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THE ATLANTIA N
September, 1922
VIRLYN B. MOORE
Candidate for Re-Election
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
I Will Appreciate Your Vote and Influence
Hughes’ Fee for Newberry
Case.
While Chairman Hull’s statement
charged that the Republicans were at
tempting to distract the attention
from the tariff, the industrial panic
of 1921-22 and the demoralized state
of business and industry, by the dis
cussion of the Newberry case, helped
by Mr. Hughes’ respectability, it is
also a fact that Secretary Hughes’ de
fense was made necessary by the pop
ular revolt against Newberryism
throughout the United States. Wher
ever the Republicans have turned, they
have been faced with this issue, and
it was with the hope of minimizing
it that the former Justice of the Su
preme Court was selected to do what
the World calls “the dirtiest day’s
work of his life.”
Mr. Hughes, it will be remembered,
was Senator Newberry’s attorney be
fore the Supreme Court of the United
States. He received a large fee for
his services. Common repdrt places
it as high as $10,000, or half as much
as Newberry admitted had been spent
previously in his contest. Perhaps if
the exact figure were known it might
help further to explain why Mr.
Hughes was willing to use the great
office of Secretary of State for par
tisan political purposes to defend an
ex-client, who, while escaping legal
punishment, has been morally convict
ed in the court of public opinion.
Even the Senators who voted to re
tain Senator Newberry in his seat
voted at the same time for a resolu
tion which solemnly declared that
“the expenditure of such excessive
sums in behalf of a candidate, either
with or without his knowledge and
consent, being contrary to sound pub
lic policy, harmful to the honor and
dignity of the Senate, and dangerous
to the perpetuity of free government,
such excessive expenditures are here
by condemned and disapproved.”
As Chairman Hull pointed out, how
ever, Mr. Hughes in his defense of
Senator Newberry neither condemned
nor disapproved of these expendi
tures.
LET “PAT DO IT”
510 Courtland St.
President Harding Aban
dons Leadership on Ship
Subsidy Bill.
When President Harding decided to
become the leader of his party in fact
as well as in name in matters of leg
islation he voluntarily elected to test
his leadership on the Ship Subsidy
bill, or Ship Bonus, as it is called. TJie
statement was then made in his name
that if the Congress adjourned with
out passing the bill he would call it
back in special session. His consent
to the postponement of the Ship Sub
sidy bill until the regular session in
December is an abandonment of his
leadership and a surrender to the fears
of the Republican members of Con
gress who are running for re-election.
The refusal of the Ohio Republicans
even to mention the Ship Subsidy bill
in their state platform, notwithstand
ing the President’s request for an in
dorsement, indicates the extent of the
Republican fear that the enactment of
this scheme for dissipating the peo
ple’s millions would add one more to
their chances for defeat in November.
The Presidential consent to delay
the bill comes apparently as a result
of the pressure which the Republicans
of the House of Representatives have
brought to bear on Mr. Harding.
In the course of President Harding’s
letter to Majority Leader Mondell, of
the House, there is revealed the sit
uation which confronted him and com
pelled him to yield in the face of the
seeming disinclination of the Repub
lican Congressmen to sacrifice their
hopes of election by passing the bill
before November 7.
“I had much rather the bill should
await consideration until we can rivet
the attention of Congress with a full
attendance than jeopardize its success
by pressing for an immediate decis
ion,” wrote Mr. Harding to Majority
Leader Mondell.
It has become pretty evident that
the Republican Representatives and
Senators who are seeking election
have been badly frightened by the
popular reaction against the Fordney-
McCumber Profiteers’ Tariff bill and
the muddling of legislation generally.
These Congressmen have shown a dis
position to revolt rather than further
inflame public indignation by practi
cally making a present of the people's
merchant marine to a clique of pow
erful corporations.
Behind the Mirrors.
(Copyright, G. P. Putnam’s Sons.)
Johnson.
Hiram Johnson is a declining fig
ure. The test of his sincerity came
when the vote was reached, on the
unseating of Senator Newberry for
spending too much money in the Mich
igan primaries.
Johnson’s great issue a year before
has been sanctity of popular nomina
tions. Yet when he had an opportuni
ty to speak and act against a brazen,
even though foolish, attempt to buy a
nomination, he was rushing across the
continent—arriving after the vote had
been taken.
The absence from the roll call and
the theatrical attempt to make it ap
pear accidental was typical. Johnson
had won the Michigan primaries in
the national campaign of 1920. The
delegates were in control of Newber
ry’s political friends. They remained
firm for Johnson throughout the bal
loting. Johnson avoided voting against
their leader, although his principles
required that he should lead the fight
for his unseating.
“Of course you share your hus
band’s sorrows?”
“Well, his sorrows he brings home,
but his joys he celebrates down town.”
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