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COMPLETE TEXT OF SENATOR HARRISON'S KEY NOTE ADDRESS
DEMOGW UHGED
TO UNITE MSI
COMMON ENEMY
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MADISON SQUARE, GARDEN.'
N. Y„ June 24.—Following: is the j
complete text of Senator Pat Karri- j
son's keynote address, made at the:
opening: session of the Democratic |
national convention here today:
Chairman Hull, ladies and gentle
men: Forty-eight years ago in the
city of St. Louis the hosts of democ
racy met in convention to dedicate
themselves to purging corruption |
from the public service. We meet to-1
day for a rededication to the same
purpose. There were disgraced public
officials than, repudiated by their par
ty and under arrest: but today Fall
goes unmolested on his ranch in New
Mexico; Daugherty sat with presi
dential approval in the convention at
Cleveland, and Daugherty's attorney
was chairman of the committee cre
ated to oil the steam roller of the
, worst boss-ridden convention of a
generation. It was in that convention
in 1876 that democracy turned to that
superb and matchless leader, Samuel
J. Tilden, to bring the government
back to honesty and carry the party
to victory. It is particularly appro
priate that I read to you one plank
of the Democratic platform of that
year, written by that great New (
. Yorker:
“When the annals of this- repub
lic show the disgrace and censure of
a vice president; a. late speaker of
the house of representatives market
ing his rulings as a. presiding officer;
- three senators profiting secretly by
their votes as lawmakers; five chair
... men of the leading committees of
the late house of representatives ex
posed in jobbery; a late secretary of
the treasury forcing balances in
the public accounts; a late attorney
general misappropriating public
funds; a secetay of the navy en
riched or enriching friends by per
centages levied off the profits of con
' tractors; an ambassador to England
censured in a dishonorable specula
tion; the president’s private secre
tary barely escaping conviction upon
trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the revenue; a secretary of war
impeached for high crimes and mis
‘ demeanors —the demonstration is
complete that the first step in reform
must be the people’s choice of hon
est men from another party, lest the
disease of one political organization
infect the body politic and lest by
making no change of men or party
w« get no change of measures and
nf> real reform.”
The moral is plain: The country
will make its own application.
At the outset let it be understood
that this convention, composed of
the militant representatives of the
democracy of the nation, is no cold
storage affair. It is going to be red
hot, highly seasoned and well pre
pared. We were not sent here under
an executive order by the candidate
.. » ■ notify the people. We are here
by mandate of the people to name
the candidate—the next president of
the United States.
Friend of Business
The Democratic party is the friend
• of bu Iness, big and small; it delights
to -■ the reflected glory from burn
...j furnaces: contentment from
happy and prosperous farm homes;
the crowded lobbies of counting
houses; the .steady steams of heavily
load*'' uins; and the early bustle of
mining camps. Itt-aes not how lage
the scale or big the investment,
what it is most concerned about is
honesty in operation.
The corner stone of the Republic
an party is special privilege, and to
day its ip more firmly tightened
and its place more secure than al
any time in its long history. It 1
needs n cards to gain admittance in
the White, House, no password tn
I ' congressional committee rooms.
Crooked business needs only tr.
gesture or special privilege to wink
to make this administration under
stand 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
American masses and honst busi
ness are freed from its strangle hold.
They may direct their poisonous
gases at us. but no camouflage can
be contrived that will give covert
and protection to the Pharisee. They
can describe us as they may—hurl
ing anathemas will be futile—fm
; these guarded posts of favoritism
will be taken, these fortresses nt
special privilege and unjust power,
must fall.
In the guarded orchards of this
administration the golden apples of
i special privilege have been gathereft
ft by the favored few. It is the guar
••’• dian of every special interest. The
mother never guarded her tendei
'• young n ore zealously than has this
c" administration watched over th*
jiP'needs of its petted and 'pampered
"puppets.
’ -• Not only in the administration, but
in the enactment of laws these in
terests come first. The administra
; . tion’s late and lamented tax pro
. posals was grown in the Mellon
I ' patches ot special privilege. Its
propagation was a work of Repub-
■ lican art.
For a while it was thought to be I
■ a very beautiful, large, colorful, ami i
‘ juicy thing. It attracted unusual,
; (attention. The invited guests, a '
selected few in number, smacked ;
their lips in anticipation of the
i feast. But when it was examined !
{ and its parts dissected, its rotten
< ness was revealed. No setting was
ever more adroith staged than when
scheme of taxation first made
its debut. It was billed for passage
at the psychological moment. The
people were stooped under a heavy
Inad of taxation. For three long
years they hail felt their country
slipping through the results of a
riotous and debauched administra
tion. They had seen the natural
resources of this government dissi
pated. its chartered courses aban
doned. its leaders corrupted. They
saw a policy of passivity adding dis
credit abroad and bankruptcy at
home.
