The Brunswick news., 1922-10-29
IT'S a DEMOCRATIC YEAR

others hopeless. Confirmation of this
news is found n the facts that Presi-
dent Haraing has felt constrained to
write letters Of Republican Floor Lear
cr Mondoh uus.sneu 10 raise repubir
can hopes, ana 10 wAieh he pleads
for the reelection OF the present Re
publican DO Nothing Congress; that
William 4. Wood, chairman OF the
Republican Congressional Commi.
Zee, has been compelled to regis
downward predietionn Of ltepaD
licap maioNg IN The pext house ane
that practically every member oi
the president cabinet has been
sent out oa the snmp
The Republicans, panic gtri-kon
afe playing treir last cards and {.
.a1u nag then last resources.
usih0crats Oh the .ther hama
arp approaching the final struggle
wan caianess ana conndcnse. 1ney
9Fe hldlaging IN no extravagant
Claims. They have placed all the
faets concerning this congress and
this administration and the issues
oi the campaign accurately and fully
before the public, and they feel
now that no amount OF letter writing
BY the president or belated campaign
oratory by members Of the cabinet
can explain away the damning facts
that constitute the record y of thia
Republican congress which is asking
for reelection and this Republican adj
miaistration which has injected itself
into the campaign at the eleventh
hour.
They cannot explain away any OF
the Following outstanding facts Of
that record:
That this congress passed a prof
teer's tariff bill which taxes the
American People from So 600 900,
Ooo, 10 $4,000 900 900 an amount
equivalent to the total sum required
70 run the government. and which
will greatly increase the present
high cost of living.
That this Republican congress en-.
acted a tax 6ill which relieved the
Dig corporations al multi.millien.
aiIe tax payers OF more than half
billion dollars, and Increased the
taxes Of every small corporation.
while granting no relief TO small in.
diyidual taSsayers.
f4lft Thurman H. Newbefiy. was
siyef shaseat 1hiTeu'
states Senate, with the open support
Of President Harding and wasAcon
demned by Che very men @lo votea
to seat him.
lhat the administration is now
FACING an admitted dehcit of $3.50,
OoO,O0O for the current fiscal year.
which will be $S50,0O0,OOO and per.
hsps $i,oOo,oOO,OO before the end ot
the year, while pretending that it
was economizing and SAYING money
That the expenses OF running
every single department Of the gov
ernment have been largely increased
by this administration when fairly
compared with last Democrats ad
minstr9tion.
That the last of the naval oil
reserves in Wy&ntng, wehe secretly
leased by the Secretary of the Inter
ior to subsidiary of the Standard
oil Company with great loss to the
nation and the state and TO the
United States navy and tie oil
burning ships Of the American Mer
chant Marine.
That the administration Is now
attempting to put through legisla-
ton to dispose of $S 100000, ,00C
worth of the finest merchant ships
atloat for one tenth of their cost, to
pay $75O,OOO,OOO bonus to the pur-
chaser, to lend them SIPS 900 900 at
2 per cent and to exempt them from
taxation.
That under an executive order of
President Harding, a midnight raid
was made upon the officials OF the
Bureau OF Engraving and Printing
and that men and women who had
wen these positions through merit
were cast into the street with
suspicion amounting to the charge
Of dishonesty against them, which
has been disproved. but brought
them no redress.
That this administration has been
characterized by Daughertyism Nat
Goldsteinism, Laskerism. Fallism and
ether isms, resulting in scandals
that constitute ofienses, political and
moral
That special privileges have been
tramnled under foot and supplanted
by the spoil system. and that in some