Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-26


 trip to Washington and there bent the knee to President Wilson with a declara tion that he was in perfect accord with the president and if elected, promised to carry out those things that the president had not been able to accomplish, he signed his own death warrant right there, declared Carroll L. Beedy of Port land, Maine, speaking to 1,6OO people that filled the Davis theater Monday night at the republican rally.
 The statement brought out one of the many saNos of enthusiastic applause | evoked by the address of Congressman Beedy, who was substituted for Senator | ". E. Borah of Idaho who had been e'- pected to be the speaker at the rally, but | could not leave Washington because of l bad cold for which he was under a | physicians care. But the Maine man | who has been elected to congress in Tom Reid's old district, was declared by theH record rd-breaking crowd to have been s,n admirable substitute and they gave him answering attention throughout his Ad- dress of an hour and half.
 Maine, where republican majority of over 60,0e0 was recorded in the recent election, is Exhibit l in the great and solemn referendum to which President Wilson has invited the American people said Congressman Beedy<while the crowd again applauded. and The drew another roar of applause when he said he con- sidered that the oldI slogan He kept us out of war should now be revamped to read He kept Aus out of war, he kept us out of peace He kept us out of sH- gar" Referring to the departure of the U s. S.. George Washington when it sailed from France to bring President Wilson home flying the! flag of the league of na- tions above the Stars and Stripes, he as- serted that he would never vote for any league that would pull down the Ameri- l canJfag and put another flag over it.
 Theater Fills Early.
 As early as o'clock the theater began 1 to fill up for the rally and before it was filled to capacity so that the doors 1 were closed and no more were admitted. l The entire orchestra which had been re- served for women coming unaccompan- jed was filled at an early hour While the audience was gathering the theater l orchestra played number of selections and when the curtain went up it opened | the programme with The Star Spangled
 Banner, the entire audience standing
 Judge H. H. Pettis, chairman of the republican town committee, was chair
 man of the reilly. introducing Congress
 man Beedy briefly. Judge Pettis refer red to- the speech of Augustine Lonergan
 
 in which he advised his hearers to hear
 Senator Borah and said he was glad to see that many had taken that advice
 The chairman regretted the enforced ab-
 sence of Senator Borah but said he felt sure Congressman Beedy would be an acceptable substitute.
 Maine Congressman Speaks.
 I am republican from Maine, said , Congressman Beedy,> in opening his ad- dress but before that am an Anaeri- can from America. (Applause). Maine
 has not been struck by pestilence or a ? blight, yet the genus homo democratus has become practically eytinct It has . been rather an old-fashioned house , cleaning and the result has been the
 splendid figure of over 60 900 republi- can majority.
 There Is more than one reason why this present democratic administration has forfeited it's right /to further con. tinuance in power It has been tre-
 mendously expensive administration. Il : we should take what it cost to dig the f. Panama canal, to buy Louisiana, to bu,
 Alaska, and 10 run the government iron l. It's beginning up to the beginning of tht 2. Wilson administration, multiply i
 by two and add 1900 900 to if. VI, would have the cost of the second tern of the Wilson administration.
 Extravagant War Expenditures. P If the war had been conducted on ; >. business basis, we could have saved hal l. the 1S billions of money that was spen a for war purposes. Money was spent ex travagantly without results. One mil. !. hon was spent for tanks and never a, r American tank was sent to the front !. One hundred and fifty millions wa } spent for building port terminals iron .e which never a ship sailed One hundre and seventeen millions was spent fo
 making gas and only 4,000 tons wer
 shipped. One hundred and twenty mil n lions was spent for making nitrates an , not a pound produced for the use of tn f. American forces. One hundred and six ar ty millions was spent for making powde ,f and not a pound of American powde al was fired at the front. One billion an
 fiety-two millions was spent on the ali, # plane programme and only observatio ,s planes produced. Twenty millions wa Id paid to the Curtiss company for ail ,d planes, which the government refused ra sell to the soldiers when there was n -,s further need for them but sold tt IS. whole lot back to the Curtiss conlpan -i- for $2,000 900, We had but soc. GOO nsIl, m and horses, but 90o,o00 saddles wei Ijc bought, and there were enough sets ( in Sudpo TUT spurs bought 10 provide
 sets for every officer. Forty-four mi
 lions worth of boots and shoes whic
 were not wanted for the army in Fran,
 were not sent back to this country bl
 were sold to the French at F 1-2 cen w on the dollar.
 aS The Wilson Slogan.
 .s- Woodrow Wilson rode into power on of slogan, declared the speaker. He kne 2 the power of this appeal to the yves eb. but the words of his oath were scarce he out of his mouth when he was appea ns ing before congress to justify our e ,o- trance into a war that he must ha of foreseen for months before was comir
 Mention by the congressman of {
 names of Wood and Roosevelt and tho
 attempt to get some action on the part ,. the government sent the big audien , ~ into loud applause.
 ny Tne Story of s=sar.
 ge While President Wilson was Nsteni ns to voices and seeing visions in the ny he was too busy said Congressm 'n- Beedy, to authorize the purchase of t ey Cuban sugar crop for 1-2 cents a pou
 in the reconstruction period and it W ao sold to Europe. Then Louisiana plantt 'ue were paid 16-17 cents wholesale for tn he crop on the plea that they had had 'ar poor season the year before.
 do When the war was over there W 'le 121 million dollars worth of canned fo 'fe products in France that the army h lot not used, but Secretary Baker had ma
 8 contract with the packers not to retu
 this to this country. It would hurt hi