Their hearts were heavy and their
spirits low. Any ray of hope that
might bring the slightest relief was
■welcomed. When the secretary of
• the treasury offered his plan and the
president indorsed it. the American
people did not stop to study nor
** tarry to think. But reason follows
hysteria, and right ultimately tri
umphs.
What Mellon Plan Sought
What is this melon that Mellon
sought to cut'.’ It would have given
1.200 of the 3.585.95!> income-cix pay
ers in America 51 per cent of the
total reduction.
Under its benign provisions an In
come of 51.000.000 was to receive a
• reduction of $1,331,832, while an in
come of $3,000 would have received
only $8.75 reduction. Through its
.unrestricted earned income provi
sions it world hate open-'d an ave-
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nue of escape to every tax-dodging i
capitalist in America.
Written in the cold lines of that j
proposal was the inspiration of its
author, that the less exacted from
the highly favored few, and the more
demanded from the less-favorea
many, the greater the good to the
common country. The champions of
the proposal believe that prosperity!
should come from the crumbs that I
fall from the tables of the rich; tnai |
if you legislate solely to make the j
well-to-do prosperous their prosper!- i
ty will seep through upon those be
low. The Republcan party is the
ancient enemy of the income tax.
It is contrary to reactionary Repub
lican doctrine and inimical to Re
publican practices. The inome tax
was never intended to touch pover
ty. It exacts no settlements from
bankrupt courts forecloses nc
mortgages and forces no sales. Jt
is collected only where prosperity
smiles and earnings abtound. As a
means of raising revenue it is one
of our party’s priceless legacies, and
as such it shall be neither weakened
nor destroyed.
When the president and his sec
retary of the treasury, with all the
hosts of selfish interests, charged
on the battle front of the American
congress 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
Simmons in the senate and Garner
in the house we triumphed, not be
cause we were numerically strong,
but because we were assuredly right.
Through the democratic law every
taxpayer in America will get a 25
per cent reduction this year.
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 admin
istration 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 an--
nually.
Out of the total of 3,585,985 in
come-tax payers in America 3,580,-
585 will receive a greater reduction
in the Democratic, plan than thqy
would have received under the Mel
lon plan.
In the reduction of taxes the Dem
ocratic party sought greater reduc
tions and broader eliminations than
did the Republican nominee or the
secretary of the treasury. In the ad
ministration’s mad efforts to fore
stall democracy’s desire to effect
greater reductions than those rec
ommended by the administration the
treasury department juggled figures
and deceived the public.
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.
Said Taxes Must Go
The administration said that the
tax on candies, checks, notes, auto
mobile parts, amusement places,
drafts and soft drinks should re
main. The Democratic party said
those taxes must go..
The administration said that if we
would increase taxes on 3.580,585 in
come-tax payers and reduce the
taxes on 5,400, it would release
money for productive enterprises and I
increase the prosperity of all. The
Democratic party answered that, in
dubitable facts refuted such an ar
gument.
It was not reasoning they sought
nor facts they desired, but more
special privileges tn (he favored
few they craved.
In 1922, out of $2,879,000,000 as
sets listed for estate taxes, there
was not found enough tax-free se
curities to cover funeral expenses
For the year 1921 the total net in
come returns from business amount
el to $2,366,318,000, and only $47,-
000,000 of this amount was returned
by individuals whose incomes were
in excess of $70,000 annually. The
Democratic plan for reducing all I
taxes, hut reducing them equitable
on the theory of ability tn pay, will
result in releasing more money for
investments in productive enter
prises than would have the Mellon I
plan.
The Republican nominee in re
luctantly signing the measure de
clared for its immediate reform.
What does he mean by reform? Does
he propose to change the law by
transferring the burdens carried by
5.400 whose backs are broad to th?
three and one-half millions whose;
backs are bowed? Does he propose
to make up the reduction on the ;
5.400 favored few by resurrecting ’
the many nuisance taxes on the. un
favored many? Is that his challenge?
Then we accept it.
