The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-11
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NATIONALIST
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ism," will remain the official party
position, unless it is otherwise con-
strued by the next republican ma
tional convention when it drafts the
party platform.
Mr.. Hays speech is recognized in
Washington by the leaders of both
parties as the most important utter
ance thus far made bearing upon the
1920 campaign. The speech received
today the unqualified Endorsement of.
most of the republican leaders still in
Washington.
The effort of President Wilson to
keep the controversy over the League
of Nations out of the realm of party
politics has failed. Already thirty
nine of the forty-nine republican
members of the new senate are on
record against the present league
covenant, as signers of the league re-
solution, and most of the remaining
ten have indicated they will never
vote for the league draft as it now
stands
Republican leaders who have can
vasscd the new Senators carefully are
convinced that the present covenant
will receive only two republican
votes for ratification if it is not mat
erially altered. These two would
be the votes of Senators McCumber,
of North Dakota and Capper, of Kan
saS.
|, Already it is apparent that the
issue asoutlined by Mr.. Hayes is be-
ing accepted by republicans and
democrats throughout the nation. In
every instance where state legislators
have voted on the question of ap-
prevail of the proposed league cons
titution the republicans have voted
against, and the democrats for it.
The republican House of Representa-
tives of Iowa recently tabled a reso-
luton of approval. The Missouri
House, also in the control of the re-
publicans, refused to approve the
scheme, the democrats voting for the
Wilson idea.
The vote of disapproval by the
Idaho Legislature several days ago
was along strict party lines. The
Colorado Senate controlled by repub-
licans, has just adopted resolution
disappearing the League, and the
House of Representatives of the
same state, being democratic, has
taken the opposite position.
The republican leaders not only ex-
pect to keep their own party organi-
zation in line against the Wilson idea
of league, but they see chance to
make important inroads on the demo
cratic party. They are predicting
that an anti-Wilson revolt may de-
velop in the next democratic national
convention, centering around Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri, similar to
the split when w. J. Bryan forced
the free silver issue on his party
The republican program is to pre-
sent substitute scheme for the pre-
servation of world peace. It will be
in the nature of world court some
what similar to The Hague tribunal
but on greatly amplifed scale. II
will embody the idea of a judicial
body, rather than a representative
and executive body, having authority
TO direct the affairs of all nations
both great and small.
/ BY this procedure the republicans
hope to gain support from many
democratic leaders whom they have
reason to believe are secretly in sym,
pathy with the movement against the
league as at present proposed. They
believe that sentiment in the south is
inclined against giving up any of the
fundamental principles of American
political doctrine, and they think thai
the issue will surely make Missouri
and Kentucky good fighting GROUND
in the Presidential campaign.
The memory of Theodore Roose
welt is expected to count, perhap:
decisivcly, in the fight. Republican
leaders viii use constantly in theil
campaign against the league tn,
| editorials of Mr.. Roosevelt writer
not long before his death