AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 June 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

OPENING OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION (By Electric Tl.c-graph. Copyright.) (Australian and N.'/. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, June 24 Senator Harrison, delivering the keynote speech at the opening of the Democratic Convention, made a driving and picturesque attack on the Republicans, especially the . corruption in office, and briefly indicated Uie Democratic virtues. He said that despite the promises made during the 1920 campaign to reduce the cost of living, every line of the fiordney tariff laid increased the cost, lhe lan Administrations defeat was due to the Pa vne-A Id rich tariff measure providing >ii eleven cent duty on wool. Ihe same i eactionarv group now fastened a thirtyone cent duty on the same goods, lhe tariff laid not onlv added four billion dollars burden on’the American masses but revealed the nations hypocrisy towards war-torn Europe,' demanding paj incuts upon the one band and preventing payments upon the other. “Republican morality is spartan. It is not corruption but the discovery of it that constitutes crime. Shall Mr Daughery go uiipunisnedr The Republican nominee stands forlorn, deserted, and pilloried by Ins own Ptt Mr Harrison asked what had become of the 1921 pledges that the United States would join an association of nations, and he attacked the senatorial negation oi a world court, He praised Mr Wilsons foreign policies and courageous democratic participation in world undertakings. The speaker next attacked state departments’ activities to aid American private interests to obtain control ol the world’s nil sources. Mr Harrison concluded: “We will restore the dignity and integrity of public office; punish rascals; enforce the law whether it be violated by a congressional bribe taker or a disreputable bootleeger; readjust tariff rates. We go to the relief of distressed agriculture, to bare a campaign of bribery and punish election frauds. We shall _ assume in a manly fashion our responsibilities lo the world.”