With the promises of the 1920
campaign to reduce the cost ot liv
ing resounding in our ears, the
country beheld in the passage of the
Fordney-McCumber tariff law the
most flagrant repudiation of cam-1
paign pledges in all the history of j
political parties. It was a law that;
reeked with special favors. Every I
line in it added to the living costs ,
of the American consumer. When I
the iniquitous Schedule K of the j
Payne-Aldrich law was enacted, car- j
rying an 11-cent duty a pound on
raw wool, the whole country was
aroused and drove the Taft admin- 1
istration from power. The defeat;
was decisive. Utah and Vermont
were the sole Republican survivors
Rut this same reactionary group. 1
tinder the inspiration of representa
tives of these twin states, ignored
the facts of recent history, and fas-i
toned upon the American people al
tariff rate on raw wool of 31 cents a
I pound. Tariff rates on countless ;
| other things were proportionately
j increased. Nothing escaped their
I deadly aim. In the framing of the
| law the time-honored Republican
J theory of equalizing the difference
i in cost at home and abroad was not
■ considered. The only question ask
j ed, How much protection do you
wan’.'.’ The so-called representatives
■ of the people surrendered complete
ly to the representatives of the pred
atory interests and playc ’ with
’ their masters the game of “tit for
tat.'' to the betrayal of the Ameri
can consumer and the replenish
■ ent of the Republican exchequer
Hypocrisy Revealed
Not only did it add $4,000,000,000
additional burden upon the- Ameri
can masses but it revealed the na-
I tion’s hypocrisy toward war-torn
, Europe. We maintain highly or
| trzinizod and efficiently managed
! humanitarian organizations to raise
j and distribute to the world s op
pressed. W e sometimes invade the
j national treasury, graciously to give
I to the needy of foreign lands. Amer
ica has never been unmindful of any
\ <>• di' i trcs< that ’a me t<» her
from any part nf the world. That
the spirit of the American heart,
let t his reactionary group that lias
brought ruin to the country and dis
credit to their party employed every
means to check Europe’s rehabilita
tion and shackle her trade. De
manding payments on the one hand,
’hey prevented them on the other’
It was a policy that enriched the
affluent and impoverished the needy
1 It closed the markets to ow farm
e,-« an ! IDe.i th* »>■ i<>»« of their pur
rh.tv?, ]t tientened the grip of the
I
I favored few and dampened the
; hopes of the struggling many.
> The doctrine of equal rights to
none and special favors to some
was never more firmly embedded
than tin the Eordney-.4b Cumber
tariff law.
As indefensible as are these two
l offsprings of governmental forma
! tion, they are not comparable to the
| .administration’s shipsubsidy pro-
I posal. Projected in the winter of
I 1922, following the chilling frosts of
that November election, it planned
with the aid of an army of lame
ducks, repudiated at home and fon
dled at Washington, to make a
“quick get-away." They sought to
i lay upon the American taxpayer an
additional burden of $850,000,000 to
subsidize, the shipping trust. Your
Democratic representatives in con
gress, aided by the patriotic progres
sives, withstood their mad on
slaughts—for three months held
them at bay, and through p highly
organized filibuster prevented the
passage of the measure..
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
proposal. If that proposal had be
come a law, the immediate appro
priations to carry it into effect
would have denied any reduction of
taxes this year, or in the immediate
years to come. The' Harding-Cool
idge administration was willing to
give millions to the shipping trust,
but not one cent to the American
soldier.
The platform of the Republican
party and the speech of the tempo
rary chairman of the Republican con
vention proclaims the budget law
as a Republican accomplishment—
the disarmament conference, the re
duction of the number of govern
mental employes, the decreases in
the amount of annual appropria
tions and the national debt as. Re
publican achievements. Jt is re
grettable that we can not accord it
this wild acclaim.
Budget Plan Democratic Idea
The budget law was urged at the
instance of a. Democratic president
and received the vote of every Dem
ocratic representative. It was ve
toed by the Democratic president
only because an unconstitutional
provision was included. It was then
passed by a Republican congress
and signed by a Republican presi
dent in the proper and constitu
tional language suggested by the
Democratic president in his veto
message.
Ihe 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 re
newed by Borah, Republican, yes,
but one who wisely declined to be
come associated with the bankrupt
Republican partnership in the com
ing campaign; one whose opposition
to the reactionary control of his par
ty has ever been constant and ag
gressive. Under his leadership, and
over the most unrelenting opposition
of the administration, the sentiment
was crystallized, the law enforced,
and the disarment conference called.’
tlUe that the more
than thrrie years this administration
has controlled the government the
| number of civil employes in the gov.
ernment service and the
propnations have been reduced.
I hose reductions came, however not
because of any Republican reforms,
rhey were the natural reductions
that flow from a readjustment of ab-
I normal conditions occasioned by the
war. If vve did not have bigger
things to discuss, greater achieve
ments to proclaim, and higher pur
poses to announce, we might claim
that in 18 months of Democratic ad
ministration, immediately following
the war, not only did we reduce ap
piopriations in larger amounts than
ever did the Republican party but we
reduced the national debt by more
than two and one-half billions of dol
lars and the number of civil cm
| ployes by 300.000.
Amid all t his dccept ivp ( - rv of emn
omy let it he remembered that this
Republican party, during its less than
four years of control, has expended
$9,592,000,000 more than did the Dem
ocratic administration during dim
whole five years immediately preced
ing the war
Corruption Is Inexcusable
The American people have taken
the measure of this administration.
