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v Harrison, in Keynote, Declares Elimination of Corruption Is Aim of Democrats | i)eclares Special Privilege - Firmly Intrenched in G. 0. P. Return to Honesty Among Officials Is Rallying Cry of Democrats—Refers to Party as Taxpayer’s Protector. (Continued from First Page.) pesture or special privilege to wink o make this administration under- d and do "It is against this brutal thing that we will wage relentless war in this campaign. We will not pitch our camps nor stack our arms until the Alerican masses and honest business are freed from its strangle hoid. They v direct their poisonous gascs at us, but no camouflage can be con- trived that will give cover and pro- tection to the Pharisee. They car describe us as they may—hurling an- athemas will be futile—for these guarded posts of favoritsm will be taken, these fortresses of special priv- ilege and unjust power must fall. “Special Privilege for Few.” “In the guarded orchards of this ad- ministration the golden apples of special privilege have been gathered by the favored few. It is the guar- dian of every special interest. The mother never guarded her tendes young more zealously than has this administration watched over th needs of its petted and pampered puppets. “Not only in this administration but in the enactment of laws these terests come first. The adminis- tration’s late and lamented tax pro- posal was grown in the Mellon patches of special privilege. Its pro- pagation was a work of Republican art For a while it was thought to be a very beautiful, large, colorful and tuicy thing. It attracted unusual at- tention. The invited guests, a se- ccted few in number. smacked their lips in anticipation of the feast. But when it was examined and its parts a ted its rottenness was revealed No setting was ever more adroit staged than when this scheme of tax- ation first made its debut. It was hilled for passage at the psycho- ozical moment. The people were stooped under a heavy load of taxa- tion. For three long vears they had felt their country slipping through the results of a riotous and debauched administration. They had seen the ratural resources of this government dissipated, its charted courses aban- d leaders corrupted. They licy of passivity adding dis- abroad and bankruptey at Hits Mellon Plan, “Their hearts were heavy and their ts low. Any ray of hope that ht bring the slightest relief was elcomed. When the Secretary of the Treasury offered his plan and the President indorsed it the American ople did not stop to study nor tarry think. But reason follows hys- teria, and right ultimately triumphs “What is this melon that Mellon sought to cut? Tt would have given 1.200 of the 3.5 income taxpavers In America 51 per cent of the total Fadiet der its benign provisions an in- come of $5.000.000 was to receive a reduction of $1.331,832, while an in- come of $3,000 would have received only $5.75 reduction. Through its un- restricted earned-income provisions it would have opened an avenue of es- cape to every tax-dodging capitalist in Americ Says Caufe Is Just. “Written in the cold lines of that proposal was the inspiration of its author that the less exacted from the highly favored few and the more demanded from the less favored many, the greater the good to the common country, The champions of the proposal believe that prosperity should come the crumbs that fall from the s of the rich; that if you legis- solely make the well-to-do sperous their prosperity will seep rough upon those below. The Re- publican party is the ancient enemy of the income tax It is contrary to reactionary Republican doctrine and inimical to Republican practices. The in me tax was never intended to touch poverty. It exacts no settle- ments from bankrupt courts, fore- closes no mortgages and forces no sales. It is collected only where prosperity smiles and earnings abound. As a means of raising revenue it is one of our party’s priceless legacies, and as such it shall be neither weakened nor stroyed. “When the President and his Secre- tary of the Treasury, with all the hosts of selfish interests, charged on the battle front of the American Con- s in behalf of the Mellon plan, Democracy and Progressive Republi- canism stood firm. It was the same ancient contest. and for the same old cause. Under the leadership of Sim- mons in the Sepate and Garner in the House we triumphed, not because we were numerically strong, but because we were assuredly right. Through the Democratic law every taxpayer in America will get a 25 per cent reduc- tion this year. Charges Figures Juggled. “Every person who pays an income tax will be required to pay less in the future than in the past. And this Democratic legislation, against which all the agencies of this administra- tion have inveighed, will give a greater reduction in taxes than would have the Mellon plan to every person whose annual income amounts to less than $67.000 annually, “Out of the total of 3,585,985 income taxpavers in America’ 3,580,585 will receive a greater reduction in the Democratic plan than they would have received under the Melion plan. In the reduction of taxes the Democratic party sought greater re- ductions and _broader eliminations than did the Republican nominee or the Secretary of the Treasury. In the ‘administration’s mad efforts to forestall Democracy's desire to effect greater reductions than those recom- mended by the administration the Treasury Department juggled figures and deceived the public. Questions G. O. P. Purpose. “The administration said that the Treasury Department would only stand for a reduction of $390,000,000. The Democratic party gave them a reduction of $470,000,000. “The administration said that the tax on candies, checks, notes, auto- mobile parts, amusement places, drafts and soft drinks should remain. The Democratic party said those taxes must go. “The administration said that if we would increase taxes on 3,580,585 in- come taxpayers and reduce the taxes on 5400 it would release money for productive enterprises and increase the prosperity of all. The Democratic party answered that indubitable facts refuted such an argument. “It was not reasoning they sought nor facts they desired, but more spe- cial privileges to the favored few they craved. Sees More Lose Money. “In 1922, out of $2,879,000,000 assets listed for estate taxes, there were not found enough tax-free securities to cover funeral expenses. For the year 1921 the total net income returns from business amounted to $2,366,318,000, and only $47.000,000 of this amount was returned by individuals whose in- comes were in excess of $70,000 