The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
C. 0. P. CALLED
DESPO|LER OF
PEOPLES RULE
Claude 6. Bowers Flags
Republicans in Address
Before Editors.
EQUAL RIGHTS VANISH
Financial BIoCS Aid TO
Campaign Funds
Declared Menace.

Sounding clarion call for gov
eminent by and for the people,
Claude G. Bowers, historian, editor
and orator; stripped away the veil
of obScurity Shrouding the history
Of the Republican party during its
last nine years of power in an adj
dress Thursday night at the ban
quet of the Indiana Democratic
Editorial Association at the Clay
pool.
Lauding the genius of Jefferson
the greatest political philosopher
that America has given to mankind"
Bowers described how the govern
ment has abandoned it's original
boundaries to invade the rights and
privileges guaranteed by the Con-
stitution.
Charging that campaign funds
donated by the financial bloc has
resulted in the bloc using agencies
OF the government for its own bene-
mt. Bowers said, "the majority of
the people have been deprived of
the equal rights which are essen
tial in the Jeffersonian, concept Of
society.
And the result is that money
has come to mean more than men
In legislation and administration.
Privilege sits in the seats Of the
mighty with Joe Grundy as Gun
bearer and Senator Moses as truno-
PETER. The Peter Prys of bureau
cracy swarm over the land like the
locusts of Egypt and for genera
ttonS agriculture has played the
part of the poor relation in the halls
of congress-"
Praises Woodrow Wilson
Landing Wilson as one of the
greatest constructive geniuses this
country ever has produced, Bowers
declared:
During Wilson's administration
we revised the tariff without the
semblance of a scandal-the first
tariff act in sixty years that had not
been conceived in iniquity and
brought forth in corruption" %
1t was during this administra-
tlon there was enacted the federal
reserve act-"the greatest single
piece OF constructive craftsmanship
IN three quarters of a century"
Then came the war and, said
Bowers, more than two score of
Republican congressional investi-
eating committees, with the power
to summon witnesses and papers.
with microscope in one hand and
the unlimited resources of the ma
ton In the other, were unable to
lay a single scandal on the door
steps OF the administration of
Woodrow Wilson.
How times have changed.
More vital, lasting legislation
was written into law the first year
of the Wilson administration than,
has ever been written in the COM
bined nine years of Harding, Cool
idge and Hoover. What have they
achieved in sthe last nine years? :
We waive the story of Fall and
DENLY, of Doheny and Sinclair, of
Daugherty, of Jess Smith, the sui
eide; and Roxie StinSon, the delec-
table. These are not fit subjects
for the dinner table, but what else
have they achieved"
Like MannerIy Butler
The Republicans have kept the
books, collected money and paid IL
out, have played the part Of the y
well behaved butler in the mansion
of Big Business and their execu-
tives have drifted with the current
without much thought of where
the current carried.
We'll, the current has carried. Z
thousands of gullible Americans up
on the sands of bankruptcy within
the last six months.
Il know Of nothing so pathetic
In history as the collapse of the
and of business during the
regime of the miracle man of buSi-
ness and during the incumbency OF
the greatest secretary of treasury
since Hamilton-but why bring that
up?"
Bowers scathingly denounced the
party for the deplorable
plight of agriculture and blamed
it upon industrialists.
Declaring that placing In the
Presidents hands the power to raise
and lower the tariff is in violation
Of our fundamental law, Bowers Z
said:
I'VE have insisted that the power
to tax shall rest exclusively in the
representatives Of the people in the
legislative department of the gov
It was in support of this
principle that Charles was ushered
to the scaffold and another king
sent upon his travels.
"Give the President this power
and the masses of the people will be
completely at the mercy of single
man who Is under no obligation TO
explain his act. 1t is power never
asked by Washington. Jefferson,
Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt nor
Wilson and with all due respect ] E
know nothing in the character or +
career of Mr.. Hoover 10 justify the
extension Of such dangerous and
despotic power to him"
Charges Corruption
Every sensible man and woman :
knows that present method of tar
i'll making reeks with corruption
II resembles more the division OF
spoils among quarrelinC highway
men in a wayside cave than the
orderly processes of statesmen en-
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