The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-06-29
CALLS TREATY
DEFEAT A CRIME
Cunmins in Keynote Address
LaudS Wilson.
PRAISES WAR ADMINISTRATION
Declares League of Nations Covenant
Monroe Doctrine of World"
Scores Republican Record.

San Francisco, June 29.-The league
of nations covenant was championed
as the Monroe Doctrine Of the world
by Homer Cummings, temporary
chairman of the Democratic national
convention, in his keynote address
here
OF the peace treaty's defeat in the
senate, he said: NO blacker crime
against civilization mas ever soiled
the pages of oar history"
He characterized the Republicans
Platform as 'reactionary and provin-
cial.' ''Filled with premeditated
ISLANDERS and vague promises, it will
be searched in vain for one construc,
tive suggestion for the reformation
of the conditions which it criticizc>
and dtpiores,' lie continued.
'The oppressed peoples of the earth
will look 10 it in vain. 1t contains
10 message of hope for Ireland; no
word of mercy for Armenia, and it
c"ncea;S Il sword for Mexico. It is
the work Of men concerned more with
material things than with human
purpose which can give impulse or
thrill to those who love liberty and
hope to make the world a safer and
happier place for the average man."
He declared that the peace time
record of the Democratic party from
March, 1913. to the outbreak of the
world war has to its credit more
effective. constructive and remedial
legislation than the Republican par
~ had placed upon the statute books
in Il rerr3.:t on"
Pr: ;Sin@ he administrations course
In the Nor. he said: Eve fought ii
great war. for 4 great cause and we
hai Il leadership }at carried Amer
lea 10 greater heights of honor ana
power and glory than she has ever
known before in her entire history"
referring to congressional investi-
cations by smelling committees" he
said that more than eighty investi-
cations have been made, 100000
wasted, and "the result has been to
prove that it was the cleanest war
eTer fought in the history of civil
ZatiOn."
The Republican party became so
fixed in its incOrrigible habit of CON
ductirg Investigations that it finally
turned to the fruitful task of inveSti-
eating itself. They discovered fraud
and graft and gross and inexcuSable
expenditures. The revelations dis
close the fact that the meeting at
Chicago was not a convention, hut
an auction. The highest bidder, how
ever, did not get the prize. The pub
liticity which overlook the proceed
in@s frustrated the initial purpose
The Chicago convention left the Dem
ocratic party as the sole custodian of
the honor of the country"
Peace achievements of the Demo
cratic party. Mr.. Cummings asserted,
"freed the farmer from the deaden-
ing effects of usurious financial con-
troll. Labor was given its Magma
Charta of liberty. business and fl
nance We're released from! the thrall-
dom of uncertainty and hazard"
"The income-taX law" he said "re-
lie ed our law Of the reproach of be-
ing unjustly burdensOme to the poor.
The eXtraVaganceS and ineQuitiPS of
the tariff system were removed and
a nOn-partiSan tariff commission Gre
ated. Pan-AmericaniSm was encOur-
aged and the bread thus cast uDOn
the waters came back to us many
fold. Alaska was opened to commerce
and development. Dollar diplomacy
was destroyed. A corrupt lobby was
driven from the national capitol. An
effective seamen's act was adopted.
The federal trade commission was
created, Child labor legislation was
enacted. The parcel post and the ru-
RAJ free delivery We're developed. A
good roads bill and rural credits
act were passed. A secretary of la
Dor was given Il seat in the cabinet
of the president. Eight-hour laws
were adopted. The Clayton amend
mcnt to the Sherman antitrust act
was passed, freeing American labor
and taking it frOm the list of com
modities. The SIrith-Lever bill for
the Improvement Of agricultural con
diticnS was passed. \ corrupt prac-
tees act was adopted. A Well-cOnsid-
cred warehouse act was passed. Fed
eral employment bureaus We're Great
ed. Farm loan banks, postal savings
banks and the federal reserve system
We're established.
THE federal reserve system, passed
over the opposition of the leaders Of
the Republican party, enabled Amer
ica to withstand the strain of war
without shock or panic and ultimately
made our country the greatest credit
or nation of the world"
Turning to the record of the Re
DIhlican congress since 1913, Mr.
Cummings said it was "barren of
achievement. shameless in waste of
time and money and without parable
for it's incompetencies, failures and
re', 'd atiOnS."
President Wilson'S two appeals be
fore congress for Legislation dealing
VIII Drotiteerin=. r,ducti0n of taxa
tion aid for soldiers and laws To i'm
pro- relations of capital and laho.
we ignored Mr. Cummings dcrlaI
ed and "after year of sterile de
pate our country has neither peace
nor reconstruction"
He cited the Republican and Pro
gresSive platforms of 1916 as part Of
the record placing this country III
favor of the league of nations, and
continued:
The Republican platform contains
a vague promise to establish another
or d different form of association
among nations of tenuoUs and
shadowy character. our proposed CO.