South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-30

Ruinauon always Iurked Just around the corner
over the next state-snd the psychological i'm
preston which the press was expected to hand out
that unless the &. o. p. were ensadded in con-
lress and later the white house everybody would
nave those same conditions existing under their
very noses
Now il is the League Of Nations that everybody
state. multiplicity or
states supposed TO be against OF course it
doesn't take very many interviews from each Of
As states 10 make up a few hundred and these
scattered along, after expected to make
1t appear though there were several thousand OF
million Of n en- IL the noisy minority playing
the psychological game OF seeking to exaggerate
themselves into the apparent role of the unvoiced
majority
But, this is not the worst Of awful situation.
Republicans favoring the League OF Nations
seeking al the same time to discredit the clip
sheet"-declaring that the propaganda campaign
being conducted through it, does not speak for the
republican party all They say. and claim
have the authority Of Chairman VIII II. Hays for it,
that it Is purely private enterprise
controlled 10y a few office holders and ex-of-
flee holders who include the implacable enemies
Of the League It's statements represent only
the opinions Of the ultra radical group opposed
10 the League covenant
Then this comes from the League 10 Enforce
Peace Of which Mir. William H. Taft is president,
apparently also anxious to take the responsibility
for the monstrosty off the shoulders of the repub
Hcan party. The League bulletin says:
The chairman and one of the chief moving
spirits in the association is the Hon. Jonathan
Bourne. jr. ex-senator from oregon. Mr.
Bourne does noJ even represent the majority
sentiment of his state, where both
ators republican and the other demo-
crat favor ratification of the League covenant.
Tt is we'll known that the association not only
has authority to speak for the republican
party. but through its unreasoning attacks
the eague covenant IS causing serious en-
BARR to the republican leaders vino
opposing all efforts 10 make the League party
issue"
But stilI we observe that the same Hon Jonathan
Bourne. jr. head of this so-caled Republican pub
licity association. is the Jonathan Bourne jr.
who is publicity chief for the republican national
committee There seems be a very close relation
ship somewhere We cannot blame Mr. Taft for
seeking to save his party from responsibility for
such propaganda but with Chairman Hays. we be
Heve it is different. There many finger
prints of typical Hays Indebtedness in it, to in
spire great confidence in him for anything that he
may have to say, way the other. a
small as to express the evasive hope that the only
way Woodrow Wilson's name could go down in his
tory with that of George Washington. would be for
him to go down with the George Washington
has enough satan.c poison in his system. pursue
the two-faced course that is very apparently being
pursued in the propaganda campaign before
Anything kill the League of Nations because
Woodrow Wilson championed it at the peace con-
ference-and then anything to escape the response
brity should the killing Elk Pres't Taft and the
republicans in the League Enforce Peace might
well face the issue. and trying their
partys face. When they do that,-they will be more
likely to get somewhere with the "copperheads"
that are arrayed against them.
The "clip-sheet' is republican propaganda. and
nothing else and if the League fails the repubI-
will claim the credit for killing it. isn't the
first Independent movement that the republican
national committee has inaugurated in the course
of its history to put tricks-then dsclaim-
ing responsibility for it when the trick failed.
Pifle on such camouhage.