Evening star., 1922-06-01
BLAME DEPRESSION.
upon REPUBLICANS
Indiana Democrats Also Ac-
cuse State Administration
of Being Spendthrift.
By the Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. June In
diana democrats meeting here today
in their state convention laid the
foundation for their fall campaign
with a series of speeches blaming re-
publican management of national af-
fairs for a business depression that
has caused much unemployment
Speakers also attacked the repub-
lican state administration as spend
thrift.
In the keynote speech, Frederick
van Nuys Of this city declared. the
failure to ratify the Versa lilies Treaty
with Its league of nations covenant
was largely responsible for our
present economic and industrial diff
culties." --- -. :. y
I'VE have heard for a year that
prosperity is just around the corner"
he said. The people want some
tangible evidence of that fact"
The Washington conference. called
oy President Harding. and out Of
which grew the four-power pact and
naval Limitation treaty, was described
by Mr.. Van Nuys as "the shadow of
the substance" Of the league of ma
tions.
Campaign Fund a Menace.
Coupled with his discussion Of the
national administration, MIR. Van Nuys
declared the combined expenditures
of the republican national, state, sem
atorial and congressional campaign
committees in the 1920 campaign was
$S.1OO,465, and he asserted that 1.-THE
collection of such a vast sum by the
republican party is national men
ace"
More than half of the keynote
speech related to state affairs. In
making what he said was a compari-
son between republican and demo-
cratic rule in Indiana, Mr.. Van Nuys
said that in 1915, at the end Of the
last democratic administration. there
was balance in the state treasury of
$3.775.997, and that now the state
has outstanding loans of more than
Samuel M. Ralston, the party candi-
charged the republicans with follow
ing blind policy" in the work of
reconstruction since the world war
Business depression and unemploy-
ment. 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-power pact was described
by Mr.. Ralston as "a very short step
in the right course" to end war and
he said he was willing Ito see it tried
Out dS Tue next DeSl tHfHS 10 tHC
league of nations. He added his opin-
ion that the league would not be a
campaign issue.
Wants Beveridge's Approval.
II am going to do all 1 can in this
campaign" he said. ito persuade Sem
ator Beveridge. my opponent, to speak
at least one friendly word in sup
port of the four-power pact. He has
not done 1t yet, but 1 am hoping that
he will do 1t soon, so that when he
Goes, 1t will not look like he did 1t
as a matter of expediency."
Miss Esther Kathleen O'Keefe. MAX
ing her first speech since winning the
nomination as Indiana's first woman
candidate for Congress, said she was
nominated as a citizen, not as a
woman. and il elected her official con-
duct would be guided by the spirit
that nominated me-" With equal suf-
frage. women have new opportunities
she said, to aid education. stop child
la Dor. reduce taxes and Say whether
rich shipowners shall be subsidized
with public money, while agriculture
goes begging" ''
An unusually large number of
women participated in the convention
as delegates. and In the field of candi-
dates for nomination on the state
ticket Miss Ella Crawford of Terre
Haute was unopposed for clerk of
the supreme court. Other nomina-
tions on the state ticket included sec
retary of state. auditor, treasurer.
superintendent of public instruction
and judges of the supreme and the
appellate courts.