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Show SENATOR REED GIVEN PRAISE MEXICO, Mo . Popt. 27. (By tho Associated Press . -The Democratic campaign in Missouri was opened here today with addresses by Senators Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas and A. O. Stanley of Kentucky n-salllne n-salllne the national Republican ad-nilnlst ad-nilnlst rntion for alleged Incompetency and Inefficiency Senator Robinson also attacked the Repubtcan state ad-mlnlst ad-mlnlst ration. Senator James A. Reed, Missouri's senior representative In the United StHte.s enate. who is a candHut for relection at tho November election, was scheduled to speak tonight 1 TO OF ROM s. Declaring the people of the court ry wre disappointed with the results of President llardlngs and Governor Hyde's administrations Senator Robinson, Rob-inson, who was chairman of the Democratic Dem-ocratic national convention at San Francisco In 1920, aseiied that Presi dent Harding "for absurd reasons'' has failed to fulfill the pledge he made when a candidate to enact adjusted compensation legislation for ex-servlec men. He said congress which Just adjourned performed the "lowest level lev-el of public service known to our political po-litical history" and attacked the Ford-ney-McCumber tariff as 'tribute to tariff profiteers ralher than a safeguard safe-guard to American industry." He i)e. hired the tariff would Increase the cost of living whllo the workers' earning earn-ing power was being diminished. AGENT HORDE FLAYED. Stressing that freedom and liberty were being trampled on nd a burtjn cratlo government was being established estab-lished in this country. Senator Stnn ley characterised Senator Reed an the "fearless defender of human rights" and urged a return to 'he constitution whi h he said guaranteed guaran-teed personal rights. Declaring that the Democratic platform plat-form since the time of Thoiniu Jefferson Jef-ferson stood for the protection of the rlphts of people as provided in the constitution, he asserted that & 1,000 agentM and Inspectors are emplow-d ly the federal government and that -ery business man finds an inspector at his elbOW, a federal sleuth .it his heels. I houses are searched, homes outraged and the public highways dappled In the blood of unoffending citizens by a mutitude of agents and Inspectors Ignorant of and indifferent to tho law I of the land and the rights of the cltl- , senf." oo |