Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-05 | Page 4 | Political Scandals

I POLITICAL SCANDALS. Ever1- national convention of the Republican party has its scandal scan-dal from the Southern states. In 1912, when Roosevelt was driven, out of the party, the Southern block of votes gave the Standpatters ' the required strength to work their will, the effects of which kept , the Republicans out of office eight years. ' Now the "Wood campaign is identified with this purchasable j element in the South, and Wood's manager is complaining that "steam roller" methods are being employed by the Republican national na-tional committee to divorce the delegates from Dixie and give them to some other candidate than General "Wood. It would be better for the party if Southern representation were reduced to a minimum. No Southern states, with the exception of ! West Virginia and Kentucky and they are on the dividing line aelp to elect Republican presidents. When a Republican goes into the "White House, he does so with the support of New York, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Ohio, Illinois and other great northern states. The South I has never helped to the extent of being necessary to Republican suc-I suc-I cess and, therefore, the South should not determine 'who the candi-I candi-I dates shall be. I Southern delegates always have invited the expenditure of money I and generally the candidate with the largest slush fund has come up from Alabama, Georgia,. Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and the Caro- linas with the majority of the votes in his vest pocket. This does not I make for clean politics or good government.