It may have been able to free itself
from sectional idolatry and to have
I looked beyond the sky lines of New
, England. It might have heard the
I groans of the distressed farmers of
| the west and .sympathetically re
sponded. It might have sought mar
kets and removed the tariff jams in
the channels through which our sut-
I plus products move. It might have
visualized world conditions and
courageously assumed the part be
fitting a great nation. It might hav P
: reduced Jiving costs, redeemed
1 pledges to the soldier, followed a defi-
I nite domestic program, and adopted
| a broad and statesmanlike foreign
! policy, but, even then, it would have
I availed it nothing with its carnival
!of corruption. The least that the
I American people expect of their pub
i lie servants is common honesty. They
I will forgive their passivity, overlook
| their indiscretions, and, too often,
forget their impotency, but to them
j corruption is inexcusable, graft is in
; defensible.
j Pizarro and his adventurous band,
as they set their faces toward tiie
golden west, were not more inspired
• in quest of treasure than this adrnin
jisti.ition. 1 hey were looking for
! sold, heaps of gold, shimmering.
I gleaming gold. They did not wait
<to touch tlie nerves of mother earth
nor drag the current’s flow in their
; mad enthusiasm; in greedy haste thev
grasped the sparkling 'and. then > as't
it down with curses when they found
the glittering grains were not of
gold. l--om cabinet head to Repub
lcan representatives in congress,
ike a plague, the d sease spread It
became epidemic. and while the
of’' hi °° " U ‘ Ule{ ’ l I’hysician
of this adminisi ration in sullen si
lence refused to prescribe a reniedv
or attempt a cure. Gallant soldiers
who never fltnched in battle or cow-
■ed in action, who. like madmen,
i threw themselves into the jaws of
death fcr the glory of their countrv.
i were robbed; widows’ mites and or
l phans pittances were stolen- seats
; tn the United States senate placed
upon the auction block and sold like
i met<‘handise: natural resources se
j cretly squandered; courts of the land
mocked; congressional committees
defied, and th. scales of justice tip
j ped by the weight of gold. Well do
| >hese subalterns of the administra
ition know that there is more blood
in the body than what mantles n the
i cheek, more p:v>fit in the office than
: exhibited in the salary.
Mould Have Halted Probes
. ' 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 tonfidence.” "We are sav
ing the government by potto mi-g
>n operati n to ('reserve the life of
SENATOR PAT HARRISON,
of Mississippi, who sounded the
“keynote” at the Democratic
national convention in New
York Tuesday.
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the nation itself.” Theirs is the
Spartan morality. Not ’the corrup
tion but the discovery constitutes
the crime. Instead of applauding the
investigators, they make war upon
the investigation. Instead of con
demning the exposed and praising
the exposure, they praise the exposed
and condemn the exposure. Decry
them as they will, the American peo
ple know that it was these investi
gations—conducted by Democrats,
yes, but through Republican com
mittees —that sent Albert Fall to
Three Rivers a disgraced man and
proven criminal. It was these investi
gations that revealed such a gross
indifference and utter incapacity of
the navy department and compelled
Edwin Denby’s retirement from the
cabinet. It was these investigations
that unfolded a condition in the de
partment of justice that shocked
sensibilities 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 teil the truth and un
bosom the criminating secrets
against their own 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 in
vestigations that informed the
American public that, the first official
act of Calvin Coolidge was the ap
pointment of a private secretary
who had traded and trafficked in
public patronage. It was these in
vestigations that led a Republican
senate to convict its own Republican
national committee for “framing” a
Democratic senator because he dared
to do the right.
In this campaign let the con
scienceless leaders of this adminis
tration deride investigations. Let
them accuse the congress of de
teriorating let them continue to shield
those who conspired against the
government; but in this dark drama
the American people know arid pre
fer the highly patriotic and cleans
ing work of Thomas J. Walsh to the
foul infamv and thievery of Albert
J. Fall.
Nothing in burlesque or opera
bouffe is comparable io the scene
recently enacted at Cleveland in the
efforts of the silent Sphinx of the
Botomac to exile and expatriate
those Republican senators who dared
to oppose his mandate. It is some
what a pathetic story—the treat
ment there accorded our Republican
senatorial friends.
But yesterday the word of Uaesar
might have stood against the
world;
Now lies he there, and none so poor
to do him reverence.
They dared to vote an investiga
tion of a member of the president's
official family, and tliey are penal
ized 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 justice.
Boss-Ridden Con vent ion
By every device known to trained
camoufleurs, by every subtle process
of legerdemain, the Republican nom
inee, in true Pharisaical fashion,
sought to divorce himself from his
former comrades in arms. The plan
is obvious the plot is futile. Neither
the president nor his Falstafflan
army, headed by General Butler and
Sergeant Stearns, can conceal the
ugly fact that the Cleveland conven
tion was the most highly organized,
boss-ridden, and oleaginous ever
held in America. The American peo
ple will not be deceived. They will
not permit themselves to be used
as pawns in a game of “hide and
seek."
It was peculiarly ap; ropriate 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 per
manent chairman of the convention.