annu- ally. The Democratic plan for re- ducing all taxes, but reducing them equitably on the theory of ability to pay, will result in releasing. more money for investments in.productive enterprises than would have the Mel- lon plan. “The Republican nominee in reluc- tantly signing the measure declared for its immediate reform. What does he mean by reform? Does he propose 10 change the law by transferring the burdens carried by 5400 whose backs are broad to the three and one-half amillens whose backs are bowed? Does he propose to make up the re- duction on the 5,400 favored few by resurrecting the many nuisance taxes on the unfavored many? Is that his challenge? Then we accept it. Raises Tariff Issue. “With the promises of the 1920 campaign to reduce the cost of living resounding in our ears, the country beheld in the passage of the Ford- ney-McCumber tarift law the most flagrant repudiatio: of campaign nledges in all the history of political parties. It was a law that recked vith special favors. Every line in it idded to the living costs of the Amer- ican consumer. When the iniquitous schedule K of the Payne-Aldrich law was enacted, carrying an 11-cent duty a pound on raw wool, the whole country was aroused and drove the Taft administration from power. The deffat was decisive. Utah and Ver- mont were the sole Republican sur- vivors. But this same reactionary group, under the inspiration of repre sentatives of these twin states, ig- nored the facts of recent history and fastened upon the American people i tariff rate on raw wool of 31 cents a poupd. Tariff rates on countless other things were proportionately in- creased. Nothing escaped their dead- ly aim. In the framing of the law the time-honored Republican theory of equalizing the difference in cost at home and abroad was not consid- ered. * The only question asked, How much protection do you want? The so-called representatives of the peo- ple surrendered completely to the rep- Tesentatives of the predatory inter- ests and played with their masters the game of ‘tit for tat' to the be- trayal of the American consumer and the replenishment of the Republican exchequer. Says Hypocrisy Shown. “Not only did it additional burden upon the American masses, but it revealed the nation's hypocrisy toward war-torn Europe. We maintain highly organized and eficiently managed humanitarian or- ganizations to raise and distribute to the world’s oppressed. We sometimes invade the National Treasury gra- clously to give to the needy of foreign lands. America has never been un- mindful of any cry of distress that came to her from any part of the world. That is_the spirit of the American heart. Yet this reactionary Eroup that has brought ruin to the country and discredit to their party employed every means to check Eu- rope’'s rehabilitation and shackle her trade. Demanding payments on the one hand, they prevented them on the other. It was a policy that enriched the affiuent and impoverished the needy. It closed the markets to our farmers and lifted the prices of their purchases. It tightened the grip of the favored few and dampened the hopes of the struggling many. “The doctrine of equal rights to none apd special favors to some was never more firmly embedded than in the Fordney-McCumber tariff law. “As indefensible as are these two oftsprings of governmental forma- tion, they are not comparable to the administration’s ship subsidy pro- posal. Projected in the winter of 1932, following the chilling frosts of that November election, it planned with the aid of an army of lame ducks, repudiated at home and fondled at Washington, to make ‘a quick get- away. They sought to lay upon the American taxpayer an additional bur- den of $850.000,000_to subsidize the shipping _trust Your Democratic representatives in Congress, aided by the patriotic progressives, withstood their mad onslaughts, for three months held them at bay, and through a highly organized filibuster pre- vented the passage of the measure. Saysx G. O. P. Ignored Subsidy. “In_all the speeches delivered in the Cleveland convention or in the platform there adopted not a word was written nor a whisper uttered of the administration’s ship subsidy pro- posal. 1f that proposal had become a law the immediate appropriations to carry it into effect would have denied any reduction of taxes this year or in the immediate years to come. The Harding-Coolidge administration was willing to give millions to the ship- ping trust, but not one cent to the American soldier. ‘“The platform of the Republican party and the speech of the tem- porary chairman of the Republican convention proclaim the budget law as o Republican accomplishment—the disarmament conference, the reduc- tion of the number of government employes, the decreases in the amount of annual appropriations and the na- tional debt as Republican achieve- ments. It is regrettable that we can- not accord it this wild acclaim. “The budget law was urged at the instance of a Democratic President, and received the vote of every Demo- cratic representative. It was vetoed by the Democratic President only be- cause an unconstitutional provision was included. It was then passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Republican President in the proper and constitutional language sug- gested by the Democratic President in his veto message. Lauds Borak’s Part. “The disarmament conference was held, not because of a Republican ad- ministration, but in spite of the Re- publican administration. It was first suggested by a Democrat and urged by Democrats. The fight was renewed by Borah, a Republican, yes, but one who wisely declined to become asso- ciated with the bankrupt Republican bartnership in the coming campaign; one whose opposition to the reaction- ary control of his party has ever been constant and aggressive. Under his leadership and over the most unre- lenting opposition of the administra- tion the sentiment was crystallized, the law enforced and the disarma- ment conference called. “It is true that during the more than three years this administration has controlled the government the number of civil employes in the gov- ernment service and the annual ap- propriations have been reduced. Those reductions came, however, not be- cause of any Republican reforms. They were the natural reductions that flow frbm a readjustment of ab- normal conditions occasioned by the war. If we did not have bigger things to discuss, greater achieve- ments to proclaim, and higher pur- poses to anmounce, we might claim that in eighteen months of Demo- cratic administration _immediately following the war not only did we re- duce