The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-07-03

ventioD, to-day delivered the key
note speech. Cummings devoted half
of his time to a discussion of the
treaty and it's reception by the Senate.
Cummings praised the Democratic
achievements of the past eight years
and uttered ringing denunciations of
the Republican party.
Speaking of the League of Nations
plank in the Republican platform,
Cummings said:
st praises without discrimination
all the Republican Senators who par
ticipated in it's defeat. Its words of
benediction fall alike upon the ir-
reconcilables, the Lodge reservation
lists, the mild reservationists and
those who proposed a separate peace
with Germany. : 1t is enough
to know that the old Guard sold the
honor of America for the privilege of
nominating a reactionary for Presi-
dent"
After naming the nations hat have
ratified the peace treaty, Cummings
said:
What nations stand outside? Rev
dictionary Mexico, Bolshevist Russia,
~Unspeakable Russia, and-the Uni
ted States of America"
He accused the Republicans in the
Senate of conspiring to defeat the
treaty because they were moved by
a strange and inexplicable jealousy of
the President"
Speaking of the sacrifices Presi-
DEM Wilson made for the treaty, he
said: Congress was in session for
months while the President lay in
the White House struggling with a
terrifying illness and, at times, close
to the point of DEATH"
1.-THE President made every sacrifice
for the cause of peace" Cummings
declared, while at home there was
widespread propaganda of opposi-
ton making it imperative that he
take up in his own country a strug-
| gle for the preservation of that which
had been won at incalculable cost.
Following the s~uperhuman 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 knowledge that po-
litical adversaries > = are av-
agely destroying . Z" the hope
of settled peace This was the Attic
tion-this the qualification"
Cummings detailed the achieve
ments of the Nation during the world
war. He gave all credit to American
patriotism and the premeditated ca
dummies of the opposition, we are en-
| titled to call attention to the fact that
all of these things were accomplished
under the leadership of a great Dem
ocrat and a great Democratic admin
istration."
I'VE have no apologies to make
not one," he said.
I'VE are proud of our great navy;
we are proud of our splendid army;
we are proud of the power of our
country and the in which that
power has been used and
we are proud of the inspired and in
comparable 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 to
| criticize them? II the Amer
lean flag must be lowered, 1t will be
hauled down in a Republican con-
vention and not in a Democratic con-
v%ention."
Cummings said the Republican
| platform "seeks to shame and be-
smirch this shining record of tre-
mendous achievement" He re-
ferred to the various congressional
investigating committees as smell
ing committees." Over eighty inves-
LEGATIONS have been made by Con-
gress. and over $4,000. 900 wasted,
he said, "and the one result has been
to prove that 1t was the cleanest wal
ever fought in the history of civiliza-
tion."
He said hat more than forty bill
lions of dollars passed through the
hands of the Democratic administra-
tion and hat "the finger of scorn
does not point to the one single Dem
ocratic official in all America" This,
he said, was a record never before
made by any political party.
Despite all their Investigations"
ne said. mot one single Democratic
official has either been indicted or ac-
cused or even suspected, and the
only dignitary in America of any out
standing political Significance who Is
moving in the direction of the r1ri-
Tertiary is Truman Newberry lch-
igan."
Cummings then referred to the re-
cent Investigations of the primary
election campaigns.
The Republican party" he said.
became so fixed in its incorrigible
habit of conducting Investigations
that it finally turned to the fruitful
task of investigating itself. For the
first time since they entered upon
this programme, they discovered
fraud and graft and gross and mex
cusable expenditures. The revelations
disclose the fact that the
meeting at Chicago was not a conven-
ton but an auction. The highest
bidder, however. did not get the
prize. The publicity that overlook
the proceedings frustrated the initial
purpose"
Cummings referred to those who
| complain at the great money cost of