The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-12
REED BLASTS
CORRUPTION IN
FIERY Speech
Eloquent MiSSourian Calls
for Voters to Awaken
and Clean House.
HITS COOLIDGE, HAYS
LoWden, Hoover and Other
G. 0. P. Leaders Target
of Senator.
HITS COOLIDGE, HAYS

| numerically and Democrats and
Republicans alike exhorted to clean
out and clean up" with a sweeping
Democratic victory in November, in
a fiery speech by Senator James A.
Reed, candidate for the Democratic
nomination for President in Tom
linson Hall Wednesday night.
A crowd of $500 that filled the
hall cheered and applauded as the
gray-haired MiSSourian Slashed Re-
publican corruptionistS. particularly
of the Harding and Coolidge ad-
ministrations.
His entry stirred a great ovation,
as did that of Thomas Taggart, vet
eran Democratic leader, who intro
duced him.
"Of course we are all for Evans
Woollen," said Taggart of Indiana
Democrats "favorite SON." But
what Senator Reed tells you, you
can believe for he is a man who
has the courage of his convictions"
Praise for WOOllen
''I did not come here to try to get
delegates from Mr.. Woollen," Reed
said. "Woollen is good enough and
big enough to fill any position that
this country can bestow."
Reed lauded long list of emil
nent Hoosiers, winding up with the
names Of Oliver P. Morton and
Benjamin Harrison.
But are there any Mortons or
Harrisons in the Republican party
today?" he asked.
NO" chorused the crowd.
Applause followed mention of the
names Of Thomas r. Marshall and
Samuel RalSton, and Reed said
How in the providence of God did
Indiana get into the hands of the
bunch running it now? We didn't
need a pass from the warden to in
terview Indiana statesmen i'll the
old days
Cites Illinois Verdict
"While you slept, the thief entered
the house. You will see the same
awakening as the Illinois primar-
les demonstrated Tuesday. When
reform can reach into the Repub-
lican party and virtue manifest it
self there, surely there's hope for
the United States of America.
What a prophecy Of good there is
in that election
II didn't come here tonight to
abuse any Republicans. God knows
you've got enough to answer for. 1
came to appeal to Republicans
rather than to Democrats.
Those who control the Repub-
lican party are devoured by the
leprosy of corruption. The only
surgeon who can cure the disease
is one who can use decapitation."
Grant said, Let no guilty man
escape!' Have you heard anything
like that from Cal?"
You Republicans here ale not
responsible, but if you vote to keep
them in power after you hear this
speech you will be responsible
The Missouri Senator vigorously
attacked the protective tariff,
which, he said, was instituted for
the protection of infant indus
tries"
"But the Infants" he said,
"have grown seventy-five years old
and don't compete,-they combine"
Frank o. Lowden, Illinois presi-
Dental candidate, came in for
characteristic Reed ridicule, when
the MiSsourian said: If you farm
ers get up some morning and see a
white Specter floating through the
mists in the lowlandS-that's not
an Angel-but Lowden, looking after
the farmer!"
Hays and Arbuckle
When he came to the name of
Will H. Hays in a recital of the oil
scandal, Reed exclaimed: 81 pro-
pose that the motion picture in
terestS remove Will Hays and put
back Fatty Arbuckle."
Charging that Herbert Hoover,
Secretary of Commerce; Andrew
Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury;
John w. Weeks, Secretary of War,
and others knew of the Teapot
Dome transaction, Reed said. I'll
not say Cal knew until know that
he knew and I don't know now that
he knew it."
But Coolidge, Cabinet members
and "stand-pat" Republican threw
every obstacle in the way of in
vestigation, Reed said. with bitter
denmciation for Albert Fall, Harry
Daugherty, Edward Doheny and
other oil scandal personalities.
do you think this eagle-eyed
Hoover, with all his experience i'll
Great Britain, didn't know?" Reed
asked.
He charged that Melons appoint
ment was criminal" and in violation
of Federal statutes, and that Mellon
had left his banking interests ito
: syndicate the Government"
Hoover was charged with having
fixed the minimum price of wheat
during the war at 1920 a buShel and
of having prevented the farmer get
ting more than that by agency of
the Export Grain Corporation.
After the war, he said, farmers
were compelled to sell their surplus
in the bankrupt markets of Europe,
the price of that surplus fixing the
price in the domestic market.