Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts pt the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. HE ACCUSES THE REPUBLICANS Cummings Says League of Nations Opposition Is Purely Partisan. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 16—Denouncing critics of the league of nations as Republican partisans who twisted facts to* make the principles of the league appear in a false light, Homer S. Cummdngs,' chairman of the Democratic national committee, here last night challenged any Republican to come forward with a better method to stamp out forever tihe evil of war. Speaking in behalf of Governor James D. Black’s Democratic candidacy for governor of Kentucky and before a large audience, the speaker praised the achievements of the national administration during the war, especially its part in winning the war. Repeating Lloyd George’s statement a year ago that “it is a race between Hindenburg and Wilson,’’ Chairman Cummings asserted that Wilson won and “I challenge critics of his administration to suggest how within human possibility we could have won the war more promptly or with less loss of life.”