The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-06-07
DEn0cRATs OF INDIANA
OPEN UP GUNS ON 6. O.p
National and State Administra'
tons Are Attacked By
Speakers at Capitol.

f<n series OF bpetcneS Didmih
Republican management OF nations
affairs for a business depression
that has caused much unemploy
ment. Speakers also attacked tn
Republican State Administration a
spendthrift.
In the keynote speech, Frederick
Van Mugs of this city declared tn
failure to ratify the Versatile
<reaty, with its League of Nation
covenant, was largely responsible
for our present economic and in
',dustrial difficulties"
I'VE have heard for a year that
prosperity is just around the cor.
ner," he said. 1.-THE people want
some tangible evidence of that
fact"
The Washington conference, call
ed by President Harding, and out
of which grew the four-Power pact
and the naval limitation treaty,
was described by Mr.. Van Mugs as
''the shadow Of the substance" of
she League OF Nations
Coupled with his discussion of
the National Administration, Mr.
Van Mugs declared the combined
expenditures of the Republican
National, State, Senatorial and Con-
gressionI Campaign Committees in
the 1920 campaign was $S,10O,465,
and he asserted that "the collection
of such vast sum by the. Republi-
'scan party is a national menace"
More than half of the keynote
speech related to State affairs. In
making what he said was COM
parison between Republican and
Democratic rule in Indiana, Mr..
Van Nuys said that in 1915, at the
end of the last Democratic admins
tration. there was a balance in the
State Treasury of $3,775,997, and
that now the State has outstanding
1oans of more than $1,000,00O.
Ralston Raps "BIind Policy"
Samuel NJ. Ralston, the party
candidate for United States Senator.
charged the Republicans with fol-
lowing blind policy" in the work
of reconstruction since the World
War. Business depression and I'M
employment. he asserted, were the
results. and he added the claim
that the pending tariff bill before
Congress would absolutely close
the doors to foreign markets"
The Four-Pact was described by
Mr.. Ralston as "a very short step
in the right course" TO end war and
he said he was willing "tO see it
tried out as the next best thing" to
the League of. Nations. He added
his opinion that the League would
not be a campaign issue.
81 am going to do all l can in
this campaign" he said, ito per-
suade Beveridge, my opponent, to
speak at least one friendly word in
support of the Four-Power pact. He
has not done It yet, but | am hop
ing that he will do it soon, so that
when he does it will not look like
he did il as a matter of expediency."
Many Women Participate
Miss Esther Kathleen O'Keefe,
her first speech since win
ming the nomination as Indiana's
FIRST woman candidate for Congress,
said she WAS nominated as a citizen, .
not as a woman and if elected her
Official conduct would be guided by
ihe spirit that nominated me-"
With equal suffrage women have }
new opportunities. she said, to aid !,
stop child labor, reduce
taxation aud say whether rich
shall be subsidized with
public money while agriculture goes -,
begging" -
An unusually largo number OF !,
women participated in the conven-
ion as delegates. and in the field !,
IF candidates for nomination on the :
State ticket Miss Ella Crawford, of :.
Zorro Haute was unopposed for -
Clerk OF the Supreme Court. other "
nominations GA tho state ticket in
.ludpd Secretary OF State Auditor