Evening star., 1924-06-24

SENATOR p.
leries of the world. through a cam
paign of lavish expenditures and ap-
peals to the prejudices of groups, we
lost cotnrol of the Congress AS soon
as 1t was organized the Republican
party inaugurated a scheme OF inves-
| legations that were the most far
reaching and costly in the history Of
| committees were appointed. controlled
by hfty-one separate Republican ma
| jorities.
Says Democrats Were Clean.
They searched every Democratic
record. they followed every hint
Like a dragnet, they modified every
bit Of gossip and ran down every ru-
NOR. Investigations covered the
whole country and extended beyond
the seas. What were the results
Where is the tainted dollar spent?
Name the Democratic cabinet minis
ter disgraced- Those Republican in
vestigations. partisanly and relent-
lessly conducted, did not point to a
single act that reflected discredit
upon any Democratic official I call
upon the Republican nominee, Calvin
Coolidge; 1 call upon the members of
the Republican cabinet; 1 call upon
every Republican member Of Con-
gress; 1 call upon the Republican
party to name the Democratic culprit-
But it is not graft alone that Of
| fers in the two administrations such
happy comparisons During these lit
| tie more than three years we have
seen the present administration float
along, tossed by every current, famed
program or policy. Its leaders have
not led, and its organization has not
| functioned
| Sees White F1ag Hoikted-
| Upon a thousand issues they have
| hoisted the white flag OF surrender.
| Amid all the confusion that has di-
vided this administration domestic
problems have gone unsolved. We
have felt the slowing down of indus
| try, the increase of unemployment.
the diminishing purchasing power of
| the farmers dollar. Starving herds.
rotting grain and rustins spindles
have not stirred the sleeping spirit or
warmed the chilly GOODNESS of the
President He has slowly travelled
upon the vehicles of his paper vetoes,
vainly protesting but not pressing
forward to the task, assuming but not
In every issue he has quibbled; in
every fight he has f1oundered- Never
was party leadership so repudiated
and the party so badly torn.
| IF it be Japanese exclusion, ad-
justed compensation for the soldiers,
MELONS taxation rates, development
| of Muscle Shoals, old soldiers pen
| sions, farmers relief or world court
he stands forlorn. deserted, pilloried
4 by his own party. AS candidate,
Use four years ago respecting inter
national cooperation and the promo
tion of world peace? Let me read to
you from the Republican literature
of that day. Here is the historic ap-
peal of the so-called thirty-one dis
tinguished Republican leaders, in
cluding Charles Evans Hughes, Her
bert Hoover. William Howard Taft
and Elihu Root:
| "-The undersigned. who desire that
the United States shall do her full
part in association with the other civ
ilized nations to prevent war, have
| earnestly considered how we may
contribute most effectively to that
end by our votes in the coming cleo
| tion. The question between
country should join in such associa-
| ton. The Republican party
stands for agreement among the ma
| tions to preserve the peace of the
world. = = The Republican party
is bound by every consideration OF
good faith to pursue such a course
until the declared object is attained
+ We therefore believe that
we can most effectively advance the
cause of international cooperation to
Harding for election to the presi-
dency.'
"That was one of the spurious coins
Of 1920.
Says Promises Ignored.
Through their miserable effort and
vain meanderngs to extricate them
selves and their party from the
| 0f ho
nauseated the American people by the
pitiable spectacle they present They
aureole their promises with such
beautiful rhetoric and vamp the truth
to such an extent that they do not
know the direction in which they are
going Henry Cabot Lodge, who made
Coolidge at Chicago and unmade him
| at Washington, with rolling eyes
| spews fine speech about duty and
like phantasmal fancies of his flighty
of intrigue, and to again ensnare and
mislead the American people. Toe
long has this cultured gentleman and
his intriguing cohorts denied peace
to a suffering world, and in their new
hatched world court schemes an out
ragged people cannot ana Will not
again be defrauded.
"The lamented Harding. in his big
hearted sympathetic way, sounded
the tocsin call in his New York
speech to enter the world court That
was only a step. but step in the
right direction. 1t was merely a
move, but a movement toward the
| broader and more inviting fields OF
peace, and he deserved the backing
of his party and the cooperation OF
every peace-1oving American citizen
Coolidge pledged himself to carry out
the policy, and yet from the day he
took up the task laid down by Hard.
ing he has made only a bow in thai
direction. The world court at best
can decide only international ques-
tions unanimously submitted to it by
the parties to the controversy. In
deed, it is not necessary for them tc
abide by the decisions of the cour'
unless they agree to do so. And yet