The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-11-03
GE:NsMAN SPEAKS
To LARGE CROWD
At COURT HOUSE
Congressman Declares "Deflatlon"
Started Nine Months Before VII.
son Ended Term as President
OF United States.
POINTS TO RECORD AND
SAYS HE'S FOR FARMER
Asks Support Of Democrats and Re.
publIeans; Joe L. Hart. Candidate
for State Senator, Makes Short
Campaign Speech.


Declaring mat ucllhtipn ttaTlth
rine months before President Hard
ing was inauguratcd and pleading
for the votes of both democrats and
republicans. Congressman l.. NJ.
Gonsman. Of Lawton. republican
nominee for reelection. spoke to a
crowd which occupied every seat in
the court room Of the county court
house last night.
"Whle deflation started nine
months before President Wilson re-
tired az president. ! do not lay this
at the door Of the democratic par
ty." Congressman Gensman said. ut
was the natural result of the world
war. can remember OF my mother
telling me OF the hard times which
followed the civil war"
The Lawton congressman referred
10 several farm products which he
said were affected by the "defla-
ton which started before the end
of the Wilson administration.
"Eightyfive per cent OF the della
tion came under the last democratic
administration and only 10 during
Mr.. IIarding's administration he
declared.
Reserve System Demo. Measure.
1T has been said" Congressman
Gensman asserted. that the Fed
eral Reserve system has been re-
sponsible for some of the deflation.
That may be true and II may not be
true; don't know. The law Gre
ating the federal reserve system was
passed by democratic house OF
representatives and a democratic
senate and signed by a democratic
president. The man who Is at the
head of tho system at the present(
time is one who was appointed by
President Wilson"
The speaker spent some time ex-
plotting his record in congress, stat
ing that he IS a member Of the
farmer bloc which succeeded in
causing the rehabilitation of the
War Finance Corporation that had
decayed. The War Finance Corpor-
alton handled 100000 bales of Okla
homa cotton.
Approval of the soldier bonus bill
was expressed by the speaker. MY
record will show that have been
100 per cent for the farmer and the
laborer," lie declared.
Mr.. Gensman pleaded for the sup
port Of the friends of Jed ]. John
son, whom Mr.. Thomas, democratic
nominee for congress, defeated for
the democratic nomination in the
recent primary election, and who is
now active in the support of the
Medicine Park man. He also plead
ed for the support of friends OF
Judge Cham Jones whom Mr. Thorn
as defeated for the democratic
nomination in congress. He assert
ed that eleventh hour campaign
dope sent them to their political
graves.
That he did not solicit the en-
dorsement by an organization seek
ing to secure amendments to the
Volstead act was the declaration
made by Mr. Gensman last night
He read telegram from Andrew }.
Volstead father of the Volstead
act, saying "It is unfair to charge
you with having supported the wet
cause. Your vote and influence has
uniformally favored prohibition OF
the liquor traffic
Joe L. Hart Speaks.
Before Congressman Gensman was
introduced last night by G. Ed But
Ter, county chairman Of the republi-
can nominee for state senator from
this district - Grady and Caddo
counties a short talk. He re-
ferred briefly to some needed legis-
lation, placing stress upon the di-
vorce evil. A divorce may be OBJ
tanned with too much ease, he said,
and laws should be enacted to rem
der it more difficult to obtain a
dissolution of marriage bonds.
Every seat in the district court
room was occupied. Several stood
in the rear of the room. There were
manv democrats in the audience.