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Show liEMTTLEflW REPUBLICAN LEADERS Months of Debate and Not a Single Constructive Measure Constructed Into Law NEWARK, N. J.. Jan. 21 America would have been the first nation to ratify the treaty of peace had a Democratic Demo-cratic house and sonatc been elected in 1918, Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic national committee, declnred In an address at Governor Edward's inaugural dinner. Not only has Republican leadership "ttiroUled" the treaty of peace, he said, but "after 1 months of debate it cannot point to a j single constructive measure that It has enacted into law " The Republican party is bankrupt of leadership, Mr Cummings declared, (and cannot agree on a policy salipfac tory even to itself. "The impoverished mental status of their polioj makers,'" is shown by the fact, ho said, that their national Committee "has found ill necessary to offer a reward of $10,000 to any young man, preferably under the ago of 25 years, who can ovrite a I winning platform for the Republican) iparty." Only the adolescent would un-; dei-take such n task he added. ) Democratic Platform EaGy to Write. I I "There will be no difficulty in writ-'ing writ-'ing a Democratic platform," tho speak- or continued. "It is not npcessary for' !us to engineer our policy with a view' to pleasing particular groups or so to ' conduct ourselves as to develop racial j animosity. We stand today upon a rec i ord of achievement unparalleled in' American history. We have souglu do-) nicstic reforms which have long been denied our people and during the Avar I jour successes won the" admiration of the world." "This Republican congress," Mr Cummings said, "has contented itself with conducting a campaign of baseless base-less criticism and slander against thei president of the United States, in the) repudiation of our international obliga-lions obliga-lions and the abandonment of the al ' lies in vhose company only a fewf months ago we were fighting" to save the civilization of the world." Government Seriously Impaired. "All processes of government have been impaired," he continued. "The! work of reconstruction has been dc laved, the business or the country has been throttled, foe peace of the world has been poslponvd, and rude and un-1 skilled hands have been thrust amid I the interlacing strands of human des ' ! tiny." I Gov. Edwards was acclaimed as the i "personal liberty" candidate for president presi-dent in a eulogy of his career, pro ! , nounced by A Harry Moore, city commissioner com-missioner of Jersey City, and the new 1 presidential boom was greeted with i enthusiastic applause by the several" j hundred Jersey Democrats who were; present. It was announced that the governor's friends have alreadv enter-1 ed his name in the Nebraska primaries prima-ries and that moves have been made , to enter his name in the Pennsvlva-, Pennsvlva-, nia and Virginia, primaries. oo |