Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29
CUMMINGS ASSA|LS
REPUBLICAN RECORD
IN KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Declares That Action of
Party in Senate on Dispo-
Sition Of Treaty Is ''BIack-
est Page in History'

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 Demo-
cratic national convention, in his key
note address here today.
Of the peace treatys defeat in the
senate, he said: mo blacker crime
against civilization has ever soiled
the pages of our history"
He characterized the Republican
platform as "reactionary and provin-
cial." FILLED with premeditated
ISLANDERS and vague promises, it will
be searched in vain for one construc-
/ tive suggestion for the reformation
of the conditions (which it criticizes
and deplores," he continued.
He declared that the peace time
record of the Democratic party from
March, 1913 to the outbreak of the
world war has to it's credit more
effective, constructive and remedial
legislation than the Republican
party had placed upon the statute
books in generation
| a. IIdISluS the administration s
course in the war he said: 1--WE
fought great war, for 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 his
tory"
Referring to congressional investi-
| cations Nv 1o1I linz
said that over so Investigations. nave
been made, over two million dollars
wasted and the result has been to
prove that it was the cleanest war
ever fought in the history of civili-
zation."
Democratic Achievements
Peace achievements of the Demo-
cratic party" he. asserted, freed the
Sfarmer from the deadening effects
Of usurious financial control. La
Dor was given it's Magma Charta OF
liberty. business and finance were
released from the thralldom of I'M
certainty and hazard
THE income tax law" he said,
relieved our law of the reproach
Of being unJustly burdensome to the
poor The extravagancies and in
equities of the tariff System were
removed and a non-Dartisan tariff
commission created. Pan-American-
| ism was encouraged and the bread
! thus cast upon the waters came back
to us many fold. Alaska was opened
| to commerce and development. Dol
| lar diplomacy was destroyed. "A cor
rupt lobby was driven from the ma
tional capitol. An effective Sea-
mans act was adopted. The federal
trade commission was created. Child
labor legislation was enacted. The
parcel post and the rural flee de
| livery were developed. A good roads
bill and a rural credits act were
passed. A secretary of labor was
| given seat in the cabinet of the
| president. Eight-hour laws were
adopted The Clayton amendment to
the Sherman antitrust act was pass
ed, freeing American labor and TAX
ing 1T from the list of comm odities.
The Smith-Lever bill for the i'm
provement of agricultural conditions
was passed. A corrupt practices act
was adopted. A well considered
warehouse wa act was passed. Federal
Farm loan banks, postal savings
banks and the federal reserve system
were established.
The federal reserve system, pass
ed over the opposition of the lead
ers of the Republican party, enabled
America to withstand the strain OF
war without shock or panic and ulti-
mately made our country the great
est creditor nation of the world"
Turning to the record of the Re-
publican congress since 1918, Mr..
achievement, shameless in waste OF
time and money and without parallel
for its incompetencies, failures and
regulations"
fore congress for legislation dealing
with profiteering, reduction of taxa
ton, aid for soldiers and laws to
improve relations of capital and" Ia
Dor were ignored" he declared, and
after a year of sterile debate our
country has neither peace nor Recon-
Struction" u
He dwelt particularly on attacks
made upon the president. Malice
followed him to the peace table, he
said, and widespread propaganda
made it imperative when he returned
from Paris to make a struggle for
that which had been won at incal-
culable cost. This meant wreck of :
health, sickness for months on a bed
of pain; and worse, the sicllne4s of
heart which comes from the kuowl-
edge that political adversaries are
savagely destroying not merely the
work of mems hands, but the worlds
hope of settled peace. This was the
Full Text of Speech
1t is not reservations that the
president stands against, said Mr..
Cummings, but nullificaton. He told
how President Wilson had published
the tentative text Of the league cove
nant widely in 1919, asking for criti-
cism and receiving suggestions from
Taft, Hughes and others that were
actually incorporated into the re-
vised draft of the league"
hn tn
offer constructive amendments at
any time. 80 intolerant was his at
titude that he would not oven con-
slider a compromise proposed by for
mer President Taft of his own party
and which was assured of Support
of forty Democrats. senators. yer
ator Lodge knew that he controlled
the senate an dthat in his own time
and way he would destroy the treaty.
Mr.. Cummings address follows in
Ladies and Gentlemen Of the Con-
Vention:
"At this high hour when the des-
TIMES not only of political parties, -
social unrest is everywhere apparent;
when existing forms of government
are being challenged, and their very
foundations disturbed or swept away,
it is we'll for us here in America, to
pause for period of solemn DELHI
Grafton.
1--WE, who assemble in this great
counsel together not
merely as members of party, but
as children of the republic. Love OF
country and devotion to human SerV-
ice should purge our hearts of all
or misleading motives. Let
US fervently pray for a Divine bless
ing upon all that we do or under
take Let us pledge ourselves anew
to equality of opportunity; the unity
Of our country above the interests
Of groups or classes; and the main
-enance of the high honor of Amer
Ca in her dealings with other ma
ions.
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