The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-21
CUMMINGS
 IN THE WEST
Addresses Great Gathering At Atchinson, Kansas Salient Features of
 His Argument.
(By Staff correspondent)


 speech at the San Francisco conven- ton. was enthusiastically received re- gently when he addressed an audience which packed the largest hall in the city: MT. Cummings said in part:
 The Democratic party's achieve ments in domestic reform constitute 8 miracle of legislative progress. In- come tax relieved our revenue law of densome to the poor. The iniquities or the tariff system were removed and non-partisan tariff commission es- tabi1shed. Pan-Americanism was en- velopment; dollar diplomacy de- stroyed; a corrupt lobby driven from the National Capitol; Workmen's Compensation Act adopted; the Fed Labor legislation enacted; the Smith Lever bill for the improvement of farm conditions passed; Farm Loan banks established; Parcel Post and Rural Free delivery developed; a cor rupt practice act adopted; a good roads bill passed and the Federal Re serve system established. This last law placed our financial affairs upon such a sound basis that we success fully met the vast expenditures made necessary by war, and without strain or panic, were able to supply the needs of our Allies. The selection draft law was passed; a war finance corporation created; the office alien property custodian established; war risk insurance provided while the snip building laws re-established America's supremacy upon the seas. Vocational education was provided, industry successfully mobilized, the navy expanded until it became the second in size in the world and the first in efficiency. An army of nearly four million men was organized and equipped, well otliciered and in6omit- able in spirit were safely transported across three thousand miles Of sea, where they turned the tide of battle, won imperishable glory and tri- umphed in the greatest war that the world has ever known.
 To readjust the processes of peace so as to serve activities of war has been an undertaking requiring leader ship of unexampled skill. So striking has been the result and so prompt has been the response of the people, so free have our public affairs been from any suggestion of scandal or i'm proper influence, that it scarcely lies in the mouth of those who conducted the Spanish-American war to indulge in the luxury of criticism. Not only were these results accomplished un- der Democratic authority. but the very terms upon which hos1l1t1es came to an end were formulated by a. Democratic President
 The Republican leaders have mag nified beyond all reason, minor errors of judgment in the conduct of the great war, have mobilized the forces of irritation and discomfort, and have made tacit concessions to certain ele- ments, which show tendencies toward open sedition. It is an unholy alli- ance and cannot prevail.
 To listen to the SpokeSmen of the Republican organization is to gather the impression that America lost the war, and has been forced into a dis creditable peace, humiEating to all lovers of constitutional government and freedom. I do not know how others may feel about it, but I am proud of our great navy, of our hero ism of American men and women, of the role that America has played in the affairs of the world, proud of the work which America is doing for the world, of the power of my country and of the manner in which that pow CT has been used; and proud of the leadership of President Wilson.
 About two years ago Lloyd George said "It is a race between Wilson and .Hindenburg,'' and at that very mo- ment, France was clinging like a drowning man to the Rock of Verdun, and turning agonizing eyes toward America- And America arrived. The twar was won and I challenge the critics of the Administration to sug- gest how the war could have been won more promptly or with less loss party is rendering small service to America when it converts the ma chinery of it's organization into an in- strument of attack upon American and American honor.
 Int gentlemen who are now lead ing the Republican party, are the dis credited leaders whose advice had to be discarded before America could make progress. Was it not Senator Lodge who proclaimed in the Senate that the Federal Reserve system was foredoomed to failure? Was It not tSenator Root who said that the Fed -III n financial structure of America? Was tft not Senator PenroSe who took the same position? And did not all these gentlemen oppose the passage of the shipping bill which was urged by Sec }retary McAdoo two years before war tbegan? Was it not this same group ! of leaders who were responsible TOT the opposition to the income tax, the farm loan system and the agricultural and labor bills? These are the same {bad advisers, who, hopeful thai America has forgotten their bad ad- vice, are now rendering their sugges- tions as to the future.
 ' Political animosity followed the President to the peace table, a round robin" was widely circulated ano every device which partiSanSh1p coulo develop was employed for the pur. lrose of weakening the influence o1 1r1r commission at Paris. Rude and unskillful hands were thrust reck. tIessly amid the interlacing strands o1 iI,nrnan destiny. Ine pest tnouSnL Ol ! The world demanded that serious at sfempt be made to formulate a treat! of peace which should prevent the recurrence of war. we had rlgh' to expect a sympathetic support fol .3l ! such a policy from all patriotic
 Americans quite irrespective of DO. tiiticaI afiliations. At this critica ! iuncture in human affairs, Repubn' can leadership completely failed. IT inc face of the greatest problem ir !, fne world Republican leaders saw fiji to remember only that they were Re nuflicans. Many times in histor!
 men have had an opportunity te sneak for the freedom of a country
 ar of a people; but never before
 since time began, have statesmen heen afforded the opportunity tt sneak for the freedom of the world
 The opportunity for service was a.
 srsat as the need of the world; ant
 fhe failure to render it must stant
 as a reproach for all time.
 world civilization Is more in dan
 gar than 1t WIS during the war
 America cannot tolerate internationa
 chaos. We have won the moral lead
 Srarip of the world. We cannot af