But assignments for that convention
were most fitting—one was available
because of the theory that “dis
tame lends enchantment to the
view’’ and his lack of knowledge of
tilings that are; the oilier because
he was the only public man in the
United States willing to offer hiti
self as a living sacrifice upon the
I senatorial altars of Wyoming in de
fense of the Teapot Dome.
The mask is off. Piercing through
; the political machinations of that
i convention we see the sinister lips
lot special privilege. The leopard
I does not change his spots overnight.
[ Neither can the Republican party
: be reformed by resolutions nor by
presidential ukase.
The American people will know
that they are dealing with a sys
tem: that even though Hanna,
I Quay, and Penrose are dead, their
spirits go maching on in the per
isonagts of th* 5 Three Musketeers of
I present-d.iy Republicanism—Butler.
I Stearns, and Slemp. These bosses
'.ire doing business in th< 5 same old
I way according to the same old rule.
The Republican organization is
no" trying to salvage something
from the wreck of the old party.
The proceedings and platform of the
. Cleveland convention portend the
j loss of rhe congress, and they are
■ now madly fighting to save the pres
; idency.
No Blot on Democratic Party
With an administration honey
ombed with graft and _ r< 1<
with tortupii'in - ref oing 'o
reflect upon tlm innumri I ° R o f>i:':
lican investigations into
tures of the preceding Democratic
administration. Following that pe
riod —the most momentous in out*
country’s history—a period that call
ed for the mobilization of our strong
est and best, a period that necessi
tated the expenditures of $40,060,-
000,000 to prosecute and win the
war —no similar period ever called
for such a reaojuatment of govern
mental agencies and the prompt
j prosecution of expenditures. Foi
llowing our country's triumph in
i arms and victory in the chancel
' ieries of the world, through a cam
; paign of lavish expenditures and
; appeals to the prejudices of groups,
we lost control of the congress. As
I soon as it was organized the Repub-
■ lican party inaugurated a scheme of
j investigations that were the most
: far-reaching and costly in the his
i tory of the government. Fifty-one
• separate committees were appointed,
j controlled by 51 separate Republican
majorities. They searched every
Democratic record; they followed
every hint. Dike a dragnet, they
mobilized every bit of gossip and
ran down every rumor. Investiga
tions covered the whole country and
I extended beyond the seas. What
were the results? Where is the
tainted dollar spent? Where was
the defrauded soldier? Name the
Democratic cabinet minister dis
graced. Those Republican investi
gations, partisanly and relentlessly
I conducted, did not point to a single
act that reflected discredit upon any
Democratic official. 1 call upon the
Republican nominee.. Calvin Cool
idge; I call upon the members of
the Republican cabinet; I call unon
every Republican member of the
congress —I call unon the Republic
an party to name the Democratic
culprit.
But it is not graft alone that of
fers in the two administrations such
happy comparisons. During these
little more than three years we have
seen the present administration float
along, tossed by every current, fan
ned by every breeze, without pur
pose, program, or policy. Its lead
ers have not led, and its organiza
tion has not funtioned. Upon a
thousand issues they have hoisted
the white flag of surrender. Amid
all the confusion that has divided
this administration domestic prob
lems have gone unsolved. We have
felt the slowing down of industry,
the increase of unemployment, the
diminishing purchasing power of the
farmer's dollar. Starving herds, rot
ting grain, and rusting spindles,
have not stirred the sleeping spirit
or warmed/the chilly coolness of the
president. He has slowly traveled
upon the vehicles of his paper ve
toes, vainly protesting but not press
ing forward to the task, assuming
but not asserting, flinching but not
fighting. In every issue he has quib
bled; in every fight he has floun
dered. Never was party leadership
so repudiated and the partv- so bad
ly 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 litera
ture of that day. Here is the his
toric appeal of the so-called 31 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
civilized nations to prevent war, has
earnestly considered how we may
contribute most effectively to that
end by our votes in the coming elec
tion. . . . The question be-
tween the candidates is not whether
our country should join in such as
sociation. . . . The Republican
party stands for agreement among
the nations to preserve the peace of
the world. . . . The Republican
party is bound by every considera-
I tion of good faith to pursue such a
! course until the declared object is
; a,ttained. . . . We therefore be-
[ lieve that we can most effectively
j advance the cause of international
I co-operation to promote peace by
i supporting Mr. Harding for election
to the presidency.”
That was one of the spurious coins
of 1920.
Present Pitiable Spectacle '
Through their miserable effort
and vain meanderings to extricate
themselves and their party from the
morass of their own deceit, they
have nauseated the American peo
ple by the pitiable spectacle they
present. They aureole their prom
ises with such beautiful rhetoric and
vamp the truth to such an extent
that they do not know the direction
in which they are going. Henr.v
Cabot Lodge, who made Coolidge at
j Chicago and unmade him at Wash-
I ington. "with rolling eyes spews
I fine speech about duty and like
I phantasmal fancies of his flighty
mind,” attempts to weave new webs
• of intrigue, and to again ensnare
and mislead the American people.
