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Show " 1 B SBSBBBSSSBBSSSSESaBSBBSBSSa F.D. ROOSEVELT MOUNTSSTUMP Praises Rank and File of Re-publican Re-publican Party But Damns Leaders of G. 0. P. CHICAGO Aug 11 Franklin D. j evell Democratic candidate for. Vice nresldent. opened his rnmpainn hre tonight before 3000 people lie urged Republicans and indepeelents to Join tiic Democrats In support of their platform and ticket-lie ticket-lie told Republicans their party had' been i)llt h;. B quarrel among lenders and that the faction represented by ' Senator Harding was the old guard" Thcoelore Roosevelt had opposed sen hundred women were given the places of honor on the stage. He suld in part: Tonight wo are firing the opening open-ing pun of a battle of far-reaching Importance, Im-portance, and one again the shots ari going to be heard around the I world for ihe American nation wilt i: witched with anxious eyes by all civilization. Governor Cox and 1 believe ii iy the simple duty of the candidates to give to n.i many r. izens as possible an opportunity to see and hear and form their own impressions of the men they! are to vole tor It Is only frankness to say that the great majority of the' I newspapers are owned or controlled ! men iffillated with the Republican 1 part) It is. therefore, douhl) nect-fc-l sary for us to present our views and our aims in person. i hope on this journey to the Pa-i Pa-i i ifi ocean and In all my travels that' 1 shall have opportunity to talk rtOt otn to I h-iiimi i-itj nut also to those ! w h ,n i mu-iiialh affiliated with oth r parties, and with men and women without party affiliations the independents inde-pendents ' II RI SUFI, I, POU1 l( I s 1 want li addre-s myself p., mou-, ! larly to those who are not Democrats.! ihe day Is past, except in the cac-' I of old-time, hard shell politicians or' the case of a few narrowlj prejudiced newspapers, when it is either popular' or usetul to damn everybod md ' i vrythlng connected with Ihe Opposition Oppo-sition 1 willingly acknowledge and' praise ttie fine eitizenstup whlcn goes to make up the rank and file of the Republican party. The Republican part) is one of great traditions, or greal patriotism, ot great accomplishments. accomplish-ments. 1 speak of the rank und file Ol thai party even today with true respect. re-spect. Rut for eight, yes. for 12 years, a eontlict has been raging within that party raging among tnoso in high command. In the first eight years of this ci ntury. the Republican party was in large part dnder true leaders From 1&0! to 1912. a group of selfish men sought for their own purposes to gam control of the party machlncr. lou know the result it was In this it v that was born the movement of I protest that in the elections of 1912, received the majority of the votes of l Ihe old Republican party. That vote was given to a great American leader, but it was even more thun support lot Theodore Roosevelt the man, it was t no voice of Insistence that the party control be taken out of the handu OI selfish men. Among those in thai year who supported the ancient regime was the present Republican i nominee. LESSON FAILS Today this same mun and his sponsors,' the old guard, show no signs of having taken to heart the drastic l-3on taught them. Once n'ain w. see them, unmindful of the marvelous progress around them, Warped in their selfishness, fault finding find-ing and bitterly criticising, but offer-; offer-; ing no real remedies or constructive I program io meet the problems we I lace today The Democratic party offers not a change, but the' change: its platform plat-form pledges a definite program of ! constructive measures, not a hodge- podge of vague compromises; a def- inite foreign policy for Immediate and ; permanent peace, not an undefined I suggestion or new unworkable ! schemes, a pledge that the safeguards ' of working men and women already accomplished under Democratie leadership lead-ership shall remain, not the fear that I 'a' Republican change will restore to ' power the influential few..' LI U is 8PE Mvs The other speaker, former Senator Jarnes Hamilton Lewis. Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois, declared de-clared the Issue before the Democratic part) Is not what America will do for Furope. but what the citizens are go-I go-I ing to do for America." He assailed the 'senate svndlcate of select se nators who named the ticke-ij of Harding and Coolidgo. ' and dc-clared dc-clared the 'scheme of the Republican m isters Is to get control of the United States V It is their purpose, he said to get into power und then pa.s leg-j Islatiem that will entrench eastern fi-i hanclal favorites in the government."! Me asserted the Republican attack on the league of nations was a sub-' terfug designed to disguise 'be tru? alms of the part and that the suhsti-inte suhsti-inte league plan proposed carries with it every evil, doubled and re- doubled that is e 'er charged against I the league proposed b) Dcmocrac " Mr Roosevelt raised the subject of campaign expenelltures and read a newspaper Item stating that the Re-j Re-j publican national committee planned to ralso $700,000 in Chicago and Cook county. On this basis, he said, the Republican campaign cheat would total ?3n.ooo.ooo. "You and I know such a sum cannot can-not be honestly expended In the L'nlted I States. If we can do It we will drag j out the details of this attempt to 'Neirberryise' this countr) oo |