Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-06
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personally think. so as to. bring
about a popular restatement OF the
doctrine of state rights and popu-
Ian local home rule upon which our
fathers founded this government"
President Wilson was given
q edit by Secretary Daniels for hay
ing seen the necessity of shutting
German submarines off the seas as
the only effective method of COM
batting them before naval staffs,
ION either side of the water"
moved to that end.
'You must shat up the hornets
in their nest" the president was
quoted by MIR. Daniels as having
said in a quarterback speech to Of
ficers of the battleship Pennsyl-
Vania, early in the war, for you
can never end the submarine peril
if you let them out and then have
to devote yourselves to chasing
them all over the ocean"
"The barrage finally built across
the North sea- Mr.. Daniels said,
"was the American navy's answer
to the presidents counsel. 1t was
proposed by Admiral Earle, chief
of ordnance, in April, 1917. APP
proved by Admiral Benson and
Admiral Mayo, by the general
board. by the secretary of the navy
and by the president. 1t was the
greatest new constructive naval
measure OF effectiveness in the
whole war. 1t was a factor both
in destroying the morale of the
German navy and in its deadly de-
struction of submarines.
President Wilson had also
pointed out before naval staffs' had
reached that conclusion" Mr.. Dan
iels said. chat the only way to
most surely safeguard merchant
ships was TO send them in conveys
protected by armed ships"
The secretary attacked the rec
ord of congress since 1918, when
dishonest appeal to hyphenate1
politics enabled the republicans to
elect a majority OF this congress"
and declared the people had "al-
ready found they got gold brick"
That record, he characterized as
certain to defeat the republicans
next November, AS it is certain the
democrats will have the courage to
nominate a great leader who is him
self a platform of constructive
legislation"
Mr.. Daniels said that he believed
that a league Of nations such as
that proposed in the treaty would
enable the world to maintain peace
without competitive naval building
but that without such a league,
American duty was "as plain as a
pike staff"
Democratic leadership in the
senate has stood for unqualified
ratification of the peace treaty,
Homer S. Cummings, chairman of
the democratic national committee,
declared in an address tonight at
the dinner.
When that became impossible"
he added, 1T has stood for such
reservations as would preserve the
spirit of the document and make its
re-submisslon Unnecessary
IF republican leadership" he
continued, blind to overwhelming
necessity for an honorable and
speedy peace, drives this issue Ill
timately into the area of politics.
the democratic party will unfalter-
ingly, take up the guage of battle
Upon that issue we shall have the
support of the moral and spiritual
forces of the nation. We shall have
the support of the churches of the
land. We shall have the support of
the business interests which are
now suffering from the delay in
restoration of the peace of the
world We shall have the support
of the laboring men of America,
who do not want to be driven again
into war, and we shall have the
supper, Of the women of the United
States"
Abiding to the committee of III
appointed by Chairman Hays of the
republican national committee
Chairman Cummings said if the
committee ever meets, lit will be
necessary to call out the militia to
preserve order"
He characterized the sixty sixth
congress as "the most melancholy
failure in legislative history
las for holding the Wilson adj
ministration to an account for its
stewardship" Mr., Cummings said,
'ninety-two Investigations set on
foot at an enormous cost have pro-
duced nothing that was worth the
expenditure. of a dollar, except to
demonstrate that this war has been
fought out to a successful conclu-
sion without scandal, or graft or
fraud"