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North 3400 ESRNN .«.\‘\Cx\\\\\s‘z Sherwood Forest > LAUDED BY LEWS Radio Forum, Praises Speaker Garner. ‘lMinois Senator, Speaking ini | demanded ~ the country today would clining to support a Democrat, stand as a non-party organization and prove to| the country that a measure is being, ner or content, upon its merits—Jook- ing only to that test if the measure be to the welfare of the Nation. “This Republicin Senate is to be congratulated and its eminent leaders to be put forth before the Nation as worthy of all praise, due to the honor- able and patriotic public servant. “It will now be seen that had all| these things been done which public condemnition, quickly spurted out, had have stocd in chaos, its business in in- solvency and its people in confusion or | riot. We would have been in the situation that you have lately seen in France, the The House and Senate were praised | for spurning partisanship in the na- | tional emergency, by Senator J. Hamil- | ton Lewis, Democrat, of Illinols, speak- | ing last night in the National Radio | Forum, arranged by The Star, and | broaccast over a cosst-to-coast ret- | work of the National Broadcasting Co. | At the sam= time, he bit at those| | eritics, who have complained that “the | House did not organize and remain & | fixed, compact body, taking its orders from’ the Speaker and obeying him as one does the crder of a general in | command.” “There are those who have con demned Speaker Garner that he has| |not‘controlled the House, " Senator | | Lewis said | “T'beg to remind America if ever we had a Speaker who ‘controlled the | House,” he would be dispelled out n(] | his place before sundown of any day in | this particular day of independenci mankind."” | As to the Senate, he said, “it is to| be congratulated, d t | g and its eminent |y that everything would be all right, | leaders to be put forth before the Na- | tion as worthy of all praise due the | honorable and" patriotic public servant.” | Reviewing legislation enacted in an effort to better business conditions, the yielding to public clamor, “the countr: | business in insolvency and its people in confusion and riot.” Text of Address. Senator Lewis’ address follows { come fatigued with the many addr: | they were dinned by voice and opp: ed by ceaseless newspaper and maga- zine. I am called upon to present an | additional view, which I do with the | | trust that you will not be burdened be- | ! yond your patience. | | . “The subject assigned is the state of | | the Union and the state of the political | | parties in Congress First, let it be un- | | derstood " that " there are’ no political | positions and political possibilities for a political party in either House. There is | Do Democratic party in the Houce of Representatives, though these termed | ; Democrats have a majority of three | | with the Speaker of the House being a | | Democrat. In the Senate, called Repub- | lican, there Is & majority of one to three | over the Democrats and a majority of | seven whenever all the Republicans | unite upon any proposition. Many of llhz editorials, many of the newspaper | | articles and a great many of those who | are speaking to the country have ex: pressed disapproyal and all condemna- tion that the House did not organize and remain a fixed, compact body, tak- |ing its orders from the Speaker and | cbeying him as one does the order of a general in command. There are those who have condemned Speaker Garner that he has not ‘controlled the House. I beg to remind America if ever we had |a Speaker who ‘controlled the House'| Le would be dispelled out of his place | before sundown of any day in this par- | ticular day of independence of man- | kind. You will not forget that right | after the Civil War, under a Democratic House, a Democrat attempted to ‘con- | trol' the members in the matter of their votes where they were sovereign Rep- | 1esentatives of sovereign districts, each | having a right to have their views and their necessities obeyed by their Rep- Tesentative. This particular Speaker was hurled from his place by votes and | reduced to the minimum and was hissed by the country. I remind you that when Speaker Cannon, Republican, as- sumed such a privilege as controlling | speaker said that had there bezen a| today would have stood’in chaos, its|PeTitY | charged with the full responsibilit “The radio audiences must have be- | duct the policies in vogue, because it 5 | upon the public questions with which | | dens yet to bear. Then the appropria- fanatics killing her President; Japan, with equsl finatics slaying her Pre- mier; with the unhappy conditions in the Canadian provinces, as Newfound- | land, where the governor is driven from his chair to the sea. Justice to the