The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-17
Chairman of National Commit
tee Asserts Republicans Pur-
suing Rudderless Course.
tsy The Associated Press,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 16.-The
democratic congressional campaign in
the middle west was opened here to-
night by Chairman Hull of the national
committee with an address in which
he declared "aimlessness and inaction''
to be the controlling policy of the re-
publican administration Speaking
before the Indiana Democratic Edito-
rial association Mr.. Hull asserted that
republican leaders with all their
falsehoods exposed and all their prom
ises broken Were pursuing "a rud-
derless course. while the people con-
tinue to cry out for relief" He added
that "in the meantime the Lodges, the
Newoerrys and those of their ilk in
control of the republican party are
having their frequent political Bel
shazzer's feasts in the nations cap
ital"
The democratic chairman alluded to
the arms conference at several points
in his address. at one time declaring
its proceedings and achievements" to
have been grossly exaggerated" and
at another making the charge that re-
publican administration through the
conference had surrendered more of
surrendered in more than a hundred
years.
Particular stress was laid by Mr..
Hull on what he declared was the in
ability of the republican administra-
tion to cope with disturbed economic
conditions and in that connection he
charged that republican leaders in 1920
deceived the people by failing to point
out the imminent depression.
'Tn my judgement" he told the IN
diana democratic editors, cattle were
never more deliberately led to slaugh-
ter nor sheep to the. shambles than
were the American people led over the
precipice to panic conditions and ter
rife business Generalization by the
national republican leadership from
1918 to 1921. No people, free or
serf, were ever more buckeyed, flinl-
flammed and buncoed than the Amer
lean electorate by the republican po-
litical patriots in control of their party
prior to the November election in 1920.
Since that election, the people, follow
ing this same republicanship, have
waitzed down the economic decline to
the level of industrial panic. In this
condition of almost unparalleled dis
tress, the republican administration,
while rather sheepishly admitting con-
ditions, has no views as TO causes or
remedies"
"Time was" Chairman Hull de-
clared, when the American voters be-
lieved 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 hypocritical doctrine that re-
publican administration means pros
perity.'
The democratic chairman several
times referred to the address recently
made by Vice President Coolidge in
indianapolis and criticized the vice
president for what he described as his
"egregarious blunder in his claim of
congressional economy and his deadly
silence on the Newberry scandal,
which took place under his very nose
He then proceeded to call on the vice
president to give his views on the
merits of the Newberry case to the
American people" Republican claims
of savings in governmental expendi-
lures. he continued, was not actual
but a mere paper saving"
Before entering upon his discussion
of the arms conference Mr.. Hull paid
his respects to Senator Lodge. declar-
ing "his torturous course in politics is
most remindful of that OF Catalin, the
political conspirator in the Roman
senate, while his statesmanship most
nearly resembles that of Aaron Burr"
The people are already concluding"
he went on, that it would have been
far wiser to have the affairs of the ma
tion directed by the common sense and
practical statesmanship of a demo-
cratic administration than by the
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