The Winslow mail., 1924-10-31

divided, when Mr. Roosevelt started
| party of his own
1--WE will see the democratic can
didate swept into power and that is
what l believe will happen in this
election. The more / read of the re-
turns from the newspaper polls-the
| Literary Digest and others-the more
find the La Toilette strength is COM
ing from the republican states, and
the proof of that is the bitter fight
they are making upon the La Toilette
members going on in the eastern
states of this Union l believe when
the ELECTORAL votes are counted, you
are going to find that Davis and
Bryan are the next president and
| vice-president of the United States
| (Applause)
This last session of congress has
been most unusual. 1t has been nee
essary from measures of improvement
to the country, from needed legisla-
lions to Investigations of the conduct
of government officials and others
high in the authority of the govern
ment of the United States.
"The republican party went into
| power in 1920 on platform of ma
| t1onal selfiShness. They said to the
American people, We will take care
| of ourselves; we will let the rest of
the world go on in the aftermath of
the world war without aid from Amer
ica,' and those who went into power
! apparently thought if national selfish
ness was good for the nation, that
personal selfishness was good for
! themselves.
There is no use for me to go into
| the details of the scandals that have
/ been exposed during the past session
Of congress. l need not tell you of
how the republican secretary of the
Interior disposed of the naval oil re-
serves and of how he profted to the
extent of 100000 in cash that was
sent to him in black bag; L need
not tell you how the attorney general
surrounded himself with crooks and
disreputable characters; how the
great department of justice became
a rendezvous for bootleggers; how
Forbes, the head of the veterans bu-
reau accepted money for selecting
hospital sites and the drugs that were
sold wholesale.
81 am glad to say that the demo-
cratic senator from the state of Ari-
iona was active in participating in
these Investigations. No one was
more alert and the people of this
state can be proud of the record made
in the course of the Investigations by
our honored Senator Henry F. Ashurst.
Il don't believe that President Hard
ing was aware of what was going on
in his administration while these dis
graceful things were occurring. When
he became president of the United
States, he was fine outstanding man
who had right to be proud of his
political success.
Warren Harding was man who
trusted his friends, and his trusted
friends betrayed him. The last time
1 saw him alive, he had learned of
the disgrace that had come upon him
and his party and his country, and
he was a broken man. His shoulders
were stopped, there were deep lines
upon his face. He knew of the dis
grace and of the impossibility of max
ing an explanation, and when his last
sickness came, l don't believe he had
the will to live
cit is indeed regretable that these
facts had to be exposed, that the at
tention of the congress had to be di-
verified from the normal care of gov
eminent, but it is necessary that there
be a house cleaning, it is necessary !
that the guilty be brought to Justice
an l only mentioned these things pri- |
marily to point out to you when the !
democratic party was in power in the |
midst of a great world war, when mill |
lions of dollars were expended, when |
there were untold opportunities for
graft in all the hustle and hustle of
the war after the expenditure of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, after
the work of numerous republican in
vestigating committees, they have
been utterly unable to find single
responsible democrat who has been
guilty Of stealing one dollar from his
government
"In the democratic state platform
adopted at our party council not long
ago, the democratic party is pledged
to the full development of the Colo
RADIO river. 1t is my duty, as the con-
gresham from this state, to see that
happens in Washington that
will prevent the people of this state
from enjoying right or benefit they
can obtain out of the Colorado river I,
in other words, the status must not
be disturbed insofar as the federal
government is concerned, until the
people of this state have adopted a
policy with respect to the Colorado
river. l have. held that attitude all I
along.
'The democratic platform as adopt
ed by our party in this state, in
dOrses the appropriation of money 3
necessary for proper study Of the
legal and engineering problems that