The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-10-31
.PO|NDEXTER GETS
INTO THE RACE
FOR PRESIDENCY
Republican Senator From Washing
ton State First to Enter.

Republican Senator From Washing
ton State First to Enter.
Washington, Oct. 27.-Miles Poin-
dexter, United States senator from
Washington State, announced yes
terday that he would seek the nomi-
nation of the Republican party for
president in 1920. He is the first
candidate to issue formal notification
of his entrance into the race.
Senator Poindexter in signed
statement to "the people OF the Unit
ed States" established a precedent
by presenting a platform of his per-
sonal principles and policies instead
of awaiting the adoption OF party
platform. He would force the party
to accept his principles.
He is the first of the radical OPP
ponents of" the League OF
Nations to take the field. Ac-
cordingly, he obtains some advan-
tage of Senators Borah of Idaho and
Johnson of California, who have
been considered as the leaders OF
the western aspirants for recogni-
ton from the anti-league element
of the Republican party.
The senator from Washington
leaves no doubt in his platform as
to his position on the treaty OF peace
and the league covenant, and con-
stancy to those principles would
tend to fight in the Republican par
ty over the league.
His Views on the League.
His plank" on the league fol-
lows:
"The proposal which has been re-
Gently presented to the American
people that the United States should
become a trustee for the world
should be denounced as destructive
of liberty and ruinous to the Ameri-
can people, as we'll. as injurious to
the peace and safety of the world.
1.-THE formal proposal recently
laid before the senate, by which, in
the case of the future emergencies,
the American people cannot increase
their army or navy without the un-
animous consent and permission of
a combination Of foreign powers,
would violate the constitution and
surrender the sovereignty OF the ma
ton. 1t should be denounced as
reasonable.
"Tbe Monroe Doctrine should be
re-established in it's full vigor; and
the part representation which it is
proposed to give Europe in the con-
troll of American affairs should be
denied.
SHOULD a future exigency in Eu-
ropean affairs again arise of such
proportions as to menace the inter-
ests of the United States, the Ameri-
can people must be entirely free to
determine for themselves in their
own generation the extent and man
ner in which they shall intervene.
1.-THE peace treaty should be
stripped of the extraneous incum-
brances which have been placed
upon it; and which have so long
delayed it, and the permanent bur-
dens which 1t is proposed to place
upon the United States in the con-
duct of European affairs should be
at once rejected.
Every American soldier, except
those engaged in diplomatic or
other peaceful service should be at
once withdrawn from Europe and
the continent of Asia; and the work
of recruiting and transporting mill
tary forces of the United States for
service in Siberia and Germany, and
the plans being made for sending an
American army to Turkey, should
be at once suppressed. The re-
sources of our people and the activi-
ties of their government should be
devoted to their own interests in
stead of those of foreign nations.
Opposed to All Radicalism
Senator Poindexter opposes So
cialism, Prohibition and all persons
or parties who attempt to upset and
destroy the present form of govern
ment
There can be no compromise
with anarchy" he stated, and de-
clares war upon such labor leaders,
or labor unions as oppose the gov
eminent. He denounces the threat
of the railway brotherhoods to tie
up the transportation system of the
country as attempted government
by terror for the benefit of special
class"
Thes enator insists that the nation
cannot be ruled either by capital or