I Too long has this cultured gentle
! man and his intriguing cohorts de
; nied peace to a suffering world, and
lin their new-hatched world court
I schemes an outraged people can not
j and will not again be defrauded.
The lamented Harding, in his big-
I 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 light direction. Jt was merely a
move, but a movement toward the
broader and more inviting fields of
peace, and he deserved the backing
of his party, and the co operation of
every peace-loving American citi
zen. Coolidge pledged himself to
carry out the policy, and yet from
the day he took up the task laid
down by Harding he has made only
a bow in that direction. The world
court at best can decide oniy in
ternational questions unanimously
submitted to it by the parties to the
controversy. Indeed, it is not neces
sary for them to abide by the de
cisions of the court unless they
agree to do so. And yet. simple as
is the plan, earnest as are these na
tions that are co-operating to make
it a success and draw to a broken
[ world the light of hope and peace,
I the same serried ranks in the Unit
ed States senate are pursuing their
I same indefensible tactics, bent on
1 destruction and to reap their ven
geance.
Recently they have gained a
healthy new recruit in “Caius Cas
sius” Pepper, the distinguished key
noter and keystoner. They are not
willing to employ their power and
talents against our country joining
the present world court, but they
seek to chloroform lhe existing plan.
;to dismantle it. to destroy it. Thus.
I Inis ' unholy conspiracy against the
1 peace of the world is carried for-
I ward, while silence, deep ami :m
--: penetrable, broods over the Pott PU'C.
For months the senate foreign rela
tions committee had this question
I befoi it Numerous pl ins prest nt
; ed and sharp differences constantly
arising between the advocates of
! each. And yet the president through
iit all did not raise his voice. No
i words of reprobation fell from his
' lips. He was a? silent as the tornb
And not until the committee had i
taken action and when the final j
! c-;rta n wa-a ri’awu upon :he < losing;
I -r,= of -h- ■■ m_t< s-s .’id he : tke the !
L-üblx ina> his confalcrue touching
» I
his views. And thus the silence of
Calvin Coolidge is acclaimed by his
votaries as golden. Grover Cleve
land once said: "It is not the mere
slothful acceptance of righteous po
litical ideas, but the call to action
for their enforcement and applica
tion that tests the endurance and
moral courage of men.” What
America, needs now is not a sphinx,
but a. Paul Revere to awaken it and
call it back to duty and high re
solve. Oh, for one in the White
House whose heart might be melted
and courage arottsed to’ sympathize
and to fight. Would that we might
once more see in that exalted pOsi
tion one with the courage of a Jack
son. the militant honesty of a Cleve
land, the matchless statesmanship,
far-flung vision, and the fine fight
ing qualities of a Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson’s Spirit Still With Party
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
visualize and prescribe for 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 at St.
Albansj the late commander-in-chief
of the world's greatest fighting
forces in its greatest crisis, that will
inspire harmony in this convention
and assure victory in November.
How different were the foreign
policies -of our government under
Woodrow Wilson and under the i
Harding-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 representatives to sit in; not
observers without authority, but
representatives 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 I
every clime were drawn closer to I
us. No humanitarian cause, no j
movement to check wars, settle dis-'
putes, or promote world peace but
promptly received the sympathetic!
consideration of this government. It |
was through such a policy that
America 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 fhree
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- |
splration of this administration’s for
eign, as well as domestic policy. The
magic significance of its flow has
awakened the state department to
an interest not only in Mexico and j
the United States of Colombia, but i
away off in the Near East. Truly .
the administration might have, boast
ed of two “secretaries of oil.”
When the Christian women and
children of Armenia were being wan
tonly given to the Turkish sword,
when thousands of these Armenian
followers of Christ, driven like cat
tle into exile, were dying of starva
tion and exposure in the highways;
when Christian churches and Chris
tian homes were being given to the
flames and ministers of the gospel
importuned 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 refused to intervene to save ;
Christian lives. Christian churches,
and Christiari homes went to the
front with vigor and decision.
They who were indifferent when
the lives of women and children
were involved hastened to the con
ference with the Turks in pursuit of
the Chester oil concession an(j be- j
came a party to the infamy of the |
Lausanne treaty—a treaty which •
abandons our missionaries to the
Turks and betrays Armenia into the
hands of assassins.
Show this administration an oil
well and it will show you a foreign
policy.
Leaders Hav f . Kun Away
With a. world dismayed by disor
der and steeped in sorrow we have
waited patiently for this giant na
tion to assume its commanding part.
