Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-25
Country Inundated
with Wilson Regime
Declares Coolidge

Gc0GfICks Ill., OGl- .4--1CSeEnOf
Coolidge in Tn aidrcss here tonight
chaKgcsi the Wilson administration
with ;neflc.oaer an: extravaganza
and with HAVING Inundated the
country by being "EubservienS under
the Pruseian menace" for .aimos:
tkree years He said that because Of
unpreparedness tho United States en-
tered and for months participated In
she war behind the protection Of the
Allied army and navy.
What our party wnntz. and what
II proposos to have" said the repub-
iican y:ce-ors s:dcatiat candidate. is
efficiency in government operated
in o stricter accord With the spirit
and letter OF ihe constitution: not
moro laws bur better enforcement OF
the laws and less government ex-
travagance. We need an sdninistra-
ton that shafl reckon with the
peoples purse and the peoples right
10 less taxation.
THE hopeless confusion which has
existed and still exists IN our execu-
two department IL an Indictment Of
the business ability of the American
people. Its natural consequences are
bureaucracy which governs not by
the consent Of the governed but by
the will of the benehclaries; con-
tinuous encroachment upon the nber-
ties Of the people through the desire
for more power. where there should be
a desire 20 he Of more service: an
appalling increase In the number of
Office holders without which bureau
cracy cannot exist and a gross waste
Of public funds, always the method
Of satisfying personal ambition To
destroy bureaucracy there must be
administrative action and process
The powers OF Congress do not per
NIT it to execute. 1t can prescribe
but II cannot enforce. 1t can limit.
but 1t cannot guard against inter
pretations that nullify its decisions
Confusion can be reduced TO order
only through a complete change of
the spirit OF the national admins
trai.on- There are no halfway
remedies The conditions. the coun-
try. require the election OF Warren g.
Harding. g.
1T was and L. humiiiating to the
people TO realize that. for almost
three years. our government was sub
servfent under the Prussian menace.
It was and is equally humiliating to
them TO know that. as a result NJ
democratic refusal TO listen to repub-,
iican demands for preparedness. the
United States entered and for months
participated in the war behind the
protection of the Allied army and
navy. Our lack Of clothes. shoes.
rifles. guns. ammunition. gas air
planes. ships. in fact of every COM
fort and every weapon that our boys
T.eeded for living and fighting. Is
notorious Equally notorious Is the
confused circle in which Washington
ran-the lack Of organization. the alb
sence of plan. the prodigai waste of
the money of the people To cover past
gross neglect When the people. dis
gusted with the conduct Of the war,
at their first opportunity placed the
republican party in majority in Con-
greps, itssrepresentatfves Immediately
addressed themselves to reconstruc-
ton. for which the administration
had neglected effectively to plan,
though every other nation hAd done
80. and Congress had given specific
authority and direction for such
action
I Let me. direct your attention to
one step Congress took which Is Of
vital importance TO the people and
the maintenance OF the republic -4the
return OF the. railroads to private
ownership No law which has ever
been passed il more, Indicative OF re-
publican attitude toward human and