Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-09
WILSON SLANDERED IN HOUR IF
 AMERICAS GREATEST TRIUMPH,
 ARZONANS TOLD BY CUMMINGS

Charging the Republican party with a campaign of islander, re- served for Americas greatest leader in the hour of Americas greatest triumph, Homer s. Cummings, chair man of the Democratic National Committee, told the Democrats of Arizona, in an address at Tucson last Tuesday, what their party has achieved during the war and after, and why the League of Nations should have the undivided support of the American people, irrespective of political affiliations.
 Democrats from all parts of the state congregated in Tucson to hear the Democratic leader, who is spend ing a brief vacation in the Old Pueblo. resting from the strenuous political labors of the past few months.
 To the assembled Arizona Demo crats, Chairman Cummings said in part:
 The Democratic Party came into power on the 4th day of March, 1913. Its achievements, in the way of domestic reform, constitute a miracle of legislative progress. Provision was made for an Income Tax, there by relieving our revenue law of the reproach of being unjustly burden some to the poor. The extravagances and inequities of the tariff system were removed and a non-partisan tariff commission was established. Pan-Americanism was encouraged, the great reaches of Alaska were opened up to commerce and develop ment; dollar diplomacy was destroy ed; a corrupt lobby was driven from the national capitol; worlmen's compensation act was adopted the Federal Trade Commission was ere ated; child labor legislation was en- acted; the Smith-Lever bill for the improvement of farm conditions was passed; farm load banks were es- tablished the parcel post and rural free delivery were developed a cor rupt practice act was adopted; a
 
 Federal reserve system was estab- lished. This last law not only re- formed an archaic currency system but placed out financial affairs upon such a sound basis that we success fully met the vast expenditures 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 legisla- tiOn. The selectiVe draft law was passed. A war finance corporation was created; the office of alien property custodian was established; war risk insurance was provided, while the ship building laws re-es- tablished Americas supremacy upon the seas. Vocational education was provided, industry was successfully mobilized, the navy was expanded until it became the second in size in all the world and the first in ef- ficiency. An army of nearly four million men was organized and more than two million soldiers, fully equipped, we'll officered and indomit- able in spirit, were safely transport ed across three thousand miles of sea, where they turned the tide of battle, won imperishable slory and triumphed in the greatest war that the world has ever known.
 Criticisms Are Superficial.
 Petty criticism of minor defects and individual officials may, for a time, attract a superficial attention, but the significant things, the great outstanding facts of the last six years plead eloquently for the Demo cratic cause. To readjust the pro cesses of peace so as to serve ac' tivities of war has been an under taking requiring leadership of uneX ampled skill So striking has been the result and SO prompt has been the response of the people. so free have our public affairs been from any suggestion of scandal or i'm proper influence, that it scarcely lies in the mouth of those who conducted the Spanish-American war to indulge in the luxury of criticism. Not only were these results accomplished un der Democratic authority but the very terms upon which hostilities came to an end were formulated by a Democratic President Our leader became the world leader. His words paI.tiad into