Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-23
REFERENDUM ON NATIONS
LEAGUE Is WELCOMED
By G. O. P. CHIEF
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the activities of which are so
woven into the history Of this re-
public, and very sacred and
solemn undertaking to utter the
faith and aspirations OF the many
millions who adhere to that party.
The party platform has chartered
the way, yet somehow, we have
come to expect that Interpretation
which voices the faith of nominees
who must assume specific tasks.
Let me be understood clearly
from the very beginning. ! believe
in party sponsorship in govern
ment. I believe in party govern
ment as distinguished from person
al government. individual, dicta
torial, autocratic or what not. In
citizenship of more than hun
dred millions 1t is impossible to
reach agreement upon all questions.
Parties are formed by those who
reach concensusy of opinion. 1t
was the intent Of the founding
fathers to give to this republic
dependable and enduring popular
government, representative In
form, and il was designed to make
political parties not only the pre-
serving sponsors but also the eff
fectiye agencies through which
hopes and aspirations and convic-
lions and conscience may be trans
lated INTO public performance.
Popular Government.
Popular government has been an
inspiration of liberty since the
dawn of civilization. Republics have
risen and fallen, and a transition
from party to personal government
has preceded every failure since
the world began Under the consti-
tuition we have the chartered way
to security and perpetuity We
know it gave to us the safe path
to a developing eminence which no
people in the world ever rivalled.
1t has guaranteed the rule of in
telligent. deliberate public opinion
expressed through parties, Under
this plan a masterful leadership |
becomingly may manifest its influ-
ence, but peoples will still re-
mains the supreme authority.
The American achievement un-
der the plan Of the fathers Is no.
where disputed. On the con-
trary the American example has |
been the model of every republic |
which glorifies the progress of lib
erty, and Is everywhere the leaven !
of representative democracy which |
has expanded human freedom. 1t
has been wrought through party |
government.
No man is big enough to run this
great republic. There never has
been one. Such domination was
never intended. Tranquility, stabil-
ity endability-all are assured
in party sponsorship. and we mean
to renew the assurance which were
rended in the cataclysmal war.
1t was not surprising that we
went far afield from safe and pre-
scribed paths amid the war
anxieties. There was the unfortu-
nate tendency before. there was
the surrender of congress to the
growing assumption of the execu-
tive before the world war i'm
perilled all the practices we had
learned to believe in; and in the
war emergency every safe guard
was swept away. In the name OF
democracy we established autoc-
racy. We are not complaining at
this extraordinary bestowal or as
sumption In war. 1t seemed tenn
porari1y necessary; our alarm is t,
over the failure to restore the con- I
stitutional methods when the war
emergency ended.
Our first committal is the restor-
alton of Representative popular
government, under the constitution,
through the agency Of the republic
can party. Our vision includes
more than a. chief executive, we
believe In a cabinet of highest ca
pacity, equal to the responsibilities
which our system contemplates, In
whose councils the vice president.
second official of the republic, shall
be asked to participate. The
same vision includes cordial UNI
derstanding and co-ordinated ac-
tivities with a house of congress,
fresh from the people, yoicing the 1
convictions which members bring ,
from direct contact with the cleo
torate. and cordial cooperation
along with the restored functions
of the senate, fit to be the great
est deliberative body of the world.
Its members are the designated /
sentinels on the towers of constitu-
tional government. On the resump- :
ton of the senate's authority saved ,
to this republic its independent ma :
tionality, when autocracy mislnter- {
preted the dream of a world ex- {
pertinent to be the vision of
world ideal. |,
International Relations. II
1t Is not difficult, Chairman ,
Lodge, to make ourselves clear on ,
the question of international rela- !
tionship. We republicans OF the
senate, conscious of our solemn !
opths and mindful of our constitu- t
tional obligations, when we saw ]
the structure Of a world super q
government taking visionary form. I
Joined in a becoming warning OF I
our devotion to this republic. II
the torch of constitutionalism had :
not been dimmed, the delayed i
peace of the world and the trag- fc
edy of disappointment and Eu- c
ropes misunderstanding of Amer '
lea easily might have been avoid a
ed. The republicans of the senate 4
halted the barter of independent 8
eminence and influ- I
ence which it was proposed to ex-
change for an obscure and UNI {
equal place in the merged govern Z
ment of the world. Our party s
means to hold the heritage of Am r
erican nationality unimpaired and i
"
The world will not misconstrue, q
We do not mean to hold aloof. We 4
do not mean to shun a single re-
of this republic to
world civilization. There is no a
hate in the American heart We r
have no envy. no suspicion, no :
aversion for any people In the \
world. We hold to our rights and =
means to defend. aye, we mean toI I,
sustain the rights of this nation a
and our citizens alike. everywhere :