Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-06-23
RELIEF FROM WHATS ASKS re
PUBLICAN SPEAKER OF DEM
OCRATiC CRITICS
Administrators Task OF Reeonstrue-
ton Greatest Job in the Nations
History.

= In a speech before the Indiana stat
I convention, Senator James f. Watso
0 delivered what is conceded to be
keynote of the approaching congress
sional campaign. One of the mos
striking features of his speech was hi
answer to the charge that the E;epub
Iican administration had done nohtin
since it came into power. Upon tina
point Senator Watson said:
There was so much to do when w
took charge that it appears as If M
great things have been done, but, II
the light OF the evidence that can bt
adduced and in view Of the results Of
the laws thus far enacted, who will
rise to repeat, except for rank parti-
san purposes, that this is a o-nothing
Congress?
| who will charge that we have been
remiss in the discharge of our obli-
cations to the people, who will dare
assert that we have failed to fulfill
our promises to the people and to re-
deem the pledges mad in the last cam
paign?
Even if this charge were true; it
Is better to do nothing than always to
do wrong. 1t is better to sit still than
to move only to destroy. l is better
to have ones fingers paralyzed than
g
no funds to pay, sign warrants with
no cash to meet them. and issue bonds
with no method provided for their re-
uemPtion. Better, altogether better
Republican watchfur Indifference than
debt mourning, deficit creating
bond-issuing, surplus scattering fac
tory-closing, industry paralyzine
rity-destroying sociar-upheay-
ng, cataclysm- producing, Democratic
Administrations
They boldly assert that we. have |
lot given relief to the country. Re-
1ef from what. pray? Manifestlv |
rom the results of two Democratic |
administrations for there Is nothing |
use to be relieved from. My friends. |
We are not responsible for all of this
waste. We did not incur these debts.
We have not piled up this mountain
t oblfga lions, and these gentleman
Vho are responsible flor all this riot
us orgy Of extravaganza and all this
psettlng of industry and unsettline
I financial conditions, now stand I'D
0 jeer us because in IA months we
ave not overcome all the evil thew
reduced in eight years.
II is as II mob marched through
town and dynamited and rayared
no plundered and destroyed and then
'hen law and order had been restored
nd an honest effort was being made ,
y the property owners to gather I'D 3
ne fragments and to begin the re- +
obstruction of their destroyed and {
uined property, the members of the G
lob should stand by and jeer at them {
nd scott at them and interfere with t
nem because they were not able in t
Few days to build up all that the
lob had thus riotously ruined.
Anybody can throw monkev- '
french Into machine that works a
nth frictionless precision and SO dam
ge 1t that it will take a skilIful me-
nanlc long time to repair IT and '
ven tyros in government, in an in n
redibiy short space of time, can Gre a
te more difficulties and stir up more
lriles and cause more troubles than
Use men dan overcome In rany years t
Feilow citizens, we have not vet o
ccomplished all that we set ont 70
u we nave not cured all the ills
no corrected all the mistakes and n
Vercome all the evils of eight wears o
Democratic misrule, but certainly Il
e nave taken long strides in the
snt direction. and assuredly il tie
epuolican party cannot readiust y
atters, what hope Is there in t,,rn- '
g TO the organization that caused all D
lis disaster in the beginning? "
IL is ether the Republican o ~
18th it's cautions and constructive wav
proceeding or the Democratic Iartv
yer again with all that that n.,ns Z
incompetency and inefficiency and
isrule"