Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1920 — ESTIMATE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY [ARTICLE]

ESTIMATE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Allen McCurdy at the 48 convention in his key-note speech had the following to say about the Democratic party and platform: “The Democratic bid is more than bold. It is brazen. With mild reservation it not only claims a partisan credit which belongs to the whole nation for fighting and winning the war, but it declares it administered the conduct of that war without the taint of scandal. And the ghost of Hog Island aircraft and shipbuilding, and cantonment construction and nitrate plant appropriations are still stalking thru the land! < “Nor is that all. Failure to protect a people against profiteering in time of war might be forgiven, but to break the faith of a whole nation cannot be forgiven. That is the bitter experience of these past few years. We all remember with gratitude the words that thrilled our hearts and kindled a fervent hope that we were really in the dawn of. a new day. We felt the inspiration of a leader who was to guide us into a more complete realization of the things we had always had nearest our hearts. “Yet it is by these words that the Democratic party is to be judged. By these words it is weighed in the balance and found unworthy of human confidence. For into the expectant hope went Burleson and Palmer, destroying every vestage of civil liberty we ever held dear and turning the light of freedom into darkness.” McCurdy attacked Palmer saymg the democratic party through its endorsement of that official’s work would lead us back to the days of Phillip II of Spain and the unspeakable Meeternich of Austria and cause their inquisitions, secret police, spies, espionage, arrests without warrants, private prisons, illegal detentions and star chamber proceedings to supplant the methods provided in the bill of Jiffbts which has been the bulwark of An-glo-Saxon freedom for nine centuries.