The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 29, 1920, Page 7

SAYS LABOR WILL POLL 4} LARGE VOTE Christensen Says Democ-| facy in imiustry Is Big Issue in Campaign NOTH: This te the nited Press by can- Gidates of the presidency. ¢ BY PARLEY PARKER CHRISTEN Bandkiate for President of the Far. . mer-Labor Party Mopyeiaht, 1920, by United Press) +s ‘The real issue in the present cam. S Paign tx: Shall we have democracy dn industry, or shall we continue to @rift in the direction that the Cum- Tins-Each bill and the Kaneas tn ‘Gustrial court plan to have us go. Industry tn America must either De autocratic or democratic. At the Present time we see it growing more nd more autocratic The farmer labor party demands that it be dem @cratico In accomplishing the democrattza | tien of industry our process or Method ts to give the workers, art and techniclins an increasing hare im the respensibilities and ement of industry, this to be @one, or this principle to be devel- f oped in the light of actual experi f, ence in operation, This principle pand purpose is set forth in the Platform on which the farmer-labor party entered the present campaign. “BO: We have not been able to get either Senator Harding or Governor Cox to lisp a single word or state Ment on this fundamental issue ‘They have marched forward with their shadow-boxing contest over the Meague of nations. I have found that eur program Be heartily recoived and indorsed by Rhore of the voters we can reach. @nd if our message thru the press or otherwise reaches the people, we Will go over the top. As to results, While I am not «ufficiently exper fenced as a politician to make pre | @ictions offhand, I feel quite certain _ St this-time that we will carry 4 Western states to throw the } ; Of the next president into a house of representatives, and 7 it depends on how many con we have whether Chris Will be elected TO SWEEP 4 INGTON STATE a ; ‘There are indications that we wil! get several members of congress iy in New York, in the Hart- @. district of Connecticut, Penn Indiana and [iinoia In the of Wasbington and South Da- We will go over the top sweep everything from governor to catcher. outstanding feature of thin ign to me is that neither In speeches nor their platforms the candidates of either party @ word or given an outline of Plan of reconstruction of in _Lenter the final days of this com- P convinced of the integrity and the native sjrensth of our cause a hopeful of success, | DEM. ORATORY | FLOWS HERE Concentrated on League of Nations | ‘WIth United States Senator Morris of Texus leading the demo- oratory of the day, Seattle jureday witnessed extraordinary ac of that party in presenting claim to national and local ap- Sheppard's text was the of nations, around which sub all the other speakers of the day trated their fire, following the of President Wilson Wed. y that every candidate for pub- ‘office should be tested by this : “Shall we, or shall we net, _ Pedeem the great tnoral obligations of nited States?” Senator Sheppard spoke at Levy's . theatre, under the auspices the women’s democratic commit- ‘fee. He won applause by several 4 remarks, one of which was “the American soldier ws the ~ of democracy and Woodrow was its prophet.” i At the Metrooplitan theatre later, Gol. W. C. Whittlesey, commander of " in the Argonne; York, form publican na- committeeman, and Mrs. H. C. er, of Connecticut, spoke. local advocates of the demo- cause also added to the argu. POINDEXTER |S SPEAKER Tells Young G. 0. P. Great- est Issue Is Americanism % © United States Senator Miles Poin-| r, an unexpected guest at the ting of the Young Men's Repub- club at Meve’s cafeteria Thurs. afternoon, told the members that real issue in the present cam- ‘Paign is Americanism. © He denounced tho giving of six ‘ in the league of nations and evident policy of President Wil- that the demand for Japan for 1 equality be ratified by the committee. | John A. Gellatly, ring the state in the Interests of ‘ ernor Hart's campaign, brought Bn optimistic report of conditions Gnd predicted the election of the en- Hire reputllican Ucket on Tuesday. rches to Boom Soldier Bonus Bill) | Beattie churches are getting be-| the soldiers’ bonus bill, of the churches in the city who has been Eighth Day FOR COX BY EDGAR C, WHEELER It is the dowothing who Is the chronic knocker. It seems to be a quality of human nature that the man with the billiard ball, self-centered mind usually is the one Who yells the loudest against the deed of big men, No doubt it was from this state of affairs that there originated the text, “Every knock is a boost.” Having got this sucessfully off my cheat, I'm going to ask, nevertheless, that you bear it In mind while I en deayor to trace your post-war yelling nd noise to its fountain head. ~ Tam very glad, Ben, that you have seen fit to reecho its hue and ery, which long since begun to pall on the Wilson and his cabinet, aguinst Palmer and the profiteers, against individual troubles, “extravagances” and “inefficiencies.” They are important—these cater wanlings, They are déoisive in deter. mining the vote of the average American November 3. SAYS HARDING IS A CHORUS MAN Why? Because they are an exact Measurement of the character and the minds of a few republican self. seeking