Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-11
Nebraska
PUNCTURES CLAIMS
OF THE DEMOCRATS
John L. Kennedy Lays Bare
Some of the Arguments Used
by Boosters for Wilson,
USE REPUBLICAN THUNDER

Seward, Neb., Oct. l10,-(Special. j.
John L. Kennedy, republican candi-
date for United States senator, ad-
dressed an afternoon crowd here. He
took occasion to point out that all
that the democratic administration
claims cannot really be attributed to
partisan voting. He examined five
principal pieces of legislation for
which democratic orators are claim
ing credit for the democratic con-
gress.
As to the prosperity Of the past
year Mr.. Kennedy said that this was
due to law for which the democratic
congress could not claim credit, name
ly, the law OF supply and demand,
which is as old as time. He pointed
out that it was due to decrease in the
number of active producers by TAX
ing men from productive occupations
and placing them in non-productive
war service.
Referring to the child labor legisla-
ton and the widows pension legisla
ton, Mr.. Kennedy showed that the
only votes against this were those OF
the southern democrats, for whose
women and children the child labor
law was proposed These men, he
said, who are unable to care for their
own local problems, are now in the
saddle and governing the people Of
the north.
Copy Republican Measure.
The federal reserve bank legisla-
ton, Mr.. Kennedy asserted, had
many good points and that these were
taken bodily from the AldrichFree-
land measure, republican work. He
objected, however, to giving Missouri
two banks, when Nebraska, which is
not tributary to Missouri, got none,
He asserted that there were many
good points in the rural credits legis-
lation, but that the plan was designed
for the benefit of the lender, rather
than the Nebraska borrower, and on
the whole was not very workable be-
cause it required too much red tape
and too many Offices, and encroached
upon the privacy of the rural Dor
rover.
Mr.. Kennedy was introduced at
= Seward by George Liggett of Utica,
candidate for the legislature During
his speech Mr.. Kennedy was fire.
quently interrupted by applause from
his hearers, and particularly when he
was discussing the rural credits bill,
and when proposing constructive
method of dealing with the Mexican
problem.
Foreign Birth, But Loyal.
He was applauded when he assert
ed that, although he was man OF for
eign birth, like many of his hearers,
he was an American now and true
and loyal first to his adopted country
as | was sure all of his hearers were.
He stated that he did not believe in
thisscriticism which had been INDUCED
in Of certain of the foreign-born cit
liens, and he expressed his confidence
that they would be as ready as any to
hold aloft the standard OF American
ism if ever the great test came.
Mr.. Kennedy pleaded for humanity
End the right of America to lead the
van for the good of humanity. He
was accompanied here by General J.
H. Culver of Milford and from here
he was accompanied by George Lig-
gett and L. H. McKillip to Utica,
where he spoke later in the afternoon
in the opera house.
At both Seward and Utica Mr.. Ken
needy was warmly applauded when he
proposed Charles E. Hughes as the
drafted choice of the great rank and
file of the American people and not
merely the candidate of the repub-
lican party.