The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-06-05
STATE DEMOCRATS HEAR Ma
TIONAL CHAIRMAN CUMMINGS

SiDuuucTuuc, ~, W., June a. ne
achievements of the democratic party
since il came into power on March 4,
1913. were outlined by Homer S. Cum
mings, chairman of the national demo-
cratic committee. in "A speech deliver
ed before large crowd at the Crystal
theater last night.
He pointed out that the establish
ment of the income tax had relieved
the revenue law Of the reproach of
poor; that the iniquities of the tariff
system had been removed by the Gre
alton of non-partisan tariff com
mission; that pan-Americanism had
been encouraged and that laws bene-
fetal alike to labor, the farmer and
the business man had been placed on
the statute books.
The democratic chairman laid par
ticular stress upog the enactment of
the good roads law, the rural credit
system was established, and the crea-
ton of federal reserve banking syS-
tenn.
"This last law" said Mr.. Cummings.
mot only reformed an archaic cur
rency system but placed our financial
affairs upon such sound basis that
we successfully met the vast eXpendi-
lures made necessary by war, and
without strain or panic, were able to
supply the needs Of our allies.
when war came we supplied the
necessary legislation, industry was
successfully mobilized. the navy was
expanded until il became the second
in size in all the world and the first
in efficiency. An army of 4,000.000
men was organized. and more than .
100000 soldiers, fully equipped, well
across 5000 miles of sea, where they
turned the tide of battle. won imper-
shable glory and triumphed in the
greatest war the world has ever
known"
Mr.. Cummings said that while petty
criticism of minor defects and indi-
vidual officials might for a time at
tract superficial attention. the signifl-
cant things, the great outstanding
facts of the last six years, plead elo-
quently for the democratic cause.
"To readjust the processes of peace
so as to serve activities of war; the
speaker said, "has been an undertak.
ing requiring leadership of unex-
results accomplished under demo
cratic authority, but the very terri
,pon which hostilities came to an end
Eere formulated by Il democratic
president"
Mr. Cummings pictured President
Wilson as II world-leader. He said
that his words carry into every quar-
ter of the globe and that the states
men of the allied governments have
accepted his leadership. He was criti-
cal of the republican chieftians in
congress and heads of the republican
national organization whom he charg-
ed with having magnified minor err
rors of judgment in the conduct OF
the war, in an effort to moboliZe the
forces of irritation and discomfort"
Charging that the reactionaries in
the republican party are now in con-
troll in congress, Mr., Cummings said
the republican organization has re-
verted TO type and is seeking to re-
store the good old days OF Mark
Hanna"
Much of the democratic chairman's
speech was devoted to advocating the
league of nations, and to criticism of
those who oppose it.
at is an extraordinary thing" he
said, "that those who were loudest
for war seem now to be most deter
mined that America shall relinquish
the duties which have fallen to her
lot as n result of the war. During the
progress OF the conflict. how often
did we hear upon the lips Of all our
people the expression This must be
the last war; What heart is there so
cold that it does not warm to such
cause? Who will confess that his ar
dor has been so chilled that he is will
ing that America should become a
Stacker nation and attempt to draw
back, with the task unfinished, into
the fancied security of self isolation?