The log cabin Democrat., 1920-06-28

cent investigation of the primary cleo ton campaigns.
 "The Republican party" he said, "became so fixed in it's 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 program they discovered fraud and graft and gross and inexcusable ex- penditures. The revelations disclose the fact that the meeting at Chicago was not a convention but an auction. The highest bidder, how ever, did not get the prize. The pub licity that overlook the proceedings frustrated the initial purpose"
 Cummings referred to those who complain at the great money cost of the war as "pitifully cramped in soul"
 Regarding preparedness, he said that in a strict military sense a dem ocracy Is never prepared for war but that America was made ready in a way that was far more effective than by maintaining at enormous cost great armaments, which neither party ever advocated and whom our people would never approve"
 Cummings did not refer to the liquor issue.
 He referred to the Irish problem only incidentally During a discus sion of the Republican platform, he said:
 It contains no message of hope for Ireland"
 The Republican platform, reaction ary and provincial" he said, lis the very apotheosis of political expedi- ency. Filled with premeditated slan- ders and vague promises, it will be searched in vain for one construction suggestion for the reformation of the conditions which it criticises and de- pores. The oppressed peoples of the earth will look to it in vain. It con- tains no message of hope for Ire land; no word of mercy for Armenia; and it conceals a sword for Mexico"
 The Democratic party, he said, be- fore the outbreak Of the war, enacted more effective constructive and rem edial legislation than the Republican party had enacted in a generation" :"
 The income tax, he said, relieved the law of the reproach of being un- justly burdensome to the poor; a non-partisan tariff commission, he said, will provide scientific revision of the tariff hereafter Pan-Ameri- canism was encouraged; Alaska was opened to commerce and development; dollar diplomacy was destroyed; a corrupt lobby driven from the nation al capitol an effective seamen's act adopted; the federal trade commission created; child labor legislation enact ed; parcel post developed; secretary of labor seated in the cabinet; eight hour laws adopted; abor was removed from the category of commodities by the Cayton amendment; corrupt prac- tice act adopted and the federal re- serve system established, he said.
 If the Democratic party had ac- complshed nothing more than the passage of the federal reserve act, it would be entitled to the enduring gratitude of the nation" Cummings said. aPnics, he sand, "are now but memory"
 Under the Republican system there was an average of one bank failure every twenty-one days for a period of nearly forty years. After passage of the federal reserve system there were in 1915 four bank failures; in 1916 and 1917 three bank failures; in 1918 one bank failure, and in 1919 no bank failure at all"
 Passing to the record of the Repub- lican congress, he said it had ignored the presidents recommendation for measures relating to profteering, taxation, Appropriate action relative to the returning soldiers" etc. He termed the session "barren of achieve ment, shameless in waste of time and mmone."
 Cummings launched into a detailed defense of the treaty and the league of nations. He said America is in honor bound to ratify the treaty, and cited events in chronoogical order to prove his point.
 Thus, before we entered the war We made the pledge, during the wal restated the pledge and when the ar mistice was signed all the nations ourselves included, renewed the pedge and it was upon the path of these promises that Germany laid down hel arms" he said.
 He called the league of nations covenant the Monroe doctrine of the world and said it's purpose is ito give