SENATOR WALSH FLAYS ARTICLE BY G. O. P. AGENT
SENATOR WALSH FLAYS ARTICLE BY G.O.P. AGENT Writes Letter Branding Editorial in Havre Paper as Assault on All Progressives [Special to The Progressive] BUTTE, Mont.—A stinging reply by Senator...
...They have found fault and picked flaws until most of us are weary and anxious for public leadeis who will work together to accomplish things, instead of spending their time in trying to keep someone else from doing anything...
...There certainly are going to oe protest votes in this state also against the continuation of the present situation in he upper house at Washington...
...He only lacked 48 of carrying the city...
...The coalition which is in power has confined itself to attempts to defeat and block every policy of a constructive nature put into execution by the President...
...Montana has contributed to the co alition crowd in the senate which ha:~ occupied itself in scandal mongering and fault finding...
...Naturally enough local conditions and issues have a large part In the defeats sustained by sitting members of the Senate, but the widespread dissatisfaction of the voters of the two parties with the members of the Senate coming up for re-election must have some common element...
...the continual backbiting and quarreling among the Senators...
...Current comment furnishes a clew to the cause that is operating to make senatorial re-election more difficult than usual...
...The results in the House have not been along similar lines...
...The editorial furnishes a splendid occasion for the exploitation of the incidents of the administration thus far referred to...
...When the general election passes on the claims of the Senatorial candidates for re-elections, it is altogether probable that there will be still further casualties among the members of that august body...
...The unusual situation is not confined to one party, but has had its notable effect in both of the major political organizations...
...Walsh in Reply Replying to this editorial, Senator Walsh sent the following letter to Herbert M. Peet of the Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, Montana: Our friend Devlin of Havre called my attention to an editorial in the Havre Daily News, evidently a product of Brooks...
...That line of argument might be followed by a request for a specification...
...The long delays in the processes of legislation...
...18;— It was a fine victory for The Progressive last Tuesday...
...A Critical Editorial The editorial, which recently appeared in the Havre Daily News under the heading "Changes in the Senate, ' follow : "As the primaries take place in the various i states of the Union, the roll of the Senators who are being retired from public life continues to grow...
...Cordially yours, Thomas J. Walsh...
...The percentage of Hou.>e members being retired is not nearly so large...
...Whether the implied criticLsm included the refusal to go along with him in his opposition to the debenture plan of farm relief, or in his opposition to and veto of the veterans' relief bill...
...all of these things have been carried to such lengths as to bore and dicgust the people of the nation...
...The attitude of the voters toward the Senate then must have something in it that is different from the feeling toward the lower House...
...whether the criticism includes censure for bringing to light the misappropriation by his friend and personal choice, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, of funds entrusted to him and the application of such to his stock-pobblng transactions...
...Progressives carried Janes-ville, the first time In history, and renominated Slagg for assembly...
...There will be one of the most sweeping realignments in the Senate next year ever known...
...It seems to me it can be well turned by suggesting that it is an assault on the Progressive republicans in the Senate, on Borah, Norris, La Follette, Blaine, McMaster, Cutting and the rest rather than on the Democrats, or at laast as much on the group referred to, constituting one-fourth of the Republican membership of the Senate...
...x A FINE VICTORY [Janesville, Wis., Sept...
...The reaction of the public in other states to senatorial candidates has for that reason n.uch interest to us out here...
...It might be inquired whether fault is found with the opposition of the Montana Senators to the President's conservation policy by which the oil and gas development in Montana was held up so far as the public lands are involved...
...AGENT Writes Letter Branding Editorial in Havre Paper as Assault on All Progressives [Special to The Progressive] BUTTE, Mont.—A stinging reply by Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana to an editorial written by Harry Brooks, publicity man for the Republican committee of this state, in the Havre Daily News, has just been made public here...
...the general distrust and abuse of every man of prominence in the business world...
...Every constructive measure which is started, particularly if it is sponsored by the President of the United States, immediately becomes the target lot the carping criticisms of the Senators...
...I am very happy over the victory.—Will M. Cowles...
...the eager search for flaws in the record of every outstanding executive officer...
...In a letter addressed to Herbert M. Peet of the Great Falls Tribune, a progressive paper, Senator Walsh terms the Brooks editorial as an attack on all Progressive Republicans in the Senate, including Senators Borah, Norris, La Follette, Blaine, and others...
...There is to be heard on every hand sharp criticism of the Senate...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 43