appropriations in larger amounts than ever did the Republican party, but we reduced the national debt by more than two and one-half billions of dollars and the number of civil em- ployes by 300,000. Cites Expenditure Records. “Amid all this deceptive cry of economy let it be remembered that this Republican party during its less than four years of control has ex- pended $9,592,000,000 more than did the Democratic administration during the whole five years immediately pre- ceding the war. “The American people have taken the measure of this administration. It may have been able to free itself from sectional idolatry and to have looked beyond the sky lines of New Bngland. It might have heard the groans of the distressed farmers of the west and sympathetically re- sponded. It might have sought mar- kets and removed the tarift jams in the-channels through which our sur- plus products move. It might have visualized world conditions and cour- ageously assumed the part befitting a great nation. It might have reduced living costs, redeemed nledges to the soldier, followed a definite domestic add $4,000.000,000 | ;o5ed and praising the exposure, they | their own program and adopted a broad and statesmanlike foreign policy, but, oven then, it would have availed it nothing with its carnival of corrup- tlon. - The least that the American people expect of their public servants is common honesty. They will fo give their passivity, overlook their indiscretions, and, too often, forget their impotency, but to them corrup- tion is inexcusabie, gratt is indefensible. Charges Corruption. “Pizarro and his adventurous band. as they set their faces toward the golden west. were not more inspired in quest of treasure than this admin- istration. They were looking for gold—heaps of gold, shimmering, gleaming gold, They did not wait to touch the nerves of mother earth nor drag the current’s flow in their mad enthusiasm. In greedy haste they grasped the sparkling sand, then cas* it down with curses when they found® the glittering grains were not of gold From cabinet head to Republican rep- resentatives in Congress, like a plague, the disease spread. It be- came epidemic, and while the world looked on the great physician of this administration in sullen silence re- fused to prescribe a remedy or at- tempt a cure. Gallant soldiers who never flinched in battle or cowed in action; who, like madmen. threw themselves into the jaws of death for the glory of their country, were robbed; widows' mites and orphans’ pittances were stolen: seats in the United States Senate placed upon the auction block and sold like merchan- dise; natural resources secretly squan dered; courts of the land mocked: congressional committees defied, and the scales of justice tipped by the weight of gold.” Well do these subal- terns of the administration know that there is more blood in the body than what mantles in the cheek, more profit in the ofice than exhibited in the salary. Denies Hurt to Business. “It is the brazen effrontery of this administration that challenges our attention. They would halt these in- quiries by hysterical cries and fore- boding predictions. They say ‘You are hurting business,’” ‘You are de- stroying confidence.’ Our answer is, ‘We are helping business,’ ‘We are restoring confidence,’ ‘We are saving the government by performing an operation to preserve the life of the nation itself.’ Theirs is the Spartan Not the corruption, but the discovery, constitutes the crime. In- stead of applauding the investigators they make war upon the investiga- Instead of condemning the ex- praise the exposed and condemn the exposure. “Decry them as they will, the Amer- ican people know that it was these investigations—conducted by Demo- crats, ves, but through Republican committees—that sent Albert Fall to Three Rivers a disgraced man and proven criminal. It was these inves- tigations that revealed such a gross indifference and utter incapacity of the Navy Department and compelled Edwin Denby’s retirement from the It was these investigations that unfolded a condition in the De- partment of Justice that shocked sen- sibilities and drove Daugherty back to Washington Court House. “It was these investigations that caused conspirators against their government to take their own lives rather than tell the truth and un- bosom the criminating secrets against criminal allies. It was these investigations that pointed to the immoral orgies of Forbes and sickening scandals in the Veterans' Bureau. It was these investigations that put a Republican congressman behind bars and lashed Newberry from the Senate. It was these inves- tigations that informed the American public that the first official act of Calvin Coolidge was the appointment of a private secretary who had traded and traficked in public patronage. Charges G. O. P. Plot. “It was these investigations that led a Republican Senate to convict its own Republican national commit- tee for ‘framing’ a Democratic sena- tor because he dared to do the right. “In_this campaign let the con- scienceless leaders of this administra- tion deride investigations. Let them accuse the Congress of dsteriorating: let them continue to shield those who conspired aguinst the government, but in this davk drama the American people know and prefer the highly patriotic and cleansing _work of Thomas J. Walsh to the foul infamy and thievery of Albert J. Fall Nothing in buriesque or opera bouffe is comparable to the scene re- cently enacted at Cleveland in the efforts of the silent Sphinx of the Potomac to exile and expatriate those Republican senators who dared to oppose his mandate. It is some- what a pathetic story—the treatment there accorded our Republican sena- torial friends. “‘But yesterday the word Caesar stood against the 'gh!: IRt Now lies ho there, and nome so poor to do Bim reverence. Dared to Make Probe. “They dared to vots an_investiga- tion of a member of the President's official family, and they are penalized for_their decency. “They dared disregard the protest of the world profiteers to respond to the appeal of the soldiers who fought our battles on the fields of France, and they are punished for their jus: ce. “By every device known to trained camoufleurs, by every subtle process of legerdemain, the Republican nomi- nee, “in true pharisaical fashion, sought “to_divorce himself from his former comrades in arms. The plan obvious; the plot is futile. Neither the President nor his Falstafan army, headed by Gen. Butler and Sergt. Stearns, can conceal the ugly fact that the Cleveland convention was the most highly organized, boss-rid- den and oleaginous ever held in America. The American people will not be deceived. They will not per- mit themselves to be used as pawns in a game of ‘hide and seek.’ Lame. Duck as Chairman. “It was peculiarly appropriate that the Republican nominee should have conscripted one of the ‘best minds' from far-away Mexico to write the platform for this campaign and a lame duck to preside as the perma- nent chairman of the convention. Both assignments for that conven- tion were most fitting—one was avail- able because of the theory that ‘dis- tance lends enchantment to the view’ and his lack of knowledge of things that are; the other because he was the only public man in the United States willing to offer himself as a living sacrifice upon the senatorial altars of Wyoming in defense of the Teapot Dome. “The mask is off. Piercing through the political machinations of that convention, we see the sinister lips of special privilege. The leopard does not change his_ spots overnight. Neither can the Republican party be reformed by resolutions nor by presi- dential ukase. “The American people will know that they are dealing with a system; that even though Hanna, Quay and Penrose are dead, their spirits go marching on in the personages of the Three Musketeers of present-day Re- publicanism — Butler, Stearns and Slemp. These bosses are doing busi- ness in the same old way according to the same old rule. Trying to Save Presidency. “The Republican organization is now trying to salvage something from the wreck of the old party. The pro- ceedings and platform of the Cleve- land convention portend the loss of the Congress, and they are now madly fighting to save the presidency. “With an administration honey- combed with graft and corroded with corruption. it is refreshing to reflect upon the innumerable Republican in- vestigations into expenditures of the preceding Democratic administration. Following that period—the most mo- mentous in our country's history—a period that called for the mobiliza- tion of our strongest and best, a pe- riod that necessitated the expendi- ture of $40,000,000,000 to prosecute and win the war—no similar period ever called for such a readjustment of governmental agencies and the prompt prosecution of expenditures. “Following our country's triumph in arms and victory in the chancel- DELIVERS DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTE SENATOR PAT HARRISO) leries of the world, through a cam- paign of lavish expenditures and ap- peals to the prejudices of groups, we lost cotnrol of the Congress. As 500n as it was organized the Republican party inaugurated a scheme of inves- tigations that were the most far- reaching and costly in the history of the government Fifty-one separate committees were appointed, controlled by fifty-one separate Republican ma- Jorities. Says Democrats Were Olean. “They searched every Democratic record, they followed every hint Like a dragnet, they mobilized every bit of gossip and ran down every ru- mor. Investigations covered the whole country and extended beyond the seas. What were the results? Where is the tainted dollar spent? Where was the defrauded soldier? Name the Democratic cabinet minis- ter disgraced. Those Republican in- vestigations, partisanly and relent- lessly conducted, did not point to a single act that reflected discredit upon any Democratic official. I call upon the Republican nomines, Calvin Coolidge; I cail upon the members of the Republican cabinet; I call upon every Republican member of Con- gress; 1 call upon the Republican party to name the Democratic culprit. “But it is not graft alone that of- ters in the two administrations such happy comparisons. During these lit- tle more than three years we have seen the present administration float along, tossed by every current, fanned by every breeze, without purpose, program or policy. Its leaders have not led, and its organization has not functioned. Sees White Flag Hoistefl. ‘“Upon a thousand issues they have hoisted the white flag of surrender. Amid all the confusion that has di- vided this administration domestic problems have gone unsolved. We have felt the slowing down of indus- try, the increase of unemployment, the diminishing purchasing power of the farmer's dollar. Starving herds rotting grain and rusting spindles have not stirred the Sleeping spirit or | warmed the chilly cooiness of the President. He has slowly traveled upon the vehicles of his paper vetoes, vainly protesting but not pressing forward to the task, assuming but not asserting, flinching but not fighting. In every issue he has quibbled: in every fight he has floundered. Never was party leadership so repudiated and the party so badly torn. “If it be Japanese exclusion, ad- justed compensation for the soldiers, Mellon's taxation rates, development of Muscle Shoals, old soldiers’ pen- sions, farmers’ relief or world court. he stands forlorn. deserted, pilloried by his own party. As a candidate, what did he and his associates prom- ise four years ago respecting inter- national co-operation and the promo- tion of world peace? Let me read to you from the Republican literature of that day. Here is the historic ap- peal of the so-called thirty-one dis- tinguished Republican _leaders, in- cluding Charles Evans Hughes, Her- bert Hoover, William Howard Taft and_Elihu Root: ““The undersigned, who desire that the United States shall do her full part in association with the other civ- ilized nations to prevent war, have earnestly considered how we may contribute most effectively to that end by our votes in the coming elec- tion. * * % The question between the candidates is not whether our country shoul join in such associa- tion. * * % The Republican party stands for agreement among the na- tions to preserve the peace of the world. # * * The Republican party |is bound by every consideration of good faith to pursue such a course until the declared object is attained. *# ® % We therefore believe that we can most effectively advance the cause of international co-operation to promote peace by supporting Mr. Harding for election to the presi- dency.’ - “That was one of the spurious coins of 1920. Says Promises Ignored. “Through their miserable effort and vain meanderings to extricate them- selves and their party from _the morass of their own deceit, they have nauseated the American people by the pitiable spectacle they present. They aureole their promises with such beautiful rhetoric and vamp the truth to such an extent that they do mnot know the direction in which they are going. Henry Cabot Lodge, who made Coolidge at Chicago and unmade him at Washington. ‘with folling eyes spews fine speech about duty and like phantasmal fancies of his flighty mind, attempts to Weave new webs of intrigue, and to again ensnare and mislead the American people. - Too long has this cultured gentleman and his intriguing cohorts denied peace to a suffering world, and in their new- hatched world court schemes an out- raged people cannot and will not again be defrauded. “The lamented Harding, in his big- hearted, sympathetic way, sounded the tocsin' call in his New York speech to enter the world court. -That was only a step, but a step in the right direction. It was merely a move, but a movement toward the broader and more inviting flelds of peace, and he deserved the backing of his party and the co-operation of every peace-loving American citizen. Coolidge pledged himself to carry out the policy, and yet from the day he took up the task laid down by Hard- ing he has made only a bow in that direction. The world court at best can decide only international ques- tions unaimously submitted to it by the parties to the controversy. In- deed, it is not necessary for them to abide by the decisions of the court unless they agres to do so. And yet, simple as is the plan, earnest as are these nations that are co-operating to make it a success and draw to a broken world the light of hope and peace, the same serried ranks in the United States Senate are pursuing their same indefensible tactics, bent on destruction and to reap their ven- geance. Hits Coolidge’s Silence. “Recently they have gained a healthy new recruit in ‘Calus Cassius’ Pepper, the distinguished keynoter and Keystoner. They are not willing to employ their power and talents against our country joining the pres- ent world court, bui they seek to chloroform the existing plan, to dis- mantle it, to destroy it Thus this unholy conspiracy against the peace of the world is carried forward. while silence, deep and impenetrable, broods over the Potomac. For months the Senate foreign relations committee bad this question before it, numer- ous plans presented and sharp dif- ferences constantly arising between the advocates of each. And yet the President through it all did not raise his voice. No words of reprobation fell from his lips. He was as silent as the tomb. And not until the com- mittee had taken action and when the final curtain was drawn upon the closing scene of the Congress did he take the public into his_confidence touching his views. And thus the silence of Calvin Coolidgs is ac- claimed by his votaries as golden. Grover Cleveland once said, ‘Tt is not the mere slothful acceptance of right- eous political ideas, but the call to action for their enforcement and ap- plication that tests the endurance and moral courage of men’' What America needs now is not a Sphinx, but a Paul Revers to awaken it and call it back to duty and high resolve. Oh, for one in the White House whose heart might be melted and courage aroused to sympathize and to fight! Would that we might once more see in that exalted position one with the courage of a Jackson, the militant honesty of a Cleveland, the matchless statesmanship. far-flung vision, and the fine fighting qualities of a Wood- row Wilson! “Would that we had In the White House the spirit of him whose heart of gold melted in the sympathies of the world—of all humanity—whose courage knew and gave no quarter, whose qualities of statesmanship caused him to catch the first whis- perings of domestic disorder and vis- ualize and prescribe for a world un- rest. It is the spirit of him who twice led us to victory and whose soul has taken its flight, but whose remains now lie in yon crypt of Sa. Alban's— the late commander-in-chief of the world's greatest fighting forces in its greatest crisis, that will inspire harmony in this convention and as- sure victory in November. Contrasts Poliey. “How different were the foreign policies of our government under Woodrow Wilson and under the Hard- ing-Coolidge administration! It is the difference between a keynote and keyhole policy of statesmanship. In the good old Democratic days we did not send spies to peep in, but diplo- mats to sit in; not observers without authority. but represéntatives with credentials. One policy was definite, wise and brave; the other vacillating, halting and weak. We opened up new and broader markets, and the people of very clime were drawn closer to us. No humanitarian cause. no movement to check wars, settle disputes or promote world peace but promptly received the sympathetic consideration of this government. It was through such a policy that Amer- ica forged to the front among the foremost nations of the world. Glory was in the flag_and prosperity in every industry. What a change has come about during these three long years! ‘Oil has become the open sesame of power. It gained admittance to the robbers’ cave and participation in the plunder. It has been the in- spiration of this administration’s for- eign_as well as domestic policy. The magio significance of its flow has awakened the State Department to an interest not only in Mexico and the United States of Colombia, but away off in the near east. Truly, the administration might have boasted of two ‘secretaries of oil.’ ~ “When the Christian women and children of Armenia were being wantonly given to the Turkish sword, when thousands of these Armenian followers of Christ, driven like cattle into - exile, were dyving of starvation and exposure in the highways; when Christian' churches and Christian homes were being given to the flames and ministers of the gospel impor- tuned the administration for a note of protest, it was refused; but the moment the oil magnates of the land sought a concession in the oil fields of Mosul the administration that re- fused to intervene to save Christian lives, Christian churches and, Chris- tian homes went to the front with vigor and decision. Hits Lausanne Pact. . “They who were indifferent when the lives of women and children were involved hastened to the conference with the Turks ,in pursuit of the Chester oil concession and became a party to the infamy of the Lausanne treaty—a treaty which abandons our missionaries to the Turks and be- trays Armenia into the hands of its assassins. Links Oil and Policies. “Show this administration an oil well and it will show you a foreign policy. “With a world dismayed by dis- order and steeped in sorrow we have waited patiently for this giant nation to assume its commanding part. But no; their leaders, like slackers moved by fear, have turned and run away. Amid all this world’s confusion, with its broken spirit and lost confidence, with wreck and fuin throughout Eu- ope. “his" administration has com- placeatly looked