Democracy. “Then let us congratulate our coun- trymen that our public servants in the legislative halls, joining those public | servants who are the heads of the cab-| inet and their aides, find themselves today that, though they ‘lately met in | Dati the internecine shock, now in well beseeming ranks march all one way.' i By the Associated Press. in the convention halls of the Demo- cratic and Republican parties this year? | What drama will be enacted during this, the twentieth meeting of the Na- | . pONelts K8 O, a6 Fol, Mene press after running a gantlet of Indians Ritzy familics in the bigger towns were proud of their gas Guster was a new tion's two strongest political forc will not be flourished as they were in 1836, when the Democrats in Cincin- nominated James Buchanan of s = . household accessory and metropolitzn s Pennsylvania on the seventeenth b°l- .\ ) Yo * - -mor Withdrew, Later at Baltimore Stephen | Clellan himself repudiated Jot, and probably no delegates will have | PIAYboys” wore white beaver Summer B ’ Picking the Presidents Conventions Today Like Croquet Match Compared With Hectic Campaigns of 50s, When Bowie Knives and Pistols Were Flourished. This is the first of a series of eight | blood-spilling campaigns of their early articles recounting highlights of po- | days, the quadrennial struggles of the litical conventions of the past. They |two parties have become as decorous as a mid-Victorian croquet match on Newport lawn. News by Pony Express. In those early d paigns” apparently were droaned out Southern oratory was in full flower. by the shouted attacks against the per- | The Italian cpera sonalities of political leaders. | Political news from the Far West trace convention history from the 1850s to the present. ‘What issues, what names will resound Bowle knives and pistols probably “And mow I ask your attention to|to knock down the doorkeepers to enter what is justice to the democracy: 'hat you recall that this administra- tion has been In power three years; that none of the measures which have now been passed under the Democratic House have even been presented for three years, much less having been passed for the relief of the people. ‘ou will note in all this time the in- reased conditions of hardship, mise; nd depression were multiplied upon the Republic. Day by day you were that your condition was but a matter of psychology, & miasma of mind. that ‘just around the corner’ and ‘just up the road’ were to be seen the caravans of new commerce and on the hills the palaces of promised pros- “Let it be said that the President and his administration must not be | they were misled equally by those who encouraged the administration to con- was to the benefit of those who while misleading the administration were pil- laging the people and were withhold- ing the facts from the President and his advisers while they deliberately falsified to the public and misled the press to print their false prophecy and their deceiving promises “I invite you to note that the ad- ministration in power for these three years finally rent in to the Govern- ment & demand for appropriations equaling four billions, or two billions more in time of profound peace than were exacted in 1918 or 1920 while immediately following the close of the World War, with all of the war bur- tions were laid out to meet these ex- acting. overwhelming and shoulder- dent and his adminisiration must not be charged with the responsibility of this crime upon the Republic—the mas- ter heads of industry, the political leadership of the party, the trusted advisers with schemes to enrich them- selves and those who were under cover from identity succeeded in getting the administration to plunge the country into this indebtedness for the benefit of those who are now capitalizing it. I invite you to note that now with the deficit exceeding two billion and threat- ening to be three million and with in- debtedness of five billion, this condition has been caused by those who turned the Government into the hands of the large institutions and great political en- | terprises where the authors of the ne- farious schemes could profit, though it was to the pillage of the people and poliution of the Republic. We must not | forget that the President and his cabi- net and the immediate officials of his administration were often far remowd' from the master manipulators in the | distant States of the Union and were | compelled to take reports and have no} other form of information upon which they could rely. The press from day to day called upon to print with quick- the convention hall as did the Benton delegates from Missouri at that Cincin- In nati convention Compared with the invective-hurling, 'John Fremont, while The Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co. | 