The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-12-27
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we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes hippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

SO, Mr.. Grundy is In the senate
He is full-fedged United States
senator and no less. This is gall and
wormwood to great many persons,
while to others it has it's humorous
aspect as we'll as a ridiculous one.
Grundy told the senate lobby COM
mittee, which will now have to be nice
to him and say, Good morning, Mr..
Senator" story that contained little
if anything new. He told them what
everyone knew.
Grundy made no bones about saying
that he had raised lot of campaign
money and that a good deal of it has
gone into the national party chest.
Grundy said he got this money from
big business concerns and that those
concerns got what they paid for.
Whereat a lot of dear brothers, in
congress and out of it, got all fius-
tered and boiled over in the public
prints.
The welkin rang, the back stairs
quivered and it was one most un-
pleasant day.
Grundy had not told anyone sin
gle secret. What he had done was to
tell boldly in public, what everybody
privately knew. He made front page
stuff out of what was supposed to be
confined only to Conferences" That's
why the terrible burst of righteous
Indignation.
The lobby committee set out to
make a show of Grundy and Grundy
took over the show, lock, stock and
barrel; body, boots, breeches and
small change. He said, Sure, we did
it; we got the money, we won and we
have got our moneys worth"
That was all in the record long ago,
but nobody ever thought of making it
a virtue until Grundy came along.
Grundy has the firm idea that big
business has right to go out and try
to buy what it wants. He probably
honestly believes that is the right
idea. He makes no pretense about it.
He doesn't call it wrong; he doesn't
go sneaking onto the witness stand to
do anything out of the way. His idea
is that since it was the thing to do,
then it's something to boast about.
Well, that was all contrary to what
was expected and so it was shock.
So Indignation had to be registered.
Some witnesses have taken the
stand and submitted to everything
from insult up and down. The worst
thing he had done was to agree with
another outfit that he would go with
them for tariff if they would give him
chance to sell his product.
The senators made woeful howl
about trading" And have senators
never traded? But when Grundy
came along he simply refused to be
typical witness.
And for that they put him in the
senate and the senate seated him!
Piloried as the arch-lobbyist of
them all, howled at, growled at and
branded; appointed by a governor
whose expenditures for election made
Ware seem a piker, Grundy is in the
senate where he will stand consisten
w, openly and no doubt proudly for all
ne legislation that big business
wants, while among his critics will be
many who will only now and then give
big business its desires and who will
aften dicker and trade and pair them
selves out of tight places.
That Grundy doesn't and cannot
represent the masses of the people of
Pennsylvania nobody can pretend.
The senate wouldn't even consider the
claims of the man who did represent
the masses of the people. After all,
when it took Grundy to its puzzled