Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-15
By Review Leased wirel

lenSe 10 VIII H. Hays, chairman of [ the republican national committee. to place his party on record with. respect 10 the league of nations. was issued . here tonight by Homer s. Cummings. chairman of the democratic national ! democratic committee in an address at dinner in his honor at the nation al democratic club
 Other spea1ers IncIuaed JOsephus ! Daniels. secretary of the navy. and | Gov Alfred E. Smith of New York T had hoped, and still hope said MT. Cummings. that this great league [ of nations PrOject will not become a | partisan institution Is there any req [ son why MT Hays should not put his party upon record in this matter. so [ that the league of nations may hays 1 the support Of both political parties and of all forward-lOOking citizens gen erally? He will De in good company for he will find himself supported oy MT Taft Mir Wickersham, ex-SenatOr Burton and President Lowell of Har- ward, and last, but not least. by NIT. Hughes MT Root still to be heard from It is safer leadership than than that Of Senators Knox. Penrose and Lodge
 Attacks G. o. P. Leaders Mir Cummings launched vigorous attack upon the republican leaders for what he termed their unusual ef- forts during the last two or three years to regain mastery of the machin- cry of government"
 TO this purpose, he asserted, they have brought all their ingenuity have summoned all their resOurceful- ness, have magnified beyond all reason minor errors Of judgment in the coz duct of the great war, have mobil- ized the forces of irritation ana dis content and have made tacit conces- siOns to certain elements, which, to say the least, show tendencies toward open seditiOn- It is an u1fhoIy alliance and cannot prevail.
 When congress adjourned on March 1. an open filibuster against pending legislation was still in pro gress- The senate abdicated its func- tiOns, declined to consider the most pressing of national needs and wasted precious moments in violent political abuse and vehement opposition to the league of nations.
 Republicans Played
 So intent have the republican lead CTS been upon their purpose that they have been betrayed into all sorts of indiscretiCns- Their moderate triumph of November, 1918, has gone to their heads. The mere prospect of control has already thrown them into c0nfu- sion.
 Ever since the war began in Flu rope in 1914. our ears have been vexed by the wild cries of the opposition, prOclaiming a superior brand Of pa triOtism. and now at the very first sign of a return to partial authority the leaders of the republican party in the senate have placed themselves in opposition to a league of nations and the leaders in the house of representa- tives have selected for floor leader Congressman MOndeIl of Wyoming, who voted against the tabling of the MCLemOOre resolution and opposed the selective draft law Senator Pen rose is to be chairman of the great senate committee of finance and the reactionaries are dictating the policy or the party"
 War Records Accounted
 MT. Cummings then recounted the war records Of republicans who have been selected for various chairman ships in the house of representatives in the next congress
 It is a pitiful conclusion" he assert ed, to a campaign based upon such ardent promises It is an extraordinary thing that those whO' are lOudest for war seem to be most determined that America shall relinquish the duties which have fallen to her as a result Of the war
 The idea Of a league of nations is not difficult to understand The plain people understand it. Only learned senators were confused about it Let us not be disturbed by the action of the dissenting senators. They are en-