New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Would Call Ablest Men of
Country in Conference
to Formulate Plans to
Offer to Other Nations
Opposes Alliance
Against the Weak
Says a Peace Resolution
Would Not Be Separate
Treaty With Germany

MARION, Ohio, Aug. 2S.-Declar.
ing that he believed humanity would
welcome the creation of an interna-
tional association for conference and
a world court whose verdicts all ma
tions would DE willing and able to
uphold, Senator Warren G. Harding
proposed to-day the reconstruction of
the Hague Tribunal with teeth in
it,
In doing this, Senator Harding
said he was willing to combine the
good offered by the failed league"
with that of the Hague Tribunal,
cutting the bad out of both.
The Republican nominee made this
utterance to the members of two
delegations that had come to his
irons porch this afternoon from
Indiana and Minnesota. 1t was his
purpose in this address to make clear
and definite his position on the
League of Nations question.
The league of Versailles is beyond
restoration, Senator Harding said,
and, referring to the Russian-P Polish
conflict, he directed attention to the
utter impotency of the league as a
preventative of war. 1t could not
survive single test, he said.
Quoting Viscount Grey, former Brit
ish Ambassador to the United States.
as saying that the Americans-a COM
mittee Of the should be in
trusted with the task Of drafting re-
construction scheme, Senator Harding
said he valued this helpful, friendly
suggestion very highly, and then rc-
vealed his own plan for approaching
the powers with a constructive nro-
gram.
What is in my mind" explained the
nominee, "is the wisdom of calling into
real conference the ablest and most ex-
perienced minds Of this country, from
whatever walks of life they may be de-
rived and without regard to party af-
hilatlon, to formulate definite. prac-
'lcai pan tor tAe consideration of the
controlling foreign powers"
liners With Cox Plan
Explaining the difference bette his
policy and thar Of GoNernor Co, S.ra-
tor Harding said:
de has said fatlv that re u
, IN laVor OF going IN On the aass ar
nounced by the President.
i ana nor. That S ,he whole 4iiFer-
l,t1s
one, because Il involves the disnarity
between a world court Of justice sap
piemented ~ world 4. soc,a;ion for
conference, CT the one hand. and the
council Of The league on the osher."
The difference is simple. but NO
found. the S"nator said, and continl-,.
ne ene - judicial tribunal to
pc governed by fixed and definite prin
clples OF law administered without pas
son or nreJ &c; the other an assoc
cation Of diplomats and politicians
whose determinations ure sure 10 he
Influenced by considerations of ex-
peolency and national seifishness,
me oiH terence is one with which Ameri-
cans are familiar. the old and funda-
mental difference between govern
ment OF laws and government Of
men"
Two Types of Alliances
Classifying international relation
sAlps, Senator Harding said there were
two types. One ne described as an
offensive and defensive alliance OF
great powers like that created at YER
sailles to impose their will on the help
less people Of the world"
The nominee said he was frankly
opposed TO such scheme and there
was understood to be "a message for
Irish sympathizers in this paragraph:
am opposed to the very thought
OF our Republic becoming party to so
great an outrage upon other peoples,
VINO nave as good right TO seek their
political freedom as we had in 1916
and have the same right to develop
emiLence as we hold for ourselves.
The other type" he said, sis a So
clety OF free nations. or an association
OF free nations, or league CT free ma
tons, animated by considerations Of
right and justice instead of might and
Self-interest and not merely proclaimed
an agency IN pursuit of peace, but So
organized and so participated in as 10
make the actual attainment of peace a
reasonable possibility"
In the Hague Tribunal, Of which the
United States is a member. Senator
Harding believes there is the frame
work for such an organization. More
over, he points out that the tribunal
unlike the league Of Versailles, is still
functioning, and within a few weeks
VIII resume its committee sessions mr.
der the Craftsmanship Of an Americans
representative. This representative is
Elihu Root
Why the Hague Tribunal Failed
Admitting that the tribunal was In
effective in preventing the great war.
Senator Harding says this was oniv
because Germany was secretly bent
upon ruthless invasion and was ahie
TO prevent the adoption OF measures
'vA'"h '''"ht have h""n .Sfectual Now,