Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-23
('I|AAMVIs' RETURN
URGED BY KENYON
JUNIOR IOWA SENATOR ASKS
VOTES FOR HIS
COLLEAGUE.
LARGE CROWD AT LEGRANp
HEARS STIRRING SPEECH
Extravaganza of Democratic office
Holders Sufficient to Cause Defeat
Observation-Disclosures League
of Nations Denounced-Reply to
Pierce's Attack on Kendall.


Urging the voters to return A. B.
Cummins to the United States SEN
/, ate, the importance OF electing a
republican congress, the ELECTION of
Nate Kendall as governor Of Iowa,
denouncing the Wilson league of
nations and denouncing the admin
istration for it's wild extravaganza
with public money, Senator w. S.
Kenyon addressed large audience
/, Friday night at the consolidated
school gymnasium at LeGrand. The
junior Iowa senator was not sparing
of words in his arraignment of the
Wilson administration and his refer
enceS to the league of nations were in
bitter denunciation of an attempt to
create a Experimentation govern
lnent to which the government Of the
United States would be subseryient
The wasteful extravaganza of the
Wilson regime was cited as one of
the principal reasons Tor restoring the
republican party to power. THE wild
orgy OF expenditure of the peoples
money ought to turn the democrat
ic party out of power he said. One
third Of the money appropriated for
war purposes, he added, was wasted.
He referred to the expense sheet
of the expedition to Paris" reading
the items which included salaries,
hotel rentals, cost of sending special
delegations to other countries, pur-
chase OF automobiles and even the
laundry bills Of members.
Aggregation of 1.-TWO Spots.i
This expedition, the senator con-
tinued, was made UP of the presi-
dent, Secretary Lansing, who was
compelled to leave the cabinet be-,
cause his mind could not navigate
in the Wilson channel, and the
f.choicest aggregation OF two spots
every assembled.p The expedition in
cluded experts on everything from
dead languages to fur bearing SEALS"
In this connection Senator Kenyon
ro1erred to the purported slush fund
raised by republican leaders for the
campaign. Being chairman Of the
committee that: investigated cam
paign funds, the senator was in
position to know something Of the
subject and declared he had not
found any such fund had been raised.
IF the republicans had raised $751;
100000 he added, lit would be Is
cents for everybody. Wouldn't it be
q good proposition to give Is cents
each to get rid Of this recklessly ex-
travagent administration?
II One OF the first things the republic
can congress and President Harding
will do after March next, he said,
would be to pass a budget bill to put
the government on a business basis.
The Democratic Oligarchy.
He referred to Cox's talk of SEN
atorial pligarchy, which is trying to
control the presidential nomination
and election and domination of the
government" but if such were true,
he continued, he would prefer the
senatorial oligarchy to AN interna-
tional alliance Of nine, seven of
whom could not speak our language.
President Wilson had, he said,
been reelected chief executive on
the plea that che kept us out of war"
Instead he has kept us out Of peace.
When the senate passed a resolution
Declaring peace it was promptly
vetoed by Wilson. 1.-THE only persons
he kept out of war;" said the SEN
ator, were General Leonard Wood
and Teddy Roosevelt"
When Harding recently had the
- IL AL H., =,
from France, the speaker said, the
president wrote the republican nomi-
zee in regard to the conversation
ind called him down." Wilson's ac-
tion was referred to as "the most
supreme piece of impudence I have
seen in this country" denying an
american citizen, especially one who
is. to become president, the right to
converse with persons from a foreign
nation with which he is to have the
closest relations.
cumnnns and Transportation Bill
"When transportation breaks down
the country breaks down." said the
speaker, referring to the transporta-
ton bill which bears the name Of the
senior. Iowa senator Three Of the
biggest democrats on the committee
worked for the passage of the bill,
spoke in favor of it and helped to en-
act it. It cost the government more
t, operate the railroads during the
war than to carry on the civil war.
1T cost. the government $1,600,000,000
to put the roads back into running
order at the close of its trusteeship.
The government was faced with two
alternatives:
First, to buy the railroads, at an
outlay of s1S,000,000,O00 to s25,000.-
100000, with a prodigious bond issue
Second, to devise a way by which
the railroads could have credit.
The bill loaned 100000, 900 to the
reads and provided that the inter-
state commerce commission could fix
rates.
There were two guarantees by the
government First, that the wages of
The men should not be reduced; sec
ord, the railroads were to have the
right to earn as much as they did
urder government control. The time
Of the guarantee was limited.
The bill established an industrial
code, it created board to take up
AMI settle disputes. 1t has resulted
in an increase of % per cent in the
wages of the men, properly allowed
to meet the increased cost Of living.
t,ummins, Kenyon continued had
ever been a friend to the laborer and
to the shipper. and there is no
heart beat Of his which is not for
his fellow men," He has been, he
added, one Of the most diligent and
faithful servants of the people.
League of Nations.
The latter part of the address was
devoted almost entirely to discus
sion of the league of nations and the
..aaarun finnc nrnnnsed IY the senate.