Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-18
C. 0. P. FOLLOWERS
TO SUPPORT COX
One Hundred Republicans
and Progressives Come
Out for League.

NEW YORK. October IS (by the AS
sociated Press) A joint statement by
over one hundred representative men
and women who have usually sup
ported the republican or progressive
tickets announcing their intention to
vote for Cox and Roosevelt and those
senatorial candidates Nv no stand hon
estly and frankly for ratification of
the treaty and adherence to the
league" was made public here last
night by Hamilton Holt, magazine
editor.
This statement set forth that lit is
now too late to talk of new 'asso-
citation of nations to be created I'M
der republican auspices" and, repudl-
atins the present republican leader
snip that has permitted the repub-
: lican party to become a little Amer
| lea party" urged all republicans and
proSrcssives to put patriotism above
party and add their names to the
list of signers.
This list, according to Mr.. Holt, is
increasing daily. An analysis given
out with the statement said that 1t
included fifteen republican officers of
| the league to enforce peace: clergy
men representing all the principal de-
nominations; the presidents of Ober-
lin. NaSsar, Smith. Bryn Mawr and
Mount Holyoke colleges; several vet
Grams of the great war and nine for
mer republican or progressive party
managers and officeholdcrS. In the
last classification were listed Charles
+. Rowland, New York; Violet NJ. Lee
roy, New York; Theodore MarburS.
Baltimore: w. II. Nichols. Bennington.
VT; Herbert Parsons. New York: Elias
u. Salisbury. Indianapolis: Edwin l..
Slosson. New York; Richard yelling.
New York. and Alice White. Welles-
ley, Mass.
The statement declared that the re-
publican party in drifting toward ma
tional isolation had repudiated po-
litcal traditions under which the
signers had been reared-traditions
emphasizing the international re-
sponsibilities of America, from Lin
coin to Taft.
Hold No Brief.
Asserting that they held no brief
for the present administration and
did not insist ION any particular
wording. of reservations to any ar
forth that they did not desire that "a
cause which should have served to
unite all parties in the same spirit
of common service which won the
great war should be made a basis of
party difference in the present cam
.paign."
such republican statesmen as An
drew d. White, Joseph NJ. Choate and
-Elihu Root labored for the develop
ment of international law and for the
organization of the world through the
two Hague conferences" read the
statement. We would continue in the
path they Indicated.
The statement then cited as proof
that national isolation has never
! been republican watchword,' Presi-
dent Mckinley's attitude toward
China. Theodore Roosevelt's interven
! ton in the Russo-Japanese war. the
work Of William Howard Taft for the
| league of nations. the presidentia
candidacy of Charles f. Hughes ''aS a
| protest against what he thought at
! that time was the Indifference of the
administration to our international re-
sponsibilties" and republican approval
of abandonment by President Wilson
"of his party's historic policy of mar
row nationaliSm to advocate league
of nations"
Would Have Welcomed Pact.
True republican craftsmanship
would have welcomed and supported
the covenant continued the state
ment. TT would have seen in the
league the one practicable means of
restoring and increasing the authority
of international law and its agencies
designed ultimately to supplant war"
| In closing. the statement said:
I'm the absence of definite assur-
ances that the republican candidate s
will use their full influence 10 bring
the United States into the lea que with
BILE to the American people we urge
all republicans and progresSiveS, who
put patriotism above party. to join
with US in working and voting for
James NJ. Cox and Franklin D. Roose-
welt and for those senatorial candi-
dates who stand honestly and frankly
for ratification of the treaty and ad-
herence to the league.