The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-07

ment or principle that is American n in anything that he has said or done since he went into office on the slogan He kept us out of warp My opinion of President Wilson was formed on the occasion of his recep- ton of the Belgian delegates who come to tell him in the first weeks of the war about the immoral violation of Fundamental principles underlying the very existence of the human race, and he proclaimed neutrality where a man with the faintest voice of conscience would have taken | up arms. have had nothing but sin cere esteem for my friend William Howard Taft, for whom I voted when he went to victory and went to defeat, and for whom I would vote today in everything except his League of Nations. But I would rather go to the gallows as a public criminal than vote for his League of Nations.
 For me the League of Nations is several degrees more menacing, more sinister, and more insiduous than either the Prussian or Turkish Elm pire ever was in the days when each threatened the destruction of Chris tan civilization. Against these forces the American people were always free to put forth their magnificent and irresistible power in the cause of justice, freedom and righteousness. By the League of Nations all that power is manacled and bound to a ring wherein the predominating in fiuence may be either Prussian or Turkish.
 Your letter asking me to support such has hnan hp sion of greater sadness than any message that I have received since the announcement of the destruction Of my Alma Mater, the University of I1ouvain. I looked upon you as Q force for genuine American principles and genuine American spirit, es- pecially since our first meeting to organize the first campaign for the Red Cross. I love the Republican party more than love my life and hence you can appreciate how much grfeved l am to find such a capable leader headed in the opposite direc- ton. I am sure that you appreciate why I should like to know that every Republican member O. Congress in both the House and the Senate. every Republican official of every state, city or town in the United States. and every citizen, whether man, woman oc child in the United States, should be whole-heartedly opposed to any power other than the power of God that might presume to tell the Amer lean people what they should or should not do in any event concern ing the destinies of the American nation and people.
 Yours very faithfully
 JOHN G. MURRAY Chancellor of the Diocese of Hart
 ford
 The Hon. Isaac M. UlIrnan,
 President of the New Haven Cham
 Der of Commerce.
 1N5 Church street,
 New Haven, Conn.
 Chancellor Murray on date of June 30 wrote Senator Brandegee as fol- lows:
 We, the undersigned members of the Republican party of the State of Connecticut, respectfully urge that the proposed covenant of the league of nations should be discussed on its merits and without partisan bias. We believe that according to both the princi ples and the record of the Re- publican party, 8 greata constructive measure, looking towards the peace of the world, should receive the ear nest consideration of Republicans and their earnest support. And we also believe that the Republicans of the State of Connecticut, especially the