The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-02
DEMOCRATIC THUNDERBOLT IN
CHAIRMAN CUMMINGS SPEECH

10 read the keynote snaech :,
Inairman Cummings al the San Er.n
CISCO convention rejoices the haar,s
~ pa,riotic Americans. 1t is a knocI
out Diow for the hopes of reyiw,na
nc ,eIsn OF special interests ard
prNllges In the political afYa,rs :,
ne United States. Moreover Ch.;r
man Cummings sets forth tho ~
worthy aims of the onnonsn,s IN
cru u peace and deliverance from the
VI future wars as hoped and
prayed Tor by all right thinking men
III word the speech tells us atbirgs
we all DO know to be true as yerif.
eu IN our own inner consc.ences a.
"n nieans read the Cummings speech
). mere are few Of the high spots in
!, me ieague OF nations Covenant 60
tne Monroe doctrine of the worId ).
no Diacker crime (the defeat NJ
.he treaty) against civilization has
ever soiled the pages of our history ("
Revolutionary Mexico, Bolsheyist
RUSSIA, the unsp'eakable Turk and
me United States are the only na.
IONS standing outside of the league
of nations" aeuo
The Republican platform is filled
Win premeditated ISLANDERS and
Nasue promises and it will be search
eu ~ VAIN Tor ore constructive sug.
gestion for the reformation of condi.
.ions which it criticises and de
We will not submit to the repud-
lation OF the peace treaty or to any
process by which it is whitfield down
TO the vanishing point
The Republican platform contains
no message of hope for Ireland. no
word of mercy for Armenia, and con.
Ceals sword for Mexico
We fought great war, for a great
cause and we had a leadership that
carried America to greater heights of
honor and power and glory than she
has ever known before in her his.
tory"
If the Republican leaders are not
aDie TO rejoice with us in this Amer
lean triumph, they should have the
grace to remain silent, for it does not
lie in the mouths Of those who con-
Quoted the Spanish-American war to
indulge in the luxury of criticism"
The Republican party became so
fixed in the incorrigible habit of CON
ducting investigations that il finally
turned to the fruitful task OF inves-
tigating itself"
Revelations disclose that the con-
at Chicago was not conven.
ton but an auction. The highest bid
der. however, did not get the prize"
= Peace achievements of the Demo
cratic party freed the farmer from
the deadening effects of the usurious
financial control; labor was given
he Magma Chartaeof liberty; business
and finance We're released from the
-hraldom of uncertainty and hazard"
THE federal reserve system, pass
ed over the opposition of the Repub-
ican party, enabled America to with.
stand the strain of war without shock
1r panic and ultimately made our ma
ion the greatest creditor nation in
he world
president Wilson's two appeals
before congress for legislation deal
ng with profiteering, reduction of
axes, aid for soldiers and laws TO inn
prove relations OF capital and labor
we're ignored
Democratic Achievements.
1.-The Democratic party is an unen-
angled party-a free party-owing
10 allegiance TO any class or group or
special interest We were able 10
AXE up and carry through 10 success
he great progressive program out
ined in our platform of 1912. During
he months which interyened be,
ween March 4, 1913. and the out
,leak of the world war, we placed
lpon tie statute books of our country
more effective. constructive and re-
nedial legislation than the Republi-
IAN party had placed there in a gener-
stion.
'The income tax was made per
part of the revenue producing
agencies of the country. thereby re
ieving our law of the r'eproaeh OF be-
ng unjustly burdensome TO the poor,
rhe extravagances and iniquiiies oil
he tariff system were removed, and
. nonpartisan tariff commission was
established so that future reyisions
,,;oft ha made in the light OF aCCur-