The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-07-02

display seeking to hinder, to thwart to
intimidate, to belittle, and discredit
the President of this Nation in the
hope that his effort to vindicate the
cause for which our Nation fought
might come to naught. And when,
after months of grilling toll and anx-
ious deliberations among the repre-
sentatives of those who had won the
war, the greatest peace treaty penned
since man assembled from the depths
of savagery was laid before the world
and the United States Senate for ap-
prevail, We see that same group Of
envious men seeking to emasculate
1t and tear its vitals to shreds while
the world waits over a volcano for
the return of peace. (Applause.)
AT the close of the War with Spain,
Republican leaders boastfully pro-
claimed that we were no longer
provincial Nation; that we had be-
come a world power; and that as such
we must take our place in the worlds
great councils and have a voice in the
concert of nations. That doctrine
was vindicated by the American peo-
pie. But when, as result of our
participation in the great World War.
we saw our beloved country emerge
not merely as a world power but as
the moral, political, and financial lead
er among all the nations of the earth,
and when politicians with short vision
and dwarfed mentality awoke to the
realization that this exalted position
had been won for us by the lofty
thought became CALLING to their faded
lntellects, and they at once set about
to tear down this magnificent struct-
ure of International confidence. in
spiration, and good will. though in
doing it the whole Nation might be
Inundated. The prestige. the infly-
ence. the power, the example of this
Republic in the preservation of peace.
yea OF civilization itself, became az
nothing compared with the partisan
determination to destroy, if possible.
the one man who emerged from that
great struggle as a world figure: and
the crime which brought down upon
his head these Republican anathemas
was the fact that he was a Demo.
cratic President, and had led the Ma
ZION VIGOROUSLY and triumphantIy
through one of the gravest and dark
est periods of it's glorious history.
But, Mr.. Speaker, the havoc which
has been wrought by this pitifuI course
OF action has found other victims than
those against which it was instigated
1t is true that for the time being orr
Nation is an object of suspicion and
derision in wide areas of the world
because of the inconceivable littleness
which has characterized the attitude
OF certain Republican leaders who
nave been in position to fasten upoD
our Nation the stain of their menda-
city 1t is true that for the time being
the splendor of our achievements for
Christian civilization at home and
throughout the world has been obscur-
ed by flood of partisan deception
and denunciation But aside from
these temporary humiliations which
we must endure as a Nation aside
from the distrust which has been gen
Grated in the minds of those who are
our friends throughout the world. the
real victim of this miserable counter
felt for craftsmanship will be the Re
publican Party itself and those who
have been responsible for it's conduct
in both branches of this Congress.
(Applause on the Democratic sidel
In the name of this record, I deny
the statement, wheresoever or Dy
whomsoever made. that either during
or since the war the Republican Party
through its constituted leadership. has
sustained or upheld the President of
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