Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1920 — MANYHEAR SENATOR CAPPER [ARTICLE]

MANYHEAR SENATOR CAPPER

DISCUSSES POLITICAL ISSUES FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A STATESMAN. Senator Arthur Capper, the first native born governor of Kansas,. and the first governor of the Sunflower state for which the women of I Kansas voted, made a most inter-] esting address at the Ellis opera l house in htis city Tuesday afternoon. There was a large attend-] ance. This in spite of the meet- 1 ing being held during tile day when all were very busy, and especially the farmers, who are now busy filling their 'silos.. > senator’s address was fair, open and not of the rank partisan style. He is not a gifted orator, but the address was solid, being com-, posed of interesting, as well as convincing argument. He discussed the extravagance of the present national administration and told of the efforts of the late congress to correct the same. He said that the nation must stop the appalling waste and extravagance in financial matters. He argued for a budget system and that drastic effort be made to economize in every way possible. He said there was some excuse for the squandering of money during the war, but that the continuing of thousands in governmental employment used during the war, and the annual expenditure of billions of dollars now almost two years after the armistice had been signed, was wicked and due to incompetency in the national administration. He said that this could be changed only by a 'change in the administration. , „ He discussed the League of Nations. Hfe is opposed to the Wilson league. He said that Wilson’s egotism and insisting that nb change in the draft could be made was the cause of the failure of the ratification by the senate. He said if the Lodge reservation regarding Article 10 could have been put into the covenant, the peace treaty might have been ratified. This reservation provided that no money or soldiers from the United States could be used in a foreign war without the consent of the congress of this country. Wilson would not agree to this reservation, because it took the heart out of the covenant.- He made it clear to all present that the Wilson League is Un-American and must not be accepted by this nation until the UnAmerican part is stricken out. Senator Capper paid a very high tribute to Senator. James E. Watson of this state, who is a candidate for re-election. He urged Senator Watson has the prestige, the ability and the honesty of purpose to be of the greatest value to Indiana and the nation in the upper house of the national congress. " Senator Capper was very enthusiastic in his endorsement of Senator Harding. He sat beside the Republican candidate in the U. S. senate and is confident of the latter’s ability to serve faithfuly and efficiently as the chief executive of this nation. Harding, the Senator said, would call to his aid the big-

gest and best men and women of the nation. The address. was full of wholesome instruction and information and made a direct appeal to reason and common sense. The Senator was met here by Republican County Chairman McKnight, of Benton county, and Editor Currie, of Fowler, and with them continued to thfe Benton county metropolis where he made an address Tuesday evening.