Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-10-19

dent, perhaps If you were to hear the
considerations which determined me to
this conclusion you might agree with my
point OF view
HE said: oh, no. | would not By this
time the paper was finished and he pushed
it over toward my position near the desk.
Compelled to notice his continued dis
pleasure, said, Well now, Mr. President,
you and are the only men in the world
who know that paper has been signed.
Just destroy it. do not want TO be unfair
or dishonorable with you. Just destroy it,
He said: oh, no. | won't do that. had
no present intention or thought of using
it at ALL My only idea was that il a
separation became necessary between US
II might be accomplished more pleasantly
in this way
The President did not send Mr.. Lewis
name TO the Senate for confirmation and
consequently his recess appointment ex-
PRED March a. 1924. when Congress ad-
| j0urned.
The best proof of the utter neglect of
the Tariff Commission by the Republican
Administration is that under pretense of
economy their appropriations were re-
duced to point where they were COM
PEELED to stop great many of their studies.
hhS NSPuohSdil party 81 successfully
buried every hope offered by the Tariff
Commission recommended by their own
President Taft that the Republican plat
form Of 1928 contains not one single word
about the Tariff Commission. From Re-
publican point of view it is dead and
gone and it would be interesting to ask
the Republican candidate if he views that
performance with satisfaction. In his
speech OF acceptance he makes no men,
ton OF it, Is that performance on the
part OF the Republican party part of the
record OF the last seven and half years
that he praises and looks back upon with
great satisfaction? Nobody can answer
that but himself. 1t will not do to pass that
on to DR.. Work OR Secretary Jardine.
Runnlngtrue TO form, the Republican party
in the present campaign is grossly mis-
representing the Democratic attitude to
the question of tariff. | predicted that
there would be an attempt made to distort
my attitude. and have lived to see the
prediction realized. In the course of one
OF his speeches the Secretary of Aericul-
ture, Mr.. Jardine. is reported in the press
| to have said:
IF Governor Smith is elected and tariff
rates are reduced to the schedules of the
Underwood act as the Governor forecasts
in his speech of acceptance, the entire
farm industry will be thrown into state
Of utter Generalization. In his speech
accepting the Democratic nomination, Mr..
Smith spoke of the Underwood act as a
measure embodying all that is best in
tariff principles"
In making that statement the Secretary
of Agriculture deliberately and wifully
misrepresented my views to the American
people. challenge him or any other
member of his party to point to anything
said in my speech Of acceptance that
would in any way warrant the statements
attributed to me by Mr.. Jardine. made
no mention of the approval of the Under
wood act and at no time did forecast the
reduction of tariff rates to the schedules
Of the Underwood act said absolutely
nothing that would suggest even an in
ference by any one to that effect, unless
1t be by person who was deliberately
seeking to put me in a false position for
the purpose of misleading the people.
The trouble with Secretary Jardine is
that he is not very careful man and does
not seem to be very particular about what
is said or done by himself or his subordi-
mates. II he had been little more careful,
II he had paid more attention to the duties of
|
brought about such as resulted from a
cotton price prediction issued by the Blu
reau of Agricultural Economics on Sep
TENDER is. 1927.
The prediction from his department that
the price Of cotton was likely to decline
was found by the Senate committee which
investigated the subject to be mainly
responsible for the breaking of the market
at the time and made it extremely easy
for those who were organized and ready
to realize and profit by this break to take
advantage of the situation to press the
market to the disastrous low level that it
reached" Secretary Jatdines department
was directly responsible for great financial
loss to the cotton growers of the South.
The carelessness which permitted such a
situation is reflected in his comment upon
my speech of acceptance
In my speech at Omaha on the farm
problem in order to curb misrepresenta-
ton wrote out prescription and read
1t to the American people and placed it
on file in the newspaper offices so that
there would be no opportunity for Secre
tary Jardine, Chairman Work or any other
individual to get in any of his fine work
OF Misrepresentation.