Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-05
JUDGE GILBERT
OPENS CAMPAIGN
Democratic Candidate For Con-
gress Scores Republicans For
Exploiting the Soldier


campaign for election to congress
here today. Judge Ralph Gilbert. of
Shelbyville, democratic candidate,
scored the republican party for at
tempting to exploit the soldier, show
ed the hypocracy OF the republicans
in claiming to be for the bonus for
soldiers and failing to enact a law
providing for such bonus, though in
control of both houses of congress,
endorsed the League of Nations, not
only as means OF preserving the
stable markets for the farmers pro
ducts; declared himself for necessary
relief for the soldiers as provided in
the democratic platform and for
which the democratic candidate for
president stands and for the election
of Senator Beckham, in whose inter
est he appealed to the women voters
as one who had stood for all they
had hoped and prayed for through so
many years.
A large crowd heard Judge Gilbert
and applaUded him heartily, indicat-
ing an interest in the speech and in
the election that BODIES no good for
the republican candidate for re-elec-
ton
Judge Gilbert was informed that
the democrats of Casey county not
only would vote, but that their women
also would go to the polls.
Judge Gilbert declared that the
League of Nations was a means of
preserving the peace of the world. He
said he thought it vastly more i'm
portant to have League of Ma
tions than to waste time fighting for
a perfect League of Nations" He
said that every argument advanced
against the League of Nations had
been urged against the constitution of
the United States, which, after all
was only a league of nations, and
that every one of these arguments
had been demonstrated by time to be
groundless. He said that every re-
igious body and educational institu-
tion in the country which had adopt
ed any resolution on the subject had
endorsed the League of Nations and
that it was important to the rest of
the world that the United States en-
ter it.
Judge Gilbert said that as long as
America is an exporting nation she
must necessarily be dependent upon
the markets of the world for her
Prosperity and that the peace of the
world must be depended on to pro-
tect and stabilize these markets. He
showed how the League of Nations
would thus be of immense benefit to
the American farmer for years to
come He declared the low price of
tobacco to be direct result of the
failure to stabilize markets of the
world that would have followed the
entry of the United States into the
League of Nations and showed how
the loss due to that failure had fallen
upon the American tobacco grawers.
Discussing the proposed bonus for
soldiers of the world war, Judge Gill
bert said that .''the republicans had
been guilty of purposely deceiving
the soldiers" He asserted that he was
in favor of the bonus plan proposed
by the democratic platform on which
Governor Cox stood and which he had
promised to carry into effect if he is
IL I'll Tr16o
however, that he was not for any bo-
nus plan that would keep 100000
negroes idle for two years in the
south at time when their labor was
most needed and that these negro sol
diers had been better fed, better
clothed and better housed while in
the army than they were ever in their
lives He told the service men pres
ent that the only hope for them of
obtaining recognition of their splen-
did patriotic service lay in the cleo
ton of the democratic ticket, for the
republicans, he said, had had both
houses of congress and had not
passed bonus bill, the one which
passed the house and for which his
opponent voted, having been a piece
of political camoufiage intended pur-
posely to deceive the soldiers. They
could easily have passed bonus bill,
Judge Gilbert said, but had failed to
do So.
Discussing the price of farm pro-
ducts and what the democratic adj
ministration had done for the farmer,
Judge Gilbert asked: "Under what
administration during all history have
you received greater reutrns for your
labor?"
Judge Gilbert pointed to the fact
that Senator Beckham was product
of the rural districts of Kentucky, be