The New York herald., 1922-02-17
ALL EVILS And ILLS
REPUBLICAN TO HULL
Democratic Chairman Says
Party Has Led Country
to the Slaughter
COURSE RUDDERLESS'
Opening Campaign, He Be-
Titles Achievements of
Arms Conference.
PEOPLE CRY FOR RELIEF
Lodge, Hughes, Root Special
Targets in His Speech to
Indiana Editors.

INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 16.-The Demo-
cratic Congressional campaign in the
middle West was opened here tonight
by Chairman Hull of the National
Committee with an address in which
he declared "aimlessness and inaction"
to be the controlling policy Of the
Republican Administration.
Speaking before the Indiana Demo-
cratic Editorial Association Chairman
Hull asserted that Republican leaders,
with all their falsehoods exposed and
all their promises broken" were pur-
suing "a rudderless course while the
people continue to cry out for relief"
| He added that "in the meantime the
Lodges, the Newberrys and those of
their ilk in control of the Republican
party are having their frequent po-
litical Beshazzar's feasts in the ma
tons capital.
! The Democratic chairman alluded TO
! the arms conference at several points in
! his address, at one time declaring its
| ''proce edings and achievements to have
| pce1 ETOSSly GAd66cldtcN anu CT hii
other making the charge that the Re-
publican Administration through the
! conference had Surrendered more of
our national sovereignty than has been
previously surrendered in more than
| hundred years"
Particular stress was laid by Mr..
| Hull on what he declared was the in q
ability of the Republican Administration
to cope with disturbed economic condi-
tions. and in that connection he charged
that Republican leaders in 1920 deceived
the people by failing to point out the
imminent depression.
Like Cattle to Slaughter.
"In my judgment" he told the In
diana Democratic editors, cattle were
never more deliberately led to slaughter
nor sheep to the shambles than were the
American people led over the precipice
to panic conditions and terrific business
decentralization by the national Republ-
can leadership from 1918 to 1921.
No people, free or serf, were ever worse
buckeyed, flnfiammed and buncoed than
the American electorate by the Republi-
can political patriots in control of their
party prior to the November election in
1921 Since that election the people fol-
lowing this same Republican leadership
have waltZed down the economic decline
to the level of industrial panic
Time was, Chairman Hull declared,
when the American voters believed that
Republican administration and business
prosperity go hand in hand" but. he
added, never again will the American
voter be duped by the false and hypo-
critical doctrine that Republican ad-
ministration means prosperity"
The Democratic chairman several
times referred to the address recently
made by Vice-President Coolidge in In
danapolis and critzed the Vice-Presi-
dent for what he described as his
egregious blunder in his claim Of Con-
gressional economy and his deadly ST.
lonce on the Newberry scandal, which
took place under his very nose Re-
publican claim of savings in govern
mental expenditures, he continued, was
not actual but a mere paper saving"
Before entering upon his discussion Of
the arms conference Mr.. Hull paid his
respects to Senator Lodge, decalring his
tortuous course in politics Is most re-
mindful of that OF Cataline. the politI-
cal consprator in the Roman Senate.
while his craftsmanship most nearly re
sembles that of Aaron Burr"
Fling Mt "Best Minds.-
"The people are already concluding"
wiser to have the affairs Of the nation
directed by the common sense and prac-
teal statesmanship of Democratic Ad-
ministration than by the boasted Repub-
lican best minds which the public are
even now viewing as another Republican
myth. Their so-called best minds in
profession have become mollycoddles in
performance. In 1919, intolerant and
inflated Republicans cried oh. for a
T
would have successfully driven through
the treaty proceedings within sixty days
and yet Root Lodge and all OF them
spent three months with England.
France Japan, Italy and China in the
recent small disarmament conference
with one-two-hundredth part of the task
of Versailles and came out third best.
Japan walked off with the highest hon.
ors and England second"
Viewing the present morass and
chaos into which American thought and
business have been drawn by selfish Re-
publican politics il Is clear that the first
OF sound public opinion that will give
intelligent support to legislators and
Congress in the enactment of wise, re-
medal legislation that will support
legislative bodies in guarding the treas
urles against extravaganza that will
cooperate with legislative bodies In the
preparation and enactment of compre-
henslve. sound and equitable systems Of
taxation; that will stand between legis-
lative bodies and the demagogue who is
a greater menace than the ]. w. w. the
Bolshevist or the anarchist that will.
every two years. seek the ceanest.
ablest men for office, insist on their
candidacy and actively aid in their
nomination and election. The second
great need of the country is to substi-
tute political honesty for the gross Re
publican dishonesty practlced by their
leaders since 1918. This latter the
Democrats proposed 10 do and challenge
L.