The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-08
AGGRESSIVE
IS KEYNOTE
OF c. LODGE
Massachusetts, Senator Sounds
Call to Battle Before Open
ing Session of Great Con-
vention at Chicago.
REVIEWS LEAGUE FIGHT

IAo Ing eiNul COD DO tLO MY Aio'S
Of the Republican convention before
the opening session at the Coliseum
here today:
We are met here to take the first,
the most decisive step in the political
campaign which is to determine the
party control of this great Govern
ment for the next four years. 1t is
solemn moment, fraught with vast
possibilities of either good or evil.
Well worth our while it is just here
upon this bank and shoal of time" to
pause for an instant while we glance
swiftly upon the scene in which we
are to fight our battle. Behind US lies
the greatest war in history now for
the most part fallen silent, together
with all the hideous advances OF SCI
ence in methods of taking human life,
which battened upon it, halted and
quiescent.
So the war ended and victory
came. One sees the result in the
restlessness which is everywhere; in
the discomfort with all forms of gov
ernment or control and in the readi-
ness and eagerness to destroy even
the fundamental principles OF a free
and orderly civilization.
CriticiSeS Democrats
One of the great political parties
has failed to meet-nay, is in a con-
siderable measure responsible for,
the perilous conditions of the hour
The only other organized political
force strong enough to grapple with
the encircling dangers is the Repub-
lican party. If that, too. fails and
breaks down, the Russian descent into
barbarism will begin to draw near.
Such an end is inconceivable with the
American people but they must realize
the peril and drive 1t back into the
darkness whence it comes.
The return of the Democrats to
power with Mr. wilson or one of his
disciples still the leader of great
party, which before his advent pos
sessed both traditions and principles,
would be long step in the direction
of autocracy for which Mr.. Wilson
yearns and heavy blow to the contin-
uance of free representative govern
ment as we have always conceived
and venerated it.
The peril inseparable from Mr.. Wilson
and his system goes far beyond all
party divisions, for it involves the
fundamental question of whether the
government of the United States shall
be a government of laws and not of
men, whether it shall be free rep
resentative government or that of a
dictatorship resting on a plebiscite
carried by repellant methods. Mr. Will
son and the autocracy he represents,
and all which those who believe in his
doctrines and share his spirit repre-
sent, must be put aside and conclus-
lively excluded from any future con-
troll.
Order Necessary
To maintain law and order and a
stable government where justice rules
and the rights of all men, high and
low, rich and poor, shall be protected,
we must have a government of the
people, duly chosen by the people, and
never must there be permitted any
government by a single man or by a
group of men or by an organized
minority. True progress must rest
upon and proceed from the sound prin-
ciples which sustain all free govern
ment and to such progress the Repub-
lican party has always been COM
mitted.
Referring to economic conditions
Mr.. Lodge said protective tariff legis.
lation is impossible with a Demo.
cratic free trade OF socialistic procliv-
w
ductions in expenditures have been
effected, but the party has been met
with resistance in some departments
The estimates have been reduced
over a billion dollars. The oil-leaslnG
and water-power bills. two measures
of large effect and high importance
which have been halting and stumbl
ing for many years in the incapable
hands OF A Democratic administration
have passed both houses, but the
president has vetoed the watee power
bill. We have passed the vO
cational rehabilitation act for the ben
eft OF wounded soldiers and severa
acts for the disposition of war mater
ial very necessary to our finances
We have amended and improved the
federal reserve and the farmers loar
acts.
Other Measures.
We have cared for the soldiers o
the Civil war, Strai ghtened in their ole
age through the rise in prices, by ar
increase in their pensions. The civi
service retirement law, long
deferred act OF justice TO faithful ser
wants of the government, has beer
passed, We have been obliged tC
restore the army and navy to {
ICdAS loolIus, WOIh dS O11IlCul
as it was necessary. We have me
this by two most important measures
the army and navy pay-bll and tn,
law for the reorganization of the arm,
on peace basis. Two of the mos
important acts of any period, the ship
ping act for the upbuilding of tn
American marine and the settlemen
of the affairs of the shipping boar,
and the law establishing the budget
great measure of economy ant
sound financial administration, ar,
conspicuous as our latest achieve
ments. The budget bill was vetoed b,
the president at the last moment OF
the ground that it interfered with hi.
power Of appointment and removal
The rise of prices, the high cost o
living, which reach daily into ever,
home. is the most pressing as it il
the most difficult and most essentia
problem which confronts us. Profiteer
Ing, the charging of extortionate, ant
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