The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16

that they expect because of their pre- tensions will. in my opinion, fail to arrive. Certainly no one can approve of Harding's course in voting one way and privately writing another and then denying the letter, and when it was produced hiding behind his sec retary-
 Contrast the statement of Gov
 Cox, q am in favor of applying the principle of seIf-determination in
 Japan, in China. in Turkey, in Persia,
 in Ireland. and everywhere else.'' I would like to go further into de-
 MT. Harding. but time does not per
 init. Just now he is tranquilly sitting on his front porch waiting for the American people to come to him. He loves the front porch. I almost be- lieve that he will change the meaning Grand Old Porch.
 wish he would tell the American people what there has been wrong in the legislation of the Democratic publican Congress. The country is we'll aware of the constructive and remedial legislation that has been placed upon the statute books by a Democratic administratio ton. Our own Homer Cummings, in the greatest speech ever made to a pol1tl- cal convention. recited the achieve ments of the party. No man can inn prove upon that speech.
 (Mr. Spellacy then quoted from the speech of Chairman Cummings on the achievements of the administratlon.) It is a record that justifles the claim of the party to the confidence of the Am nerican people.
 During the war a Democratic ad- ministra ton handled more than 40
 billion dollars. The Republicans are in the control of both branches of the present Congress- They have appoint ed over 90 investiga ting committees, endeavoring to see if some scandal could not be disclosed. Yet the finger of scorn does not point to one Demo- cratic official in all America. Aga1n allow me to quote from MT. Cum mingS:
 ''Boys, Get the Money "If Republican leaders are not able to rejoice with us in this Am erican triumph, they should have the grace to remain silent, for it's does not lie in the mouths of those who conducted the Spanish-American War to indulge in the luxury of criticism. What was there in this war to compare with the typhoid infested camps and the paper soled shoe controversy of 1893? What was there in this war to compare to the emblalmed beef scandal of the Spanish-American War? Despite all their investigations. not one single Democratic official has either been indicted or accused or even suspected; and the only dignitary in America Of any outstanding political significance who is moving in the direction of the penitentiary, is Truman Newberry, Of Michigan
 Our Republican friends have sent out the word Boys. Get the Money; that is the slogan now. In the event they should win the election. the slo- gan will be changed to Boys, Get the Money Back"
 An individual is to be judged as to
 the likelihood of his future perform
 ances by his past record. A political
 party in this respect is not unlike an
 individual. We appeal to the Amerf-
 can people to study the facts, to ex-
 anime the record and to vote accord
 ing to their consciences.
 SSs S0I 5e L0S T IS 'QlIuS /
 The great outstanding issue of this
 campaign is the League of Nations.
 The lines of cleavage between the
 parties is clearly defined. More
 words have been uttered on this sub
 ject in the senate of the United
 States than upon any other matter
 ever before considered by that body.
 believe that more than six million
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