Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-09-04
The Truth At Last.

Editorial in the Baltimore Sun.
Evidence before the Nye Investigating
Committee has removed some more of the
gloss from the Hoover campaign OF 1928.
II has made abundantly clear that at
time when the present occupant Of the
White House was mouthing meaningless
phrases about religious tolerance. his mana
gers were actively fomentIng a religious
revolt against Mr.. Hoover's Democratic
opponent and were arranging by devious
means to provide funds to give that revolt
increased effect.
The public now knows what every sensi-
bic man suspected at the time-namely
that the Hoover campaign was tainted
with the poison Of a religious vendetta more
bitter and more ignominious than any which
ever diseraced American politics. The
Republican candidate may not have known
the intimate details Of the secret Cannon
Good Slemp arrangement. but he could have
known and he would have known had he had
any desire to clothe his professions about
tolerence with the reality of practice. He
could have stopped the whole miserable
business with word. but he shut himself in
his ivory tower and let the traffic between
his party and bieoted group Of church.
men 60 on. Ignorance is a poor defense in
such case.
The testimony before the Nye committee
has also made it abundantly clear that in
handling the funds this traffic brought into
his custody, Bishop Cannon resorted to such
political pettifogging as enabled him to
obscure completely the precise uses to
which he turned the money. This church.
man. who professed to be in politics in the
interest OF the higher morality, did not
handle his accounts in the open and. above
board manner which his professions Of
purity seemed to require. Instead. as Sena-
tor Nye pointed out. he created such "laby-
rinth" Of transactions as to make il we'll
nigh impossible for an accountant to ascer-
tain how and for what he paid money out.
The ward politician. with few thousan ds
to use discreetly on election day. could not
have covered up his tracks more effectively
than this dignitary OF a great church.
The details Of these miserable transactions
which help ID to give Mr.. Hoover the cleo
toral vote Of Ave Soul hern States are ancient
history. Their disclosure serves, however.
to emphasize the need for more rigorous
Investigation Of campaign finance while
the campaigns are in progress Here was
q case in which a great political party
deliberately misrepresented its course In a
bitter partisan campaign. The voters ought
TO have been apprised OF the misrepresen-
tation while the campaign was in progress.
They ought to have had an opportunity
to know about the secret alliance between
ME-. Hoover's managers and the Cannon
group OF political parsons who were whoop-
ing ii up for Hoover in the South They
ought to have known the manner in which
the Republican National Committee was
having money poured into the Golfers Of this
supposedly spontaneous Southern move
ment. With such knowledge the voters
could have judged that movement on il,
merits and not as it's sponsors painted il.
IL is too late to correct this omission a,
to the campaign Of 1928. but it is not too
late to provide for 1882. The belated dis
closures before the Nye committee consti
tute an unanswerabe argument for leeis
lation at the next Congress to turn III,
light on the campaign finance Of botl
parties In time to let the Votes know wha
they are doing on election day. We oueh
not TO have to wait until 1885 for a dis
closure OF the under-cover phases of the
next Presidential canvass.
Present and former Montgomery count,
All Agricultural Club members won prize,
totaline $549 with their cattle exhibits a
the annual fair at Cumberland last week
They captured 81 out Of q possible %
blue ribbons 10 the Jersey classes and u
out Of IL in the Holstein classes. Aubre,
Walters. Of Jamestown neiehborhood. wa,
awarded premiums on his Jerseys which
aggregated Sl79. and Stiles Brothers, Frank
George and John. Of near Derwood, tool
prizes in the same classes amounting e
Sl70. In the Holstein department. Walker
Brothers. Grover and Ralph. Of Gathers
burg. carried of $l95 in prizes, Will,
James Howes. Of Laytonsville, captured q
SIS premium. The Montgomery county
cattle shown numbered ~. 81 being Jer.
seys and IS Holsteins. there being three
carloads Of them. They will 90 to the
fairs at Hamburg, Pa; Timonium. Haeers.
town and Frederick.
Overruling demurrers filed by the defend.
ants in the suits Of DR.. Anna Bartsch Danne
Washington physician. against the county
commissioners Of this county. Judges Rober,
B. Peter and Arthur Willard Of the circuit
court have set the case for trial during the
November term Of the court The action
resulted from the widening Of the inter.
section Of Georgia avenue and the Coles.
vile pike in Silver Spring. the PLAINTIFF
alleging In their declaration that the counts
took the property without condemnation
procedure. The defendants had moved 10