The Nevada County picayune., 1919-06-12
DEMOCRATS OPEN
 1920 CAMP AICN
Aggressive Fight for Presidency Promised by Leaders
 of the Party.
SHOW SPIRIT OF CONFIDENCE
Representative Women From All Sec tions of the Country Present at Meetinq of the National Com
 mittees at Chicago.

tons or me country TIcSCHt dt
 Meeting of the National Com
 mittees at Chicago.
 The formal opening guns for the presidential campaign of 1920 were fired at Chicago on May 2S aud 29 at gathering of the Democratic Na- tfonal committees the Associate Nom= ms National committee and many chairmen and secretaries of state com mittecS. Members of President Will sons cabinet and other notable party leaders were present. and "hile sounding keynotes took occasion to vigorously denounce the Republican leaders for the character of their at taCkS. as well as to call attention to Democratic achievements during the last eight years.
 The participation of the women. for the first time. in the national councils of the party brought representatives from all sections of the country, and on the occasion of the banquet they divided the oratorical honors with ]
 There was no lack of confidence on the part of men or women. The lat ter. while hoping for universal suf- frage in the election of 1920, pledged the Democrats those western suffrage states that played such an important part in 1916. The general effect of the meeting was to sound the tocSin 1 for an aggressive war from now on, 1 in which tour to every debatahle state west of the Mississippi river. by Homer $. Cummings, national chair man. will form an important part. There was not a Democratic leader present who did not leave Chicago convinced that q vigorous counter attack would be made on the Repub- 1 licans.
 Republicans Reactionsry.
 Forming the Republican party 'one that complains and moves back ward" and the peace treaty and the League of Nations covenant as the greatest document of human liberty ever prepared" Chairman Cum mings on his arrival in Chicago start ed things moving briskly. Striking smartly at the Republican "Old Guard" he said: "It K manifest that the Republican party has again fallen under reactionary leadership The choice of the committee heads in the recently organized house of represent atives is very disceuragine tu every progressive American, while the elee- ton of Senator Peurosc to head the finance committee of that body iudi= eates the type of leadership to which the Republican party is committed.
 The banquet held on the evening of l May 29 vaS the occasion of addresses hy Mr Cummings. Attorney General As Mitchell Palmer. and Franklin p. Roosevelt. assistant secretary of he navy.
 In speaking of Republican .'slandcr' Mir. Cummings was loudly appauded when he said that AS l read the re- ports of these speeches of strict and unrelentjng partisanship wonder what phrases of abuse what language of vtuperatton, what i1vectve, what recital of blunderS and "rimcs would have agitated the politica' atmosphere l if the president of the United States i had led the country lu Il disastrous conclusion of an unsuccessful war Every cptthet of reproach already has ] been exhausted in an attempt to dis credit the leadership of America'S president II time when America' prestige was never greater. America's power never ~o NuSl. and America's success never ao rau~rendeut The campaign of slander. which k the Nery spunc of politics, has been reserved for Ameriea's greatest leader in the hour of Ameriea'S greatest triumph. l To li>tcu 1o rhe spo1esmou of the Re. l publican ofsHuzHioa tS to gather the j impression that America lost Che war and has been forced into disercdu= able peace. humillatne to all lovers of constitutional government and free dom"
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