Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-12
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Gilbert Answers Morris

Gilbert Answers Morris
Judge Ralph Gilbert acquitted him
self very we'll in his first speech of
the campaign at Liberty on October
a, where he met Major Jackson Nor
ris, one of the mountain snellbinders
of the Republicans, in jonlt debate,
and the major is some c,ebater. az
that. For instance, he has put every
possible misrepresentation of League
of Nations on the tip OF his tongue,
the same as King Swope has, and ev-
erywhere he goes he turns these
loose. The ignorant or unthinking
believe him, naturally, just as they
ty, who size as speakers is equal to
their ability at misrepresenting the
league. But Morris is regarded as a
"big gun" himself, for he debated
with Senator Hitchcock and other big
Democrats on the same issue, altho
he didn't make much of an impression
on the crowds that heard him.
At Liberty Morris spoke for fifty
minutes, doing a wonderful amount of
Misrepresentation of the league in
that time. He used the usual stock
arguments in regard to the treaty of
peace-that it was written by an En-
glishman; that it took Shantung from
China and gave it to Japan, while as
matter of fact II took Shantung
from Germany and not from China at
all; that England would have six votes
in the assembly of the league to the
United States one, and all such clap
trap as is being published as che big
statements of the Republican orators.
Judge Gilbert promptly disputed
the truth of these arguments and read
extracts from the speeches of former
President Taft, Prof. Irving Fisher,
of Yale; President Emeritus Elliott,
of Harvard; Prof. Lowell, of Harvard,
and other Republicans to show that
Morris didn't know what he was talk
ing about, OF, if he did know. was do
ing like other Republican spellbind-
ers, deliberately disappearing the
league and its provisions.
Judg Gilbert defied Morris to name
a great humanitarian, a church or
any great civic organization opposed
to the league. He couldn't do it. The
judge called attention to the fact that
the only opposition to the League of
clans, and asked the people whom
they would follow-the churches and
the professors of history in the uni
versities of the "loudmouthed" politi-
clans.
Answering Morris criticism of war
expenditures, Judge Gilbert showed
that many of the very enterprises
Morris criticised We're directed by the
Republicans and contrasted the eff
cheney with which the world war was
managed, so far as Americas partici-
patton was concerned, with the dis
graceful management and inefficiency
Of the Republican conduct Of the
Spanish-American war.
1t is conceded that the Republicans
made the most noise in the matter of
applause, for in Casey county they
are a great deal more numerous, but !
the Democrats rallied to Judge Gil |
bert's support and gave him genu- |
inely glad hand at every point he /
scored on his adversary 1t is believed
that the full Democratic vote of the /
district will be at the polls and this I
means that Congressman Swope will
be a one-telmer.
The Daily Register hopes that ev-
cry Democrat viii not only go to the
polls and support the national nomi-
uees, Governor Cox and Mr. Roose-
selt, but that they will give Senator
Beckham and Judge Gilbert their
support and their vote No /
vember 2. There is one perfectly safe
way to vote and that is to stamp I'M
der the rooster, the Democratic bird .
whose growing on the morning of No
vember 3 will mean that Amrica has
not turned her back on the agreement
made by the worlds greatest states
men as a means of ending wars for
ever.