The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
PARTY OF GRAFT, IS M'ADOO FLING AT REPUBLICANS Defies Tools Of Corrup- tiOn' To Besmirch Hon.
 orable Record SAYS TEAPOT SCANDAL
 EXCLUSIVELY G. O. P. Declares Nation Without Effec- tive Government, And De-
 moralization Abounds

tive Government, And De-
 moralization Abounds
 ATLANTA, Ga., March 14.-Severe- ly cditicising the record of the repub- lican administration during the past three years it has been in power, Will liam c. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury and candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, in an address here tonight at the city auditorium, declared that in this three years mot one single measure has been enacted in the genuine interest of the people,"
 "In the forthcoming election" said Mir. McAdoo, 'the American people must decide whether they will continue in power the republican party, dedicat- ed to reaction, subservient to special privilege and permeated with scandals and inefficiency, or whether they will restore to power the democratic party, the foes of reaction and special privi- lege, the party of progress and honesty"
 Mir. McAdoo's address here tonight was the second of a series of four ar- Ednbeu IOI NlAH uuELhB d tWO-uuS cpSoA ing tour of the state in the interest of his candidacy for the presidential nomination. Georgia will hold its pres- idential preferential primary, March 19.
 Honored By Coob Countians
 His first address in the state was delivered this morning at Marietta at homecoming celebration arranged in his honor by the citizens of Cobb county, in which he was born. Tomor- row morning at 10 50, the former sec. retary of the treasury is scheduled to address the citizens of Macon, and his final speech of the tour will be de- livered at Savannah tomorrow night at 80. From Savannah, he will go to Columbia, $. C., where he will appear before the South Carolina legislature Monday.
 In his opening remarks tonight, the former secretary of the treasury call ed attention to what he termed "a campaign of unparalleled calumny which has been directed against me-" stating that it has no justification in either my public or professional career"
 Defies Tools Of Corruption
 q defy all the tools of corruption and all the partisan and debased poli- tical agencies, in the republican party and out of it, to besmirch me or to tarnish my honorable record of public service" he declared. "During the six years that 1 was secretary of the treas ury, approximately forty billion dollars passed through the treasury department and not a single dollar stuck to the odious hand of graft"
 .. 4dx .oon,.1 oe k1.h laak 1av,, ocratic administration, he stated that during the eight years of the Wilson administration, there was neither taint nor break of scandal"
 Referring to ;Se Teapot Dome oil issues, which he laid, had ''profuondly shocked the country" the speaker said that "an effort is being made to con vince the people that the scandal is bipartisan"
 'This scandal is exclusively republi- can. It is republican officials of the Harding Coolidge administrator, and no others, who betrayed their trust. " he declared.
 Recalls Bureau Scandal
 Mir. McAdoo also pointed to the veterans bureau scandal, which he de- 3t'TtDtI slS ACd4CL hOAbObAPS ible than Teapot DOme," and to 'pro- hibition enforcement. which is a na- tion-wide scandal"
 "While these appalling disclosures '' he said, "have shocked the conscience of the American people, the gravest ef- feet of this matter is the impairment of the confidence of the people in the integrity of gove. ..ment and the loss of faith in men, who hold high places in the counsels of the nation. The gov ernment must de cleaned out. Repub- lican leadership cannot be entrusted to clean it. It has been tried and found wainting in everything that makes for good government and for the welfare of all classes of American peo- pie.
 ''The record of the republican admin istration for the past three years is it's gravest indictment. Not one single measure has been enacted in the genu- inc interest of the people. Two con spicuous laws have been passed, each of which was intended to, and did bene- fit most the special interest of the country. These are the Fordney- Me Cumber tariff bill and the revenue law of 1921"
 Mr. McAdoo declared that there is no effective government at Washington today" and that ''demoralizatiOn, inef- ficiency and graft abound"
 "The salvation of the nation,' he said. depends upon the day when pro- gressive democracy's control of the gov ernment is restored"
 The former secretary of the treasury stated that if he should be elected, he would take prompt measures "to re- peal the Fordney- -McCumber tariff bill, to bring about railroad reform so as to reduce freight rates to reasonable basis. and to reopen foreign markets to our farmers so that they could dis pose of their surplus products at the best price ohtainable."
 He also stated that ''the obnoxious features of the Esch- Cummings bill must be repealed and lon side of sO- cial justice, the child labor amendment to the constitution should be pushed to adoption"
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