The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-06
DEMOCRATS CAN
|. WIN N NOVEMBER
SAYS M'KELLAI
TenneSSee'S Junior Senate
Believes Party'S Record vii
Make Successful Appeal L
Voters of Nation.

FVASi p VI lNdhtIiis
The record and achievements III III
Democratic party during the admiui
such rs to justify ali appeal 10 TN
people Of the United states 20 asa
elect Democrat TO the presidency
said United states Senator kennet
Mcclellan Saturday.
During the seven years Of ri
dent Wilson'S administration. the fa1
ners OF the country have received lii
largest prices for their products Ia
their history The laboring men con
fessedly have received the greatest
wards for their toll The merchant
and other business men OF the eauntf
have made their largest profits. III
banks and other corporations, taken
q whole, have made their largest DIV
dends and the country generally ia
net only been more prosperous tina
this country has ever been before. ID
4 has been more prosperous than an
country that ever existed
1t ~ true that complaint is now III
ing heard about taxes, but even ate
all war taxes have been paid, tlI
profits have been greater than ever III
fore. These taxes VIII be greatly e
duced during the next year.
II believe, that by exercising IA
most careful governmental eeon0u*
that We can continue TO decrease tiieE
taxes from time 10 time. This mus#
be done, The tax question Is the ma
important one with which we win hstx
to deal In some years.
1T must be remembered that we has
loaned the governments OF Euror
something like ten billion dollars. q
this loan they are not even now paYiK#
interest, and there are some people VII
think this indebtedness ought %
RENTED, OF course II should not 3
We have already done enough
Europe, and arrangements should
made that the interest on this indeh s
ednsss, now amounting to about 5000
eco. 900 year, should be paid
promptly ais possible, and this VIII Il
greatly In reducing taxation, We Inu#
think about America once In Will \
even In all our prosperity.
"The Republican chairman pf III
committee OF military affairs recent
reported out bIll organizing the aFEti
and providing for universal eompulsqf&
military training, at cost OF III. AuN +
800. 900 per year. With at least 4snVa#
900 splendidly trained young sVliis
| in the country now, II seems ID 4 E
that to put the government 70 %
enormous expense seven times HleE
| than a compulsory military system -
Germany Ia peace times, u an exarss
games, and 4 policy that We qNHhk ~
10 ageeg q. with the ilnmeAsn 4 81
! that we have now, surely we ought =.
To embark upon such program nes
I and In addition We ought nat 81 essMl
lish greater 1iiltarfsm III thlk e0uA|
| Try than the one we destroged n "a
About the German passenger siasfi
the shipping board was about 70
/ tham when tho senate nnanim0us
adopted my resolution prohibiting eheS
sale
fore us Ii the development OF our ING
4 chant marine. We have got the TccuH#
largest In tho world and ! am ON
phatically opposed, not only TO the sa
of these passenger ships that We b
from Germany, but OF all Of the oth
ships that we can use In our mcTrha
trade. fear that the shipping hoa
has adopted wrong policy and
sure that congress VIII correct ". Thn4
ships cost, in round uumberS. hbeS
$500 per ton. and the shipping board
undertaking to sell them for about c:l
third OF that amount, and. W my JUG
ment, all that are sold are gravttati43
directly to England. II would be
monstrous thing for the United stats
IN addition to saving England duTts.
this war, to turu over our nefcHa3
ships to her at one-third OF their CO
1.-THE cautious criticism Of the 6
penditures during the war, Mhieh
| Republican leaders are making. y II
cepted for what II Is worth by the pe5
pie. The Republicans In congress II
seeking party advantage IN the coma
campaign The people OF tins cpun4
supported the Wilson administrMta1
. with everything thai they had duFl3
the years of the war, When the rpeu9
| III the past four years liz presented
them fairly, most OF the Repuhlica
, | claims will collapse. OF course Il
made mistakes, but we won the WI
hand people are not going to forget 81
main point.
Kellar. II believe that the Democrat
I party has n splendid opportunity 81
wear, and I am sure that out Of Il
| counEels which Will be held before 81
during the national convention. y
= come a wise decision which VIII resi-
, IN the nomination OF a candtdate
the presidency around whom the lneH
! bers Of the Democratic party may "a
~ with brightest prospects for 81
cess
From which IL may be seen that Sc
: ator Mcclellan Is stu an cptimlSi, as
always has been, and that personal
he intends to go into the fight with
idea Of winning land that's nall
battle In any fight.
As to the league OF nations epyenas
Mr., Mcclellan admitted that theirs
scarcely any probability Of Its ratifies
ton by the senate.
President Wilson himself IN dets
mined not 70 agree 10 any nullityil
resolutions. n the reservation. as {
h article 10 is left as il Is. 1t nullifies Z
$ treaty. and there is no possible char
q that the president will give II bis 4
!, prova. Consequently the league
i go into the coming campaign as one
y the issues. and il remains TO be 50
J. what action the two national party CO
= ventions viii take upon that issue y
h fore il goes To the people in Novenih
As TO his wish to go TO the san IRA
Ii cisco convention IN June as one Of
c delegates at large from Tennessee,
e Mcclellan said that he viii be glad
d represent the people Of the state "
h already have greatly honored MIN.
= the state convention decides TO q
e him that privilege
senator McKellar reached home u
s Friday night from Jasper, Ala, wlit
d he attended the funeral Of the late ~
. ator BanlShead as one Of the offic
Z. party from the senate He lett
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