| Show 4 i REPUBLICAN C Cl l CONGRESS IN COMPETE tT U I q t 4 PARTY KEYNOTE J SOUNDED AT CONVENTION A N National Chairman n Compares programs and Performances L of Organizations d SAN SAN F FRANCISCO Juno In In adDressing ad- ad Dressing the national Democratic con con- to today ay upon his installation con I as r tc ot of the gathering Homer Cummings chairman of ot the D Democratic r national committee sp spoke kc as f and ladles gentlemen n e o of the e convention conven- conven n t. t jl t tion this At-this high hour o when h t the des des- j- j v not only of of political parties partes but of ot peoples are at stake when social unrest Is everywhere re apparent apprent when existing V forms ot of of government are being challenged chal- chal challenged nd and and- their very foundations I i or or swept or wept aw away y It i Is well el for us I here here ere in In to pause e for a period r of ot solemn deliberation paus I I we ve who assemble in tn great con con- con A counsel together r. r not no merely as 7 members of or a party but as children of or the republic Lve Love of oC country and devotion devotion devo- devo devotion tion to human service should purge our 4 hearts of all al unworthy or misleading mo- mo V tives Let us fervently pray for a Divine t. t blessing upon nil all that we do or O under- under take Let us pledge ourselves anew to equality of oC opportunity the unity of oC our country countr above bove the Interests of ot groups or classes casses and ad the maintenance of ot the high honor of America in her dealings with wih 4 other oiher nations The people will wi shortly shorty determine which political instrumentality is best suited suied to their purposes most responsive to their needs They he will wi have before them many lany platforms and many promises In what direction will will wI they the turn tur There is no better beter wa way of Judging the the future than by the past We ask ak therefore that the people t from the passions and the prejudices of ot the day dayto to the consideration of a record as s clear cear as it Is enduring s REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP The Republican party was unsuccessful unsuccessful In ln the elections of 1912 because it haci haa ff T persistently ty served special interests and f had lost touch with the spirit of ot the tle t. t r tm Thos Those who controlled Its Is destiny vi r derived derie their political inspiration from i the the good of ot Mark Ha Hanna Harina na and J i neither desired a new day daynor nor or were will will- wl- wl i iJ g ing to recognize a new day when it had ij dawned To each ach pressing problem th they merely to to reapply the he processes y jS ii of t an antiquity vj y Th There rt were elements in the Republican I l party which which- h were Intolerant or oy its t mental I Vy 1 1 sloth loth and moral Irresponsibility These Influences sought to Aa gain narty gain In narty Darty con control I I J in 1912 and again In 1916 They renewed the the hopeless struggle gle at the convention I recently Despite held these at Chicago efforts l b the leaders who who haye hye ye manipulated the party mechanism for more than thai a generation arc aro still tl in I undisputed control control The Republican platform reactionary I T T i and provincial is the very very vey apotheosis of pol political tC I expediency Filled with pre I mediated sl slanders slanders- and vague promises it I Will wIIl 11 be be erched in v ui v UL v- v str Uve suggestion for the reformation of the conditions which It criticises and deplores The oppressed peoples of the earth will wI look lole to It in vain van It I contains I no no mess message g of hope for or Ireland no word worl 4 of ot mer mercy y for Armenia and It I conceals a sword sord for Mexico It I i Is the work of met men i concerned more with wih material things than thant aj t wih with human rights It I contains no noi no i i- i thought no purpose which can give Im Yv pulse or thrill to those who love lbert liberty and hope to make the world t safer and Y place happier place for the average a S man I DEMOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENTS 1 V The Dem Democratic party Is an v f h. party party party-a a a free Cree parly party owing owing no allegiance to any class cass or group or special Interest interests r k- k I kWe We Ve were able to take up n d carry carry through through to success the great progressive program program- outlined in ln our platform of 1912 During the months which Intervened between be- be tween teen March 4 4 1913 1513 13 and the outbreak of the world war we placed upon tue Ule statute books of ot our country more effective constructive con- con conI I. I i. i e and remedial legislation than the Republican party had placed there in In i a a. generation a I The Income tax income tx wa was part of the reven revenue e or ortho 01 the tho country countr thereby our u law jaw of ot the the the reproach reproach of being unjustly burden burden- burdensome some to the poor The extravagances and ana na of ot the tariff tem were were re removed removed re- re re-I re moved and a nonpartisan tariff commission commis commIs- ion sion Ilon was was' established so that future re revisIons revisions re- re visions might be made Tn n the light of ot accurate ac- ac accurate curate cuate Information scientifically and impartially