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Show L 1 I 7 SMOOT BOOMED 41 FOR CHAIRMAN i! M New York Herald Says: n I Utahn Fitted to Succeed J I Penrose A VSIIINGTON. Jan. 4. Senator I 1 Reed smoot of Utah is the one mem-1 4rMI ber of tho finance comnuttfc Pro"! eminently qualified to succeed Boles I Jvnrose"as chairman of the flnan.- 1" committee an.i Is being boomed Co , position bv tUe New York Her-( cUd It Is underMoo.J that the sen-1 j.-.-. however, will adhero to custom mid promote to the chairmanship Ben-! iur McCumber of North Dakota, the i nklng member. senator Smoot is. St In line after McCumber on the seniority lift. Tn an editorial the Herald Her-ald says in part: "The death of Boles IVnro" again raises the grave issue of promotion by seniority to chairmanship. 'It Is bad enough for a man of les-1 eer capacity, breadth of view ami .-rrength to outrank abler and strong' n men of clearer and wider vision, slm- pl by virtue of having service senior-1 n . over them In any house or annate ommlttee, whatever Its consequence In I the affairs "f the country. For such thing to b pos8lbl" on the commit-1 i-e. which Is the greatest of all the ommlltees In the senate, If not in the; vholo United States congress, and - .ose chairman Is the hardest worked , among all the senate members carries the heaviest responsibility and should ) now more than anj other member j about the industries, the business, the oriomlc conditions the country' ovcr i- abhorrent to plain M-nse and might the cause of national disaster. sMoOT BEST QUALIFIED. "Senator McCumber lias been very largely active in and devoted to special! I areata tnd localities represent 'r-g a . parsi portion of thf 110,000.000 1 )oplj and a minute fraction of the' Mupendoue Industry and wealth of the country Senator McCumlxr has been j 3 romlnently Identified with the regret-1 do agricultural bloc Senator McCumber, Mc-Cumber, furthermore, wfiatevei his rational attainments and merits, is noti : leader among the economic author-' Kies, tli' financial geniuses and the In tellectual guides of tb senate if any! .jn In the senate i first .ind foremost in respect of all these qualities and : allocations he La distinctly and Indubitably In-dubitably Senator .Heed Smoot. Heed Snioot's state is L tab, but his i onomlc point of view Is universal d his economic work an a senator ' iid a citizen is. 100 p r ni national t : every test of what the senati committee com-mittee on finance requires in the way of knowledge, capacitj and general fitness in its chairman, Senator Smoot '3s the single, shining member to be iaelocted. By every teat pf what the i ountry needs in tbo head of that uroat and powerful commii he d - serves to be b l cted B; ! test ol I political Judgment hi; ought to be se-ll lected. M i l) MAX I.1KF sMOOT. "The business Interests of the- conn- f I try In such an Industrial crisis us this H not going to l .iii-Mjd with anv-l iliing less than the capacity and gen-jB oral fitness of a Smoot when he is V . . ilablo for the high and important i j'os of nalrm m of tie .--iiat- eoni- BB mlttee on finance. The political pos- V nbllltlea of a failure to put at the head of the committee the one man whom the national situation calls for, are j not to be Ignored V "There la an already large and rap- HjK Idly growing sentiment among the M business communities of the east and m- 'north that If the economic issue? of H day, from taxes to tariff duties and from industries to pay envelopes, go on being neglected or mismanaged in the legislative halls of the nation, they would rather th mlschiel SI none by Denrocratlt handi than by Republican hands. On the record, as i Jt stands nOw, then .ire thouaanda of Republicans In every Industrial and fi- Kt 'nanclal center of the east, and middle W est who are read;-. iere is Kl .in Immediate ar.u decided chang) li B congressional policies and achieve-; sL menta, to vote Novembei for H Democratic candidates for the house HH of representatives and for the senate J PRECEDENT IN HOI SI . Bl "If the Democrat'c party wins the BSH house next, autumn, the administration Kl of President Harding' will be effec- H lively blocked in carrying out its pro- 9 gram and completing! the splendid H work it already has accomplished to flB put the government on a business H l.asls, and get tho country back to il normal thinking, doing and Ihing. So fl the selection of thf right chairman for HH the senate committee on finance I a Npfl Krave matter for the Harding ndmin- BH iatratlon In tho immediate future and EH for the nation in the longer future, There is no more justification for M iliiKing to the antiquated :ind .lis-' ' eredited custom of seniority chair-1 .manshlps in the senate than there was Kl In respect of the committee of appro-! gX priatlpns in tho house In this latter! Km body tho seniority tradition was re-1 mgM ' ently discarded and the practice BSJ smashed when Mr. Madden was prop-1 Bl -rly elevated from the junior ranks of! the committee on appropriations to the chairmanship over the head of his seniors In service. Tho same thing should be done In the senate, whore there la every reason why Smoot should go to the top." oo |