The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-05
COP. ATTACK ON
ITS OWN RECORD
Is Cited In Speech BY Sen.
atOr James.
CHICAGO PLATFORM ATTACKS
The Vote OF Majority OF Re-
publicans In Congress On
Reform Measures.
HARD PRESSED To FIND ISSUE

Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky,
delivered one of the most forceful
speeches of his political career when
he assumed the permanent chair
manship of the Democratic conven-
ton at st. Louis.
His most striking utterance in re-
gard to President Wilson was:
with critics all about him, with
patience and strength and great
foresight, he has kept nation at
peace with honor. He has driven
from the control OF the finances of
the people of this nation an oligar-
chy of wealth and substituted in its
stead a just Government, interested
only in supplying the legitimate bus
mess needs of the country with suf-
ficient currency to meet its demands
and requirements. 1t ought not to
be necessary to nominate him in
partisan convention. Patriotism in
this world crisis should rise above
politics, and all parties should re-
joice at an opportunity to proclaim
him the wholp-hearted and happy
choice OF a Republic OF peaceful
freemen. And as We can not afford
TO swap horses while crossing a
stream, who would say that We can
afford to swap horses while crossing
a bloody stream? So America can
not afford TO change leadership dur
ing this great cataclysm that shakes
the nations of the earth, for to
Woodrow Wilson more than any
other citizen in all the world the
Christian people, wherever the rain
around, look anXiously, hopefully,
and prayerfully that he will bring
peace to the struggling armies of
Europe. What party is it now that
would dare undertake to discredit
this master diplomat, this uncon-
querable leader, this great Ameri-
can, for by that you may palsy the
hand that may write the peace trea-
ty of the world" .a..
J Senator James went on to con-
trast the Republican platform prom
Uses with Democratic achievements,
saying:
The Republican party, seeking
some issue, just any issue upon
which TO hang the slightest hope of
returning to power, is driven to the
necessity of denouncing in its own
platform, adopted at Chicago, the
vote of a majority of its own men,
bers in the House and Senate upon
practically all of the reform meas
ures that have been written into law
by the Democratic party. They de-
clare We favor an effective system
of rural credits as opposed to the
ineffective law proposed by the pres
ent Democratic administration" BY
this declaration they charge prac-
tica!ly every Republican in the Sen
ate and almost every Republican in
the House with having voted for an
ineffective rural credit law, which
has passed both the Senate and
House. In the Senate the vote was
81 10 ). in the House 295 to 10. |
suppose this denunciation Of their
fellow Republicans wa caused by
the fact that of the five Republicans
in the Senate who voted against the
rural credits bill which passed that
Lody, Senators Lodge. Oliver. and
Wadsworth were members OF the
subcommittee that prepared the
Republican platform, aud they were
anxious to vindicate their own vote
at the cost of denouncing their Re-
publican colleagues.
THE Trade Commission bill
which was passed for the benefit of
the business of the country, to make
plain the law, to prevent monopoli-
zation of the industries of the coun-
try. received majority vote of the