The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-01
Congressional Candidates Wind Up Campaigns

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Mitchell Palmer IL the United
States attorney general.
"Mr. Olson says that I voted for
the Esch- Cummins railroad bill. I
did vote for the bill. but I voted
against the anti-strike measure, for
! believe that It is labor's undenia-
BILE right TO demand collective bar
gaining and also 1t ID their right to
strike. But Mr.. Olson says should
not have voted for the main bill,
and l ask, why Il 1t that for once
Mr.. Olson is going against Presi-
dent Wilson, the leader Of his par
ty; for Mr.. Wilson said that the
Esch- Cnmmins bill was the opener
of the way to a new era, when he
signed It.
Claims Deliberate Faiseho0d.
"Mr. Olson says that a week ago
at Blandinsvihe I made an attack
against the farm loan act, which
provides. for loans to farmers to
improve their farms and also to aid
them in purchasing farms. l want
to tell you that his statement Is a
deliberate falsehood.
"Mr. Olson knows that voted
for that bill and he knows that I
never made any attack against 1t
and that l am q staunch supporter
OF the act"
The audience Of several hundred
men and women cheered the speak
er at times when he brought forth
some outstanding claim Of the in.
vestigating committees discoveries
of monstrous waste Of the peoples
money.
, I'VE spent IS billions Of dollars
to win the war and are still in debt
to the extent of Is billions OF dol
lars" the speaker stated.
lover one-half. of this amount
was wasted. l can name the places
where everything from automobiles
to electric dynamos are covered up
with dirt. In many OF the places
where material was made for the
government you can scrape a foot
OF earth away and find broken
hardware. Thousands OF autOmo-
biles were allowed to stand in the
open and 60 to ruin. FOodstuffs
were purchased and placed in ware
houses and allowed to spoil. II. in
fact, they were not spoiled when
purchased. My committee was sue
cessful in getting resolution
through that forced the secretary
Of war to sell foodstuffs to the peo-
pie Of this country.
/ Wanted to Pro ect Market
1T was repeatedly stated that
contracts had been made whereby
the government had promised not
to place goods on the market in Or
der not to reduce it. But we forced
the war department to Sell the vast
quantities Of stored up food.
Three and a half billions of dol
lars were spent on the airpiane pro-
gram and we never did have fight
ing plane. Huge sums were spent
for cannon and we never did get
more than u guns to France. All
Of our cannon were purchased from
the French. Our rifles were pur-
chased from the English for $50
each when we could make the
Springfield rifles in this country for
$13. President Wilson was elected
, in 1916 on the cry that he had kept
US out OF war, and it would not dc
for them to make any play that
. would tend to show the people that
there was going to be war. 1t has
been proven that few weeks after
election he and . few close ad-
visors, Barney Baruch, among them
figured out the draft system for
raising an army.
"Tbe people were deliberately
duped in supporting Mr.. Wilson in
1916 and they have paid heavily. Dc
you know that our aviators in
Europe fought the enemy while
using the De Haviiand 4 airplane
known as the flaming coffin: that
the gasoline tanks we're 30 situated
that when hit by a bullet flaming
oil spattered over the pilot. burn
ing him to crisp, and Go you know
that they had no parachutes with
which to escape such a horrible
death. but that all avia.ors of 9TH
er nations had parachutes?
Cable Lines Tied Up.
!. do you know that while the
J president was in Europe working or
the League OF Nations while the
other nations were dividing the
spoils. tina: he had tied up the ca
BILE lines by special power SO that
!, We could get no word?
DO you know that when my Of.
flee at Washington was flooded with
kilograms from mothers OF this dis
trict who were asking Of word OF
their boys overseas. alive or dead
that ! could no. use the cables to
find out? And do you know ira,
while this was going on the cables
carried news of what kind of dress
the presidents wife wore at 'sycA
and such an occasion?
When the president went tc
Europe he had the George Wash.
ington ref ted throughout. Nine
teen destroyers and four battleships
conveyed the steamer and there
were no submarines"
Money has been expended Law.
ishly by the Democrats from the
president down. After returning
nom Europe the president made
his western tour and returned tt
Washington paralyzed on one side
He could net talk. He could moi
conduct the affairs OF Ms office, YET
he I,buked Secretary of State Ian.
sing and accepted that offic' ais res.