Show REP REPUBLIC AID PARTY PARn HELD TO SCORN BY CUMMINGS i t Majority in Congress Accused Ac Ac- Accused of Waste in F Fruitless Fruitless Fruit Fruit- it- it less Inquiries LOUISVILLE Ky March 19 Was Wasteful expenditure of for committee committee- charged smelling was against the Republican majority in congress by Homer S S. Cummings chairman of the Democratic national committee in an address address' here hero last night at a dinner attended by Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic leaders of Kentucky The committees committees com com- Chairman Cummings said were were appointed appointed- to ascertain whether there had been any graft In the conduct conduct conduct con con- duct of the world war but Instead demonstrated that this was the cleanest cleanest clean clean- est est war ever fought In the history of civilization The finger of scorn does not point to one single Democratic official In all of broad America added Mr Cummings Cum- Cum I want to remind you that It does not lie in 11 the mouths of th those se who cond l cond conducted n ted the Spanish American war warto warto warto to indulge in the luxury of ot criticism What is there In this war to compare with the toe typhoid-infested typhoid camps of ot the war of 1898 1896 What is there In Inthis Inthis Inthis this war to compare with the paper- paper soled soled shoes shoes controversy of 1898 And what Is there m it this war to compare to to the embalmed beef scandal of the Spanish-American Spanish war We Ve have fought a great war for a n great cause and we have had a leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship which has carried America to greater heights of glory and power power- and splendor and honor than she has ever known before in her entire history REPUBLICAN INEPTITUDE The Republicans have been in control control control con con- of ot the senate and the house for eight ht months the chairman continued They wen went t in under false pretenses pretense They outlined d an elaborate program of reconstruction that looked very well wellin wellin in in- inthe the newspapers They ha have hae e not only delayed and indefinitely postponed the pe peace ce of ot the world interfered with American commerce and brought the rate of exchange tumbling down t to a It point hitherto unknown but aside from railroad legislation of doubtful value they have not passed one single sin single sin sin- n- n gle constructive act Had a Democratic congress been elected or a congress i in sympathy with the tho president the treaty of pe peace c would long ago have been ratified In Innumerable Innumerable In- In numerable avenues avenues of trade trado and and- com commerce merce would have been opened to American ent enterprise and halted ind industry industry indus indus- stry s- s try would have taken on new and d hopeful life Mr Cummings characterized th the Republican Re Re- publican p platform committee a 5 as as' a amo most mo unusual conglomeration of political po po- misfits QUEER CONGLOMERATION On that committee of h ho asserted asserted asserted as as- the they have havEl reactionaries find ud progressives they have hav and and Roose ve 1 t they they have hayed economists 1 and they have Lave ave reser- reser of ot all kinds mi mild resena- resena and wild they have enders bitter-enders they have capital capita r and pacifists and militarists ancy former farmer chairmen of the nep Republican n n na na committee and seventeen wom worn fen all n-aU all to go on a voyage of discovery for the tho purpose of ascertaining what Republican principles are are 4 Referring to the presence of a number number number num num- ber of ot women at t the dinner Mr Cummings Cummings Cummings Cum- Cum said aid the Demo Democratic part party possessed pos pos possessed an appeal to the women of America because of the social aS r g of the program which has been out outlined lined by its great leader and has which has been carried to such sl a o- o successful |