Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-07-04

prevent the adoption of the League
upon the apparent theory that it's
ratification will assist President Will
son and the Democratic Party" and
ne commends to them Il study of the
advice of Theodore Roosevelt. given
shortly before his death, that "there
must be an hon3t effort to eliminate
some of the causes that may cause
future w2rs and to minimize the
areas of such wars"
For the attribution of partisan mo-
tlVes we have further TIE very high
authority of e-prcsidcnt Taft, who,
N AN article in the Philadelphia pub,
nc Ledger Of Friday, June 20, warns
inc Republicans of the Senate that
{ icy are following the paths which
cad only to Giscredit. '"rhev must
ieci as uneasy" he says, US those
tcdeiaiists who fought the Louisiana
purchase as unconstitutional because
IL was made by Jefferson" He re-
minds them thAt the historical at
titude OF their party is one of loyal
support of the nation in meeting
every responsibility il has had TO
assume TraditioaaIy, the Federal
i,arty ana its heir, the Republican
rarity. have sustained the doctrine of
i "N"' Hi"i oii.iii L!'aI the constitutional
powers of the Government are equal
to the discharge of ali duties il must
perform IN working out It's destino
CAS- one Of the great family of mn
tons" 1t is the Democrats WHO have
insisted upon "st:ict CONSTRUCTION. j"
Al this moment the position of the
party is reversed. The Republican
Senators, in so far as tl:cir leader
snip is knowlcdgcd, have committed
their party to 4 policy Of Shrinking
and littlcncss.
re-PrcS;dcnt Taft gives his distin-
Euished support to the charge of the
democrats IN the Snate that the For
cign Relations Committee was "stack.
Cd against the League of Nations.
Care was taken that the committee
should have Republicans enough TO
CIV them Il majority without the vote
MI. McCumber, known to be favor
able to the treaty, and by Il careful
selection of Republicans for that ma
iorlty whose opposition to the Treaty
mas been pronounced" Senator Kei-
lloogg, who should have had place on
the committee, had the hardihood to
make = speech III favor of the League
OF Nations and he refused to sign
the round robin" therefore, he was
denied and Senator Moses, newly
come to the Senate, was chosen. for
the obvious reason that he denounced
the work of the Peace Conference.
Are not thse Republicans, "from n
mere party standpoint. handling edged
tools ," asks the cX-President. Can
they afford 10 80 before the country
ana uphold their course in defeating
the Treaty when there is Il decpseat
q impression that they ar. in part mt
least, prompted in their methods.
unusual ad not according to constitu-
tional procedure. by personal and
partisan motives ?" The argument
will be pressed against them that
they have done much 'to hinder the
making of Il treaty at all by Il course
tending to weaken the lawrlul autho
rity of the President in the Confer
cnce."
These Republican Senators have be-
come apprchensivc, thy hav given
signs of alarm about the view the
country may take of the lengths they
are gong IN opposition to the Presi-
dent, to the Treaty and to the League
Their earlier turbulence has given
way to an attempt to explain and
justify. Their explanations do not
eNtcnuate: they cannot Justify their
course, they cannot command the
support of all cf their party in the
Senate; leading Republican, outside
the Snate who have the respect and
me confidence of the country deplore
thir attitude of obstruction, ensure
them for the course they have taken,
and sound Il warning of the disaster
they invite by attempting to lead
their party, where it will not follow,
into Il policy of narrow Dnrtisan
sterile antagonism to the creative
lahors OF the Conference at Paris,
upon which the hopes of the world
ar conferred.
In q communication to Senator
Wadsworth and Senator Calder, TWEEN
ty-eight prominent Republicans, all
all members of the party organization
in this city, urge that political par
tisanship should have no place in the
consideration on its merits of the
of Nations" they point out that the
Republican Party Cannot Justly be
placed in an attitude of hostility to
the project adopted by the Conference
at Paris" since that very Party "has
done so much to promote the princi-
Piles of peaceful settlement of inter-
national disputes"
The Senatorial obstructionists have
no hope of passing the Knox reso
luton. Their only wise and safe
course is to drop it altogether and to
cease opposing the forces OF public
opinion in the United Stats and
throughout the civilized world.
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