National Affairs: Progressives Flayed

The leading article in the April American Mercury was a bitter denunciation of the "Progressives" of the Senate written by a person who, to insure his future comfort in Washington, D. C., signed himself simply "A Washington Correspondent."

Excerpts from the article:

"With the exception of Norris of Nebraska, now dejected and despondent over the hopelessness of his long struggle, and Tom Walsh of Montana, an able man but always vain and sometimes sentimental, the so-called Progressives in the United States Senate are a sorry bunch of weaklings and timeservers. The Liberals of America...

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