1ard Pillmore was the candidate of the | | “Know-Nothings,” opposed to “Roman- | | #sm" and foreign influence. Buchan was elected. | " Then, as the war god began to survey a boundary line acress the middle of | the United .States on which to paint a streak of blood, came the conventions of | 1860, and with them the name of Abra- hem Lincoln. | The raid of John Brown, his execu- tion for treason and overt acts of vio- lence had fanned the flames of sec- ticnal hostility over slavery to a point where feeble attempts by conciliators to extinguich them were unavailing. Whisperings of “Secession.” The word “secession” was in many 2 mouths. Both conventions seethed,.only sl controlling the enmity that over Seward, & victory hailed by the Northern press as a triumph of the people over the politicians. Animosity Increased, and as the breach grew larger Republican power increased. Lincoln received a large majority of electoral votes. The day before he was elected New York papers printed bulletins saying South Carolina would secede. War came. It raged for three years, and then another campaign was on Attacks on Presidents of recent years have been no more savege than those made upon Lincoln. Some Washington correspondents professed to see a tyran- nical tendency in Lincoln’s frequent reading of books about Napoleon. He also was criticized for extrava- gance in the alleged purchase of a 16- wheeled cart at a cost of $80,000. to the end that peace may be restored. at_the eari st possioe moment.” Eut Lincoln von with 2 552 votes. McCiclan recsived 1,835,985 votes. PARENTS OF MRS.*M0ODY REPORTED LIVING APART Mother of Tennis Star Quoted Denying Emphatically Court Action Is Possible. By the Assoc Press. I1SCO, May 17 and Mrs. Claren Mrs. Helen on the warpath. lights, Buchanan Wins. 1856 campaign the newly formed Republican party chose Gen. | nated John Bell of Tennessee. Ex-President Mil- ' r, are residing apa oiled und s . boiled under the surface, the faminer said, hed In April of 1860 the Democrats con- In Wins on First Ballot. ‘ - - whisper:ng czm- | yened at Charleston, “seat of secession.” T living at the Faculty Club on the But when the Republicans met, Con- Unitersity cf California campus at necticut sang the theme song: “Con- Be ley for a st & year. Wills. e pzper added, ha been in residence t the Berkele: Women's City Club for the last fcw florded nightly reats for the cognoscenti of the con- | hecticut gives her 12 votes for that pure vention, and Gilmores Band from Bcs- and patriotic statesman, Abraham Lin- yed for the promenaders at the coln.” He was nominated on the first She d F lanned t. ery who looked out upon a soft blue | ballct o O e 9 The Democrats nominated - e today to join her daughter, n°w Northern and Southern Democrats | George B, McCiellan, Union Army offi- SRERSLEGT could not. agree on & slavery plank in | cer, on @ platform declaring the e atform, an e uthi T 4 hi Mc- 741 pl Southerners | to be a failure, a platform ‘:'h"”S’ ,‘1‘n ccmment, but Mrs. Wills, in @ pone Douglas of Illinols was nominated, | of course, was out of the 1864 race be- ', ® Question concerning the Peict More Southern States withdrew and cause of the war. ity of court action, declared: “Poci- nominated John C. Breckinridge of The Democratic platform sald that Kentucky. A group of moderates nomi- | “public welfare demands imme efforts fcr a cessation of hostilities w The Republicans nominated Lincoln|a view to a convention of the Stat Entrance, 909 F St “Both Dr_and Mrs. Wills decl'ned ¢ tively no.” A new factory is being opened in Lon- don every week ODD-LOT DAY IN OUR BED ROOM SUITES, HALF PRICE o B 25 Gendne Wl A0 B Ress Sl - SRR Save one-half. Genuine walnut veneer LT . $195 Genuine Walnut Bed Room Suite William and Mary period style. Includes dresser, va bed and chest of drawers $08 265 Genuine Walnut Bed Room Suite large bed, dresser, vanity, chest of drawers, vanity bench and chair.. Living Room Suites Half Price PO Livieg Boven Tl s T - AR RN0 signs. Large sofa and lounge chair—save one-half.. v $69 Living Room Suite, 2 Pieces Upholstered in small figured denim. Sofa and bufton- 534,50 back chair. Save one-half.............. Lgdeen $180 Tapestry 3-Pc. 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A A ;P 7 ¢ 7 ? ’ : 7| in France when it was attempted by the aid of the majority, the cry of tyr- anny threw him out of place and has brought on the elections in the last few days, overturning the govtrnment of France and initiating what must be | called a radical and socialistic organi- | zation in control. “Speaker Garner is to be congratu- lated on having kept his head, main- | taining his poise and in no wise imping- ing upon the liberties of the Congress- men whose duties to their districts ex- pressing the wishes and needs of their | | own people were their fir obligation I now congratulate the House of Rep- | resentatives that at a time like this, | ’“th the President has stated that the | Nation is in a condition ‘as in war.'