Evening star., 1929-12-14
Constitutional Questions
Holly Debated i'm Ware Case

and other Offices, excusing themselves
to themselves. This tendency can BE-
held in check only by eternal vigilance
and by making examples of fragrant
offenders"
Approval of the Senate's action on
the ground of political corruption is
given by the Savannah Press Demo-
cratic), st. Louis PoSt-Dispatch Gnde-
pendenD, Columbus Evening Dispatch
independently, Milwaukee Journal (in-
dependenD, Topeka Daily Capital IRE
publlcan), Columbus Ohio State Jour-
nal (Republican) and Scranton Times
! (Democratic). The Birmingham News
tDemocratic) holds that the action was
justified. The Houston Chronicle (Dem-
ocratlc) suggests that "NeWberry was a
plSer compared with Ware" and the
Great Falls Tribune independent DEM
ocratic) voices the conviction that his
close afi1liation with corrupt political
machine in Philadelphia was not rel
lShed by the country at large"
The Omaha World Herald Onde-
pendent) feels the Nation as a whole
should stand behind the Senate be-
cause while it may be able, when the
recurring scandals become too notorious
TO ignore, to protect itself from the con-
tamination. But only whole people,
aroused to a realization of the grisly
menace, can save the democracy which
is their birthright"
THE result of Vare's failure to obtain
admission to the Senate" according to
the Roanoke Times independent Demo-
cratic), puts the country definitely on
notice that it cannot send politicians TO
Washington whose credentials are
tainted and hope to have those creden-
tialS honored. That 25 Senators be-
longing to Vare's own party broke away
and voted with the Democrats to keep
him out is significant of the feeling in
the Senate about the necessity of put
ting limit to the lengths to which
senatorial aspirantS may CO."
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"The Ware gang made the election a
sham, a farce and a national scandal"
as viewed by the Portland Oregon
Journal independently, while the Santa
Barbara Daily News (Democrattc) con-
cludes that possibly the men who be-
lieVe in golden pavement OF the path
to the Senate soon will revise their
views on this matter or at least change
their methods"
Many others, while making no de-
Tense of corruption, feel the Senate's
action unjustified.
Protests against the action Of the
Senate, on the ground that it is an at
tack on the State itself or that 1t estab-
fishes dangerous precedent, are uttered
by the Harrisburg Telegraph Cnde-
pendent Republican,, Providence Bull
letin independently, Erie Dispatch Her
aid (Republican), Cincinnati Times
Star (Republican) and Allentown Call
(non-partisan).
Regretting that "a States certificate
Of election has been dishonored and the
Senate has assumed the authority to
say how a sovereign commonwealth
shall choose its representatives in the
Congress-" the Charleston Evening Post
independent Democratic) states that
the case "ought to have been disposed
of in three hours by acceptance of the
certificate and seating of Ware" and
then 1.-The question of his moral fitness
might have been raised"
The New York Sun independent
quotes an imaginary dispatch, forecast
ing events of the future and dated in
1887. in these words: THE United
States Senate, reduced to triumvirate
composed of Senators Brookhart, BleaSe
and Hefiin, by successive reflections of
Senators elected by the several States,
today voted against recognition Of Vice
President Bleeker as presiding ot1cer of
the Senate. He is not acceptable to us,
said an official spokesman for the Sem
ate" "