Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-19
Democratic National Chair
man Says Republicans
Have Spent $4,000
for Smelling Committees
NO GRAFT FOUND IN
CONDUCT OF THE WAR
Says Those Who Conducted
the Spanish War Have No
License to Indulge in Crit
iCiSm of Democrats.

Louisville, KY March 1S.-
Wasteful expenditure of $2,000,000
for Smelling committees was
charged against the republican ma
jority in congress by Homer S.
Cummings, chairman of the demo-
cratic national committee, in an
address here tonight at dinner
attended by democratic leaders of
Kentucky. The committees, Chair
man Cummings said, were appoint
ed to ascertain whether there had
been any graft in the conduct of
the world war but instead demon
strated that this was the cleanest
war ever fought in the history of
civilization"
THE finger of scorn does not
point to one single democratic Of
fetal in all of broad America" add
ed Mr.. Cummings. II want to re-
mind you that it does not lie in the
mouths of those who conducted the
Spanish-American war to indulge IN
the luxury of criticism. What IS
there in this war to compare with
lie typhoid Infested camps of tbs
war of 1898, what is there in this
war to compare with the paper
sole shoes controversy of 1898, and
what is there in this war to COM
pare to the embalmed beef scandal
of the Spanish American war?
we have fought great war foc
great cause and we have had Il
leadership which has carried AM
erica to greater heights Of glory
end power and splcndor and honor
than she has ever known before
in her entire history.
1.-THE republicans have been IN
control of the senate and the house
for eight months" the chairman
continued. They went in under
false pretenses. They outlined ain
elaborate program of reconstrue-
ton that looked very well In the
newspapers. They have not only
delayed and indefinitely postponed
the peace of the world, interfered
with American commerce and
brought the rate of exchange
tumbling down to a point hitherto
but aside from railroad
legislation of doubtful value, they
have not passed one single con-
structive act.
Had q democratic congress been
elected or congress in sympathy
with the president, the treaty of
peace would long ago have been
ratified. Innumerable avenues of
trade and commerce would have
to nGTipntN nntnTnTtG9
and halted industry would have
taken on new and hopeful life
Mr.. Cummings characterized the
republican platform committee as.
a 'most unusual conglomeration of
political misfits.'
ION the committee of H." he
asserted, they have reactionaries
and progressives; they have Taft
ties and Rooseveltians; they have
economists and appropriateness;
they have reservationists of all
kinds, mild reservationists and
wild reservationists; they have bit
they have capitalists
and pacifists and ,militarists, ana
former chairmen Of the republican
committee, and seventeen
women, all to go on a voyage of dis
covery for the purpose of ascer-
tanning what republican principles
are"
Referring to the presence of a
number of women at the dinner,
Mr.. Cummings said the democratic
party possessed an appeal to the
women of America because of the
social aspects of the program which
has been outlined by its great lead
er and which has been carried on
to such a successful elimination"