on and skulked. Never before in all its history nas America turned a deaf ear to the appeal of humanity or the call of civilization. Foreign countries have sought our advice. They have pleaded for our counsel; but, lo, their suppli- cations have been ignored and their pleas rejected. The Democratic party offers no apology for its foreign policies. When the Woodrow Wilson plan for world adjustment was wrecked by the selfish_and jealous hands of reaction- ary Republican leadership, world hope for peace was shattered 'and Eu- ropean rehabilitation indefinitedy de- ferred. The tragedy is they wrecked our plan and offered nothing instead. This administration can not escape its responsibility for the feverish con- dition of the world. What they are now seeking to do with reparations should have been done years ago. Out in the progressive northwest and throughout the great western plains agriculture languishes for want of attention. Farmers are in the throes of despair. More than 600,000 in that great wheat section alone have been driven to bankruptcy during this ad- ministration. Takes Dig at Normaley. ~Would you know the difference be- tween normalcy and prosperity? Here it is: p “In the Democratic year of 1917 the country experienced seven national bank failures “In the Democratic year of 1918 the country experienced two national bank failures. “And in the Democratic year of 1919 the country experienced only one na- tional bank failure. “Within less than four years of Re- publican normalcy more than 1,357 banks have failed, and millions of people bankrupted “During_the first three months of this year 265 banks have failed, with total liabilities of over $100,000,000. ““The distressing conditions that confront agriculturs when other in- dustries specially favored are pros- perous should at least appeal to the stony hearts of this administration. But the Republican nominee and his reactionary followers in the Congress have not permitted any governmental relief being extended to them, for the reason, as very impressively stated by the Republican nominee on December 6. 1923, in his first message to the Congre % i armers Seen Distressed. “*“Those farmers” he said, ‘who raise their living on their own lands are not greatly in distress’ Those sentiments come from the heart throbs of the Republican nominee, and the present deplorabie plight of the American farmer is dme to cal- lous indifference and tneir cowardly, isolated foreign policy. No economist but_knows that this selfish policy, without vision, is responsible for the dissipation of our foreign trade and the timidity of business. Until stricken Europe revives we can not hope for full settlement in our for- eign debt. Allied payments to us de- pend upon German payments to them. But even though the reparations question may be settled and Germany exerts every effort to pay, how can she pay if she is economically shackled by America and the world? The German citizen can set his hand to work and from one end of that country to the other every furnace may be lighted, every factory wheel may whirl, every field be tilled. and v agency of commerce and indus- work oyertime, yet they can not continue unless some market be found for their wares. There can be no market if the tariff gates are closed against her by other countries as are our own. Effect on Europe Traced. “Such a sordid policy of selfishness upon the part of this administration not only delays European rehabilita- tion but forces upon the American masses higher prices for homemade goods. Custom receipts do not prove the success or failure of tariff law A tariff that in normal times might be prohibitive, in abnormal times is but_a lcense to the conscienceless profiteer to extort from and gouge the American consumer. Exports from a country the pur- chasing power of whose money is worthless may be expected to seek those markets that offer the best pur- chases, no matter how high the tariff. In the abnormal conditions of the world today the result is that, with an exorbitant tariff, our government may perhaps get more revenue, but the European seller will receive far less for his product, and the Ameri- can consumer will be compelled to pay more for his purchase. “A record of promises fulfilled and pledges kept attests the lovalty of the Democratic party. The long list of unparalleled achievements of the Wilson administration are among the glorious assets of our party. It is & record that should stir the soul of America and thrill every Democratic heart. What is that record? Tarift Laws Compared. “A tariff law which bred no bounties and spawned no special privileges. A tariff law that sought no taxes from the tables of the poor but raised them from the fortunes of the rich. A tariff law that unfettered buoyant hope and fledged ambition's best efforts. A tariff law that trans: formed a weapon of oppression into an inatrament of usefulness. A tarir law so nicely adjusted to world con- ditions that our international trade balance reached the highest peak in in_all its history. “DUninfluenced by war conditions, at jts lowest ebb it gave to the United States a favorable balance of trade $380.000,000 more than the present indefensible law afforded at its highest. At its peak it exceeded by $3,000,000,000 the highest under the Republican law. “A federal reserve law that eman- cipated banking from the domination of a moneyed monopoly and placed credits in the control of government officials; a law so modern and so elastic as to meet the constant needs of trade and commerce and to act as a panacea against panics and a ‘cure for industrial ills. A law which the temporary chairman of the Cleve- land convention said “serves as a. bul- wark to the financial life of the na- tion and was so helpful during the war should be left alone’ We will Jeave it alome, and not one of the pillars upon which it rests will be removed, but we will not permit a reactionary Republican leadership, dominated by selfish groups, to divert it from its real parpose and turn over its administration to its pliant tools. Cites Trade Record. “A record that carved mew lanes of trade and opened up additional mar- kets. “A record that gave confidence to business and sent the sunshine of happiness and the glow of prosperity into every American home. “A ‘record that filled the pay en- velopes of all wage earners and piled high every bank with countless re- sources. “A record that lifted agriculture from the low depths to which the Republican party had tossed it to a commanding place in American thought and attention—a place at which credit and transportation fa- cilities to the farmers were