Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-26
HARRISON FLAYS
c. D. P. CORRUPTION
IN SOARING SPEECH
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Especial Leased Wire to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1924


MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
senior senator from Mississippi, dis
ciple of Woodrow Wilson and the
chief haranguer of the Democratic
party in the senate, opened the presi-
Dental campaign of 1924 today by
proclaiming the issues upon which
the candidate nominated here and
the Democratic brethren generally
will seek to turn the Republicans
out Of power.
No political speech in recent years
compares with it either in bitter
ness of invective or penetrating sat
tire; no speech has even been fash
toned like it, unless it be the de-
nunciatiOn of the Wilson administra-
ton made by Senator Cabot Lodge,
at Chicago in 1920 and two weeks
later at Marion, Ohio.
What Representativ BurtOn's key
note speech at Cleveland lacked in
partisan fire is supplied in great
relentless retorts to the Republican
platform of 1924. The keynote speech
here, however, is exactly what the
Democrats wanted. For several days
copies of it have been in circula-
ton and from every quarter have
come expressions of deep satisfac-
ton with the document as almost a
platform in itself.
Finger OF Scorn Pointed
If there has been doubt that the
Democratic party would go to the
country and point the finger of
scorn at Albert B. Fall, still free on
his ranch, that doubt has been re-
moved. If there has been any doubt
that the Democrats would point &C.
cusingly to the quick work of the
department of justice in indicting
Senator Wheeler, of Montana, while
no effort was made to indict Albert
B. Fall, that doubt too has been re-
moved.
Corruption in the government I'M
der the Republican regime and 8
challenge to anyone to point to a SIN
gle case Of corruption by any high
official or member of congress of
Democratic utilization may be said
to be the basis of Senator HarrisOn's
whole appeal.
The Mississippi senator takes cred
it for the Democratic party for the
exposure of Albert B. Falls record
as secretary of the interior and the
driving out of office of the secretary
of the navy and the attorney gen
eraI. He asks the Republican party
to look up what it's fifty-one inYesti-
eating committees found in cOnnec-
ton with the Democratic adminiStra-
ton during the war.
Apart from the Teapot Dome scan
dial, which is not to De allowed to
slumber, Senator Harrison reveals
the plan of the party leaders to make
political capital out Of the Mellon tax
plan. They welcome the plea of
President Coolidge for the Mellon
plan and utilize again the argument
that more taxpayers are benefited
under the Democratic plan fathered
by Senator Simmons, Of North Caro-
lima and Representative Garner, If
Texas, than would have been the
case had the Mellon plan been adop+-
ed
Urges Party Harmony
Mostly it was an OldfaShiOned po-
litical speech, with all sorts of dag
ger-throwing in the hope of dividing
erences to the fact that Senator
Borah refused to join Coolidge as a
running mate, and as to the effort at
soldier bonus IRE not omitted by
Senator Harrison, who showed him
self a master of Catalinian satire.
Candidates. have been for the mo.
ment forgotten. Sensitive to the in
ner currents Of the convention and
the menace OF possible friction be.
cause Of the factional differences
that have arisen, Senator Harrison
made a plea for party harmony. His
eulogy Of Woodrow Wilson was in
itself an appeal for reunion Of all
elements in the party in a common
cause.
1T would seem now" he concluded,
I'VE can hear the soft voice Of sweet
coming to us from
Monticello, the voice Of Old Hickory
coming across the Blue Ridge from
the Hermitage and from that his
toric crypt at st. Adams we hear the
voice of Woodrow Wilson,
wistfully crying to us: TO you from
failing hands we throw the torch.
Hold it high. Hold it high. Carry
on; carry on; keep the faith; keep