politicians, haling for the senate, who have turnéd the crank Of nolme making against tye league of nations, and who now aré trying to folst on the American people a mem. the republicans wanted. You know whom I mean—he's your man. Now, bear in mind what I said about the loud knocker and the man I make some statements and prove them. (And far be it from me, Ben, to my you are a do-nothing knocker —I sit too close to you at the dewk You're just making use of their am | munition... All right! ilere’s the statement: Responsi>i} ity for the evils and inefficiencies that you complain of @nd Ih admit there have been plenty of profiteers. oh, yes) can be traced directly to and cinched on the very republican polit feal do-nothings who for months and montha now have been yelling their heads off, GO, P. CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT They can be traced direetty to 66th congress, republican majort which In a time of need betrayed and shamed the American people, They can be traced to a group of Uuited States senators, including your Senator Harding, who pawned the pressing needs of a war-worn world and an anxious America, throwing the pawn ticket Into one political jackpot to “get Wilson.” ‘They, and not the Wilson adminie- tration, were the ones who gave lease of life to the profiteers, and they procured thelr majority power to do it by harboring and recognizing the vote of one of their number who stood convicted and sentenced to prison for buying his office, Senator Truman H. Newberry, of Michigon. Here's the proof: @ DO-NOTHINGS SANG HYMN OF HATE You remember how every one tn the nation stood together to win the war, and how, when the armistice was signed, every one felt that that unity should continue In the task of reconstruction. When was that unity broken and forgotten? Tt was when congress turned « deaf car to the nation’s needs and to the president's pleas, to “play politics” in preparation for the elec- tion now few days off. It was when the do-nothings, including Sen- ator Harding, began singing their hymn of hate. It was when they re- fused to act, when they used the votes delegated to them by Amer- jean voters to BLOCK RECON- STRUCTION. It was when they did worse than lay down on the job and fai. It was when they turned to treachery. I'll admit that I, too, have thrown up my hands in dismay time and again at Attorney General Palmer's repeated attempts to curb profitear- ing. WILSON SUGGESTIONS WERE IGNORED But I will say at the same time that the outfit deserving of the un qualified condemnation of the Amer- jean public t# not Palmer, but the yapping no-nothings who refused to provide the weapons sgainst prof- iteering. You may recall President Wilson's appearance before congress in the wummer of 1919 with a mesmge in which he urged definite measures to cut the bigh cost of living and curb profiteering. His recommenda tions Included: control act to provide specific penal jes for profiteering. Enactment of laws limiting the Period for holding goods in cold storage; requiring the marking of goods at the prices at which they were placed in cold storage; requir- ing that all goods in interstate com- merce be marked with the price at which they left the hands of the producer; @ law to license and regu- late corporations ‘to prevent prof- iteering; a law to control security issues to prevent speculation; exten- sion of the life of the Lever food control act; extension of the scope of the Lever act to provide penal ties for profiteering. ‘What has congress done? Nothing. AH! CONGRESS DID DBE. 1’! amend that. Congress a4 do something that was nothing. [t made an appropriation of funds for “in- vestigation of prices” without even authorizing expenditures for making the findings public! The president offered « program of reconstruction, Congress fiddied and knocked, It blocked peace. It blocked the league of nations, It blocked aid for returned soldiers. It blocked aid to stricken sufferers abroad, It tried to tear down where others tried to build, It sold the American people for a mess of politics. And in the midst of this dingrace | stood Senator Warren G playing his part, whenever he voted. d this ix the kind Harding, voting his “no” no pre dent of the United States! Sunday will devote part of their services to an exposition of Referon- dum No, 2, the soldiers’ bonus bill average jistener, against President) most part from the United States | ber of their chorus whom not even | with the billlard-ball cranium, while | Amendment to the Lever food) of @ do-! ing knocker you would have for | of the Great Cox-Harding Debate FOR HARDING BY RALPH J, BENJAMIN Now I've got you, Edgar, by your own words, In your argument—which waan’t rgument, but plain invective unsup: | $ortea by @ single fact or figure, you excused the democratic administra | tion for its rampant extravagance and its “one-man rule.” Eagar, how could you? You blessed the democratic admin. | istration with the solemn declaration that, “with all tts extravagancea, it t the results.” What results? Did make atr) planes for the troops overseas? Did) & make artillery? Did tt make potson | gas for American shells? Did it) squelch profiteering? Did tt make s00d on any of ite promives? | NO, You know it didn’t. ‘Then, just what “results” 