Evening star., 1922-02-17
iSAYSG. 0.P DUPED
AMERICAN PUBLIC
Chairman Hull of Democrats
Fires Broadside in Middle
West Campaign.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, February II.
the democratic congressional CAM
patsa In the middle west was opened
hsrs last night by chairman Hull Of
the national committee with an ad-
dress In which he declared "aimless-
ness and inact!op" to be the controll-
las policy Of the republican admin
istratten. =,
Speaking befofs the Indiana Demo-
cratic Editorial Association, Chair
man Hull asserted that republican
leRasFe, with all their falsehoods ex-
posed ana all their promises broken"
we're pursuing "a rudderless course.
tor reiisf. He added that lin the
meaRtims the Lodges, the NeWberrys
aHa those Ct their ilk In control Of the
fep4hlteaa party ere having their fire.
quent political Belshazzer's feasts in
the s&tten's capital"
National seyeFeisnty Surrendered
The democratic chairman alluded
points in his address, at one time de-
claring ITS proceedings and achieve
| naepts" to have been grossly exag-
gerated" and at another making the
charge that the republican admins
tratlon through the conference had
| sovereignty than had been previously
| . ears"
Particular stress was laid by Mr..
Hull on what he declared was the in
| ability of the republican administra-
ton to cope with disturbed economic
| conditions and in that connection he
charged that republican leaders in
| is!V deceived the people by failing to
point out the imminent depression.
nv fnNde L.
democratic editors, cattle were never
| more deliberately led to slaughter nor
sheep to the shambles than were the
american people led oyer the precipice
| 70 panic conditions and terrific business
lican leadership from 1918 to 1921. No
people. free or seff. were ever worse
buekeysd, ftmfammed and bunkeed
| than the American electorate by the
republican political patriots in control
election In. 1926. Since that election
the people. following this same repubii-
can leadership, have waltzsd down the
economic decline to the level of indus
trial panic. IN this condition Of almost
unparalleled distress the republican ad-
| mintstration. while rather sheepishly ad-
nitting conditions, has no views as to
causes or remedies"
Declared "Hypocritieal Doetrine.o
Time was. Chairman Hull declared,
| when the American voters believed "that
republican administration and business
prosperity go hand in hand" but, he
added, never again will the American
| voter be duped by the false and hypa-
critical doctrine that republican admin.
istration means prosperity"
| The democratic chairman several
| times referred to the address recent
ty made by Vice President Coolidge
in Indianapolis and criticised, the
Vice President for what he de-
| scrtbed as his "egregious blunder in
bis claim of congressional economy
| and his deadly silence on the New
der his very nose" He then pro-
1 ceeded to call on the Vice President
| 70 give his views on the merits of
the NeWbeEry case to the American
people" Republican claim of saw
ings in governmental expenditures,
he continued, was not actual, but q
| mere paper sayfng."
Before entering upon his discus
sion Of the arms conference. Mr.. Hull
Declaring his tesfs QUE course course in nISii pofi:
ties = most remiHdful of that of
CataftAs, the political conspirator in
the Roman senate, while his states
Hanship most nearly resembles that
"The- people are already conclud:
! Ing" he went ON. that it would
fairs of the nation directed by the
| common sense and practical states
| manship of a democratic admins
| tration than by the boasted repub-
lican best minds which the public
are even now viewing as another
republican myth. Their so-called
best minds in profession have be-