New Britain herald., 1928-06-27
BOWERS ATTACK
 ON G. 0. P. BITTER
Gets Wild Applause When He
 DenounC@ Republicans

war of extermination against "privilege and pillage," Claude G. Bowers told the democratic national convention in his keynote speech to- day that the republicans had repudi- ated the leadership of Lincoln and openly adopted the Hamiltonian theory of government for the bene- fit Of the wealthy and powerful.
 In sentences loaded with shrapnel of irony and invective. the New York Evening World editorial writer called the roll of the scandals of the last two republican administrations: declared the portion of the farmer had become one of thorns and missiles while other industries fat tened on tariffs and subsidies, as- serted that ''the plunder bund of the power monopoly was threatening to tighten its grip on public utilities; described the Coolidge policy in Latin-Americ as dollar diplomacy" conducted in the interest of Ameri- can business; accused the party in power of having sent bureaucratic agents swarming over the land like the locutsts of Egypt" and warned his fellow democrats that the re- publicans were seeking to drug the conscience of the nation with the doped soothing syrup of fake prosperity"
 Questions Prosperity.
 we want to know what prosper ity they mean" he said. They point to few powerful corporations enjoying the pap of paternalistic privilege and our answer is that you cannot judge the prosperity of people by the earnings of a privileg- ed monopoly.
 -Four million Johless men IS not prosperity: million abandoned farms is not prosperity; the utter ruin of the basic industry of Ameri- ca is not prosperity; the failure Of 4,o0o banks in the seven years of norma " is not sperty; the fail ure of 23,147 commercial houses in 1927 is not prosperity.
 Do they offer us their claim of the payment of eight billions of the public debt up to July of last year? Our answer is that six and a third billion of this amount was paid with the money or the cash assets of the Wilson administration.
 Do they offer us their record of economy? Our answer is that with the elimination of the interest on war debts, the last three years of this regime has cost the people more than four and a quarter billion more than the last three peace years of the Wilson administration.
 Mythical prosperity, mythical economy. mythical facts, mythical figures, and mythical men-the last eight years may we'll be treated by the historian of the far future as the mythical age of American his tory"
 Fiays Sec. Mellon.
 The keynoter directed his accusa- tions repeatedly at Secretary Mellon whom he described as disciple Of Hamilton and the direct personal beneficiary of governmental policies which the republicans were now re- fusing to extend to the farmer. In tracing out the veterans bureau. Daughterty and Teapot Dome scan dals, he recounted how Will Hays had sought to turn over the Sinclair bonds to Mellon, who he said made no protest against the party taking it's share out of the pot filled by the pillaging of the nations property
 Declaring that at Kansas City 1t vas Hamilton. and not Lincoln to whom the republican party bowed in homage. Mir. Bowers added that ''it could hardly keep the Lincoln mask on it's face, and Sinclair's money in it's chest" He wound up detailed denunciation of centralized authority in government and finance with this prediction: "Give the plunder bund but eight years more of such governmental cooperation and a combination of power companies will put few men in control of the public utilities of a mighty empire. Once in pos session and entrenched. the plunder bund of the power monopoly can- not be dislodged by the fighting force of a dozen Andrew Jacksons."
 The speaker described the farm situation as disgrace to American civilization
 And what does the ruling caste say to this?" he asked. Tt calls it temporary depression And what does it propose? It proposes that the farmers shall become better business men.
 "Now when it suits the pleasure of the privileged to legslate money into it's coffers, it is applauded by the claquers as patriotic statesman ship; but when the farmer demands his share in the unhappy game of paternalsm they denounce him as q radical and crank.
 "One day the head of the state by . scratch of the pen increased the tariff loot of the pig iron industry by fifty per cent; and the next day he delivered homily to the farmers on the wickedness of expecting profit from governmental act.
 The Farmers Burden.
 we do not ask paternalistic privilege for the farmer, but we do demand that he hand of privilege shall be taken out of the farmers pockets, and off the farmers throat"
 Mir. Bowers appealed to the his- tory of the Jackson and Wilson ad- minist ra tions to refuse any charge that democratic presidents are ene- mics of business, but added that by business the democracy meant small business as well as large. while the republicans thought only of the powerful
 we are interested in the Bab- bits he said "and they in the bulls and bears"