impartially im Im- im- im partially obtained Pan Pan Americanism was encouraged and the bread thus cast cst upon the International waters water came cams back to us many fold The he great geat reaches of ot Alaska were opened up to commerce and development devel devel- o ment Dollar Dolar diplomacy was destroyed I IA A corrupt lobby was driven from the national na- na capitol An effective seamen's na-I na act j was adopted The federal trace commission com com- mission was created created Child labor legisla- legisla tion ton was enacted The parcel post and and the rural free delivery delver were developed pst A J good gOd roads bill bEll bl and a rural credits act r were passed A secretary of labor was given a I seat In the cabinet t ot of the president presIdent dent dent hour Eight-hour laws were adopted he he Cla Clayton on amendment to the Sherman Y V antitrust act was passed freeing Amerlean Amer- Amer mer- mer lean Scan labor and taking it from the category cate- cate gory pory or of commodities The Smith Lever Lever bill bt for th the Im Improvement of agricultural conditions was as enacted A A corrupt practIce practice practice tice act was adopted A well wel considered was passed Federal employment employment em em- f were bureaus u rl- rl created rb 8 Farm a loan r banks postal savings g banks a and the i federal reserve system were established These Thee enactments and many other pro- pro visions of ot a remedial character had a cleansing and quickening effect upon the economic life le of our country count The farmer tamer was as freed treed from the deadening effects of ot usurious financial lal control Labor was given Us Magna agna Charta Chara of ot liberty Bustness Business Bust Busi- ness and finance were released from the thralldom of ot uncertainty and hazard The economic life of America was was was' refreshed by i he the vitalizing breath of economic 1 I. I freedom This hi extraordinary narration sounds like Uke 3 a platform of ot promises The sober s. s fact is that It i is an inadequate recital of or t actual iC performance rf It constitutes D Democracy's De- De nJ t response to the demands ofA of ofA A A fi social justice It I Is our answer to the z antiquated slander stander that the Democratic 1 S. S V 1 5 party is s I unable to understand the great greatS geat S lie affairs of ot the country z THE FEDERAL FEDERAl RESERVE SYSTEM If 1 the Democratic party had pUshed nothing more than the passage of or orthe the federal reserve act act tt It would be enS entitled en en- j titled to the enduring enduIng gratitude of the theS S S nation naton This act supplied the country K with an n elastic currency controlled byS by S. S j the Amerian American people Panics the Panics the recur recur- S r ring Ting phenomena of disaster which the Republican party could neither control Tier or explain re re are now but a memory tinder Under Under Un Un- der the Republican system there was s 's an nver avre e of one bank failure lalure every ever ty-one ty days day for a a. period of nearly forty fory eats eal s Alter the passage of the federal federl reserve system there were tn In 1916 1915 fourS fourS four tour bank f failures lures In 1916 and 1917 three S S bank failures In 1918 one bank bak failure ard and aad in 1919 19 no bank failures at all al The federal federal reserve system passed over theS the k opposition of ot the leaders ot or the Republican S lican party enabled America to with wih- wih withstand stand the strain of war waz war without shock or t panic and Ultimately made our country the gr greatest teEt creditor na nation on ot the world I ACHIEVEMENTS IN WAR WAR WR I And then the great war lr Ul- Ul b by the the- logical steps of ot nees V onri peace loving nation was drawn M v Va I I I Into the The Tho necessary war legI leg leg- was quI quickly kly supplied I A war finance corporation was cre cre- War risk Insurance was provided Shipbuilding laws reestablished AmerIcas AmerIca's Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's leas supremacy upon the seas The of office of- of flee fice of ot alien alen property custodian was as cre cre- A war Industries board was vas A war trade board w was vas s created Food an and fuel regulations were formu formu- Vast loans were successfully floated Vocational training was was pro pro- 11 rl f r vided Ld A I n national council of defense e was created Industry was su successfully c mo mo- mo I Almost overnight the factories of the i nation naton were ere made a part of ot the war ma- ma i 1 chine and ere the tie miraculous revival of the shipping industry filled tied the ocean lanes Janes I with wih our transports LOur Our fleet laid the North sea mine barrage bari bar- bar i I rage rage w Wo We sent fighting craft craf to every I sea and brought new new ew courage and ln- ln 1 i I r the U the crucial fi fight ht against again In In- transporting our troops to France I we never lost losta a man an in a ship convoyed by the American nav navy One of ot the first decisions was between the volunteer system and the selective draft Many lIany patriotic citizens strongly deprecated conscription and dreaded its Is possibilities Th The administration however however however how how- ever placed its Influence behind the measure secured its Is passage and made possible the winning o the war It I proved a democratic system assuring assur