The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-26
G. O.P. MUST OPPOSE
|LEAGUE, SAYS B0RAH
1t Is o Party Matter in Every
Way, He Insists, With U. 8.
Honor at Stake.
"ACT OR ACCEPT sCORN"
Asks IL q Political Organize
ton Could Survive the
Miserable Role"
seectai DesrnfcA 20 Tn sun.


WAsHrNuroN, May 25.-If the Repub-
lean party fails to line UP solidly in
opposition 70 Woodrow Wilson's League
Of Nations plan It win Justly invite the
scorn Of the American people. Senator
Borah In . letter to b. ID. Dunno of
Wichita, Kan. made public here to-
night took this stand natiy and finally.
He said:
"A political party which would fail
70 take . stand upon . question which
Involves the honor and Independence
OF our republic would be At only for
the derisson and contempt of all patri-
otic men.
Those who urge that this is not a
matter TOR party action shut their eyes
TO facts and close their minds to the
thinss which are trsnspiring about US.
II u already . party matter. Tho sec
ond night before the President left for
the second time for our foreign capital
suitAtion. One need not speculate a.
to What took place.
The able and faithful chairman of
the party hastsned. from tho White
House TO he hrse pubiic rostrum ana
announced the position Of the party and
denounced all who opposed the League
as doing % for party reasons. It was
then and there made and ever has been
party issue 30 far as tho Democratic
party IL concsrned
DO you know of any Newspaper
recognised ~ . party organ that IL not
advocating II upon party linear They
were all for the first DRAFT because II
was perfect and they are all for the
second draft because. as they say, II has
been greatly Improved.
P-s... nss~~-Ss
TT 10 true there are Thousands of
ioyh Democrats who. placing their
country above their party. are not for
II These mon never will be for the
party again while It stands for this
to the commentator Of their country
men, but, having left . party because
1t is for the league, will they take refuge
with a party which would have no pol
icy In regard to it7
but vastly moro important u this:
Can political party survive the miser-
able role Of having no word to utter to
Its millions Of supporters when the
most vital problems ever presented to
our people 10 up for consideration 2
What 10 a political party fort To steal
into onice upon passing incidents and
By reason OF temporary blunders and
leave the great questions which In
volve the honor of our country and
the tranquility and happiness Of our
people az whole to 70 unnoticed7
1 The great mass Of the ceopie are not
members of . political party for the
loaves and fishes, haunted with an eager
appetite for the deshpots. They are
there because II furnishss them the
method and the only method under our
FORM OF government Of calculating their
| WiahAa T.
the questions which touch most nearly
the welfare Of their government ana
tho prosperity and power of the nation.
The greater problem, therefore. the
more searchingly II reaches for tho fun
damsntal principles Of government, the
moro quickly and boldly should q polit-
icai organization speak forth It must
take position in such q controversy.
NO political party can live In q gov.
eminent controlled By its moral forces
ana public opinion and dedicated tc
liberty which refuses to take a position
upon the great problems Of nationa.
existence or which strikes at the funda.
mental guarantees Of personal liberty.
Questions Put Before U. q.
we have before u the question,
whether We shall keep ourselves FIRE,
from entanKiing alliances with European
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Western Continent free from the in,
trisues and conspiracies OF the Ole
World, whether we shall determine 70,
ourselves and upon our own sense O,
Justice and Righteousness when we shall
send our people to war or whether w,
shall delegate that power to q tribuna
composed almost entirely Of foreigners
whether we shall keep our young mer
at homo free from the sacrifices of wa,
until our own sense of duty and on,
own loyalty TO country demand other
wise. or whethsF We shall send them t.
the northern shambles of Ada or Der
haps the mental service Of police dog,
In Europe under the order Of the 'coun
cir controlled By those who are In n,
Wise responsible to ths American people
IF these questions are not for party
action and party declarations, pras
what could BEL And the Republican
party. which was organised to destro,
human slavery and preserve the Union
is tho party above all which should be
vigtlant TO protect the untrammeled In.
dependence and the unchallenged SOW.
srs;gnty or this nation.
II hope to see and I expect to see the