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...front of Leader Curtis and is his Whip, Washington's Wesley L. Jones, expert on shipping and tending up to business. While a Moses smart-cracks and a Watson frowns or booms into space, while a Borah watches from on high and a Reed haggles and a Fess fusses, Senator Jones keeps his eyes upon and his nose in a mountain of work upon his desk, a mountain that does not consist of mouselike letters to or from constituents but of business of importance to the Appropriations and Commerce Committees and to the administration of the District of Columbia...
Moses, Good, Work, Smoot, Brookhart, Fess, Simmons, Johnson, Longworth, Wilbur, Jardine, Whiting, Sargent, both Cabinet Davises, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Senator-suspect Vare, the Rockefellers, 'Legger Remus...
...Republicans had been talking about the tariff. Nominee Curtis, Secretary Jardine, Senators Moses, Borah and Fess, Speaker Longworth, Under-Secretary Ogden Mills and many another had been saying and repeating what a dreadful thing it would be for the Democrats to obtain power, because they would lower the tariff. The tariff, thanks to Republican persistence, was beginning to loom with Prosperity as one of the campaign issues. National Chairman Work (Republican) drew National Chairman Raskob (Democrat) into a public tariff debate, in the course of which Mr. Raskob promised to resign if it could be shown that Nominee Smith...
...Sept. 24 issue of your magazine, the article does not state to which party Senator Fess refers when he says, "This is the first time in history during a national political campaign that we have on one side all of the loose element of morals . . ." but in view of past events, I take it to be the Republican Party...
Subscriber Barron is ironic. It was the opponents of the Republican Party which Senator Fess said included all that was bad, adding that his party had "the highest and best of morals...