Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-09
'ADO0 ATTACKS RECORD MADE BY
 REPUBLICAN, SENATE: {:
|nlelS Also Sends Message to the Jackson Dinner

fsiS oAiShe at lHe JackSon M banquet, William G. McAdoo as- Es@ed the work of the Republican s gress as a sorry record of dis # failure" and declared the sue a&s of democracy in the presiden- election was inevitable if lead = mp was wise, vision undistorted A sympathy with the masses pre-
 wed.
 { Republican leadership has demon
 Rted startling incapacity to deal
 ih the great problems confronting
 }erica and the world, Mir. -McAdoo's
 Ssage read. "Nine months of Re
 blican leadership disclose no con
 fuctive, humanitarian or states tnlike act.
 \ Peace defeated, war prolonged y hundreds of thousands of need
 deaths inflicted upon helpless | idren women and men in Europe sshastly toll to exact for partisan itical ends.
 S~The railroad problem bungled . no promise of real or perma- mt solution through bills now in : aference. The public interest is protected, while increased rates,
 Efficient transportation and dis
 Continent will result.
 War taxes have not been re-
 ced, as they should have been If
 lal to the task.
 iThe great problems of interna~
 hal finance have not been grasp
 In consequence serious peril to
 | foreign trade and to our do-
 stic prosperity is rapidly ap-
 ,aching.
 The important questions of social
 stice, which cry aloud for atten-
 n, find no spokesman or champion
 ong the republican leaders.
 Y Keep Up Fight.
 We must keep up the fight for v, prompt restoration of peace ctoughout the world. We must End for the relief of human suf- ccing everywhere in the lands of ad. allies as we'll as in the lands of .hr late enemies. Democratic lead n ship must seek to bring about re- ,,rtion of war taxes, effective treat Int of pressing international fi-
 ncial and economic questions and :. sblems of social justice in an ef- Vt to improve relations.
 five must strive eanestly to pro- 1te the welfare of our soldiers and !, .lors, whose valor and patriotism efed the nation, and we must not
 lp until equal civil and political DHhts are secured for American
 men in every state.
 77'Democracy must permit no in
 ngement of the constitutional
 :hts of freedom of speech and >sedom of press in time of peac"
 vocacy of doctrine of reform ,-rough the bullet is not freedom of seech--it is crime. Such crime akst be prosecuted renorselessly. 1sConscienceless profiteering must 1. resisted by every lawful means l|sWe must stand for the vigorou i|otection of the just rights O nerican citi7ens in every land" Praises Bryan.
 William Jennings Bryan was giv-
 credit by Secretary Daniels,
 eaking at the Jackson day ban
 ct tonight, for laying the founda
 ms of the League of Nations GOV
 ant through the arbitrations of thf Eaty negotiations of the former tretary of state.
 In view of published reports that
 5 three-time nominee of the Dem
 rats for the presidency again as red to lead the party in a cam lien, MT. Daniels statement ere ssd one of the most interesting mo- ..s.ants of the dinner. The naval sec ~tary's address had proceeded with at special incident, with applause r recital of Democratic achieve fnts and ripples of amusement at Ne vigorous sallies at the opposi- ,Sn, until he began GO discuss the sr and it's results. 1.-The declaration (of independ- .Ice) and the covenant (of the pague of Nations)," the secretary i'd, 'are the two living light foun- ins of liberty and peace. It is the Dry of the Democratic party that rough Jefferson and Wilson we
 we given these safe charts for all he for safe navigation upon all as.
 E.Just as surely as Jefferson's de- .aration and Lincoln's emancipation brify American statesmanship the venant will yet bring free nations sto such accord that reason and It force will rule among nations as
 eong individuals. A long step to- ird this ideal was reached in the
 icbrated and benefieicnt Bryan eatics which Germany, alone of iropean nations refused and fore St it's action in 1914 in precipitat- r the war. The principles and lSrit of the Bryan treaties, eXtend- 2 and enlarged, are embodied in Ae treaty of peace" 'eAsserting that no man appreclat- , of the changing conditions be- rves the coming presidential cleo Wn predestined for any party, Gee diary Daniels told the banqueters at the record of the last seven s$rs entialed the Democratic party ' la renewal lease of power. ls Others Assailed. ,NBut the Democrats assembled tife," he continued, must bear ln 'thd that virtue is sometimes its Ely as we'll as its own reward. ! ll-shocked world, with unrest and i'd spirit of change, admonish us at more will be required than a ,4pd record of performance. The 'spple are looking not so much to Ahat has been done as how the epblems of the future are to be lived" the strenuous antago- 3lsm encountered by Presidents Jef-
 rson and Jackson, the speaker con-
 aued: ~vIn this hour the, same malevo-