The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-06-20
REPUBLICAN PARTY IS PARTY
PROGRfSS.AND PROSPERITY
BY Their Action the Democrats Them
selves Have Made the Adoption of
the Peace Treaty Non-Partisan
Question.

NkuGStIUn'
Washington, June 12-The Repub-
lican Publicity Association, thru its
president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
today gave out the following state
ment from its Washington headquar-
tiers:
"No party has the right to appro-
pirate this issue declared the presi-
dent referring to the league of ma
tions in his New York speech of
March 18th, and no party will in the
long run dare oppose it. But since
its inception the republican party has
been the party of Americanism. To it
has naturally fallen the duty of cham
pioning every issue that had for its
purpose the perpetuation of consti-
tutional government and the guaran-
teeing of the rule of the people rather
than that of individuals. In the civil
war it was the republican party that
rallied to the defense of the union I'M
der the leadership of Lincoln, elected
to the White House by republican
votes, and preserved the United States
as the great entity foreseen by the
fathers of the country. In the Span
ish war it was the republicans again,
this time headed by the martyred Nc
Kinley, who upheld our traditions and
brought the nation safely to victo-
rious peace. In the industries of
peace. likewise, it has been under the
wise guidance of national republican
leaders, reflected in beneficent tariffs
and other stimulating legislation,
that the wealth of America has been
developed and made available for our
people and the world.
"When the elections were held last
November the voters knew that the
war was about to close. They were
aware of the fact that the men they
were to send to the siXty-siXth con-
gress would have to deal not only
with the military and industrial de-
mobilization and other problems of re-
construction, but would be called upon
to pass Judgment upon the treaty OF
peace with Germany and probably
upon a covenant for league OF ma
tions, forecast by the president when
he gave his Fourteen Points to the
world. With that knowledge in mind
the people went to the polls and de-
liberatelv overturned the democratic
maiorities in both senate and house,
and placed the republicans in control.
II is incumbent upon the party that
has been handed the reins of legisla-
ton to carry out the will of those by
whose mandate it is now in power.
The republicans have the neces "a Y
votes in both houses, and nothing
need be enacted that does not have
their approval. Hence, if the league
of nations meets with defeat, it will
be because the republicans decreed it,
and their act will be as much an eX-
preston of party policy as anything
that ever transpired in congress.
"The republicans are not going to
permit the democrats, thru their pres
ident or otherwise, to deprive them OF
the glorious opportunity now present
cd to prove themselves once more the
bulwark against encroachment upon
our liberties. They have shown no
hesitancy in accepting the responsible
tiles assigned them by the voters; in
fact their assumption of the role of
defenders of the nation is really au-
tomato. Senator PoindeXter correct
ly states the case when he says, If
the bulk of the republican members
of the senate were opposed to this
covenant of the league of nations and
a majority of the democrats were in
favor of it, it would automatically
become a party question:
"The signing of the Second Decla-
ration of Independence by thirty-nine
republicans of the senate, in which
they decreed the death of the league
covenant unless it was separated from
the treaty and materially amended,
is further proof that the issue is in
fact a party question. The truth is
the republicans are in power; they
have ample votes to defeat the league;
they intend to cast those votes in line
with their traditional policy of un-
equivocal Americanism; and when all
is over they are going to claim the
glory of having achieved a greater
victory with patriotic logic than they
ever won in the past by the sword
a claim that will be ungrudgingly
granted by a grateful people"
GASOLINE SHORTAGE IN VIEW