Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-02-17
CHAIRMAN HULL
SOUNDS SLOGAN
FOR DEMOCRATS
Congressional Commit
tee Head Opens Cam
paign in Middle West.
Arms Farley and Busi-
ness Policies Raped
as C. o. P. Failures.

Indianapolis. Feb. 16.-The demo
cratic congressional campaign in thu
middle west was opened here Thursda,
by Chairman Hull of the national com
mittee, with an address is which h
declared "aimlessness and inaction' t.
be the controlling policy of the repub
lican administration
Speaking before the Indiana demo
cratic editorial association, Chairman
Hull asserted that republican leaders
with all their falsehoods exposed ant
all their promises broken were pur-
suing "a rudderless course while the
people continued to cry out for relief
He added that ''in the meantime the
Lodges. the Newberrys, and these OF
their ilk in control of the republican
party. are having their frequent polit-
ical Belshazzer feasts in the nation S
capital"
Sees Surrender in Arms Farley
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 the
republican administration through the
conference had Surrendered more of
our national sovereignty than has been
previously surrendered in more than
hundred years.
Particular stress was laid by Mr..
Hull on what he declared was the in
ability of the republican administration
to cope with disturbed economic con-
ditions and in that connection he charg
ed that republican leaders in 1920 de-
ceived the people by failing to point
out the imminent depression.
People Led Like Cattle
In my judgment he told the edit
Ors. cattle We're never more deliber-
ately led to slaughter nor sheep to the
shamblyes than were the American peo-
pie led over the precipice to panic con-
ditions and terrific business demoraliza-
tion by the national republican leader
ship from 1918 to 1921. No people, free
or serf. were ever worse film flammed
and buncoed than the American cleo
tOrate by the republican political patri-
OTIS in control prior to the November
election in 1920. Since that election,
the people. following this same republi-
can leadership, have waltzed down the
economic decline to the level of indus
trial panic In this condition of almost
ulSiTeSS. IDG TPDuDIIcdH
administration. while rather sheepishly
cause or remedies"
Myth of G. o. p. Prosperity Killed
/. Time was. Chairman Hull declared.
when the American voters believed
that republican administration and
business prosperity 60 hand in hand"
but. he added. never again will the
American voter be duped by the false
and hypocritical doctrine that repub-
lican administration means prosper
ity.'
The democratic chairman several
times referred TO the address recently
indianapolis. and criticised the vice
president for what he described as his
"egregious blunder in his claim
of congressional economy and his
deadly silence of the Newberry scandal
which took place under his very
nose" Republican claim of savings in
governmental expenditures. he con-
tinued. was not actual but a mere
paper saving
Lodge Compared With Burr
Before entering upon his discussion
Of the arms conference, Mr.. Hull paid
his respect to Senator Lodge. declar-
ing "his tortuous course in politics is
most reminGful of that of Cataine.
the political conspirator in the
Roman senate. while his statesman
ship most nearly resembles that of
Aaron Burr
The people are already conclud-
ing he went on. that it would have
been far wiser to have the affairs
Of the nation directed by the common
sense and practical craftsmanship of
Il democratic administration than by
the boastcd republican best minds
which the public are even now viewing
MS another republican myth
Root, Lodge, and all of them spent
three months with England. France.
japan, Italy. and China. in the recent
small disarmament conference with
one wo-hundredth part of the task of
Versailles and came out third best.
.Tapan walked off with the highest
honors, and England second
Country Led Into Morass
"yiewing the present morass and
chaos into which American thought and
business has been drawn by selfish re-
nubl can politics." concluded Mr.. Hull
~ is clear that the first need Of the
country is the development of n sound
nubIic opinion that will give intelligent
and active support to legislatures and
congress in the enactment of wise,
remedial legislation; that will support
legislative bot.ies in guarding the
treasulies against extravaganza; that
viii cooperate with legislative bodies
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