Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-04
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
(special to The Bulletin

army appropriation bill. Gen. Wood,
 Gen. Pershing and every officer of ! high rank who testified before con- gressional committees, stated with
 positiveness that such a law is essen l tiaT and that had it been in force be-
 fore the war, thousands of American | lives would have been saved needless loss of. life prevented and the war | brought to an earlier close. It is 8 E grim lesson, they say, and congress believes it to be true, yet in spite or what those experienced men state, congress is flooded with letters which come pouring in from all parts Of the country, urging that such a measure shall not be adopted. To a great number of people the very thought. of
 military training seems to spell An- other war Political leaders of both parties realize that to talk of train- ing boys for war, rouses resentment Il the minds of women-and don't for
 get for a moment that the women's vote is being sought by both parties with zest that can't be overesti- mated. Added to these women, are
 pacifcists conscientious objecters and a long list of others who are out of sympathy with anything in the
 way of preparedness. As a result l neither party wants it to be made an
 issue of the campaign. The top liners
 hope to keep it out of the 1920 plat | forms and are working to get con- gress to leave the question alone for another year, except Gen. Wood, who
 is already committed to the policy of l training men of war age He believes I it will be a safeguard both to the na- l tion and to the boys themselves. It l could be brought up in his campaign willy niIly, for he has gone over the | facts so thoroughly that there is no
 doubt as to his stand. But other can didates and the campaign leaders say 1 Let it go over. We have material
 enough now on which to build issues,
 without dragging military training in to it." That is the opinion of the
 rank and file of men out here, but
 whether they can pursuade congress i to follow along that line, is quite an- other matter, for at this moment the
 army bill, with a military training clause, is before the senate.
 Vice President Marshall has let it I. become known that he will not only go to the democratic national con- ! vention as a delegate at large from i Indiana but that he will take a strong hand in framing the platform for the | 1920 campaign. He is out in no un- certain tone for a campaign along old | fashioned Jeffersonian lines and will
 urge that alr "isms' and radical measures be eliminated from the 1 democratic platform. The announce
 ment has not yet been made public
 but will be forthcoming within a few 1 days MT. Marshall said today T want 1 to ascertain whether everything that
 made this republic is wrong or not.p
 He has made it known to friends that q he believes the only way in which
 the United States can be made hap py and prosperous is to go back to J the old time America frst'' policy.
 MT. Marshall recently outlined his
 policy somewhat as follows, and his N formal announcement to the state
 committee of Indiana will be along
 these lines: "All the methods and measures adopted for the preserva : tion of peace in our country and the winning of the war have met my un- qualified approval and I am ready to l defend them. But the war is now over and it is a, question of rehabiiita- tion of the world and of America. ' America has so long been a country of party governed people, that in my
 opinion political parties should re- i habilitate themselves and the voters of the country. should know exactly
 the sort of political system those par f ties propose. if entrusted with power s I have watched in other countries the effect of unbridled democracy and ]
 have seen the menace of it in this
 country until am convinced that the peace, prospSsAty and perpetuify 'ot the American republic must rest f. 3 nally upon few ancient and time
 honored doctrines, and the Jefferson. 3 Ian doctrine of equal and exact justice f to all men and special privileges tc none" Mr. Marshall believes thai political America must be rebuilt
 along line Clearly dividing it's cit, izens into law abiding and law break. ing citizens, making laws rest equally on all men" Mir. Marshall has mad, 7 known it he will urge such a plat. l form at the San Francisco convention |, and moreover expects to take part ir
 framing it. He will tell the people o- Indiana in his formal announe9men : for delegate. that he believes ''corrupr ! judges should be removed but that we : should stand always for Obedience tc . decrees of the court and to condit1I. g tional authority" He will urge ina t the democratic party shall be pledged , to the discharge of the countless
 officials and innumerable agent,
 made necessary by the war; and vii
 urge strict economy in the conduct O
 all public business. 'eWe must nunisl I the would zbe proiteer and present tr e the people f the country an old fash l @Si!Su QeiHotfdQc platiorn under tn '' principles of which the republic fo |, so many years was contented. pros u porous and invincible'' said MT. Mar ; shall today, and that will be in th, e platform, If he has hand in framin,
 it. # the subcommittee, of which Sen
 ator Mclean of Connecticut is chair ;. man, has it's way, there will be a, yer, l- general halt called in the sissuanc
 of fraudulent stock through a blue
 sky law for which Senator KenyoI d or Iowa3 is sponsor. MT. Mclean is fl e full sympathy with the bill and hi d committed is seeking a proper reme
 dy for the existing evil and conduct
 ing exhaustive hearings.
 o Some states have restraining laws v but they are not always fully elforc u ed. according to reports, and as
 g result, thousands of fraudulen ,- schemes, under the guise of stoel
 companies, are urged in unsuspect
 ing buyers by promoters. The Ken lel yon bill, as now being urged and for 4 l Warded by Senator Mclean, is intend ;f ed to put such promoters out of busi A .At ness and behind the bars. MT. Me '1 Lean believes the people of the Unite
 States are being robbed right and lei
 by such business frauds and Senate lel Kenyon adds that since the armistie y was signed "the people of the middl m west have been robbed of Sornethin
 like $200 000,000 in fraudulent stoc
 deals, and that other parts of tn
 country have also suffered heavily, The bill was referred to the interstat If7fH