The Alaska daily empire., 1919-04-05
Only One Candidate.
(New York World )


 The New York Sun, which is the organ of the Re publican National Committee-of the Republican chine distinguished from the rank and file of the party-boldly declares in its editorial columns that the League of Nations is partisan issue and that the 9,O00,000 Republicans of the country must sustain the great party leaders the United States Senate" As the Sun describes the situation
 The 1920 national campaign is already
 The League of Nations is the great issue.
 The Democratic Party, led by it's Democratic
 President, has sounded the call of battle. If
 the Sun knows the American people, if the
 Sun knows the kind of stuff the Republican
 Party is made of it has no doubt as to the
 kind of answer it will hurl it's lifelong
 enemy, the Democratic Party. It has
 doubt to the account it will give of itself
 in the great fight against yielding up
 national independence to gratify the
 ity and to satisfy the ambition of danger
 ously impractical autocrat-the greatest
 tocrat of all time, in temperament, in char
 acteristc and in his reach for world power,
 world dominion
 This war, in which more than 1000 900 lives have been lost and nearly $2OO 900 OOO 900 in ure destroyed, decreed by the German Junkers who were in control of the German Government Have American Junkers begun a campaign prevent for the next two and to give the world over, if need be, to anarchy and Bolshevism in order provide them with political issue for the 1920 campaign? We ask this question in all seri- ousness, for if the Sun what it says other conclusion is possible.
 The provision for the League of Nations is to be integral part of the treaty of peace. That has already been decided by unanimous the Paris Conference The present controversy in Paris refers only the protocol, not to the treaty The League of Nations be made partisan issue in 1920 only if the Senate refuses to ratfy the peace treaty shelves the treaty until after the 1920 election To do that to prolong the state of until after the next Presidential campaign, with all the consequences that such policy will involve That is the only way this programme of obstruction and re- action in the of party politics be carried out, and when the Sun insists that the League of Nations be the Republican issue in 1920 it declaring in effect that there shall be general peace for a world until after 1920.
 Thus far every effort has been made keep the League of Nations from becoming partisan ques- tion. Of it's two most powerful champions in this country, is the Democratic President of the United States and the other is the Republican President There Democrats and Republicans alike in the ranks of the opposition just there Democrats and Republicans alike in the ranks of it's supporters.
 There is nothing in the fundamental principles of either party which furnishes the lines for legitimate partisan cleavage For managing politicians of the Republican Party to play fast and loose with this vital question for ancied partisan advantage would be shame the Republic. They may attempt it. ln- deed the Supns relations with the Republican zation warrant the belief that they already tempting it. but if so, they will incur weight of odium that will wreak any party machine that sumes it.
 No honest patriotic American could desire that the League of Nations should be partisan issue, and only mind temporarily unbalanced by party passion could refer to the President the United as the greatest of all history but if the Sun it's Republican associates have their way, there be only logical candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920. His is Will jam Hohenzolern and he formerly the German Emperor