Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-28
PEACE RECORD OF
PARTY is UPHELD

(By The Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO. June 2S.--
The League of Nations covenant
was championed as the Monroe
Doctrine of the World" by Homer
Cummings, temporary chairman
OF the Democratic National Con-
vention, in his keynote address
here today.
or the peace tire ity's defeat in
the Senate, he said: "No blacker
crime against civilization has ever
soiled the pages of our history"
He characterized the Republi-
can platform as reaction ry and
provincial" FILLED with pre-
meditated ISLANDERS and vague
promises, it will be searched in
vain for one constructive sugges-
tion for the reformation of the
conditions which it criticizes and
deplores," he continued.
"The oppressed peoples of the
earth will look TO IL i'm vain. IL
contains no message of hope for
Ireland; no word OF mercy for
Armenia; and ii cOnceals a sword
for Mexico. Il is the work of men
concerned more with material
things than with human rights.
It cont ins no thought, no pur-
pose which can give impulse or
thrill to those who love liberty
and hope to make the world
safer and happier place for the
average man."
UphOlds Party's "Peace" Record
He declared that the pe2ce-time
record of the Democratic party
from March, 1913, to the out
break of the world war has to its
credit more effective, construc
tive and remedial legislation than
the Republican party had placed
upon the statute books in gen h
Grafton" Ia, a. =.
Praising the administrations. )
course. in the war he said: I'VE
fought a great war, for a great
cause and we had a leadership
that carried America to greater
heights of honor and power and
glory than she has ever known
before in her entire history"
Let no one misunderstood us.
These great affairs were carried
forward under the stimulus OF
American patriotism, supported
by the courage and spirit of our
people. All this is freely and
gladly acknowledged, but surely
the time has come when, because
of the calculated criticism and
premeditated calumnies of the op-
position, we are entitled to call
attention TO the fact that all of
these things were accomplished y
under the leadership ofea great .
Democrat and of a. great nl1emOIi
cratic administration. If the Re4sl
publican leaders are not ableito Z.
rejoice with US in this American
triumph they should have the
grece to remain silent, for ii does
not lie in the mouths of those who
conducted the Spanish-Americin
War to indulge in the luxury of
criticism"
Scores "Smclling Committees"
Referring to Congressional in
vestigations by Smelling commit
tees" he said that over 80 iRves-
legations have been made, over
two million dollars wasted and
"the result has been to prove tn
it was the cleanest war ever
fought in the history of civiliZa-
ton"
"The Republican party became
so fixed in its incorrigible habit
of conducting investigations that
it finally turned TO the lflltfiif
task OF investigating itself They
discovered fraud and graft and
gross and inexcusable expendi-
tures. The revelations disclose the
fact that the meeting at Chicago
was not a convention but an auc-
ton. The highest bidder, how
ever, did not get the prize. I'he
publicity which overlook the Pro-
ceedings frustrated the initial
purpose The Chicago convention
left the Democratic party as the
sole custodian of the honor Of the
country"
Peace achievements OF the
Democratic party, he asserted,
freed the farmer from the dead
ening effects of usurious financial
control Labor was given It's
Magma Charta Of liberty. Busi-
ness ami finance were released