The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-03-30
cummings Speech
AT LOUISVILLE
Chairman OF Democratic National
Committee Delivers Address At
Cet-Together Meeting
THE SPEECH PRINTED in FULL

Love Feast, or kentucky DemO-
Gratis at the Seelbach at Louisville
last Thursday evening was one OF the
greatest political meetings in the his
tory of the State.
Fully six hundred Democrats,
women and men, were seated at the
banquet, which was served in the
large assembly room on the top floor
of the hotel.
The speakers included Homer S.
Cummings, chairman of the National
Democratic Committees, Col P. H.
Callahan, Judge Alex p. Humphrey,
and Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart. An
orchestra was heard while the BAN
quet was being served.
After the speaking, resolutions
were adopted endorsing the National
Administration, and scoring the Re-
publican Congress for its failure to
offer even a resolution of sympathy
for the President of the United
States during his long and critical ill.,
ness, brought on by over-work and
United States.
The speech of Mr.. Cummings is
reproduced herewith in full, because
it is one of the ablest that has been
heard anywhere and covers the DEM
ocratic position as no other docu
ment could do. We hope every read
er of The Kentuckian-CitiZen will
take time to read the speech. 1t will
repay the time spent. Women, es-
pecially, should read it, for they will
be called on to vote in the November
election. They will want to know in
more detail than ever before what
the Democra. C party stands for.
And every Republican should read it.
MIR. Cummings Great Speech.
Following is the address of Homer
S. Cummings, National Democratic
chairman, in full:
Il am happy to know that this
great campaign, which has already
commenced, will permit us to seek
the inspiration, the help and the 10y
al cooperation of the women of
America.
"In the campaign of 1916 we car
ried ten out of the twelve suffrage
States, and we made great gains in
the other two States. There are
manifest reasons for this. 1t was
not only because they were moved
by the clarity of manner in which
she was able to state great principles,
but it was also because the women
of America are instinctively Demo-
Gratis.
1.-The Democratic party possessed
an appeal to the women of America
because of the social aspects of the
programme which had been outlined
been carried to such a successful
elimination. The women knew by
some instinct, superior, | think, to
sheer reason, that there was a great
heart and great spirit and great
soul behind the legislative pro-
gramme of the Democratic party.
Defines Democratic Party.
eff I were called upon to suggest
the essential thing that distinguish
es our party from the Republican
party, / would say that our party is
the party of service and the Repub-
lican party is party concerned
chiefly with material things. That
is why the Democratic party possess
es an irresistible appeal to those who
have hearts; and the women of
est in great public questions.
1.-The Democratic party got Its
chance i'm 1912. We had wandered
many years in the wilderness and
we had become purged of all our
sins and vices.
1--WE were an unentangled party;
we were free party; we did not
owe allegiance to any class, to any
group or to any special interest, and
we were, therefore, able to take up
with success the great legislative pro-
gramme. that we ultimately carried
through.
eve found practically every de-
partment of government in need of
some sort of reform. We passed an
income tax and made it permanent
part of the revenue-producing agen- |
cies of this country; we passed child
labor legislation; we eliminated the |
graft and the favoritism and the IN |
iauities from the tariff system; we |
non-partlsan tariff !
commission so that. future revislons
of the tariff might be made in the |
light of scientific knowledge ac- /
curately obtained.
DOudT DiPiohoSy DSeNA ~ 800
"Pan-Americanism was encOurag- |
ed; dollar diplomacy was destroyed;
the Philippine self-government bill
was adopted.
eve went further than this: We
passed the Smith-Lever bill for the |
Of farm condition. We
then turned to labor. For the first
time in the history of any govern
ment in this country, a Secretary of
Labor sat in the Cabinet of the Pres
ident of the United States. Regula-
tions concerning hours of service
were made applicable to Federal en-
ployes, and Federal employment.
Federal Trade Commission.
"We went further than this. We
the Federal Trade Com
mission in order that American bust
less might proceed upon fair and
suitable basis. We passed the Clay
on Act amending the Sherman Anti
Trust Act, and for the first time in
he history of America, labor was
no longer as a commodity,
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