Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-13
GOV. COX Tells WHY
DEMOCRATS Will WIN
Republican Prosperity" and Sins
of Omission and Commission
Make People Tired

Louisville, KY, April 13-James
M. Cox, national leader, builded
with phrases before the Wood
row Wilson Club last night the
\ democratic platform for the Con-
Sgressional elections in the au-
tumn.
He scored the republican ad-
ministration because ''in Washing
ton now, there is no captain Of
the ship" and declared himself, as
he did in the campaign of 1920,
for the League of Nations.
Many leaders of the democratic
party in Kentucky were at the
renuennis Club to hear Mr.. Cox.
Our republican friends seem to
be very much worried" Mr.. Cox
said, ''as to what the democracy
! will present in the Congressional
-1elections this year. In my judg
ment, it will simply be necessary
to articulte the grievances against
the present administration which
has fastened itself on every com
munity in America.
In short the issue will be the
sins of omission and commission
on the part Of the administration.
When we have chronicled the bad
things that have been done and
the good things that might have
, been done the record will be am
! pie for a successful and winning
campaign.
Into the sins OF omission. OF
course, will come America 5 fail
ure to join in the work of inter
national cooperation by becom-
ing member OF the League OF
Nations. The man in the street
does not regard the League of
Nations now as a mere affair OF
idealism."
He recognizes that his own
economic condition is affected by
economic conditions elsewhere.
He also knows that prosperity
must be preceded by order ana
that existing disorder is being
abated in Europe by conference
and Cooperation"
Reversing the situation. Mr.
Cox called attention to the 'te-
cord of eight years of progress,
justice, reform and reconstruc-
ton" under democratic admins
tration. He declared that this re-
cord is SO thoroughly outlined ii
the memory of the people that It
will he a waste Of time for re-
publican orators to challenge!
democratic accomplishment.
Not only was the country pros
porous under Mr.. Wilson," the
party standard bearer in the last
presidential campaign said, but
it was a different kind of pros
perity than the country had!
known before. The products OF
activity were widely diffused anal
prosperity touched the humbIe.:.
cottage in the land. The (emo-
cratic prosperity played no favor
ties. '
Without the Federal Reserve
Ssytem, according to Mr.. Cox,4
1--WE couldn't have won the war
He terms the Farm Loan act "a /
supplement to- this very wise 1e@4
islation," and declaredso that enot
only were our democratic cond;-g
tions more satisfactory than in all
the history of the country, but
under democratic leadership a !
plan was evolved to make war
practically impossible, to turn the
cost of heavy armaments into
other channels and to make GER
tani early readjustments follow
ing the great war"
If we had entered the League
and given the cooperation of
greatest creditor nation in thel
world" he said, "our economic re;
adjustment would have been in
the form of a light fever instead
OF stroke of commercial paraly-
SIS What our party stood for
what the republicans opposed af-l
fords the best example of the con
structive policy under democrats
auspices and the destructive no
icy under republican auspices"