Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-25
THIS IS A DEMOCRATIC YEAR

the republican situation IN many Sec
lions looks desperate and in many
others hopeless. Confirmation OF
this view is found in the facts that
President Harding has felt con-
strained to write letter to Repub-
lican Floor Leader Mondell designed
to raise republican hopes, and in
which he pleads for the reelection of
the present republican do-nothing
congress; that William R. Wood,
chairman of the republican congress
sional committee, has been compell-
ed to revise downward his prediction
of republican majority in the next
house, and that practically every
member of the presidents cabinet
has been sent out on the stump.
The republicans, panic-stricken,
are playing their last cards and ex-
hausting their last resources.
The democrats, on the other hand,
are approaching the final struggle
with calmness and confidence. They
are indulging in no eXtravagant
claims. They have placed all the
facts concerning this congress and
this administration and the issues of
the campaign accurately and fully
before the public, and they feel now
that no amount of letter writing by
Al. on
oratory by members of the cabinet
can explain away the damning facts
that constitute the record of this re-
publican congress which is asking
for reelection and this republican
administration which has injected it
self into the campaign at the elev-
enth hour.
They cannot explain away any of
the following outstanding facts of
that record:
That this congress passed a prof
iteers' tariff bill which taxes the
American people from $3,000,000,00O
to- $4,000 100000, an amount equiva-
lent to the total sum required to run
the government, and which will
greatly increase the present high
cost of living.
That this republican congress en-
acted a tax bill which relieved the
big corporations and multi-lhillion-
aire taxpayers of more than half a
billion dollars, and increased the
taxes of every small corporation
while granting no relief to small in
dividual taxpayers.
That Truman H. Newberry was
given a purchased seat in the United
States senate, with the open support
of President Harding, and was con-
demned by the very men who voteC
to seat him.
That the administration is now
facing an admitted deficit of $780,
100000 for the current fiscal year
which will be $85O,0OO,OOO and per.
haps $1,OO0,OOO,OOO before the enc
of the year, while pretending that il
was economizing and saving money
That the expenses of running ev
cry single department of the govern
ment have been largely increasd by
this administration when fairly COM
pared with the last democratic ad
ministration.
That the last of the naval oil re
serves in Wyoming were secretly
leased by the secretary of the interior
to a subsidiary of the Standard Oh
company, with great loss. to the ma
ton and the state and to the United
States navy and the oil-burning ship
of the American merchant marine.
That the administration is now at
tempting to put through Legislation
to dispose of $4,000, 100000 worth o
the finest merchant ships afloat TO
one-tenth of their cost, to pay $3.50,
100000 bonus to the purchasers, tt
lend them $125,OOO,OOO at 2 per cen
and to exempt them from taxation.
lildl uuutl all C3NGNhkANS NAN'SA "
President Harding, a midnight rat
was made upon the officials of tn
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
!, and that men and women who hat
,pn their positions through meri
( re cast into the street with sus
amounting to the charge Of
against them, which ha:
-, but brought them nc
istration has beer
aughertyism, Nat
81 thsm, Fallism
cosfng in scandals
oae 81 .nses, political
rvice has been
and supplanted