The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-05
OPENING GUNS
ARE FIRED BY
COX, RALSTON
Democratic Campaign is
Launched in Sixth District
With Rally at Coliseum
More Than 5000 Attend.
TARIFF is ASSAILED.

Criticism of the Republican tariff
discussion of the four power pact anG |
the attitude of Albert ]. Beveridge to-
outstanding points of the addresses OF
Samuel NJ Ralston, candidate for
United States senator from Indiana, !
and James NJ Cox, former governor of
Ohio, who spoke at the Coliseum. We'd |
nesday evening Approximately 5000
persons heard the speeches. Mayor
Lawrence Handley presided
Ex-Governor Cox asserted that the |
Republican administration was so bad |
ly on the defensive in the present
campaign that it had called on Elihu
Root in the emergency Mr. Cox de-
voted considerable time to answering
the keynote speech which Mr.. Root
made before the Republican state con-
vention in New York.
Says Labor SkepticaI
Mr.. Cox said IN part:
In short, the policy of the party in
power has found it's expression in the
executive attitude toward labor cond.-
tions. If Mr.. Root had candidly dis
cussed the matter with representa-
tives of capital, he would have been
in every community, which is that the
administration violated very dis
tinct understanding which was arrived
at when the terms of the 1920 cam
paign were made up If he had con-
suited labor, he would have encounter
ed the remark now running through
the working masses, which is tnat the
president entered upon the task of at
4ay tod 10 nv a.
Dor as an out and out sponsor for the
interest of capital, but that when the
whole country was threatened with
economic collapse, he rushed to the
opposing side as a measure of preser-
vation, the result being that he has
forfeited the confidence of the enl-
ployer and not gained that of labor.
"Mr. Root as counsel for the de-
fense submits the result of the
Washington conference as the con-
tribution which his client has made
to the peace of the world. Senator
Borah. a Republican, was responsible
both for the introduction and the sue
cessful advocacy of the resolution
which led to the Washington confer
ence Within the last few days he
summed up the situation growing out
of both neglect and bad faith in these
words:
Basis of Statement
"Tf the work of this conference
should be brought to naught, as many
things now indicate, it will be the
most hideous betrayal of humanity
since the war"
! The symptoms upon which Mr.
Borah bases his observations are di-
rectly in consequence of the inefficien-
i cy of the state department as demon
strated by the discharge of the secre-
tariaI force of the. conference very
soon after it adjourned.
"The conference was a going con-
Germ for the time, and out of it came
agreement = but no going concern
was created to keep alive the essen
tial elements of moral vigilence in
matters of this character, Mr.. Root
had nothing to say about the pledge
which he and Messrs. Hughes and
Lowell and Hoover and others of the
group of thirty-one gave to the Amer
ican people in 1920.
Roots Tariff Stand
LESS than one-fourth of news
paper column is taken up by Mr..
Roots discussion of the Congress and
the tariff Recognizing as he does the
public appraisal of the most unusual
revenue measure ever passed by an
American Congress, he says, doubt
less there are some special considera-
tions applying to an American tariff
now which never have applied before" "
He says that the congress has been
designated by critics as "do-nothing
congress" He then lays out the spe-
cifications for a congress that meets
his concept of the function of the leg
iislative branch. In celebrating upon
this thought, his words are: "One of
the chief functions of the legislature
of free country is to discHss mul-
titude Of projects and refuse action
upon at least nine-tenths Of them. y
1t is perfectly fair to assume that the
present body in Mr.. Roots view fits
his description of his kind of a con
gress-It should indulge in nine parts
discussion and one part achieved re.
suits. In brief, the relation of wind
to work shall be as nine is to one.
have heard a good many harsh terms
applied to the present congress. If il
takes its place in history as the Nine
TO One Congress, Mr.. Root will be re
sponsible
What Public Thinks
"Tt is waste of words to recite
what the public thinks of the Fordney
McCumber tariff act. While the bill
, was pending, it was denounced by the
most of the Republican newspapers in
. the country, in terms both harsh and
! opprobrious. The people generally re
/ alize now just what this measure will
, cost them. 1t is pertinent in the dis
! cussion of the subject to call atten
ton to the underlying motives behind
the law. The average citizen asks
, himself how it was possible to legis
latively create such a thing. The
answer is found when we recall the
concealed, but none the less potentia
operations that were going on during
and prior to the campaign of 1920"
: Mr. Cox reviewed tariff Legislation
: up to the Payne Aldrich act and con
: tinued:
: This experience ought to have car
ried its lesson to the reactionar,
! forces making up the old guard of tn,
: Republican party, but apparently it dit
!. not In proof of this is submitted tn,
:. fact that the Fordney-McCumber &C
carries the highest schedules in ou
history. No attempt was made to writ