Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-26
1|RITE SCORES HARD|NG's
Spirit OF UNFA|RNEss'
SENATOR'S Attack on Shipping Board
L a. Provokcs Chairman's Sense
of Justice.
OUR FLAG GOES TO EVERY PoRr
Baiidfng OF Merchant Marine Real
Democratic Achievement - Tx
eeptton Also Taken to Republican
Method of Winning Support.
ny Associated Press, ]

10y hseOSlhltu iEcssl
rev YORK. Sept. 25.--Georgo
4 White, chairman of the Democratic
n National Committee. IN n statement
tonight. declared that III the spirit
\, OF fairness and truth governed Scna-
tor Harding In his csmpaicn. hs
would not have been guilty at Marion
yesterday OF his Improbable attack
on the Shipping Board and his at
tempted disparaceGlcnt OF one OF the
real facts OF the dmiHistration-tho
s upbuilding Of the American Merchant
Marine.
The statement continues: One OF
the grea; problems OF a new admin
istration would be to turn the l2.0e0.-
600 tons OF war-created shipping INTO
an effective agency OF wiiened Ar,eri.
can commerce in peace. 4 DO NOT
know he added. OF a single feature
OF the present administration COM
parable to that OF the United States
Shipping Board
American Merchant Marine.
4. ''As usual, the facts are In conflict
with the Senator's statements. Prior
to this administration only pc.
cent Of American occan-bcrne conf
mercc was carried under the ->mer!-
can fas. Now more tthan 50 per cent
is so carried. Our t'ag Soes TO every
port in the world. waving over
American ships, and our merchant
marine Is second only to Great B-st-
aims. From $4,000 gross tons pro.
duction in 1914, we have gone to A.
100000 tons in l9!? and 100000 now
toll at shiphuildlns where but So
goo were employed six years ago.
.The merchant marine has fouv
ished. particularly under Democrats
administrations. During the f.st
half OF The nineteenth century on;
dag futtcred at The masthead in every
port: in the latter hal. i; was SUI
fered 20 disappear. The Democrats
had no sooner resumed power In 1913
when measures to promote shiphuild
ins= and 10 protect sailors began -
Ge-con itered again. And from the
time II was organized IN January.
1877. TO June -, 1920 The United
States Shipping Board constructed
and delivered e,0is vessels o. nearly
ia.ooe.ooo tonnage, and IN 1919 dou-
bled the British record.
's AmericAuism.
."Talk asou; Americanism! What
more American achievement could
there be than 20 emaacipate this ma
tioa iron, foreign domination o! It's
commerce and 20 give 10 its farmers
and shippers the advantage OF ocean
rates? Wha; industrial, feat more
extraordinary than the trans;oraia
;ion Of Hog Island from rnorass to
The greatest hive a: 7rodQoiion on
or- soil? senator Harding i mem
Der OF me Committee on Commerce
and he knows thar the facts state
afe Irae.
HE knows further tina; prompt
csEceilaiion or outstanding contracts
when the war ended. 8 step tina, in
efficiency would not have ;ak-a,
saved the government s6ooQoo.oo5.
1.-The does not know II. Charles Yic-.
of Chicago. who succeeded 6. -
SShwab as director general and
claims tina: he hull; the emergency
feet and can turn from his work OF
collecting Republican funds long
enough 10 tell him so.
Z This attack. as all others BY the
Senator, is wholly political and not
founded on the basi. or fact
Reception Of SaIesmcn.
Mr.. White declared the pilgrimage
Ola delegation OF Repubiican travel
ing statesmen tot;Scuatfr Hardins's
front porch a itarisn- made pertinent
statement d!sproving what Mr..
White asserted was ar attempt by
the Republican National Committee
to represent the Democratic presi-
Dental nominee as un.riendiy 10
commercial! travellers.
Mr.. White therefore issued a state.