The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-28
Crowd Jams Court House Lawn to
Hear Candidate Discuss Issues
Of National and State
Campaign.
LEAGUE AIMS TO PUT
END TO WORLD STRIFE
Voting Power Pointed Out; Council,
Monroe Doctrine Referred to-
Does Not Alter U. S. Con-
stitution.

Achievements of the democratic
party were commended and the
League of Nations covenant was
praised by Scott Ferris, congressman
from the sixth district and demo
cratic candidate for United States
senator, in an address delivered here
last night
An audience estimated at approx
mately one thousand people assem-
the cars parked on Fourth street
and Choctaw avenue, listened with
intense interest to the address by
Mr.. Ferris, who has served this dis
trict in the lower house of congress-
twelve years.
Hardnes Record Mentioned
Glimpses at the records Of Warren
G.. Harding, republican presidential
nominee, and James Middleton Cox,
the democrats standard-bearer, were
taken ny lHc SlAlu ulotliNl Coh-
gresham in his address here last
night Congressman Ferris served
six years in the national legislature
with Senator Harding and two
thirds that number of years with
Governor Cox, then representing
Ohio in congress.
Harding is reactionary,' said Mr..
Ferris, "Fortyfiye times during a
single term in the senate he voted
against the peoples interest. He
proved himself unfaithful to the
poor man and in favor OF the trust
on every tax issue that came up
in congress. He proved himself un
faithful to labor and in lavor of the
corporation employers every time
the question came to issue
During his first two years in the
senate, he voted "A times exactly as
Penrose voted; two hundred and
twenty-four times he was absent and
away from duty altogether"
Among Senator Harding's official
acts in congress. the speaker said
were: supported the measure to de-
crease the amount of war risk in
surance allowed each soldier from
$4,000 to $500; voted against the
levying of a net income tax against
the munition manufacturers during
the war but instead, voted for the
consumption tax which places the
burden on the poorer class instead
of the muniton makers; opposed the
law enforcing payers of income tax
to make their returns public
Boosts "Jimmie" Cox
Il served four years in the United
States congress with Jimmie Cox"
said Congressman Ferris. "He was a
patriot every day, faithful to the
e.5OO.GOO farmers, faithful to the
2O.OO0,OOO toilers and America
business men.
"On every test vote, Cox always
stood on the side of the people and
always turned his back on the preda
tory interests of the trusts.
Jimmie Cox never favored the
corporations, despite the fact that
the great state of Ohio is a corpor-
alton ridden commonwealth"
Discusses League Covenant.
Several minutes of his speech was
devoted to the League of Nations
covenant, one of the formost issues
in the national campaign.
Discussing the League. the speaker
said, in part:
"The League of Nations covenant
was drafted by the twenty-five lead
ing nations of the earth 1t has for
its purposes: the ending of world
war: arbitration; the reduction of
armament; the abolition of secret
treaties and the placing of every
possible obstruction in the pathway
of future wars.
"Forty-six nations of the earth.
comprising nine-tenths of the world S
population. wealth and power have
through their accredited representa-
tives. signed and entered into the
league twenty-five nations have
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