made available and the astribution, sale, and marketing of their products as- sured. “A record which gave to the Amer- ican farmer the only period in the history of the government in which the purchasing power of his- dollar was at a premium. “A record that filed publio offices with men af courage and not tools of corruption. “A record that promotes the pro- tection of children and the rights of women. “A record in which never before did the wheels of industry sing so sweetly and the flow of commerce move 50 smoothly. “A record that blazed the way to new heights of idealism, shot through with wise and humane policies. “A record of days when human rights were dominant, and through the force of our moral leadership America caused a spiritual awaken- ing throughout the world. Those were ml:‘*y days. In every foreign capital _America - personified the highest and the best, and beneath -the- | those who threate ——— folds of its flag all peoples looked for shelter and protection. “With this small part of the record fresh in the minds of the American people, we enter this contest deter- mined to restore the government to its rightful eminence. Punishment Is Promised. “We will wipe from its escutcheon the stains of this administration. We will_restore dignity and integrity in public service. We will remove the scars of normalcy and revive pros- perity. We will recover and conserve our national resources. We will drive every rascal from high position and see to it that self-confessed and high criminals, who now run at large un- afraid, shall not go further un- whipped of punishment. “An administration steeped in cor- ruption and looseness in the ob- servance of law naturally breeds im- morality and disrespect for law. “The Democratic party will have neither pets nor puppets to protect or corrupt cabinet members to coddle. “We will rigidly enforce the law, whether the violater be a bloated trust magnate, a congressional bribe taker, an emblezzler of the public domain, or a disreputable bootlegger. “We will eliminate governmental favoritism and strike from the stat- utes every discriminating provision that takes from ‘the mouth of labor the bread it earns.’ “We will readjust tariff rates and reduce transportation charges. “We will lay bare campaign brib- ery and punish election frauds. “We will g0 to the relief of dis- tressed agriculture and adopt such policies and pass such laws as will restore permanently the purchasing power of the farmer's dollar and again place it on the par with that of other industries. “We will remove from the admin- istration of the civil service every influence of fraud and inaugurate efficiency in government. “We will put a stop to Republican procrastination and aZopt a progres- sive reclamation polic Will Assume Responsibilities. “Recognizing our ooligations as a great humane power, we will assume in manly fashion our responsibilties to_the world. “We will pursue the same high course that has ever inspired the leaders of Democracy. unterrified by to destrov and unmoved by those who seek selfishly to,_control “Neither the cries of radicalism nor the threats of conservatism will swerve us from our fixed purpose. Democracy is the right way. It is the party that offers the safe middle éourse, patronizing no isms and pay- ing tribute 1o no extremes “It is the party that never bartered its birthright to serve the hour nor allowed expediency to dominate where right was involved. “It will wage war for the protec- tion of the rights of property as zealously as it will battle against the guaranties of special privilege. At every cost it will defend the liberties and the constitutional rights of the citizen in the same sturdy way as it will assail bureaucracy and cen- tralized government. “These principles are just as pre- cious today as when they were pro- claimed at Runnymede, revivified by the immortal Jefferson in the imper- ishable parchment of our Declaration of Independence, and indelibly writ- ten in everlasting terms into the Con- stitution of the United States. Forecasts Vietory. “Ladies and gentlemen of the con- vention, may I say in closing that this is a Democratic year. Victory is within our grasp 1f we but reach out for it. Let us remember that too much is at stake for the hideous form of friction to frown upon this con- vention. Our guns and all our guns against the common enemy. Noth- ing must happen here to divide our councils or dampen our ardor. The fires of Democracy must not flicker. The hope of the people lies in_the action of this convention. There must be no skulking; there can be no mutiny. Winning_is_not wicked. Strategy is no sin. Far better is it for the Amerfcan people and the future of the Democratic party that in_ this convention we deny to our- selves some vaunted expression or surrender some temporary advantage that we may succed in this cAmpaign than tenaciously to persist and lose. A great duty and a high respon- sibility rests upon us in this solemn and critical hour of the nation's life. Every impusle of decency, of human sympathy, of fair dealing, cries out and urges us on to action—militant, aggressive action. With struggling millions of men and women through- out the country calling upon us and humamity everywhere exhorting us on- ward. the great army of Democratic men and women will not retreat be- fore the enemy upon the great bat- tefield of this campaign. We shall not_fail “No matter who may be the choice of ‘this convention, we will rally around our leader, clad in the armor of a righteous cause, attracting to our standard all the forces of right until the flag of Democracy waves triumphantly from every rampart of the government. And as we fight this great battle, there will accompany us_the invisible presence of the fathers of democracy. It would seem now we can hear the soft voice of sweet reasonableness coming to_us from Monticello, the voice of ‘Old Hickory’ coming across the Blue Ridge from the Hermiage, and from that historic crypt_at St Alban's we hear the mighty voice of Woodrow Wilson wistfully calling to us: ‘To you, from failing hands, We throw the torch. Hold it high! Hold it high! Carry om, carry on; keep the faith, keep the faith." OHIOANS TO BACK COX UNTIL LAST ROLL CALL Delegates Declare They Have No Second or Third Choice for Presi- dential Nomination. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 23.