Evening star., 1922-06-11
Fight to Be Aggressive and
on Record, Declares Sen
atoriaI Candidate.
FLAN TO RAISE $500, 900
APPROVED BY LEADERS
Senator Harrison in Debate Says
Party Is "0ut 10 Buy Election;
Mccormick Meets Attack.
by the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio. June 10-Sound-
ing the keynote of the coming re-
publican congressional campaign
throughout the nation, Representa-
tive s. d. Fess of Ohio, chairman of
the republican national congressional
committee and senatorial candidate,
tonight declared that the republican
Congress had made good on every one
of the platform pledges of 1920 and
that republican congressional candi-
dates Will face the voters this fall
on an affirmative platform" The
address was made before the Buck
eye Republican Club.
This campaign will be aggressive
and not defensive, because we are
going before the country with a rec
ord of constructive legislation ac-
complished. which is the greatest and
most constructive ever put through
tory of the nation. We have nothing
To hide or be ashamed Of" said the
congressman.
Record to Go Before Voters.
Asserting that much which Congress
Las done has been of international
significance dealing with fundament-
al economic problems. both national
and international. he said the repub-
lican party has decided to go before
the voters with the record and un-
dertake the task of educating them
on the real meaning and significance
of what has been accomplished"
Mr. Fess continued in part: The
problems to be solved by the Con-
gress during the past two years were
ready made for the new administra-
tion. They were created by the mis-
takes of the preceding administration
that is. they were made for and not
by US as republican congressman.
LAS legislators we have faced and
made good on the problem Of reduc-
ing the cost of living, cost of govern
mcnt and the taxation burden on the
citizenry of America. We havei
through the adoption of the federal
budget system established a perma-
nent safeguard against further. ex-
travagance such as characterized the
government in the preceding admins
tration.
Keeping Within Budget.
1--WE have arranged to finance the
federal government by keeping within
the budget and have arranged to
carry immense special governmental
financial burdens and yet have re-
duced the burden of taxation.
I'VE have taken steps to fund the
immense foreign debt which grew out
of loans to the allied nations during
the war. This is of immense signifi-
canoe. as it means we have provided
the financing of these vast obliga-
tions. without these debts having
been funded. the United States could
not have collected the interest upon
the debts. AS it is. the Congress has
placed these foreign debts upon a
basis whereby they can be financed
by international bankers. such that
the United States finds them avail
able in it's governmental financial op-
erations. Had these debts not been
funded by the Congress. 1t would have
meant they were practically merely
q due bill and as such not available
removes the foreign debts from the
realm of politics and makes them a
straight matter of finance.
Three Pledges to Redeem.
The Congress has three problems
10 handle to complete the list of cam
paign pledges redeemed in full from
The 1920 campaign. These are enact
,pent of a federal ship subsidy law,
adoption of the bonus legislation and
revision of the tariff.
Some of these measures may not be
fully understood by the voters in their
real significance and actual effect
upon the economics of the nation. 1t
Is our special job to explain these
matters to the voters. so they will
understand just what has been done.
We will do so fully before election
day. And we rest upon that showing.
satisfied that the voters, when they
fully understand what has been done,
will give hearty and unqualified in
dorsement to the Congress by electing
a republican majority to carry on the
splendid work of the past two years.
Ship Subsidy for Labor.
LAS an instance of explanation,
sake the ship subsidy bill; this is alb
solutely necessary legislation. It is
not designed to create an American
merchant marine. That exists al
ready. We have 100000 tons Of
shipping built by the government
during the war at lump cost of $3,-
200. 900, 900. Legislation is necessary
,f the government is not to lose that
vast investment.
The government cannot operate the
ships. That's wasteful, as repeated
experiments have shown in regard
10 government operation of what is
;,egitimately private business en-
'terprise. The ship subsidy bill is not
paying a premium to ships or ship
owners. What 1t Is in reality is a
1ubsidy to American labor. American
law provides that ships sailing under
American ownership or registry shall
provide a standard Of wages. work
ling and living condition for crews
j.. hich the shipping laws Of other ma
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