Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-20
Keynote Speech OF Claude Bowers
Delivered AT The Democratic
National Convention.
PART II.
WILSON GIVEN HIGH PRAISE.

us in those fruitful years The cold. even
light OF his superb intellect played upon
the most intricate problems OF the times,
and they seemed to solve themselves. He
lifted the people to such heights of moral
grandeur as they had never known before
and his name and purpose made hearts
beat faster in lowly places where his praise
was sung in every language in the world.
And when at length. his body broken, but
his spirit soaring still, he fell stricken, while
still battling for his faith, there passed to
time and eternity and to all mankind the
everlasting keeping of the immortal mem
DRY of Woodrow Wilson.
We submit that party that stands for
that democracy which is inseparable from
the liberties OF men. and has given a JEFF
ferson. Jackson and Wilson to the
service of mankind, has earned the rieht,
in times like these, to the cooperation of
Independents and prOeressives in the
struggle for the preservation of popular
government, and the purging of the Nation
a byword and kissing in the very alleys
Of the world
Sixteen years ago the late Senator Bev-
erage warned US Of the invisible govern
ment.' That invisible government now
feels strong enough to take on visibility
From the moment OF the election of 1920,
there was a mobilization of the Black
Horse Cavalry of privilege and pillage. and
1t cantered down Pennsylvania Avenue,
up and down from one end to the other.
CALLS IT REIGN Or PILLAGE."
Strange creatures, new to the CAPITAL,
put in an appearance. Desk room was
found for one of these in the Department
OF Justice. The best minds established a
temple of the new patriotism in the Little
Green House on X street. Men who were
the very symbols Of privilege, whose for
tunes had been made on the favors of the
Government, we're put in possession oil
the instrumentalities of the State. ACTING
on the Hamiltonian theory that govern.
ments are strong in proportion as they
are made profitable to the powerful, the
foremost of these was placed in strategic
public station that he might PERSONAL,
supervise the delivery Of the goods
The representatives Of special interes
FASTENED to the Capital with their receipt
for campaign contributions. to be given {
key to the Treasury and a guest card al
the patriotic club on X street where there
was sound Of revelry by night" Within
five months the conditions in Washington
had become a scandal and a stencil. The
reign Of privilege and pillaae had begun
The moment the bell rang these mel
set to the task of undoine the work o
Woodrow Wilson and to the commercial
cation of the Government In the mids
OF the usual scandal they hurried a tariI
law upon the statutes at a cost of iron
three to four billions year to the con
sumers
PEOPLE DECLARED IGNORED.
They found the Tariff Commission WI
created an embauassment-they ignore,
II. IL was not facts they sought. The
had promises to keep. When little late
they found it convenient to have com
placent commission to find the facts the
sought-they packed it, From that mo
ment the acoustics of the commission hav
been bad. The cries of the millions 70
relief cannot be heard, but the dulce
whisper OF the pig-iron industry is enough
TO bring SO per cent increase in its loot
They found the Federal Trade Commits
sion in the way-they packed it, The,
took the weapons we provided for the pro
lection Of the people against exploitation
and turned them over to the powers
pillage.
Thus privilege was speedily intrenche,
in every department Of the Government
and privilege moved into the office of tn
Attorney General TO spike the guns o
Justice; and Privilege took possession o
the strategic points in all the department.
and commissions; and when the machiner,
Of this potential plutocracy had been com
pleted, there, at the control. sat the yer,
personification of the erstwhile invisibl,
government, looking after the interest o
his flock
1t is a tragic thing to find government
mortgaged to little group that could b,
crowded into the directors rooms Of tn,
Aluminium Co, Of America. Under tn,
rule of this regime, the average man hal
had no more stake in the Government, TO
which he may be called upon to die. thar
II he had never touched our soil.
For example. what stake 10 government
has the farmer of todayH From the mo
ment Of the realization Of the Hamiltoniar
state under the banner of the blood,
shirst in the brutal days of reconstruction
the American farmer has been but newer
OF wood and drawer of water. Durin,
the sixty years OF Jeffersonian supremac,
the farmer was on an equality with ever,
other industry. and ii is no mere coinci
dence that his decline and DEGRADATION
began with the triumph Of the Hamilto
nian state. 10 the Jeffersonian concept Of
society the fefmer had a position of para
mount importance; but in all the political
writings Of Hamilton the only reference 70
the farmer is a promise that 10 compensa-
ton for his submission to taxation in the
interest Of others he may put his wife and
children to work in the mills.
Thus. while the little group represented
by Mr. Mellon has found fine plucking in
the vineyard Of the state, there have been