The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
CAMPAIGN MATERIAL

Senator .Harrison's speech was real keynote for the Democratic presidential campaign,Sfor it defined in clear and masterlyastrokes the outlines of the Re- publican record of insincerity and fail ure. The Republican platform itself, spurious and replete with, empty profes- sions, is in fact a resume of what the Republicans previously promised to do and failed to do. The Republican plat form is a confession of party failure, be- cause it is a catalog of the things the Republican administration had every op- portunity to do and left undone. If the Republican party had lived up to it's pledges of four years ago, there is scarce | ly plank in its present platform that would now in any manner be regarded as live issue. All would have been ac- complished facts.
 The claims the Republican party makes to popular recognition, further more, are not valid. Its measures of of policies inaugurated by the previous Democratic administration, or else have been made possible only by the com bined efforts of the Democrats and the irregular Republicans. As MT. Harrison so aptly pointed out, the budget law, boasted of by the party now in power, was the product of the Democratic ad- ministration, was vetoed by President Wilson, who sent it back to congress pointing out constitutional defect and asking it to be repassed with the defect corrected, and was later passed by the Republican congress and approved by the Republican president with the Will sonian correction included and with the original Democratic outline unchanged. The economy passages in MT. Coolidge's public statements and official acts are not true economy, for they are con cerned only with not spending money, and not with the question of whether the public welfare demanded the ex- penditures that were vetoed. Such a view of economy may fit in with the re- quirements of hardpressed New Eng
 
 of great government.
 And when it comes to the question of relieving the burdens of the people of the country, the insincerity of the Re- publican platform and record is glaring indeed. When the Republicans point with an assumption of pride at the re- duction in taxes of four hundred mil lions or so annually, they are making false claim in at least three respects. In the first place, the Mellon tax-reduction schedules would have given to 1,200, out of the 3,5S5,98 federal taxpayers, fifty one per cent. of the total tax reduction! for whom the Republicans were mainly concerned. But under the plan adopted, and forced through by the Democrats, the more than three and half million federal taxpayers will enjoy tax reduc- tions of fifty per cent.
 In the second place, the Republicans emphasize the reduction of more than four hundred millions annually in taxes, in the face of the fact that the Repub- lican high protective admittedly increases the cost of living to the American peo- pie four billion dollars every year. The Republicansy have taxed the American people to pay bonus to big business! In the third place, the Republicans can lay no claim to the credit for the fifty per cent. reduction in the tax rate to the majority of federal taxpayers, and the reduction of twenty-five per cent. in the current years taxes. The Democrats in house and senate are the ones who led the successful and highly justified at tack upon the Mellon schedules extend ing reduction to the favored few, and who forced the Republicans, stubbornly fighting the efforts in the public behalf, finally to give in.
 The Republican majority in congress has been an impotent majority, torn by dissension and by mutual distrust. When party gets to the point where it's lead ing members cannot trust one another nor their president, then indeed have it's affairs reached critical stage, and then indeed are the people of the United States abundantly justified in throwing them out of office. That condition ex- ists in the Republican party. If they cannot trust one another, on what ground can the people continue to trust them?
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