Evening star., 1924-06-25
Vew Wilson to End Tolerance for Corruption Wakh$ Call
Senator Declares President
y. Has Shielded Official Graft
Says People Are on Trial in Coming
Election on Charge of Indifference
to Senate Exposures.
BY the Associated Press.

ihomas ]. Walsh's address today as
permanent chairman of the Dem
ocratic national convention follows:
Judge not of my gratitude nor OF
the depth of my appreciation of the
honor you do me by the brevity of
my acknowledgement. If I say simply
thank YOU Both are profound.
am your servant, called to aid
you in the discharge of the grave
tasks with which you have been in
trusted, to expedite the business you
nave in hand, to see that it proceeds
IN such orderly fashion as is essential
TO due deliberation and a fair hear
ing for every cause. l am powerless
without your cooperation to these
ends. That it will be given in un-
st1nted measure, 1 entertain no doubt.
me momentous character of this oc-
casion is universally recognized. The
eyes OF the world are upon us. We
are assembled in this great city, the
metropolis of our country, as the rep
reSentatives of Que of its historic
poiltlcal parties to select the next
resident of the United States True,
our choice must be ratified in due
form, but guided in our deliberations
prayer, the event is not uncertain.
ne opportunity is before u.s. The
uuty' the responsibility, is ours. The
Hdtlon expects, yea demands, of us
d leader who exemplifes the prin-
ciples of government associated with
the name of Thomas jefferson, a lead
er whose heart is attuned to the pull
satlons of those who labor on the farm
ana IN the mines, at the desk and in
the household, who heeds the cry of
an the people for a larger life, rather
than the plea of the few, the fayorites
OF fortune, who are eager to exploit
thelr fellows: leader who has the
vision to divine and the courage to
pursue the paths to which national
honor points and that lead to national
as distinguished from exceptional
prosperity. Such a leader our party
lately gave to the nation to guide its
course and direct its energies in the
greatest crisis that ever rocked the
globe BY the sheer force of his in
leilectual supremacy among the
statesmen of the world, he assumed,
ny common consent, the primacy and
holding it, gave to the country. in
Ianlly- of nations never before at
famed. He challenged. attention TO
the lofty ideals OF America in a man
ner never equaled and met with a
time her sons will be thrilled at the
story OF his exposition of them
Bitter Fruits Of Triumph.
I'm so far as he failed to secure their
acceptance as the ruling principles
IN internatio relations, his country
men who derided his efforts and un-
oermined his influence must bear the
Didhe Note the bitter fruits of their
triumph. Proclaiming that selfish
ness is the only constant or control
hng factor in intercourse between
governments and duplicity ever to
oe apprehended, the view found ready
acceptance that ideals in any govern
mental affairs are only the vain hope
OF the visionary. Back to normally
meant back to the methods and prac-
ticeS of day that was dead, of a |
generation ago. when Hanna ruled |
and Aldrich legislated, when the SEN
ate was a millionaires club, doing the |
bidding of the invisible government"
In an atmosphere tainted with such
>sriscnievous views. Newberry readily
Sepfred to seat in the upper House
or congress to be achieved by the
lavish and corrupt expenditure of his
great wealth, and in the general let
down in the moral tone met with a |
temporary success. Every predatory
interest foregathered to restore to
IrIv*er the protagonists of a venal and
discarded theory of government and |
having accomplished that end, they |
or their representatives swarmed |
about the President-elect and the |
to promote his own individual selfish |
project or purpose. 1t was easy to |
pass from the idea expressed in |
every nation for ITSELF to the re-
lated thought in every man for him
veif This recession to a lower
moral standard was not a phenom-
enon without an historic parallel.
Example of Roosevelt.
"A little less than a generation ago
a president of the United States re-
peatedly declaimed, in what was by
some regarded as intemperate lam
influences that had become manifest
IN our national life. He did more He
invoked the penalties of the law
against maiefactors, high and low,
and if it be true, as charged, that he |
occasionally looked leniently on the |
offenses of his friends, it is equally |
true that his acts as well as his words |
contributed materially to a restored !
respect for the Mosaic command, |
Thou shalt not steal as applicable |
no less to the affairs of government |
than to those of private life There |
followed a period when a complacent |
President tolerated the return of the |
spirit partially exercised by his pred |
-oessor. giving rise to the Balm |
ger scandal, symptom Of the re-
surEence of the elements within his |
par1y that had used and were deter |
I.fned to use the agencies of the gov
c,
without the law. for private gain.
"The catastrophe which overlook |
the Republican party in consequence |
OF the revolt in its own ranks against |
the sinister influence which dominat-
ed it need not be recounted, but it is |
significant of the character of their |
protest that that organization was |
denounced by one-half of its former |
trievably corrupt. and that they sig |
nalized their severance from It by |
singing Onward, Christian Soldiers |
Administration of Wilson.
II will say nothing of the period Of |
Democratic ascendency which followed |
further than that after public mon |
eys, in sums the magnitude of which |
the ordinary mind has and can have |
no adequate conception except by |
comparison, had been authorized and /
spent in the prosecution Of the great
est war of all time by. those who, /
sented US officially. and investigation |
after investigation, undertaken by |
their political opponents, had revealed |
nothing culpable, the inquiry col |
tIeman who. two weeks ago. was ac- |
corded by the Republican party the |
second honor in its gift.
when Ii is remembered that 1t was |
the same elements within it that con- |
trolIed and wrecked that party in |
1912 which retained the supremacy |
in 1920. over a more or less reunited |
organization, contemptuous OF all as
pirations having a spiritual basis, |
either in national or international af-
fairs. arrogant in victory. 1t Is not
that it's promises solemnly
made in it's platform to promote the
of an association OF ma
tions for the adjustment of interna-
tfonal controversies, to supplant the
league of nations with which the
name of the greatest American Presi-
dent, save only Washington. Jefferson