The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-06
American People Paying Staggering Penalty For Election Of Republicans
National Chairman Homer S. Cummings Greeted With
 Enthusiasm Women Speakers Well Received sociate State Committee of Women Recommended
 and That Delegation to San Francisco Vote As Unit.

Hauford S. Weed; 27th, John A. Walsh; 18th, Asa M. Ross; 2Sth, Val
 entine Murphy; 30th. F. E. Coe; S1st,
 o. E. Wager; 32nd. John F. Addis;
 33rd, Thomas F. Griffin; 34th, S. K.
 Stevens; 35th. Osro Hanks.
 Chairman Cummings address fol- lows in full:
 World Testing of Governments. fFWe live in a. world which today is testing, by every possible standard
 not only men and measures and par ties, but institutions and foE1ns of
 government. That American and American leadership will meet this test and emerge trfunphantly, I have no shadow of doubt. I sometimes think, that as an aftermath of the
 war, we have come upon period of un juStifable pessimism. We find critics everywhere in a land which was never before so prosperous. For
 my own part, have no share in this spirit of ~pessimism. believe in America, I think that it has rendered a service to humanity greater than was rendered by any other country since the world began.
 q think tco, that every Democrat has a. right to rejoice in the un-
 paralIe7ed record of our party, en- IECLSo ctS IL HAS DSSll eb Dy < 1odu0E- ship which has carried America, to
 greater heights of prosperity and
 glory than she has ever before known. It is a literal fact, that dur ing our control of the government,
 prior to the war, we placed upon the statute books, more useful and con
 structive legislation than the Repub- lican Party had placed there in a generation.
 Many Details. "I shall not pause to speak in de- ! tail of the various pieces of essential
 legislation which the country had 1 long needed, and which it had been unable to secure under Republican ! rule. We have made the Income Tax a permanent Inart of the revenue pro- 1 ducing agencies of the government. 1 We cured the inequities of our tariff; we established a non-partisan Tariff l Commission. Pan-Americanisrn was i encouraged; dollar diplomacy was l destroyed; the Clayton Act was | destroyed; the Clayton Act was pass l ed, taking labor forever out of the category of a mere commodity. We l created Federal Employment Blu
 reaus We made a place in the l Cabinet for a. Secretary of Labor. A 1 bill was passed known as The Philip | pine lf-Government Bill which has
 not only brought prosperity to the 1 Philippine Islands, but has set Ns people on the road to freedom and | self government, and made them 1 peaceful and contented, thereby re- ! moving the need for military con- 1 trol- We created the Federal Trade l commission. We passed Child Labor l Legislation. We established a, Rural l Credits. Act and a Farm Loan Bank ! ing System. We passed the Smith l Lever Bill for the improvement of agricultural conditions, and we es- tab1ished the Federal Reserve Sys- | tenn. So admirable have these acts | been in operation, and so quickening have been their effects upon indus try and commerce, that there is not
 a man in public life today who has
 the courage to rise and ask for thei1 repeal in whole or in part.
 1 When the war came, our party
 leadership rose to still greater
 heights. To convert the processes o1
 peace into the activities Of war re
 quired leadership of >unexamplec
 skill. All the necessary legislation
 was promptly supplied We es
 abolished Vocational Training. We
 created the War Risk Bureau. W<
 established the Office of Alien Prop l 0Ily NuSIOu1cu we petSSSu CIIS uSCSS
 sary food and fuel regulations. W.
 established a Shipping Board ant
 created a Merchant Marine. Indus
 try was successfully mobiEzed.
 Defense Councils Created. Councils of Defense were created
 in every State of the Union, undel
 the guidance of the National Counci of Defense. The war was financed
 without making it a burden on tn American people. Prodigious loan were negotiated at low rates of in
 terest and floated in a manner dis closing extraordinary ability in fl a nance. The SeIective Draft Law wa
 passed at a time when it require, f courage to propose such measur to the American people. The Nav f was expanded until it became tn
 second in size and the first in ef
 ficiency in all the world It was no
 by mere chance that an army o more than two million men was. safe q ly transported across three thous ! and miles of U-boat infested sea: , where, well-armed, well-onicere6
 we'll equipped and indomitabIe i f spirit, it turned the tide of battle
 won imperishable glory and tri q umphed in the greatest war tn a i world has ever known
  . l the critics of the Administration |, suggest how, within the limits ( 2 human possibility, the war could hay 4 been won more promptly and wit f less loss of American life. The Re
 publican management is renderin
 l small service to America when ;4 seeks to convert the machinery of i
 organization into an instrument
 attack upon American leadership an a American honor. When the histor 70 of this great period is written, it wi n be known as golden era of Amer
 can honor.
 q Partisan criticism of minor d, n fects or individual officials may for
 time attract a superficial attentio te but the great facts, the outstandir n facts. of the. last seven years, pIes 5. eloquently for the Democrat 7 cause.
 .s "Only a progressive and far-seei1 leadership could have broug1 l' America to her present place honor and power, and yet, the ve 'e men who have stood in the way s' all these measures of progress, a H. the ones who are now criticising u F. conduct of the war and the activiti