But no; their leaders, like slackers
moved by fear, have turned and run
away. Amid all this world’s confu
sion, with its broken spirit and lost
confidence, with wreck and ruin
throughout Europe, this administra
tion has complacently looked on and
skulked. Never before in all its
history has 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, 10, their
supplications have been ignored and
their pleas rejected.
The Democratic party offers no I
apology for its foreign policies. When
the Woodrow Wilson plan for \yorld •]
adjustment was wrecked by the
selfish and jealous hands of reac
tionary Republican leadership, world
hope for peace was shattered and
European rehabilitation indefinitely
deferred. The tragedj - is they wreck
ed our plan and offered nothing in
stead. This administration can not
escape its responsibility for the fe
verish condition 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 j
western plains agriculture languishes i
for want of attention. Farmers are •
in the throes of despair. More than I
600.000 in that great wheat section
alone have been driven to bank- i
ruptcy during this administration.
Would you know the difference be- I
tween normalcy and prosperity? i
Here it is:
In the Democratic year of 1917 the |
country experienced seven national!
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 national bank failure.
• Within less than four years of Re- i
publican normalcy more than 1.357
hanks have failed, and millions of I
people bankrupted.
During the first three months of .
this year 265 banks have failed, with !
total liabilities of over $100,000,000.
The d stressing conditions that ’
confront agriculture when other in
dustries specially favored are pros- :
perous should at least appeal to the •
-tony hearts of this administration. :
But the Republican nominee and his, !
react onary followers in the congress
have not permitted any governmen
tai relief being extended to them, for ;
the reason, as very impressively •
stated by the Republican nominee on
! be 6. 1923, in his first mes
sage ’o the congress:
"Those farmers.” he said, “who ’
r; se their living on their own lands j
-e not greatly in distress.” Those
sentiments come from the heart |
throbs of the Republican nominee,
and the present deplorable pl ght of *
the American farmer is due to cal- ,
kus indiffernce and their cowardly e
isolated foreign policy. No econ, '
mist but knows that this selfish 1
ncl'cy. without vision. responsible '
for th= riXom ion r>' . foreic 1
r-’dc a-1 h" H-r-'dity of business .
I ntil stri' k r n Europe revives we
THURSDAY, JUNE 2fl, 1024.
can not hope for full settlement in
our foreign debt. Allied payments
to us depend upon German payments
to them. But e ven though the repa
ration question may be settled and
Germany exerts every effort to pay,
how can she pay if she is economical
ly 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 fac
tory wheel may whirl, every field be
tilled, and every agency of corn
merce and industry work overtime,
yet they cannot continue unless some
market is found for their wares.
There can be no market if the tariff
gates ar e closed against her by oth
er countries as are our own. Such
a sordid policy of selfishness upon
the part of this administration not
only delays European rehabilitation
but forces upon the American mass
es higher prices for home-made
goods. Custom receipts do not prove
the sqccess or failure of tariff laws.
A tariff that in normal times might
be prohibitive, in abnormal times is
but a license to the conscienceless
profiteer ’to extort from and gouge
the American consumer. Exports
from a country, the purchasing pow
er of whose money is worthless, may
be expected to seek those markets
that offer the best purchases, no
matter how high the tariff. In the
abnormal conditions of the world to
day the result is that, with an exor
bitant tariff, our government may
perhaps get more revenue but the
European seller will receive far less
for his product, and the American
consumer will be compelled to pay
more for his purchase.
Democratic Party Record
A record of promises fulfilled and
pledges kept attest the loyalty of the
Democratic party. The Jong list of
unparalleled achievements of the
Wilson administration are among the
glorious assets of our party. It is a
• record that should stir the soul of
i America and thrill every Democratic
I heart. What is that record?
! A tariff law which bred no boun
[ ties and spawned no special privi
| leges. A tariff law that sought no
! taxes from the tables of the poor,
I but raised them from the fortunes of
' the rich. A tariff law that unset-
I tered buoyant hope and fledged am
bition’s best efforts. A tariff law
that transformed a. weapon of op
pression into an instrument of use
fulness. A tariff law so nicely ad
justed to world conditions that our
international trade balance reached
I the highest peak in all its history. >
Uninfluenced by war conditions,
at its lowest ebb it gave to the Unit
jed States a favorable balance of
j trade $380,000,000 more than the
I present indefensible law afforded at
■ its highest. At its peak it exceeded
I by $3,000,000,000 the highest under
I the Republican law.
I A federal reserve law that eman
cipated banking from the domination
of a inoney 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 cure
for industrial ills. A law which the
temporary chairman of the Cleveland
convention said “Serves as a bulwark
to the financial life of the nation
and was so helpful during the war
• should be left alone.” We will leave
i it alone, and not one of the pillars
| upon which it rests will be removed,
I but wo will not permit a. reactionary
Republican leadership, dominated by
selfish groups, to divert it from its
real purpose and turn over its ad
ministration to its pliant tools.
A record that carved new Janes
of trade and opened up additional
markets.
