Evening journal., 1920-02-19
CUMMINGS DEMONSTRATES DEMOCRATIC HYPOCRISY

~ HARTMAN HOMER 8. CUMMINGS OF the Democratic
~ National Committee delivered address at the Ma
tonal Press Club In Washington, recently, from which
few excerpts and thereon given Illus
rate the hypocrisy which has characterized the renegade
Democrats who have controlled the nations affairs for
the past seven years
"The Declaration Of independence" said he, us the
greatest document ever prepared by the hand OF
greater than the Magma Chara; greater perhaps, than
our Constitution because from beneath the Decara-
ton from beneath protecting rock have gushed
forth the very living waters Of human liberty"
Yet h Is The very spirit Of that immortal document
which Cummings and his party friends have attempted
to destroy by forcing upon America tyrannica super
government substituting lnternatlonssm for the nation
allsm which glows from every line Of the Greed Of 76
and Of today, and throwing the Federal Constitution
which Gladstone called the greatest document struck
of by the hand Of man. into the White House waste
basket.
But for the Republican Senator'S VINO have stood by
both great documents they would have been scrapped
long this
AS of the methods Of meeting the propaganda Of
the Red the l. w W. any group OF people who seek
TO subvert the foundations OF the American Government"
Cummings warns us TO make that the ballot is
free and undened and pure, and that mere parsanshp
sh9 not lead 10 condone assaults upon the ballot In
America no matter from what source they may come"
Sounds goodl
But, how about the wholesale dsfranchisement OF
How about the recording Of the votes of absentees
and the dead and buried In recent elections in North
Carolna9
How about the suppression Of the ballot results in
Kentucky which pracced until indignant ctzenry
and last year recorded a Republican vote
whelmlng to paralyze the vote embezzlers2
How about the crooked methods Of the Democrats in
Maryland In preparing the ballots that no one but
solver of riddles Interpret the Republican ticket?
These things have been going for long, long
time TO the advantage Of Mr. Cummings party
Has Chairman Cummings ever condemned such prac-
ticesP
Haven't hts political leutenants encouraged them2
Mr.. Cummings suggests the enactment OF "a cear-cut
law which would make II unlawful for any person who
has not taken the trouble to become American citizen
30 participate directly indirectly in the politics Of
America, or in any movement designed to change the
fundamentals Of American life."
very commendable ideal
But how about the plans OF the Democratic commit
tee of which Cummings is chairman TO exploit the for
egn vote Of those who have nauralzed or TO ac-
oep campaign contributions from unnaturaiizsd aens7
And why have the foreign elements in this country
been urged to support the League of Natlons7
That is confessedly movement designed 10 change
the fundamentals OF American life.
II ass,rt" trumpets Mr. Cummings, "that no party in
America is entitled 10 live which does stand for
undivided Americanlsn.'
Agreed And that is why Wilson. Cummings Hitch |
cock and other internationass, have chiseed "hic
acet on the tombstone OF the Democratic party whose
grave has been dug and whose interment will be held
the first Tuesday ae the rst Monday Of November 1920
Cummngs and HIS friends prolific in hgh-soundns
hrases proleststions % patriotism. and bunk but for
some time they have been sedulousy engaged in plan
to destroy tho Americansm which they hypocritlcsy
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