The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-22
SAYS LEAGUE IS
BIG 1920 ISSUE
Col. Harvey Tells Boston Audi
ence Wilson Has Thrown
Gauntlet.
QUOTES "SUN" EDITORIAL
Again Flags Proposed Cove
nant and Shows British
Origin.
QUOTES "SUN" EDITORIAL
Special Despatch TO The Sun.

BOSTON. March 21.-Charactertzins
last Mondays editorial in THE Sim as
thoroughly accurate representation
oil the League Of Nations situation Col.
George Harvey tonight told the Com
mercial Club here that the issue of
the next national convention campaign
Is clear one Of nationalism backed by
tie Republican party against the in
ternationalism of the Democrats.
After reading from THE SuN edito-
rial he turned to the audience which
packed the small dining room of the
Back Bay Algonquin Club and de-
ciared:
That is an exact statement OF
the issue. the overwhelming issue
bound to confront the country in
the next national campaign. Not
only because II will make for a
final determination as between ma
tionalism and internationalism and
as between sentimentality and pa
triotism, but because interviewer in
internationalism are all the threads
OF socialism and bolshevlsm. and
unqualified stand upon all these al
lied fallacies the better 1t will be
not ony for our country but for the
entire world"
Predicts Rejection of Plan,
Col. Harvey traced the logical train
Of circumstances which will compel the
political lineup OF his prediction, despite
the efforts of the President to involve
the covenant with the peace treaty. Col.
Harvey prsdictsd that tho Senate will
find a way TO separate them no matter
how closely interviewer, and that two
thirds OF the Senate will confirm the
peace treaty and reject the League of
Nations draft.
president Wilson has the Democratic
party In his vest pocket" he declared,
and added:
when the league has been rejected
he cannot help but go to the people for
its ratification in the next campaign.
The Democratic party has voluntarily
surrendered. 1t cannot escape. The
Republican party cannot but accept the
challenge"
Even though the covenant should be
so amended as TO lure some of the Re-
publicans I'm the Senate to confirm II,
Col Harvey declared that no one IA
mlliar with the temper of the Senate
would venture to predict that two-thirds
OF the body would vote for confirmation.
lie traced through the Presidents
fourteen points ami for each Of them
ne called them Commandments
cited a previous similar utterance by
Lloyd George
"That proves beyond doubt the Brit
lsA JoHs et ori9o OF ii all" he said.
Perhaps it explains why the President
has been so vague about +, ali"
The CommercaI Club is the oldest
business association in Boston. 1t has
exerted a powerful influence in the af-
fairs OF the city and OF both business
and politics.
1t was indeed solid" audience.
References to odd men OF 90 brought
a good natured protest from all around
me table. 1t was an audience moulded
to Col. Harvey's hand, and there was
no amateurish hesitancy in the way he
gripped it. He was In the top OF his
form despite his eight previous speeches
IN the last five days.
hound TO De an Issue.
col Harvey's speech was as follows
IAN agree that a question such a $ this
ought not to be or to become a partisan
issue There do arise, however, con-
ditions in the process OF solving national
and international problems which can
not be controlled by individuals because
they are necessarily subject TO circum-
stances existing.
The -pSs7"nt insta2fe is one OF that
kind As 7 perceirtf, the Republican
party has no more option in the matter
than II had when last year the Presi-
dent announced that politics was ad-
journed. That Is to say. and ! am
speaking now philosophically and wholly
dispassionately with respect to the main
point, the President Is in a position to
malse and must necessarily make the
League OF Nations the real issue In the
forthcoming campaign.
The reason is quite simple. The