414 you mean the democratic administration | got? Do you mean to Intimate that © democratic administration won war? I hope not, for that would be entirely outside the bounds of reason. BENJAMIN DOESN'T LIKE KINGS I can excuse your wershtp of Woodrow Wilson, Undoubtedly you | delleve in Wilson as an undcrowned | king as ruler of this nation rather than a free republic governed by the representatives elected by the people. I don't agre with you, because I be eve in & republic. You convicted your democratic party of autocracy |when you upheld the Wilson rule. You admit and decry the fact that the republican party and its cand! date, Senator Harding, propose to re establiah the constitutional republic |and make this « free country again ‘That's dona Now for a little of the FACTS about Jimmie Cox. | Edgar, you claimed Cox put over the orkman’s compensation act in fo, and @ flock of other mighty good billa, Hore is the truth about Ohio's workman's compensation act ‘The law was first advocated by Ohio labor leaders in 1909. It waa in troduced in the Obio legislature by a republican, passed by a republicas legislature, amended and improved by another republigan legislature, and signed by GOVERNOR HAR MON, not GOVERNOR COX. Cox had nothing to do with that bill. The compu"sory feature was put in the bin later by @ republican legislature. Cox didn’t veto the compulsory fea. ture, tho it waa added to the bill dur ing bis time of office. The credit for the passage of the Ohio bill should go to the Ohio State Federation of Labor. That's where the credit belongs, not to Jimmic Coz. SAYS G. 0. P. SOLONS PASSED CREW Now, then, let's see more about diramie Cox's record: A republican legislature tm Otto Passed a “full crew” Dill that the railroad workers wanted, that wae almed to protect railroad men and the public. It was a greag humant tarian bill, It required the railroads to place full crews on freight trains. The railroads fought tt JIMMIE COX VETOED THE “FULL CREW BILL.” He ts the only governor who ever dared veto such a great progreanive measure. ‘That tan't all Cox claimed the bf was not worded correctly. The next legialature changed the wording to suit . Did he then sign it? HE DID » He didwt' veto it because the storm of protest wus so great he did not dare, But, he didn’t sign ft, and tt became @ law without his sig nature Here's for raffroad men who think of voting for Jimmie: ‘When a strike was threatened to embrace the eight-hour day for raf road men, Jimmie Cox threatened to cal! out the state militia to man the trains. In an offictal statement he denounced the rafiroad men and de clared he would fight thetr strike to the limit. He had the Ohio militia In arma, ready to net. CALLED TROOPS OUP IN STRIKE On August 14, speaking at Wheel ing, West Virginia, Jimmie Cox said: “For six years I have been in exec: utive authority in the great indas- trial state of Ohio, with its 6,000,000 Inhabitante, During all that time I never have presse a soldier into an industrial controversy.” Was that statement true? IT WAS NOT. a On September 26, 1919, and. on Oc- tober 25, 1919, Adjutant General Lay- ton, & personal appointee of Jimmie Cox, “by command of the gévernor” called out ten, and then eight, com- panies of militia in connection with the steel strike. The coat of the mobilizations, as shown by the Ohio state auditor's office, was $23,000, Here are the words of the call for the militia, September 28, 1919: “In view of the probable emerge ency arising in Rastern Ohio incident to the present strike situation, the governor (that’s Jimmie) has deemed it necessary to call the troops of the state in aid of the civil authorities and has so directed the adjutant gen- eral.” SAYS COX TALKS NICE; ACTS OTHERWISE And on October 26, 1919: “In anticipation of the develop ment of a rioting condition at Can- ton, Ohio, the governor of Ohio (Jim- mie again) has deemed it necessary to assemble ,a sufficient number of state troops at Akron, Ohio, to be held in readiness to render aid to the civil authorities at Canton, and| has so directed the adjutant general.” The point of all this ta: Jimmie says, or tries to say, what folks like to hear and what he thinks | will get “him the most votes. Ho'r la past master at expediency and camouflaging his position. He's the| political trickster supreme. He's the} flopper, and wiggler and wobbler. He | pretends to be the great progressive | man, but he is the little, slicker: type} of politician, I believe the Atmericain people wit! | snow Jimmie Cox under and will elect Senator Harding because they do not want a president of the type| of wiggling Jimmy. Moore Quits Race; He'll Back: Miller Declaring that his candidacy would further the cause of the farmer-labor party, H. Alvin Moore, in a letter to William Schrieber, president of the Railway Men's Welfare league, an- nounces his withdrawal ne independ ent candidate for congress, He will support John I’. Miller. i) FREDERICK & NELSON & FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET RS STORE | {DOWN Women’s Winter Coats Offering Particularly f $29.50 $45.00 Good Values at HE accepted styles of Winter, in Woolens un- $35.00. usually fine for these prices, are offered in these groups. 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