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Show THE CITIZEN 4 world outside of the United States and of the gigantic task before the American people to meet the interest and pay the principal on a debt contracted by the Democratic administration during the war. The Republicans voted for every appropriation, being determined that nothing should be denied to the administration that it thought necessary to win the war, said the senator, but we were determined that there should be an accounting. We are just as determined now to get that accounting and we are going to get it. He pointed out that when, a year or more ago, he had forecast the annual expenditure at $3,500,000,000, officials of the treasury department had denounced his figures as preposterous, and, yet the various departments had made estimates for the coming fiscal year of $5,200,000,000. When, therefore, the senator declared that reorganization of the government would save $300,000,000 a year, his audience was impressed, for they saw that every possible means of saving must be adopted by the government to keep taxes down to an endurable level. Before the war the senators thought that 36,000 employes in Washington were more than enough. Now there are more than 100,000. Senator Smoot said that 70,000 of these were school girls working as stenographers and clerks, getting more pay in' many instances than the veteran mail carriers who wear out their lives in extremes of cold and heat and inclement weather for mere pittances. And, in the opinion of the senator, most of these girls are unnecessary and are simply a handicap on those who understand their work and try to do it. He pictured an intolerable condition of bureaucratic favoritism and tyranny. In all the departments there are chief clerks whose province it is to recommend these girls for promotion and he declared that the promotions were made without any reference to ability or industry. That is a system, he declared, which we intended to blot out. Those chief clerks and their system must go. In view of the collapse of administrative work at Washington, admitted by cabinet officers who have resigned and even by Mr. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee for vice president, the Democrats exulted prematurely at San Francisco. Moreover, they conveniently forgot the extraordinary waste, already uncovered, which has created that burden of debt which Senator Smoot pictured in such dismaying colors. For example, a billion dollars was expended on aviation and yet not one American fighting plane arrived at the front for service against the enemy. Here was a billion dollars wasted and the debt piled on the shoulders of the American people with interest. Senator Smoot has made Democratic administrative failure one of the chief issues of the campaign and the conclusion of the voters, we believe, will be that the only remedy is the transfer of government into the hands of the Republican party. PALMERS SLUSH FUND Once the Democratic party extolled itself as the party that And even so short a time ago placed the man above the dollar. as the San Francisco convention the party leaders were heard to mumble the well-wor- n phrases of pretended virtue. They did not hesitate to point the finger of scorn at the primaries which preceded the Chicago conclave and which brought into notoriety the propaganda funds of Wood and Lowden. The Democrats were inclined to flatter themselves that their candidates were immune from the vice into which some of the Republican candidates had fallen. But the testimony before the senate investigating committee shows that Democrats were the worst offenders. Women witnesses testified that they, acting in the guise of government agents, circulated propaganda for A. Mitchell Palmer. One of the women saw no wrong in what she had done. She vowed by all that was holy that she earned her money as an employe of the fair price commission when she went to Republican, as well as Democratic conventions, and talked of what a magnificent president Mr. Palmer would make. Had she not advocated the cause t j A of fair prices and had she not assured her hearers that prices . be reduced if Mr. Palmer were chosen president? At the worst Governor Lowden used his own money and i eral Wood used the money of his rich friends, but the DemoctJ c candidates squandered the governments money to inflate booms. hrev General malefactor. Palmer was the not Attorney , only it may not be said that McAdoo was to blame for the msus government positions to advance his political interests, he it have known that from one end of the country to the other dreds of thousands of government employes were at work for lj. The government paid them and they used the governments tiniH- promote the candidacy of Mr. McAdoo. He may escape censure. the ground that he did not seek the position, but the federal ring oQf.1 1 not escape. That he never protested he may explain by saying one who was not a candidate had no right to assume that anyone his befialf or, by saying that, if they were working in working-ibehalf, it was not up to him, a personage, to interferrar official governmental affairs. Let that go. There is no need of convicting McAdoo. vho offense existed even though his skirts were clear. Government maan was wasted by thousands of officials and employes who backed !n Adoo to win and hoped to profit by his victory. President Cleveland, when he was in office, denounced such c duct as offensive partisanship and forbade it. Under Presid V Wilsons regime the greatest federal machine that ever existed 'j been operated in the interests of a partisanship, not only offens:nelis . fn n non-offici- al but corrupt. Hardly are laws found to deal with political vices than tlf vices take on new phases that escape the laws application. thought that we had devised adequate means of preventing corrfee tion in primary and election campaigns. We discover that our lf0(J efforts have fallen short of our hopes. j In these luxurious times, when politicians as well as others, in millions whereas once they thought in thousands, the use of mr. ; in politics assumes unexpectedly ugly aspects. But there is no son to be discouraged. In meeting each crisis public opinion cor first ; laws follow. Even now public opinion is dealing with the crHe by defeating those candidates who spent their own, their frier, or the governments money by the millions to crown their polit:ambitions with success. - x x x bru we Ger x UTAHS RED CHAMPION 191 One of the first defenders of the I. W. W., was the proud conferred upon Parley P. Christensen of Salt Lake, who has br-ity nominated for president by the Farmer-Labo- r party. At home t . a disgruntled politician disguised the fame which brought him dubi pea honor at Chicago and which compelled him to step into the natio:evJ spotlight. Here he was a silent defender of the faith of these mini' of anarchy, sloth and theft. He shrank from the publicity which.sta Chicago, caused him to purr like a giant cat before the fire. cnj Not all of us knew that Parley P. Christensen was so faniolea that the advocates of violence, the insulters of the American ftma the preachers of social hate, the sans cullotte eager to (No their hands in the blood of those who would shield their goverfor ment, their property, their homes and their loved ones from leprosy of this latest degeneracy, looked upon him as their chain They did not know that he aspired to fame as the defender of'ne gang of thugs beside whom the Apaches of Paris and the guuftful of New York are fit to stand with haloes encircling their onc-ir.- ' brows. wc Wherever decent and honorable men are respected the I. W.wc tj ! t(- pi-'or- ! J i are despised. Wherever virtue and honesty and loving-kindnearol held in esteem the I. W. W. are looked upon as occupying a pbWi in the social scale below the libertine and the thief. There are e::c lai tions, no doubt, in the ranks of the I. W. W. men so ignorant tb.th cannot sec, men so devoid of intellect that they cannot think straif til ss |