—Ohio dele- gates arriving today for the Demo- cratic national convention declared they will vote for James M. Cox for President until a nomination is made. They said that by this means they succeeded in getting the San Fran- cisco convention to nominate their candidate four years ago, and that they agpin will use the same tactics. “We have no second or third choices o vote for, and we are going to stick to Jimmy Cox until the fin- ish”™ was the word passed out at Ohic headquarters, which is in charge of Robert F. Hayes of Columbus, the former governors pre - convention manager. Selection of a national committee- man by the Ohio delegation may be postponed until late this week be- cause of a row between the ad- herents and enemies of Gov. A. Vic Donahey. Edmund H, Moore of Youngstown, who - was James M. Cox's pre- convention manager four years ago, i opposing W. W. Durbin, the Ohio state chairman: W. A. Julian of_Cin- cinnati and George White of Mari- etta, the present national committee- man. The real fight is said to be between Moore and Durbin, Moore being opposed to Gov. Donahey. Friends of the governor were at- tempting today to have the selection of a national committeeman post- poned until late in the week, while e Moore fornes were demanding mediate action at-the Ohio caucus tomorrow morning. _ UNIT RULE SUSTAINED. AIndorsed by Tennessee Caucus for Vice Presidency. VEW YORK, June 24.—The Ten- nessee delegation at its caucus yes- terday selected Gov. Austin Peay as its chairman and adopted a resolu tion indorsing the candidacy o George L. Berry of Tennesses for the-vice:présidential nomination. HOOSIERS FORMALLY ANNOUNCE RALSTON Indigna Delegates Select Spokes- man to Place Governor’s Name Before Convention. PLEDGE HIM THIRTY VOTES A Decision Reached Comes as Sur- prise and Meets Opposition. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 24.—Hoo: delegates put Senator Ralston of 1 diana, actively into the presidentia! race here yesterday At a mecting marked by great en thusiasm, the delegates decided have Fred Van Nuvs, former United States attorney for Indiana and 4 Ralston law partner, put the sena tor in nomination, and to cast Indi- ana’s thirty votes for him “from ther on.” Decision to place Ralston’s name formally before the convention was 4 surprise to delegates generally and did not meet with the approval « many of the senator's friends outsiae the Indiana delegates. Powert: fluences immediately began to argur with Thomas Taggart, who is in a tive charge the senators paign, to dispense with the nom | ing speech. Taggart 1 d | tively to the arguments agatnst a r | mal nomination and tonight | titude was described as | vinced.” Seek to Reflect Digniry. Indiana lcaders declared any speech were made short and devoid | ishes. Their hope senator’s position before tion as dignified as pos Optimism over the senator's o were expressed by the entire ana crowd, from Taggart dowr Rart insisted that Ralston is tt ond choice of more state delegation than any other man and that he wi begin to pick up votes as soon the states have paid their comp ments to their favorite sons. Taggar: thinks that large blocks of votes w come to his man if it becom parent, as he believes it wili, neither Smith nor McAdoo can nominated. Open declaration of the Indiana delegation for Ralston put Taggart * position to stand off suppor other candidates further. Scouts Meet Rebuft. Attempts to interest giving Ralston second place ticket were unavailing. The followers have hoped for some that this result might be accomp ®d, but their scouts got no encour ment from Taggart. He said that did not believe the senator would b- particularly interested in the vice presidency. In fact, he thoughbt Ra ston rather preferred remaining = senator. 014 political observers saw in Tag- gart's position today the final break ing up of the old Indiana-New York- Illinois combination which worked s effectively at so many Democratic conventions in the past. In answe to all inquiries about the comb: tion and all other possible com nations, Taggart simply reiterate: that he is for Ralston to the end Will Play Walting Game. No effort will be made to roll up 2 huge vote for Ralston on the early ballots. They are quite willlng to wait for the “drift” which they say is coming. Active canvassing of delc- gations in Ralston's behalf will start after the temporary chairman has made his speech. A jollification meeting over gett the senator actively into the race wa held tonight at a dinner given b Taggart He invited the entire Ir diana delegation and all the oth Hoosiers he saw around town FRIENDS OF HOUSTON BOOST HIS RECORD Wish to Have Him in Limelight if Dark Horses Are to Be Considered. to By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 24—Friends of David F. Houston, former Secretary of Agriculture, have organized in earnest for the work of presenting the record of their candidate to the delegates. “We are mot seeking to pledge delegates to Mr. Houston., and are not placing him before the conven- tion as a candidate” Col. Francis G Caffey, former United States district attorney in New York City, said to- day at the Houstén information cen ter. “We are merely presenting Mr Houston's record as a member of the Wilson cabinet, in which he served ‘most of the time as the Secretar Agriculture and later as the S tary of the Treasury, to the dele- Eate: The keynote of our work is to make known to the delegates the worthy record of Mr. Houston. Associated with Col. Caffey in the heddquarters are Lewis G. Stevenson 1 of Bloomington. 11, prominent throughout the middle west for his work _in farmer organizations, and Earl Harding of New York, who has been active in the Democratic na- tional campaigns in the east for a number of years. Another sponsor of the Houston movement is Charles R. Crane, for- mer minister to China. NEW YORK CITY GIVES DINNER TO DELEGATES City Is Host to 3,500—Gov. Smith Attends—McAdoo Absent—TFPo- lice Sing “Tammany.” By the Associated Pre:s NEW YORK. June 24.—Delegates and distinguished visitors attending the Democratic national convention were guests at a dinner given last night_in their honor by the city of New York. Thirty-five hundred persons attend- ed the dinner, served ni the ballroom of the Commodore Hotel and attend- ed by Gov. Alfred E. Smith, New York's candidate for the presidential nomination. Gov. Smith did Dot speak, however, and there was no attempt made to stage a Smith dem- onstration. Rodman Wanamaker acted as toast- master and, with Mayor Hylan, wel- comed the delegates to New York. Cordell Hull, chairman of the na- tional committee, responded. The speaking was brief, because of the confusion attending the serving of s0 many diners, A police glee club sang “Tammany” and several popular songs. Few of the guests attending the dinner know of the refusal of William G. 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