Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-17
Optimism Rules Democratic Banquet

pool Hotel last night, Of the shortcom-
| ings of the present Administration and
of the accomplishments Of the last Demo
cratic Administration.
/ His speech Is part followss
| 1 noticed from press reports that our
| distinguished Vice President Coolidge re-
Gently honored the people Of Indiana With
1 8 political visit. l noticed also rhat ne
| delivered q speech here during that visit
which was highly laudatory of the Presl-
| dent and his Cabinet, and equally lauda-
tory. Of the Republican Congress, Ac,
| cording to his testimony. Congress and
the President occupy the same level OF
official merit. gauged by their respectiye
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| statement contained in the speech or the
| Vice President with which l find myself
| in accord.
In referring to the course Of the Demo
cratic administration from 1918 to 1920,
| he states that: THE former govern
ment had made no plans, had adopted no
| policy for regaining peace-t1me pursuits.
! / shall later recite to you the chief por-
| ton of the most comprehensive program
| Of reconstruction adopted by any govern
| was proposed by the Democratic admins
tration during the months following the
| Armistice.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL
| BLUNDERS.
! The Vice President gave unstinted
! praise to the so-called internal tax re-
| duction measure enacted some months
| ago by a Republican Congress, and yet
/ Senator Penrose, who had the bill In
! charge, assured the country after its
passage through Congress, that this half
| baked, lopsided piece of patchwork leg
| tslation was only a temporary makeshift
measure, and that a we'll considered per-
| manept law would later be framed and
enacted. l shall also refer later to the
| egregious blunder Of the Vice President
| in his claims Of Congressional economy
and his deadly silence on the Newberry
scandal, which took place under his very
nose. The distinguishing features OF the
| Indianapolis speech of the Vice Presi-
dent are It's exaggerations and omissions,
| from end to end.
! Many most serious problems Of bust
ness, ecopomic and social nature confront
| the Nation. The people everywhere are
| asking what is the matter with the coun~
! tryi What is the matter with the Re.
| publican party, IL complete control or
! the Federal Government for year and
! OF both houses of Congress for three
years? The idle workman, the impover-
| ished farmer and the harassed business
man impatiently demand to know the
| cause of our unprecedented economic diff
, fcuIties and who is responsible therefor.
| They demand to know why the national
Republican leaders, with their boosted
| business Judgment and foresight, con-
! ceaIed from the country due warning OF
! the awful industrial collapse that was
| TO visit the Nation following Republican
I victory in 1920. Sensible and Intelligent
people everywhere have already concluded
that If the Republican leadership, which,
from the President down, urged the peo-
pie to produce to the maximum in their
speeches during 1920, were not capable
Of foreseeing the industrial panic that
would inevitably burst upon the country
during the winter and spring LolioWlng
/ the November election Of 1920 such
! leadership is wholly incapable OF con
! Quoting the affairs Of the Government.
3 The same people have already concluded,
on the other hand, that If the Kepub-
lcan leadership in control did foresee
! The coming panic, and deliberately sup
pressed the information from the people
during the campaign of 1920, these Re
/ publican leaders are wholly untrust-
/ worthy and unfit to have control OF the
/ Government.
PUBLIC LED
INTO PANIC.
! In nv Judgment, cattle were never
more deliberately led to slaughter nor
sheep to the shambles, than were the
American people steered over the
precipice TO panic conditions and terrific
! business decentralization by the national
+ Republican leadership from 1913 TO l9-l;
( The paramount purpose OF these pliHu
and selfish partisan leaders was 10
create the widest possible dissatisfied lon
! among the American voters against the
/ Democratic Administration 10 the END
/ that in 1920 they would demand "a
change" "a change" presumably. as to
all our foreign and domestic policies, "a
change" as TO our international economic
and trade policies, and "a change as TO
cur domestic business conditions as we'll
The Republican leaders got what they
wanted. viz: control Of the Government
the American people got the naked thing
they voted for, 70 -wit: change. Ihey
4 lost on everything else. No people, Iree
# serf. were ever worse, flimflammed than
the American electorate by the Repub-
lican political patriots in control Of their
party prior to the November election In
] 1920 Since that election, the people, fol
lowing same Republican leadership have
waltzed down the economic decline to the
| level Of Industrial panic. In this con-
/ dition Of almost unparalleled distress, the
Republican Administration, while rather
sheepishly admitting conditions. has no
| Views as to causes or remedies. Aim
lessness and inactlcn" are the controlling
! Republican policies today. With all
! their falsehoods exposed and all their
! promises broken they pursue a rudder-
( less course while the people continue to
cry out for relief. In the meantime the
! Lodges, the Newberrys and those Of
their ilk, in control of the Republican
/ party, are having their frequent political
/ BellshaZZer feasts IN the nations Capital
How did men Of the narrow, vicious,
+ malignant political type Of Lodge, and of
/ the shrewd. commercial political brand Of
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