Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-11
SAYS JOHNSON
ISLOGICAL MAN
FOR PLATFORM
Borah Gives His Interpreta-
ton of Report Made by
Resolution Committee.
AGAINST GEN. WOOD NOW
BY WILLIAM z. BORAH-
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SeTvice.1

BY WILLIAM e. BORAH-
| (Copyright, 1920, by international News
Service9
| CHICAGO, June 1.-The attempt %
pledge the party to a ratification OF tns
| treaty and league of nations he's Wholly
failed.
| A treaty and league which can nor
have IAN affirmative endorsement wita
reservations after eighteen months OF uS-
bate is dead treaty and league.
The principle upon which this leaRu@
! Is built is denounced in the platforms
| the league itself is denounced in the plat
form and there Is no pledge to ratify
any kind Of league
This ought to terminate and end once
and for all the attempt to surrender the
| Independence of the United States and l
think 1t does.
The defeat Of the plank to ratify the
league makes johnson the logical candi-
date. One of the most famous and con-
| scientous supporters of the league OF
nations a man who has taken an acflvs
part in the fght for a league for tho
last several years and who has con-
tributed large sums of money TO the
cause, stated to me this afternoon that
| the only logical thing for the convention
now was to put the man upon the plat
form who is in harmony with the plags
form and that we should therefore noIna~
nate Johnson.
| While he is very much opposed TO john
| son individually and very much In favor
Of the league, he said there was only one
logical thing to do and that Is to make
| the only man who is a candidate that
! fits the platform the nominee.
| 1t must inevitably be the judgment OF
every one that Johnson is now the log
zeal candidate Of the convention. 1t grows
more and more apparent each day that
he is not only the logical candidate, but
! that he is the one who commands the
popular support and arouses the public
interest necessary to certain election.
1t is one OF the most remarkable things
I have ever heard In a convention TO
hear delegate after delegate say that
Gen Wood could not carry his state. be-
cause, hrst, the farming classes were In
a great majority against the nomination
Of Wood second, on account Of his be-
lief of compulsory military training, ana
third, because of the perfectly intolerabie
! expenditure Of money to secure the noua-
nation.
Yet this delegate by reason OF some
situation or some conditions felt he had
to vote for Wood at least for ballot OF
two.
SEE BLUNDER
.
The republican congress rejected uni
versal compulsory military training, the
republican convention has rejected It,
now to nominate a man who stands for
that and that alone as a distinct issue
would be a blunder the fruits of which
would be gathered later. When there Is
added to this the fact that millions have
been expended to secure the nomination
II seems incredible that a republican cons
vention would even contemplate such ac-
ton. Hourly, therefore, by reason OF the
platform, by reason Of the policies for
which Gen. Wood stands, of the practices
preceding his nomination, Johnson be-
comes the logical candidate Of the coz
yention.
We have put out a platform covering
| n multitude Of subjects Of most vital
concern to the American people, plat
form which would admit of a campaign
upon the highest level, dealing with subs
iects Of vital concern to the American
people. This convention is certainly
therefore, not going to make the domi.
nant issue Of the campaign the questions
Of the improper use Of money in elee.
lions. We have just decided that you
cannot sell the republic, now we shouts
decide that you cannot sell the prezs-
dency.