Evening star., 1927-12-05
PROTEST ON Ware
+ SEATING IS MADE
Law Enforcement Chairman
Attacks Alleged Methods of
Philadelphia Campaign.

A spirited protest against the seat
William S. Ware of Pennsylvania was
made today in an address delivered
at the Raleigh Hotel by Clinton n.
Howard, chairman of the united COM
nittee for law enforcement. at the
organizations annual meeting. He
coupled this address of protest, en-
titled 1.-The Black Hand on the Ballot
Box" with a warning that every
single man who votes to seat Ware
will have the brand of Cain upon
him.
Charging that doubtless the pur
pose penlnd the present movement to
take the Republican convention to
Philadelphia" is leading the. way to
q modification plank in the party
platform. aided by Mr.. Ware Mr..
Howard declared that William S.
Ware is the greatest liability that the
Republican party ever has had in its
history
Copies of the address. Mr.. Howard
announced, have been mailed to SEN
ators and Representatives. He cited
figures to show that a national
calamity is threatened" and advo-
Gated that the Senate should investl-
gate thoroughly the rimary election
in Pennsylvania, which he termed "all
part and parcel of one stupendous and
reasonable fraud"
Attack on Ware.
"The Senate must not become the
dumping ground for ward politicians
who can lift themselves by their own
bootstraps from the slums into the
Senate" Mr.. Howard declared, dub
bing Mr.. Ware ''the million-dollar Sen
ator from the slums of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Howard continued:
1T has been argued that it is none
of the Senate's business who Penn
sylvania or any other State sends
as it's representative to Washington.
That might be true if a Senator voted
only for measures affecting his own
State, but Senator votes to legislate
for all the States and to help decide
the foreign policy Of our country
with the nations of the world. There
is not a domestic or foreign policy
which might not be affected, or in
deed, on a close division, decided by
his vote. 1t is the business of the
Nation: the senatorship is a Federal
office.
'The Senate should institute an in.
vestigation into the methods by which
he obtained both his nomination and
election. The primary and election
are one; the fakes and phantoms could
not have been voted if they had not
first been registered. The Senators
owe it to their own States and to the
Nation to investigate one who comes
TO it with his certificate of election
so smeared with suspicion and tainted
with fraud, as charged by the press
and leaders of his own political faith,
and whose amended certificate put
him on the pay roll of the United
States Senate a full year before the
first day of the session to which he
was elected" he pointed out
President Coolidge's attitude came
In for criticism yesterday at the mass
meeting held at Calvary Baptist
Church, under the auspices of the
International Reform Federation and i
the United Committee.
"A President who can find no
stronger words to decline an assured |
denomination than L do not choose |
to rum capable of many construc- |
tions, is too negative to adopt an |
affirmative and positive policy of |
prohibition enforcement acceptable to |
the drys," Mr.. Howard declared.
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody of Boston, |
chairman of the Woman's National |
Committee for Law Enforcement, |
spoke on "The Supremacy of Law" |
while DR.. Canon Sheafe Chase of |
had as his topic ''The Men |
ace of Immoral Movies.
Mr.. Howard, speaking on "The |
Rock of the American Republic" and |
discussing 'the prevailing nullifica- |
ton of the eighteenth amendment"
said:
What the church lacks today is a |
commanding voice. The church has |
too few prophets and too much poll
tics. 1t speaks with apology instead
of authority. The country as well
as the Constitution would be bone
dry if the church were not SO polit-
ically wet.
Time Something Cracked"
''It is time that something cracked
in New York, where Tammany
politician is attempting to capitalize
his presidential ambition by preach
ing disloyalty to the Constitution; it
is time that something cracked in
Pennsylvania, where a gangster poll
iician is attempting to lift himself
by his own bootstraps from the
garbage can of Philadelphia's politi-
cal cesspool wards into the Senate
of the United States; it is time that
something cracked in Indiana, where
the last governor returns from the
Federal penitentiary to greet the
present governor, who is facing the
same way; it is time that something
cracked in Illinois, where the Supreme
Court of the State has ordered the
governor to return to the State over
100000: it is time that something
cracked at Washington, where a Re-
publican administration, representing
the churches of the North in politi
cal action, is allowing the enemies
of the Republic to fire on the flag
and bore bung holes in the Constitu-
ton and allow the rock of the Re.
public to leak rum like a gravel sieve
all over the Nation" Mr.. Howard
said.