Evening journal., 1914-10-21

Senator Salisbury lauded President
Wilson and declared the Democratic
party Is striving to do what IT. catt
for the people in these trying times.
He paid a tribute to the President IN
his pacific policy, asserting II is due
to Mr.. Wilson's leadership that the
country Is now at peace with all the
world. He then presented Senator
James.
I'm opening his address Senator
James praised Senator Salisbury for
his position on public questions anc
loyalty TO President Wilson.
"In every struggle at Washington
during the past eighteen months Sen
ator Salisbury has stood shoulder to
shoulder with the President, fighting
the battles OF the plain people Of the
land" he said
~ wish TO announce now at the conf
neucement of my address that ! shall
not attack leaders of the Republican
marty. for the reason that the Repub-
iican party has no leaders To assail"
! have no word to utter against tine
Progressives. They are wrong, but pa
triotc My friends, it is really getting
respectable 10 belong to our party, In
times gone by they used 60 say mkind,
tmfeclng things about us. They de-
clared we belonged 10 party of de-
-truction and obstruction and that to
put as in power would mean ruin be
cause we were divided amongst orr
selves. Eighteen months ago our party
swept into Office in Washington. We
have record Of achievement to our
credit which is without equal in the his
tory of the nation. We have done oar
duty. have followed our great leader
and / have no doubt of the election
The American people will approve om
work.
Senator James then launched into an
explanation of the Underwood tariil II,
made no defense of the measure, be-
cause. he said, none is needed. as the
tariff was enacted for the benefit of all
the people. lie said Democracy was cor
rect in removing schedules on wool
lumber. sugar, etc. He devoted espe
cial attention 20 free wool and lumber
pointing out that the party did moi
mean TO allow the poor mans clothing
TO he taxed nor force him to pay trib
ute for the timber used in constructing
! his home. He said he stood with Jamei
G.. Blaine regarding free lumber
Concerning free sugar, the Senator
asserted the Democratic party was
unconcerned when Louisiana's Repre-
sentatives in the Senate refused to
vote for the administration measure
! Senator James pointed out that pro
] tecied sugar means the robbery OF
/ the poor mans table, something fol
which the Democratic party refused tC
stand.
Fellow citizens, when the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill was drafted in
/ 1909, the steel trust, beef trust. WOO
trust, coal trust, meat trust, and ever,
other monopoly had lobbyists a
| Washington, and they were the mos
polite set of burglars you ever saw,
the Senator exclaimed. why, the
were working for the trust that EN-
ployed them, seeking to tax the bread
meat. clothing, coal and homes Of tn
American people. They did, too
when the Underwood tariff wa
p being written the same trust lobbyist
came to the capitol They were ever!
/ where, working and talking to hay
1 tariff taxes imposed on the masse
President Wilson learned of their al
4 tivty and an investigation was star
B ed What happened? Why you cou
81 not find a lobbyist in Washington vii
4 a search warrant
, without leaders and without hol
e. the Republican party has been tryir
/ TO find an issue upon which to {
4 before the people. II seized upon Il
trade commission bill, the curreni
4 measure. the Panama tolls repe
d legislation, and each has failed thei
The Republican party. through Pc
o rose and Gallinger. talks of panic al
{. depression. My, how It pleases Pc
g rose and Gallinger to get up I'm d
u Senate and have read into the reco
d a newspaper article telling how Sol
t. man lost his job or some busine
g house failed Republicans were wi
y with JOY when General Coxel
j? army started for Washington. Tn
{, said 100000 johless, starving men W
/ storm the capitol and it will be
W sight to behold. Did they? Why,
n saw General Coxey when he came
Sc Washington He had with him 70
to lazy scoundrels who never did da,
n work. and never will.
I'd "The Republicans assailed Pre-
er dent Wilson's peace program in rel
ton 10 Mexico. They sneered
a. 'watchful waiting and the term I
came a joke. We must go to wa
es they cried II the Republican pan
ed had had its way 500,UO0 America
would now be holding Mexi
r. Martial music would have drown
tic the cries OF the wounded. the pic
he OF an army of beggars would Ia
al been lost amid the rumble Of cam
~ and the measured tramp or march,
.es thousands, but hearts would ha
been broken. mothers would ha
M lost sons: wives, husbands: siste
a brothers, and the nation would ha
or had to pour out its blood and tre
" uFe IN the greatest war Ia the histC
'm of the world.
nt Watchful waitingl' The Repul
ny, can party did not favor that poll
am but the great silent statesman In
White House. the man they sneer
.rs' did. and that principle has won.
ny are az peace with all the world.
m the Republicans attack watch
me waiting If they viii; the Ameri'
Tel people know that IL means pc
&C. when all the world &c at war. q
the mothers and fathers, sons ,
daughters of this land will apprr
a.
- God bless and long I've WoodI
wilson, He Is as patriotic as Wa
ington. as diplomatic az Jeifers
as courageous as Jackson and
patient as Lincoln He Is the gre
est President our Republic has knc
since Abraham Lincoln, and
American people are going 10 ST.
a.. hin, and bfa admfnfgf ration