The log cabin Democrat., 1920-06-28
CUMMINGS MAKES
 KEYNOTE SPEECH
FLAYS C. 0.P. PLATFORM
Democratic Chairman Praises Treat, and Administration Achievements
 in War and Peace.
tBy United Press,


 the peace treaty and the league o1 nations the dominant issue of the coming presidential campaign Homer Cummings, as temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention today delivered the keynote speech. Cummings devoted half of his time to a tIscussIon of the treaty and it's re- Ceition by the 3er&te. Cuma,lngS praised Democratic achievements of the past eight years and uttered ring ing denunciation of the Republlcan party.
 Speaking of the league of nations plank in the Republican platform, Cummings said;
 1t praises without discrimination all the Republican senators who par ticipated in it's defeat. It's words of benediction fall alike upon the ire concilables, the Lodge reservationists, the mild reservationists and those who proposed a separate peace with Germany #. It is enough to know that the Old Guard" sold the honor of America for the privilege of nom- mating reactionary for president V l After naming the nations that have ratified the peace treaty, Cummings said:
 | What nations stand outside? Rev. olutionary Mexico, Bolshevist Russia, unspeakable Turkey and-the United States of America"
 He accused the Republicans in the l senate of conspiracy to defeat the treaty because they were "moved by a strange and inexplicable jealousy of the president"
 Speaking of the sacrifices President Wilson made for the treaty, he said: while the president lay in the white house struggling with a terrifying ill., ness and, at times, close to the point of death.
 "The president made every sacrifice 1 for the cause of peace," Cummins de- clared, while at home there was widespread propaganda making it i'm l perative that he take up in his own country a struggle for the preserva- | tion of that which had been won at invaluculable cost. Following the superhuman labors of seven years of unexampled service, this meant the wreck of his health-and worse than physical sickness, the sickness of heart which comes from the knowl- edge that political adversaries are savagely destroying the hope of settled peace. This was the af- f1iction-this the crucifxion."
 Cummings detailed the achieve ments of the nation during the world war. He gave all credit to American patriotism and added:
 But surely the time has come when, because of the calculated criti- cism and the premeditated calumnies of the opposition we are entitled to call attention to the fact that all of these things were achieved under the leadership of great Democrat and thegreat Democratic administration.
 We have no apologies to make, not one,' he said. "We are proud of our great navy; we are proud of our splen- did army; we are proud of the power of our country and the manner in which that power has been used + and We are proud of the inspired and incomparable leadership of Woodrow Wilson.
 Has not the time come when Americans, irrespective of party should begin to praise the achieve ments of our country, rather than criticise them? The American flag must not be lowered.'
 Cummings said the Republican plat form seeks to shame and besmircf this shining record of tremendous achievements" He referred to tho various congressional committees a. smelling committees"
 "Over so investigations have beer , made by Congress and over $2,OOO, l 000 wasted" he said, "and the on, result has been to prove that it wa the cleanest war ever fought in tn, history of civilization" He said tha more than 40 billions of dollars pass ed through the hands of the Demo cratic administration, and that tn, finger of scorn does not point to on' single Democratic official in all Amer ica."
 This, he said, was a record neve before made by any political party.
 Despite all their investigations, he said, mot one single Democrati official has either been accused o ! even suspected; and the only digni tary in America of any outstanding , political significance who is moving in the direction of the penitentiary i Truman Newberry of Michigan.
 "The very power of the Republican party to conduct partisan investi | Df