The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-06-18
DEMOCRATIC LEADER VISITED
RENO TO LEARN SENTIMENT
National Chairman CUMMINGS am.
Party Spent Last Saturday
In Reno

The Reno Gazette had the follow
ing to say in part regarding the visit
last Saturday of the democratic
chief, Homer s Cummings, and party
to the Riverside city.
AT II O'Clock a general conference
with half hundred prominent state
democrats present, was held and at
O'Clock luncheon was held IN tha
Riverside hotel. where Mr.. Cum
mings spoke again
The democratic chairman refueed
to discuss possible candidates on Z q
democratic side. He admitted that
the democratic party had plenty of
material and that there were aye or
six available men to lead the demo-
Gratis to victory Who they were he
would not say.
He said the trip across the eoun-
try had been an enjoyable one and
very successful from Democrat
point of view. He commented on
the fact that Nevada had a solid
democratic representation in the
congress now and said he hoped that
II would be In the same class after
the next election.
w. d. Johnson. director of f.
nance of the national committee.
said he estimated that Nevada would
furnish more than one Thousand
contributors to the national cam
paign fund in 1920. Our contribu-
tions will come from more than one
million men, women aud children
from all parts of the United States
and will not only furnish TO the dem
ocrats the greatest campaign fund
they have ever had, but it will furn-
ish about four times the number OF
contributions than in former cam
paigns.
At the luncheon Mr. Cummings
opened his talk with a discussion of
the achievements of the democratic
party since it came into power on
March 4, 1918. declaring that it con-
stituted miracle of legislative pro-
gress
He declared that the establish
ment of the income tax had relieved
the revenue law of the reproaeh OF
being unjustly burdensome TO the
poor; that what he called the in
equalities of the tariff system. had
been removed by the creation of the
non-partisan tariff commission; that
Pan-Americanism had been eneour-
aged and that laws beneficial alike
to labor. the farmer and the business
man had been placed on the statute
books. He also claimed the good
roads law, the rural credit act,
through which the farm loan system
was established. and the creation of
a federal reserve banking system.
"This last law" said Mr. Cum
mings. mot only reformed an ar
ehaic currency system. but placed
our financial affairs upon such a
sound basis that we successfully met
the vast expenditures made neees-
sary 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 modified, the navy was
expanded until it became the second
in size In all the world and the first
In efficiency An army of four mil
lions of men was organized, and
more than two million soldiers. full
ly equipped. we'll ofiicered. were safe
ly transported across three thousand
miles of sea, where they turned the
tide of battle. won imperishable
glory and triumphed in the greatest
war the world has ever known"
Mr.. Cummings pictured President
Wilson as a world leader. He said
that his words carry into every quar-
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