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Show Ships, says : george white Democrat Chairman Declares Statements of Candidate Are Not Fair N HW YOHK. Scot 25 Oconro White, chairman oC the Democratic national committee. In a statement tonight to-night declared that if the spirit of fairness and truth governed Senator Harding In his campaign, he would ton have been guilty at Marlon yesterday of his unprovoked attack on the ship-plh'g ship-plh'g board and in atteanptod disparagement dispar-agement of one of the roal facts of the administration the upoulldlng of the American merchant marine ' The Statement continued: no of the great prohlems of a new administration,' hu anU "would be to turn the 12, 000,000 tons of war-created war-created shipping into un effective agency of wideninr American com-men com-men a in peace, "i do not know," he added, of a single feature of the present pres-ent administration, . omparabb- to thai of the I'niteu States snipping board ' AS usual the facts art In conflict with -the senr.tors statements. Prior to this administration only -ij, Hi p r cent fn American ocean borne commerce com-merce was carried under the American flag. 'Now more than fifty per cent Is so carried GOES in I EXtl PORT Our flag goes to every port in the' World, Waving over American ships, and our merchant marine Is second only to Great Britain's. From 316,-000 316,-000 gross tons production to llf, wo' have gone to 1,000,000 tons In 1919 and 200.000 now toil at shipbuilding where but 3i'.ooo were employed sLx ; years ago the merchant marine has flour-' Ished particularly under Democratic I administrations. During the first half of the nineteenth century our flag fluttered at tho masthead In eery port; in the latter half it was suffered to disappear The Democrats no soon-' er resumed power in 1913 than they took measures to promote Shipbuilding Shipbuild-ing and sailors began to be considered aguln. And from the tune it was or-' gahloed In January. 19J7! to June 16,1 1920, the t'nlted States s'u.pping board' constructed and delivered :.ms vessels ves-sels of nearly 12,000,00(1 tonnage and! In 1919 doubled the British record Hit; INDUSTRIAL I I i Talk about Americanism " What more American achievement could j there be than to emandipate this na-j tlon from foreign domination of Its commerce and to give to Its farmern and shippers the advantage of ocean! rates. W hut Industrial feat more - ! traordinao than th. transformation of Mog Island I rom a morus: to the! greatest hive of production on our soil? Senator Harding Is a member! of the eommlttee .n e'.nimerce, and' he knows that tho facts that 1 State are true Me knows further that I prompt cancellation of outstanding; contracts when the war ended, a step! Ihat Inefficiency would not have tik- cn, saved the government $600,000.-000. $600,000.-000. If does not know It, t'hnrles' l'lez, of Chicago, who succeeded C. AI j B bwab us director general and claims j iii.ii be built the emergency fleet, can turn from his work of collecting Re-1 publican funds long enough to tell him so. This attack, as all others by thp senator. Is wholly political and not founded on tho basis of fact. |