The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-20

thing more than just to defeat the
Kaiser. What do you suppose would
have happened if while we were al
war or going to the war Senator Hard
ing had got up and said: Al we are
after in this war is military VIC
tory. After the Kaiser is defeated we
will bring the troops home, revive
the Hague Tribunal and the resi- OF
of the world may go to the oeVil.
Would the country have STOOD TOT
it? Would they have subscribed their
money and supported the war
I'VE entered into the war with
double purpose and when we had oe-
feated the armies of Germany we mad
only won half the war. We then en-
tered into a great constructive work,
not only to heal the wounds OF lhls
war but to make the return OF all war
impossible. And so we Joined hands
in the first great attempt in history to
end war. The purpose has been &C
complished. There is in existence TO-
day a League of Nations winch Al.
ready 80 nations have joined. But
and who are they. Bolshevik Russia,
| the Unspeakable Turk, Revolutionary
! Mexico, and the United states OF
America. 1 hope America will not al
ways be known by the company she
| keeps.
The other side will have to get
down to brass tacks soon. The tide
| has turned and people are coming 10
F., their senses. They are turning toWar d
| things which are right and toward
| principle. We have heard much about
| being sick of ideals and wishing for
| the good old days. Well. the good old
| days when they were not PIONEERED
| with ideals were the days of Mark
| Hanna and the sort of things which
| your Senator Brandegee stands for
1 and such days and such things are moi
1 Christian.
| '%They are telling many stories
about the war and the credit for the
| war, and every act of the Demo
| Gratis they say is wrong! Wrong!
Wrong Were you complaining be
| cause the Democrats were winning
| complaints in Washington because SO
| many Republicans were being called
down there to help win the war. Will
son did not make this a party war,
The last two wars were party wars
| I do not remember but one of them
but I do know that in this war there
was no scandal of paper soled shoes
or ernbalmed. beef.
They complain that there was a
lot of waste. You people here in
Bridgeport ought to know about thai
for over in the Lake Torpedo works
you have built more boats than we
needed and you made more rifles ano
guns and trucks than were needed
In my department there were a bill
! lion dollars worth of materials or
| hand when the war ended and ther
the Repu DICanS came around VIII
| one of the eighty-seven varitleS OF in
vestigations which they have kept go
ing and they investigated my de-
partment as they have everything
else and they spent three million dol
lars investigating and as a result Of
all that investigating they have no
convicted OF indicted a single man
Democrat or Republican.
There was a reason for all tina
waste. We We're in the war for {
. deter
mined to win if it took one year Oh
if it took ten years; if it took two
million men or ten million men. Ane
word got back to the generals II
| Germany of the activities of sucf
places as Bridgeport and we know
that when it did they quit. We know
it was the same guilty party who
began the war that quit the war ant
if the Kaiser had only been enough
of a gentleman to have told US HI
was going to quit when he did We
could have avoided all that waste.
The Republicans cannot keep OF
diverting the people who want tx
know, from the great question at is
sue. Study the records of the two
men. Place the record of Cox by the
side of that of Harding. You know
what progressive things Cox has dom
and stood for but you cannot find {
single progressive or constructive
thing which Harding has ever stood
for. He has always opposed every
thing which was any measure of prog
ress, and anything which tended tt
take business out of the hands O.
Especial privilege. He was lined III
with Foraker against the Progressive