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Show REED OF MISSOURI ONCE more it is Reed of Missouri who is found opposing the President, Presi-dent, blocking urgent war legislation, appealing to class passion, assailing character, impugning motives. Reed of Missouri, attacking Hoover, is running run-ning true to form. Reed of Missouri, fighting government food control, is consistently against the administration and consistently on the side of hidden privilege. Reed of Missouri, whether representing the worst in politics and corporation interests in Kansas City or lining up with the war profiteers in the senate, is Reed of Missouri all the time. Before he was Reed of Missouri and gave the state unenviable notoriety in the senate he was Reed of Kansas City and was different in no material respect re-spect except as regarded the extent of his capacity for harm. In Kansas City he was always to be found on the side of the anti-public forces. He had and has a natural predilection for the malign ma-lign and the darksome in politice and attorneyism. He consorted and consorts con-sorts by preference with those who work under cover. He hated and hates the light and men who do things in the light. Reed of Kansas City was known here for exactly what Reed of Missouri is coming to be known in the senate and in the country. Those who best knew Reed of Kansas City can understand his personal animus ani-mus to Hoover. Hoover is a successful man, a man who has accomplished big things in a big way. He works without pay for the joy and pride of public service. ser-vice. He despises politics and politicians, politi-cians, ignores them, knows no fear of them and goes on his way as though they were not. Reed of Missouri has an instinctive dislike and an instinctive instinct-ive fear of such a man. He knows that it is men like Hoover who are making difficult the way of men like Reed. They are extremes which can never be made to meet. One is of the sunlight, the other of the dark. One is a business man whose fine accomplishment has been hailed by two continents, the other an attorney politician who never did a constructive thing in his whole career. Reed of Missouri barking at Hoover's Hoov-er's heels is the same Reed of Missouri who has displayed a mean and vindictive vindic-tive jealousy of President Wilson ever since the Baltimore convention. Reed's instinct did not mislead him there, either. The President is not his sort and Reed knows it. Kansas City Star. |