A record that gave confidence to
business and sent the sunshine of
I happiness and the glow of prosperity
| into every American home.
A record that filled the pay envel
opes of all wage earners and piled
high every bank with countless re
sou ices.
A record that lifted agriculture
from the low depths to which the
Republican party had tossed it to a
commanding p] a , p )n American
thought and attention—a place at
which credit and transportation fa
< ilities to th*> farmers were made
available and the distribution, ««le,
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 filled public offices
with men of 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
( dir] the wheels of industry sing sn
sweetly and the flow o f commerce
I move sn smoothly.
A record that blazed the wav tn
new heights of idealism. shot
through with wise and humane pol
icies.
_ A record of days when human
rights were dominant, and through
the force of our moral leadership
America caused a spiritual awak
ening throughout the world. Those
were mighty days. In every foreign
capital America personified the high
est and the best, and beneath the
folds of its flag all peoples looked
for shelter and protection.
Restore the Government
! With this small part of the record
i frosh in the minds of the. American
I ]>ooplp wo enter this contest deter
mined to restore the government to
! its rightful eminence.
I We will wipe from its escutcheon
| the stains of this administration.
• We will restore dignity and integrity
■in public service. Me will remove
the scars of normalcy and revive ;
prosperity. We will’recover and
I conserve our national resources. We I
will drive every rascal from high po- •
| sition and see to it that self-con-1
l fessed and high criminals who now ;
run at large unafraid, shall not go
j further unwhipped of punishment. i
n administration steeped in cor- i
, ruption and looseness in the observ-
• a nee of la w naturally breeds immor
aliiy and disrespect for law.
i The Democratic party will have I
• neither pets nor puppets to protect !
or corrupt cabinet members to cod- !
die.
We will rigidly enforce the law, i
whether the violator be a bloated '
trust magnate, a congressional bribe
taker, an embezzler of the public do- i
j main, or a disreputable bootlegger,
i W e will eliminate governmental
favoritism and strike from the stat
utes every discriminating provision
that takes from “the mouth of labor
l the bread it earns.”
We will readjust tariff rates and
• reduce transportation charges.
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We will lay. bare campaign bribery
and punish election frauds.
We will go 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 nni
again place it on a par with that of
other industries.
We. will remove, from the admin
istration of the civil service every
influence of fraud and inaugural*
efficiency in government.
We will put a stop to Republican
procrastination and adopt a progres
sive reclamation policy.
Recognizing our obligations as a
great humane power, we will assume
in manly fashion our responsibili
ties to the word.
We will pursue the same high
course that has ever inspired the
leaders of Democracy, unterrified by
those' who threaten to destroy and
unmoved by those who seek selfish
ly to control.
Neither the of radicalism or
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
course, patronizing no isms and pay
ing tribute to no extremes.
Jt is the party that never bartered
its brithright to serve the hour nor
allowed expediency to dominate .
where right was involved.
Jt will wage war for the protec
tion of the rights of property as zeal
ously as it will battle against the
guaranties of special privilege. At
every cost it will defend the liber
ties and the constitutional rights
the citizen in the same sturdy way
as it will assail bureaucracy and
centraliz.ed government.
These principles are just as prec
ious today as when they were pro
claimed at Runnymede, revivified by
the immortal Jefferson in the im
perishable parchment of our Declara
tion of Independence, and indelibly
written in everlasting terms into the
Constitution of the United States.
Victory Is Within Grasp
Ladies and gentlemen of the con
vention, may 1 'say in closing that
this is a Democratic year. Victory
is within our grasp if we but reach
out for it. Let us remember that
too much is at stake for the hideous
form of friction to frown upop this
convention. Our guns and all our
guns against the common enemy.
Nothing 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 wick
ed. Strategy is no sin. Far better
is it for the American people and
the future of the Democratic party
that in this convention we deny to
ourselves some vaunted expression
or surrender some temporary advan
tage that we may succeed in this
campaign than tenaciously to per
sist and lose.
A great duty and ia high responsi
bility rests upon us in this solerrin
and critical hour of the nation’s life.
Every impulse 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
humanity everywhere evorting us
onward, the great army of Demo
cratic men and women will not re
treat before the enemy upon th*
groat battlefield of this campaign.
We shall not fail.
No matter who may l»e 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
o fthe government. And as we fight
this great battle there will accom-l
pany us the invisible presence of
the fathers of Democracy. It would
seem now we can hear the soft voice I
of sweet reasonableness coming to
us from Monticello, the voice of
"Old Hickory” coming across' the
Blue Ridge from the Hermitage, arid
from lhat historic crypt at St. Albans
We hear the mighty voice of Wood-'
row Wilson, wistfully calling to us!
"To you, from failing hands, we
throw the torch.” "Hold it high!"
“Hold it high!” "Carry on, carry
on; keep the faith, keep the faith!"
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