The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-06
REED EXTENDS
OLIVE BRANCH
In FIRST TALK
Continued from page one.)


port of law-abiding people. 1t follows
that no good citizen will demand that in
order TO enforce one provision of the
Constitution the other provisions should
be disregarded or violated. All are
equally entitled to be respected.
within the compass of this address
it will be impossible to completely cat.
alougue the conflicting policies which
divide the Democratic from the Repub.
Iican party Broadly stated, the par
ties are back on the old battle ground
The contest .of the immediate future
will be largely over the questions about
which the parties have been for years
contending.
ITO that battle | summon the hosts Of
Missouri's Democracy. In that fight ]
shall do my part, whether ! serve as a
leader or in the ranks. Such is the
spirit in which all should enter this cam
paign.
Without now pausing for details, |
challenge attention to the fact that the
National Administration has failed TO
redeem the pledges upon which it gain
ed office.
Its history TO this date is one Of
broken pledges. serytude to the great in
teresis and abandonment Of the common
people.
The conditions in Missouri are well
known. The HYDE administration has
been tried and condemned at the ba.
of public opinion. ! shall have occasion
to discuss it hereafter.
SAYS ATTACKS ARE FALSE
in view of the situation factional dif-
ferences ought to be forgotten within
the Dem0cratice Party, and We should
invite TO our assistance all citizens in
teres,ed in the welfare of the State.
1.-The people of Missouri are entitled
10 know what nv public acts have been,
and | now proceed to candid review OF
what | have done.
MANY false and sometimes malicious
statements have been circulated for
wears. Hitherto | have maintained ST.
lence. The time has now come when |
can and ought TO speak. shall refer
TO a few of the charges, but in as kindly
a manner as the circumstances will per-
nit.
1T is charged that because Of dis
puies over patronage ! opposed Presi-
dent Wilson in everything he desired.
"A Senator who would allow either
animosiiy or friendship TO control his
official acts would be unfit to hold that
high office. The charge is not only un-
true, but as the Congressional Records
will show, is ridiculous.
The absurdify of that part Of the
charge which asserts that | opposed the
President in everything he desired is
illustrated by the fact that during his
incumbency the President sent to the
Senate more than 10000 appointments
for confirmation and that voted for all,
save some six or seven appointments.
''The Record also proves that upon
questions covered by the Democratic
platform upon which We were both
elected. there were no differences be-
tween the President and myself.s
upon questions not covered by that
platform | supported the President when
| thought him right. Frequently, ! ap-
peared lwithin the limits Of my poor
abilities) as his champion when the
questions were important and even cru
cial to his administration. | shall later
refer to specific instances.
Here Senator Reed gave detailed ac.
count of his reasons for opposing the ap- |
pointment Of Thomas ID. Jones as men,
ber of the Federal Reserve Board.
DEFENDS LEAGUE STAND
"It is charged that in the Senate /
opposed Democratic principles and poll
Cies.
Happily, all my acts and votes in
the Senate are recorded in the Congress
sional Record.
NO living man can point to a speech
or vote of mine that is not in absolute
accord with the established, fundamen-
tai doctrines Of Democracy.
"As to the League of Nations. it deals
with our foreign relations and those re-
laiions have never been regarded as the
subject of partisan politics. The ques-
iion of entering into the league was
declared to be on-political by President
Wilson and ex-President Taft, when
they spoke from the platform of the
Metropolitan Opera House on the eve
of the Presidents second departure for
Europe. The President continuously and
repeatedly. reiterated the statement, con-
,inuing to do so up to the time the league
was disposed of in the Senate.
Upon this non-political question my
views are so well understood that dis
cussion thereof is unnecessary.
Il voted against the league. ! be-
lieved it imperiled the Republic and so
believing. could not support it. My
views have. not changed.
Il will never knowingly cas- vote
which will directly or indirectly obi
gate the United States TO draft our boys
into the military service and to send
them to fight and die in the quarrels Of
foreign countries.
The structure of our government
was laid by the wisest men who ever
assembled to create a nation. In that
Government each state texcept as TO GER
tain specified powers) is complete
sovereignty entitled TO be represented
in the Senate by two men.
HAS il come TO this that the proud