The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-17
DEMOCRATS OPEN
 THEIR CAMPAIGN
 IN MIDDLE WEST
AimIeSsness and lnaCtion Controlling Policy of Repub- IicanS, Hull Declares in
 Indianapolis Speech
By Associated Press

Indianapolis, February 1s.-The democratic congressional campaign n the middle west was opened here toright by Chairman Hull of the ma tonal committee with an address in which he declared "aimlessness and inaetion" to be the controlling policy of the republican administration. Speaking before the Indiana Demo cratic Editorial association. he said republican leaders with all their falsehoods exposed and all their promises broken" were pursuing Ia rudderless course, while the people continue to cry out for relief.r He added that lin the meantime the Lodges, the Newberrys and those of their ilk. in control of the repub- lican party, are having their fre- 1uent political Belshazzer's feasts in the nations capital"
 The democratic chairman alluded tc the arms conference at several points in his address, at one time achievements" to have been grossly exaggerated and at another mak- ing the charge that the republican administration, through the confer ence, had surrendered more of our national sovereignty than has been previously surrendered in more than 100 years"
 Particular stress was laid by Mir Hull on what he declared was the inability of the republican admins tration to cope with disturbed eco- homie conditions, and in that con nection he charged that republican leaders in 1920 deceived the people by failing to point out the imminent depression.
 Tn my judgment" he told the Tn diana democratic editors, eattie were never more deliberately led to slaughter nor sheep to the shamoles res than were the American people led over the precipice to panic condi- tions and terrific business demorai- jzation by the national republican feadeship from 1918 to 1921 . No people free or serf, were ever worse buckeyed, flimflamed ana buncoed than the American electo- rate by the republican political pa triots in control of their party prior to the November election in iszo' since that election the people, tol- lowing this same republican leader chin have waltzed down the eco homie decline to the level industrial manic. In this condition Of ainos. i,nnaralleled distress, the republican sdministration, while rather sheep ishIy admitting conditions, mas ho views as to causes or remedles.
 Time was, Chairman Hull aeeiareu a,'t.''S when the American voters believed .that arenuhlfcan administration ana h,,sjness prosperity go hand hane' b,f Dc aadaa. never again l%lll tns American voter be duped with tnAs false and hypocritical doctrine that rannhllran Administration means prosperity
 The chairman referred to the ao dress recently made by Vice Presi dan+ Coolidge in Indianapolis, ana Le described as his "egregrious thunder in his claim of Congressional economy and his deadly silence on inc Newberry scandal which took nlace under his very nose. He then oroceeded 10 call on the Vice Presi- dent to 'give his views on the H1er- its of the Newberry case to the American people" The repuollcah claim of saving in governmental eN- penditures. he continued, was not actual but a mere paper saving.
 Before entering upon his discus sion Of the arms conferences Mr. Hull paid his respects to Senator Lodge. declaring his tortuous course in politics is most remindful of that Cataline. the political conspirator Tn the Roman senate, while his states manship most nearly resembles that of Aaron Burr.
 "The people are already conclud- ing" he went on, that it would have been far wiser to have the affairs or the nation directed by the common sense and practical statesmanship or A democratic administration than by the boasted republican best minds which the public are even now view ing as another republican moth. Their so-ealled best minds in pro- fession have become mollycoddles in performance In 1919 intolerant and inflated republicans cried Oh, for a Root or a Lodge at Versailles. They would have successfully driven through the treaty proceedings wi~.fn SO days, and yet Root, Lodge and all of them spent three montha with England, France, Japan and 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 honors and England second"