Bisbee daily review., 1922-10-15
REPUBLICAN FAILURE
 TO FULFILL PLEDGES
 PLAYED BY SPEAKERS
Visiting Massachusetts Legislator Declares Arzonas Senior Member of United States Senate Is One of Few
 Real Champions of People in Washington
Il Say This For My Colleague Senator Cameron) He's A Promising Gentleman, Declares Ashurst; Failure of
 COP. to Stand by Promises to Veterans Denounced

who wanted to swell their majority" The speaker assailed Secretary of Sate Hughes for using his influence in Washington in favor of Senator Newberry after accepting s25,00O to defend Newberry before his, Hughes appointment to the cabinet After reading the report of the Republican majority of the senate investigation committee, declaring Newberry seated although condemning the expenditure of huge sums for his election, Sena- tor Ashurst declared the Republicans had acted as a jury that said: We find the defendant guilty and therefore turn him loose"
 Against Debt Cancellation
 Senator Ashurst spoke against the proposal to cancel the foreign debts. and charged that England had paid it's soldiers a bonus with Uncle Sans money" Referring to the suggestion he attributed to Lord Balfour that Great Britain and America cancel all war debts, Senator Ashurst said that Great Britain wanted to cancel debts she couldn't collect and wanted us to cancel debts we were sure to collect" The Democratic minority in Washing ton, he said, had prevented the cancel lation of the debts. He termed Sena- tor Henry Cabot Lodge as that fel- low who never had a generous impulse in his life,''
 Switching from national issues to 1 state issues, Senator Ashurst assailed the Swing-Johnson bill and declared Arizona must hold to its rights along | the Colorado River like a giant. with hands of steel" The senator said he i believed the government would event ually construct huge irrigation pro : jects on the river but believed that private capital should be allowed to 1 go ahead with the construction of pow ! CT projects.
 Senator Ashurst punctuated his ad- 1 dress with anecdotes and humorous | expressions that kept the shivvering audience in the best of spirits. De-
 scribing the wave of recklessness
 that swept the country following the i war, he said: Why, my friends. i some of our peo1le rushed to ex-
 change their Liberty Bonds for Texas oil stocks
 4-Power Pact Scored | The four-power Pacific pact was ] denounced by the speaker as an alli-
 ance whereby Japan and Great Britain bound the U. s. with bonds of steeI' i to fight for them.
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 party. after solemnly promising that 1 this nation would never be a party to any foreign alliance. in binding the i United States to fight for Japan he
 said, should result in the Republican ! party going out of power. and staying
 out of power until God, with his judg- ment, sees fit to chastise the Ameri- | can people again"
 The senator looked toward the en-
 trance to the park for some sign of
 Senator Walsh who had not at that
 time arrived from Tucson.
 If Senator Walsh should be delay | ed until four o'clock in the morning." | said he. it would take that long for
 me to tell you of all the promises i broken by the Republican party 1 Cheers Greet Walsh ] Senator Walsh, accompanied by pr. w. r. Sims, arrived shortly after and
 was greeted with a cheer and a bril-
 liant introduction by Senator Ashurst. "I have come three thousand miles ] to urge you to send Senator Ashurst 1 back to Washington" said the visitor I We need him back there. There are i few enough real champions Of the peo- | pie in the senate today. BA. there is no member of the senate who is more ! able. more efficient and more indus trious than Senator Ashurst." 'I have only one fault to find with i Senator Ashurst," continued the speak 1 CT He is too much Arizona Some | times I wish he would think less of | Arizona and more of Massachusetts.
 But Arizona is young Its sun is 1 just rising you. in this state. have i not reached midday like Massachu- setts; your opportunities for advance
 ment are unlimited"
 Ashurst For People 1 Senator Walsh said he had been
 associated for years in the senate W l Senator Ashurst. "and every breath | he has taken, every word he has ut (Continued on Page Two)