrat, William B.
Wilson, who served for eight |
years as Secretary of Labor in |
the last Democratic Administra- |
ton without a blemish on his rec |
crd and constant service to the
cause of the people.
Julius Rosenwald, President |
Of Sears Roebuck Company, is re-
ported as having suggested to |
PRESIDENT Coolidge that Frank L.
Smith should be withdrawn as a
candidate for Senator in Illinois.
but the only known response to |
that suggestion was the endorse
ment of the Republican Senatorial |
Committee. The President. as
far as known, has never express
ed himself, but has maintained
the same silence he did in the
notorious Newberry case. recalling
the old aphorism that "silence
gives consent"
Meanwhile the Presidents
supporters boast that he always /
keeps his promises. On this sub
ject no publication ever made a
truer statement than did the we'll
know magazine Worlds Work
when it said editorially in it's Au-
gust number:
"'Mr. Coolidge is giving the
country exactly what he
promised.
For the particular group the
privileges which they were
promised and for which
they pay
'Mr. Coolidge is also giving the
country some things he did not
promise, especially in the way Of
nullifying the functions Of the in
dependent commissions and bu-
reaus created by Congress, in
tended to be free Of executive
domination or control. The Fed u