| that the gentlemen of the House on the Democratic side have refused to band themselves together as a political party to oppose the President of the United | States, the executive in command, and have declined to mortgage themselves in a compact of partisanship that shall contest the will of the administration while it professes to be expressing the need of the country. I now summon | the people to note what would be the | effect if this howl and clamor against | the House were ylelded to and I ask | you to consider what a condition would | have been upon this Republic if the | House had been the sort of thing this cry and malediction had wished it—a | water-tight political compartment. 1f in compact organization as & party un- der the domination of the Speaker, every measure presented by the Repub- | lican President would have been met by | a compact wall over which it cc | ride, and against which like a would dash but be beaten back and re- | treat into defeat. Then you would not | nave had the moratorfum which the President asked for on & non-partisan ground and which was given him by the Democratic House. You would not have had the Steagall bank bill, which gives the opportunity to the release of frozen assets and increase of circulating money | for businessrelief. Youwouldnot have had | the finance credit bill, which now comes | to the rescue of the railroads. incurance companies and other institutions neces- | sary tn be preserved to save the Nation | in position with official power and the officials in powei have been educated to trust the citizens who in high places are supposed to report to the official in power the truth, but who have taken advantage of the privilege to benefit themselves and speculate on the public money of the Government, sending out billions of its gold through favored banking circles to be gifts to the nations of South and Central America, bounties to the nations of Europe, favors to the industry and commerce of other coun- tries opposing the United States or in the sums reaching between and 30 billions of money drained from the possessions of America and paralyzing the prospects of the future of her Na- tion. ‘These crimes now uncovered to the public have all been committed with such sequence and under the plausi- bility of patriotic finance and industry that the Americans had no opportunity to detect it, as they could not believe they were. being betrayed by those whom they trusted and who appeared under the guise of friends of persons in power as patrigts to the party of the administratiod. 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They would have been fustified in opposing the pro- gram of economy, so called by the Presi- dent, on the ground that the President and his administration had made the extravagances, so let them take the consequences before the people and pay | the penalty for their political sins. All of those have been voted by the Demo- cratic House and instead of becoming partisan thev have become an organi- zation of citizens in open convention executing the requests of the President . ond complying with the demands of the peoble as the public representatives of the Nation and in no wise the mas-\ ter manipulators of a political party. transformed and the new ideal and new standard is now before America, s it is before the world. We turn to march In new ranks with banners bearing new devices and with confi- dence in the spirit of America which preserves our country and sustains our countrymen that America shall remain, not only the first of free lands of the world, but the best and noblest of the history of mankind. _—————— ENGLISH DEAN SPEAKER Sister Mary Eleanore Is Lecturer at Holy Cross Academy. i Sister Mary Eleanore, dean of English at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind., end author of several books, among them “The King's Highway" and “Trou- badors of Paradise” delivered a lecture on “Substituting the Lives of the Saints for Fairy Tales” at the Academy of the “Now we look to the United States Senate, so-called Republican, but this body in the same spirit of patriotic en- deavor under the parliamentary guid- ance of Vice President Curtis, ibli- can; President Pro Tem Moses of New Hampshire, Republican, and the differ- ent chairmen of the various committees, all Republican, nevertheless have re- fused to band themselves as a fiimml party and decline to elect & Republi- can who has been nominated as Presi- dent of the Senate and, though de- Holy Cross Sunday afternoon. 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