East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-06-28
ings keynote address.
tBy United Press.)

CBy United Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.-Mak
ing the peace treaty and the League
OF Nations the dominant issue of the
coming presidential campaign, Homer
Cummings as temporary chairman oi
the democratic national convention
today delivered the keynote speech.
Cummings devoted half of his time
! TO discussion of the treaty and its re-
ception by the senate.
Cummings praised the democratic
achievements of the past eight years
and uttered ringing denunciations of
the republican party.
Speaking of the League of Nations
plank in the republican platform.
Cummings said:
"It praises without discrimination
all the republican senators who par
ticipated in it's defeat. Its words of
lbenediction fall alike upon the ire
concila bles, the Lodge reservationists.
I the mild reservationists and those
who proposed a separate peace with
Germany. 1t is enough to
know that the old Guard sold the
honor of America for the privilege of
nominating a reactionary for presi-
dent"
After naming the nations that have
ratified the peace treaty, Cummings
said:
what nations stand outside? Rev
olutionary Mexico, Bolshevist Russia.
Unspeakable Turkey and--the United
States of America"
He accused the republicans in the
senate of conspiring to defeat the
treaty because they were moved by
q strange and inexplicable jealousy of
the president"
Speaking of the sacrifices President
Wilson made for the treaty, he said.
Congress was in session for months
while the president lay in the White
House struggling with a terrifying i'll
ness and. at times, close to the point
of DEATH
"The president made every sacrifice
for the cause of peace" Cummings de-
clared. while at home there was wide
spread propaganda of opposition max !
ing it imperative that he take up in |
his own country struggle for the
preservation of that which had been |
won at incalculable cost Following /
the superhuman labors of seven years /
of unexampled service, this meant the 4
wreck of his health. and worse /
than physical sickness, the sickness of
heart which comes from the knowl- /
edge that political adyersaries i
are savagely destroying the |
hope of settled peace. This was the |
the qualification"
Cummings detailed the achievements |
of the nation during the world war. |
4 TO- 80,
triotism and added
but surely the time has come |
when because of the calculated criti- 1
cism and the premeditated calumnies /
of the opposition, we are entitled to |
call attention to the fact that all of /
these things were accomplished un- |
der the leadership of a great demo |
crat and great democratic admins /
tration.
I'VE have no apologies to make /
not ONE he said.
I'VE are proud of our great navy; /
we are proud of our splendid army /
we are proud of the power of our |
country and the manner in which that |
power has been used and we |
are proud of the inspired and incom- |
parable leadership of Woodrow Will |
son.
HAS not the time come when Am I
ericans. irrespective of party. should {
begin to praise the achievements of /
our century rather than to criticize
them? II the American flag
must be lowered. it Will he hauled
down in a republican convention and (
not in a democratic convention"
Cummings said the republican plat
form seeks to shame and besmirch /
this shining record of treendouS
achievement He referred to the Va
mittecs as smelling committees"
over eighty Investigations have been
piade by congress and over 81 600. 600
wasted. he said. "and the one result
has been to prove that it was the
Cleanest war over fought I'm the his
tory Of civilization"
He said that more than forty bill
lions Of dollars passed through the
hands of the democratic administra-
tion and that "the finger of scorn docs
not point To one single democratic Of
ficial in all America This. he said
was q record never before made by
any political party.
Despite all their Investigations" he
said. mot one single democratic Off
cial has either been indicted or ac-
cused or even suspected: and the only
diEnitary IN America Of any out
standing Significance who Is moving
lin the direction Of the penitentiary is