Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — CUMMINGS SAYS G. O. P. WASTE TOTALS MILLIONS [ARTICLE]

CUMMINGS SAYS G. O. P. WASTE TOTALS MILLIONS

Praises Democratic Conduct of the War at Dinner of Party Leaders at Louisville. Louisville, Meh. 19. —Wasteful expenditure to $2,000,000 for “smelling committees” was charged against the Republican majority in the congress by Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic national committee, in an address here last night

at a dinner attended by Democratic of Kentucky. “The committees,” Chairman Cummings said, “were appointed to ascertain whether there had been any graft in the conduct of the world war but instead ‘demonstrated that this was the cleanest war ever fought in the history of civilization.’ “Thd finger of scorn does not point to one single Democratic official in all of broad America,” added Mr. Cummings. “I want to remind you that it does not lie in the mouths of those who conducted the Spanish-, American war to indulge in the luxury of criticism. What is there in this war to compare with the typhoid Infested camps of the war of 1898, what is there in this war to compare to the paper sole controversy of 1898; and what is there in this war to compare to the embalmed beef scandal of the SpanishAmerican war? “We have fought a great war for a great cause, and we have had a leadership which has carried America to greater heights of glory and power and splendor and honor than she has ever known before in her entire history. “The Republicans have now been in control of the senate and the house for eight months. They went in under false pretenses. They outlined an elaborate program of reconstruction that looked very well in the newspapers. They have, not only delayed and indefinitely postponed the peace of the world, interfered with American commerce and brought the rate of exchange tumbling down to a point hitherto unknown; but, aside from railroad legislation of doubtful value, they have not passed one single constructive act. “Had a Democratic congress been elected, or a congress in sympathy with the president, treaty ot peace would long ago have been ratified. Innumerable avenues of trade and commerce would have been opened to*American enterprise and halted industry would have taken on new and hopeful life.” Mr. Cummings characterized the Republican platform as "a most unusual conglomeration of political misfits.”