The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-21
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
REPUBLICANS HEAR
CANDIDATES SPEAK
Especial to the Palladium


WHITEWATER, Ind, Oct. III
Franklin township Republicans Friday
evening heard addresses by Represen-
tative Richard N. Elliott, nominee for
congressman; Judge Raymond S.
Springer, of Connersville, former state
commander of the American Legion;
Denver c. Harlan, candidate for state
senator; Mrs. A. w. Roach, vice chair
man of the county central committee,
and Major Paul Comstock, chairman
of the county committee. Ollie Hunt,
a resident Of the township and Repub-
lican candidate for county clerk, acted
as chairman of the meeting. The
meeting was held In the Methodist
church here.
Representative Elliott said that
among the outstanding achievements
of the 10 months of the Harding ad-
ministration and a Republican con-
gress were the restoration of econom-
&c normally, federal tax reductions,
and drastic reductions In government
al expenditures.
There is Job now for every man
who wants one" he said. sour dollar
Is worth it's face value, and in no 9TH
er country does such a condition ex-
list. Liberty bonds have gone to par,
and the federal government is operat-
Ing within its income, and no other
country in the world is doing that"
Benefit To Farmers.
One of the important acts of the
present congress beneficial to the
farmers was the revival of the war fl
nance corporation, a year ago, he said
At that time prices for agricultural
products had dropped to very low
points, but prices began to advance to
normal figures as soon as congress adj
vanced to the farmers, through the
war finance corporation, the nations
credit, Mr.. Elliott said. The corpora
ton was provided with revolving
fund of one billion dollars. Through
financial institutions the corporation
has loaned, during the past IA months,
100000 to farmers, $84,000,000 to
live stock raisers, and $64,000,000 to
cooperative marketing associations.
Mr.. Elliott then read letter signed
by representatives of practically all
the important farm organizations in
which the declaration was made that,
from the viewpoint of the farmer, the
new Fordney McCumber tariff law was
the best one ever placed on the statute
books.
U. S. Escaped War.
Judge Springer made the assertion
that had the congress approved of the
recommendation made by President
Wilson during the last year of his adj
minstration, that the United States
accept mandate over Armenia, Amer
lean boys, clad in the olive-drab uni
forms of their country, would now be
camping on the plains of Asia Minor
engaged in preventing another Turkish
invasion of Armenia. And we would
all be buying Liberty bonds again." he
added
Mrs. Roach stated that the Repub>
lican party had done the most for the
women and children of this country.
Republican Acts
One of the recent acts of the Repub-
lican congress was the maternity aid
law, she said The law restricted
child labor was also a Republican mea-
sure, as we'll as the act creating the
children's bureau of the department
of labor. And, she said, suffrage for
women could not have been accom-
plished except for the vigorous sun
port it received from the Republicans.
Mrs. Roach informed the women
members of her audience that she en-
joyed political work
There is nothing in politics, l hav :
found, that woman cannot take part
in" she said. Il Ihave found politics
clean and wholesome"
Mr.. Harlan said that if he was elect
ed to the legislature he would be an
active worker for tax reforms. He
said he was vigorously opposed to the
practice of making horizontal increas-
es in property valuations Such a
practice, he asserted, was both arbi,
trary and unfair