assur- ing equal service equal danger and equal IO opportunity At one stroke of the pen bount bounty jumping and the hired substitutes I lutes that had ad disgraced the management manage manage- 1 I ment melt of ot the Civil Civi war were made i sible The The selection of ot men to go to the front was placed laced not merely in the I hands hards of the civil authorities but actually inthe inthe in in- the hands of ot th the friends and nd neighbors of ot the men eligible for service No fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental law lw was ever administered I funda-I with wih such such scrupulous honor Not on one one- breath of ot scandal touched this legislation and i j iso so ao 80 cheerfully was it accepted that today the term tern draft dodger is an epithet ot ot of I reproach in any communIty SE SELECTION OF F PERSHING PESHING i. i Partisanship was put aside in the se se selection selection se- se lection lecton of General Pershing as aa leader leaCer or or- tI our forces and no military commander j in history ory was ever given a freer handor hand handor j jor or more mor unflagging support freer The policy i of ot selecting officers through training camps avoided the the use of ot political favor vItes v- v I Ites lies and guaranteed competent leadership I I for tO the youth of ot the land Ten million men were registered within three months I from from the de declaration o of war war and thirty thirty- I I iwo camp cities CIteS complete in rn every mu- mu i uno una un units In lit France we thad to construe our own docks clocks railroad lines storage depots hospItals hospitals hospitals hos hos- I and ordnance bases We to I cut down the forests for our barracks i I In lit June two months after the declaration declaration declara declara- tion ton of war our fighting men were in Ih I I France In Americans were ere on oni i the firing in scarcely than a I j I year we had two million men or In France I I had whipped had whipped th the enemy at Belleau wood I beat beaten n them back at Chateau Beleau ThIer Thierry woo j wiped out the St. St S1 Mihiel salient and cle- cle I l livered the terrific terric hammer blow at SeI Sedan Se- Se 1 I dan that virtually ended the war I j j I Less than years years ago General HaH th the bluntness of t a soldier said ll The British army is fighting with wih its Is I back to the wall wal Lloyd George was crying crInA It I is a race between Wilson t n Hindenburg Hindenburg and France clung cung like I a drowning man lo to the tle Rock of Verdun turning agonized eyes toward America And America came We challenge the challenge the critics of of- tile the administration to point out how v within the limits of ot human the war could have beep been won more promptly or with wih less lose los of of American l life ife It I was not not by mere chance that these things were accomplished To ro o readjust the processes of peace so as to serve erve the activities of war required leadership of unexampled Petty criticism of minor defects and individual officials may for a time attract a superficial attention hut but but the sl significant th the great great outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing facts plead eloquently for or the Democratic cause I DEMOCRATIC GUIDANCE GUIDANCE Let no one ohe misunderstand via us u. u These great geat affairs were carried forward under the stimulus of ot American patriotism supported by the courage and the spirit of ot our people All Al this is freely and gladly glady glad glad- i ly y acknowledged but surely the time hs has come When because of the cu l criticism and the premeditated ca ca ca- ca of the opposition we are entitled II to call cal attention to the fact that all al of these things were accomplished under the leadership of a great geat Democrat and a a great Democratic administration We Ve a bave ave no apologies to make not make not one We Weare Weare are proud of our great geat navy nav we ar are are proud of our splendid army we are proud of or the power of our country coutry and the manner manner man man- ner ncr in which that power ha has hal been used we are proud of or the work that America has done in the world we tat are proud of I the heroism of of American men men and ad I women and we are proud of the inspired and Incomparable leadership of ot te Woodrow I Wilson Woodow Has Hs not the time come conic when all al Amer Amer- leans Irrespective of ot pary party should begin to praise the prise achievements of or our countr country coun coun- try tr rather than to criticise them Surely a jU just iu t and righteous sense sense or national pride should protect protect us from the insen insert ste sate assaults of or m mere mere re partisans We Ve fought a great geat War for lor or a gr great a at cause and A we ha had a a that carried America to greater eater heights of honor and powen PoWe and glory glor than she has ha ever lonor Known before In her ber entire history If the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- I ican nag flag fag must be lowered it will be hauled down down In tn a Republican convention wi and not in a Democratic convention PARTISAN INVESTIGATIONS It I Is this rec d of ef tremendous achievement that Republican I managers and the Chicago seek to shame I and besmirch Various committees which for want of 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