Evening journal., 1922-02-23
Harding Record Lauded By Senator Mccormick

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. - In a
speech attacking the absurdities Of
statements OF former Governor Cox.
of Ohio, Senator Medill Mccormick.
Of Illinois, explains and praises the
unsurpassed record Of the Republic
an administration OF President
Harding. He says;
Already the Democratic speakers
here in Congress. or gathered in
Tennessee, New York and Ohio.
have made II plain that they have
discovered their issue and found
their political opportunity in the
economic distress which has fallen
upon America, no less than upon all
OF the other countries Of the world.
OF course. we OF the majority must
expect to be held to our tasks by the
criticism OF very able opponents. II
we were TO weary in our labors TO
make good the waste OF war; II we
we're to tire in our efforts TO repair
the injury to industry, agriculture,
and public credit wrought In igno-
rant arrogance by the Democratic
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put forth new energies by those
leaders on the other side. who will
search for the imperfections which
lie in all human measures and who
will ably express those differences
Of policy and Of opinion which must
exist In every free assembly. But
we know. too. sir, from dreary expe-
rience Of recent debates and from
the recent speeches OF conspicuous
critics OF President Harding that we
must listen to the frenzied phanta-
sizes. the demagogic diatribes, the
raucous rhodomontades OF those
who would shout and shrek their
way TO the position of leadership
held by Democrats like the senior
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Under
wood and the senior Senator from
Ohio (Mr. Pomerene). This, 1 say.
sir, has been borne out wherever
Democratic chieftains have met and
spoken, wherever they have sought
to reform their broken lines, to give
heart to their disheartened forces,
and 10 summon to their sides some
OF TIE millions who repudiated them
their leadership, and their works in
the last presidential election.
"A fortnight ago there emerged
from the political limbo OF lost souls
the individual whom the Democrat
captains, in emulation OF p. 7. Bar
mum and Mark Twain. gaily nomi-
mated for the Presidency, to afford
the American people some mental
relaxation after the boredom and
irritation engendered by the expir-
ing administration. An analysis Of
the 1000 words delivered by Cover
nor Cox on January 25 teaches JUS
that he has forgotten nothing and
his learned nothing since the people
last retired him from public view.
He resumes his abuse OF the senior
Senator from Massachusetts,, who.
after thirty years I'm the nation
service. with blithe hardlhood seem
ingly continues 10 endure both
billngsgate and balderdash. How
| Captain Brennan and Captain Muir
ply must have laughed to read that
after eighteen months, Governor
/ Cox had spoken, again to upbraid
Senator Lodge for belng an Amer
icanl
Il thank God for that stout old
American, who loves his country
Governor Cox, we hear. is going To
Massachusetts to defeat Lodge
Israel Putnam. Nathan Hale, sam
uel Adams. John Stark-come forth
New England patriots, all of We. tC
kearken to James Cox pour forth
his imprecations upon the gray old
head Of Henry Cabot Lodge because
he loved the league too little and
America too well
IF you will follow phrase after
phrase TO the end OF the 1000 words
in which Governor Cox has framed
the issues and presented the plat
/ form and the program OF the Demo
cratic party, you viii find that some
at least. of the Democratic leader
I skip holds that
First. the worldwide and short
/ lived prosperity which feverishly
/ followed the armistlce was Demo
cratic; second. the economic depres-
sion into which the whole world has
since fallen was wrought not by the
waste OF war but by the Republican
party; third. you will discover that
| Democratic leaders believe that al
though the greater part of Europe