The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-10-21
BANNER AUDIENCE
OF Season Greets Mrs.
Ida McGlone Gibson.
MANY TURNED AWAY.

At eight o'clock Saturday might
Mrs. Ida McGlone Gibson addressed
an audience at the Court House here
which taxed the seating capacity OF
the building to its limits. In fact
hundreds Of persons were unable to
get seats. This splendid assemblage
represented the refinement and cul-
ture Of the community, fully forty
per cent Of those present being
ladies. The speaker was introduced
in very happy little speech made by
Mr.. Billy Miller of this place.
Mrs.. Gibson. who has very en-
gaging personality. began by saying
she thought II would be the women
Of the country who would elect the
next President 81 the United States.
She said the Democratic party had
placed on the statute books more CON
structive and beneficial legislation in
the las, eigh, years than had the Re
publicans IN period 81 forty years.
in proof Of which she drew attention
to the Federal Reserve Aet. Farm
Loan and Child Labor Laws and other
vital enaetments having for their OBJ
Jet the uplifting Of humanity.
She ventured the assertion that
there wasn't man or woman in all
that splendid audience who didn't
have more money in his or her pocket
than ever before.
The prosperity Of the Nation,
she declared was without parallel m
is history and that the dinner pail
was 81 full that the top could not be
pushed down"
She described Nj Harding a. a
vaciilating reactionary who would run
away from the nations responsibi.
mites resulting from the war. while
Cox. on the other hand was willing "a
face them With lofty and undaunted
courage.
The League. she said. was patri
otto and not political issue--an Is
sue with such s,upendous moral impoi
'tancc as to compel is consideration
upon the loftiest plane Of thought
. While drafting the League the Presi
dent had called several republican
senators in consultation and incorpor
ated numerous suggestions from then
into the document. and now thes,
same senators were regulating theil
own suggestions and heaping maledic
tions upon the head Of the nation
chief" said the speaker. "Th'
League cannot be strapped" she con
tinued. whether this nation ratihei
or not. II could not be killed. as q
was functioning even now in no un
certain way
Mrs. Gibson compared William II
: Taft to Pontius PLATE. saying he VA
apparently now trying to wash hi
hands Of any serious participation II
the League
Discussing Article X. the speakel
declared that II carried no moral oh
legation which might involve the mill
tary forces Of the United States il
European wars: that this Republi,
could in no conceivable manner be
come a super government. To be on
Of the League meant that Americi
would have to maintain the mighties
army and navy in the world. A sepa
rate peace with Germany would fol
low. she declared.
She arranged the Republican sena
torial oligarchy for holding up tn,
treaty and said this suspicious buncl
had sent out ~ many as sixty smell
ing committees" without finding
single guilty Democrat and tina, IN,
Republican party. in n state Of de
speration and alarm was conductin,
the present campaign along lines o.
monumental falsehood and rank de
ceptlon.
4 IL was direct and logical dis
course and brought forth from tim,
to time outbursts Of hearty applause
terminating finally in AN impassiona
appeal to every intelligent man an,
woman present to support Govorno
James NJ Cox. the intrepid leader
who had solemnly pledged himself
II elected, to defend the repubh,
against threatened reaction and ma
tional dishonor.