Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-06

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the small group of traitors IN the
cation Of the treaty.
. "All the time the republicans are tell
ing OF democratic extravagance a repub-
lican congress has done nothing but criti-
else the president at cost Of 5000 an
hour" she said.
Gov, James NJ. Cox addressed the meet
/ ing on national issues, discussing dem
| ocratic accomplishments in the war.
| Daniel W. Simms Of Lafayette spoke on
the Indiana tax law
! MRS. GIBSON MAKES
! BRILLIANT SPEECH.
! Mrs. Gibson made brilliant speech and
she had an enthusiastic audience. She
| spoke from subject matter gained by her
unusual experiences as one Of the three
women who were permitted to attend
| peace conferences in Paris and one Of
the twenty-five women who saw the
| treaty signed
! Mrs. Gibson in opening her speech re-
ferred to Ohio as the mother Of presi-
dents" Taking it's cue from the fact
that Gov. Cox is a candidate for presi-
dent, the crowd broke into prolonged
cheers.
The republicans did not give the women
| the franchise, Mrs. Gibson said she
explained how suffrage was lost IN, the
sixty-ffth congress by the failure OF the
republicans to muster the thirty-three
votes they had promised in the senate
and how it was saved IN the sixty sixth
congress by democrats.
''The southern democrats may have
had a legitimate excuse" she said, 'sbut
what excuse had Senators Lodge, Bran
degee Knox, Penrose, Wadsworth and
Borah ~
PAYS TRIBUTE
| TO PRESIDENT.
| Mrs. Gibson paid tribute to Ppegi-
| dent Wilson as the greatest man America
ever produced. She then proceeded 70
outline the accomplishments OF the DEM
ocratic administration as they appeal to
women. She mentioned the child labor
law, which had been considered by so
many republican congresses but which
was enacted by a democratic congress
She declared that a democratic congress
! did more for labor than any group
since Adam and Eve were turned from
! the garden Of Eden and told they must
earn their bread by the sweat of their
brows." She mentioned also the federal
reserve act which she said makes panics
| impossible.
II deseire to serve notice now" she
said, shat If VIII Hays carries out his
plan to include the record Of the DEM
ocratic administration in the republican
platform, and it is done truthfully, there
viii be a democratic president IN the
awhitehouse by unanimous vote"
She said that Mr.. Hays is conducting G
campaign of destructive criticism. "a
democratic administration carried through
TO success the greatest business the world
has ever known" she declared. "Au
Americans helped win the war, but the
business behind the war was done by
democratic administration. We went into
the war knowing nothing about war. We
made mistakes and we were axtravagant,
but we did not waste the lives of our
men.
When you are putting out a fire do
yop measure the pals Of water?
"An the time the republicans are tell
ing Of democratic extrayagance they are
sending out official smelling commit
tees at the peoples expense
Mrs. Gibson told how these committees
were sent to Paris during the peace ne
godatons and how they are being sent
to different parts Of this country in
private cars
Congressman MOndell," she said, has
made list Of the accomplishments Of the
republican congress. There are only two
things they can be given exclusive credit
for. These are the plan to have al un-
claimed letters sent to men in France re-
turned to them over here and the fact
that the Episcopal women Of Washington
have been given equal privileges In the
church as mel.
''The greatest tragedy Of the war was
not the sending Of our boys to France,
but that fact that five or six men in
Washington can say we win do thus and
so whether your wish it or not
SAW PEACE
TREATY SIGNED.
Mrs. Gibson explained that she was One
Of three women who were permitted to
attend conferences on the peace treaty
and one of twenty-five who saw the
treaty signed She told In detail OF the
impressive ceremonies accompanying the
signing of the treaty. Of how Prseideat
Wilson affixed his signature first and 81
how all the other nations followed, The
German last of all.
Mrs. Gibson told OF newspaper cen
ferences with President Wilson and said
she never knew president in years OF
experience as a Washington correspond
ent, who talked so freely to newspaper
people.
when people say the president did
not know what he was doing when he
signed the treaty they don't know what
they are talking about she said "I
wonder of people who talk about q
separate peace know what that VIII en-
tail?"
She explained that It win mean going
through the same negotiations that pre-
ceded the signing Of the treaty. She said
It is doubtful If Germany viii be willing
TO assume responsibility for the war
with the United States; to, agree to make
restitutions; to agree not to discriminate
against commerce OF the United States
to validate all acts of the alien property
custodian: to agree to compensate her
own citizens for German patents seized
by the United Statesi to. permit the
United STATES 70 retain German shipping
All Of these things, she said. were agreaa
to in the treaty. she explained that the
United States Will lose its place on ths
reparations~ committee by which It viii
assure Itself against discrimination in
imports.
LODGE WANTS PRIVILEGES,
BUT 30 RESPONSIBILITY.
Senator Lodge wants America to az
cept all the privileges bestowed by the
league Of nations, but 70 assume no na-.
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