Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-15
HYPOCRISY OF
COOLIDGE SHOWN
Oklahoma Governor Proclaims
League of Nations Day.
sneciaI to The Times.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Oct. 15.-l
Pointing to the address of Governor Cal
win Coolidge of Massachusetts,, Repub-
lican nominee for Vice President, in In =
PRODUCING President Wilson to a Boston
conference, Governor J. B. A. Robertson
has declared be win proclaim Sunday
Oct. d, as League Of Nations day" ir
Oklahoma, and denounces Coolidge's re-
fusal to issue a similar proclamation asI
partisan hypocrisy"
when President Wilson brought back
from Paris the peace treaty, including
the league covenant, he landed at Bos
ton" Governor Robertson said. TN al
notable meeting there the night after his
arrival he was introduced by Governor
Coolidge, and on that occasion Governor
Coolidge said:
1--WE welcome him with reception more
marked than even that which was accord
ed to General Washington, more united
than could have been st any time during
his life to President Abraham Lincoln, we
welcome him as the representative Of a
great people, as a great statesman, as
one to whom We have intrusted our des-
tiny and one whom we assure we win
support in the future in the working out
OF that destiny as Massachusetts has sup
ported in the past
Governor Coolidge not only made that
statement in introducing President VIII
son at Boston. but later, in the I.epub-
lican State convention of Massachusetts,
the whole weight and influence Of Gov
ernor Coolidge was thrown toward the
Endorsement Of the League Of Nations.
with the possible exception Of the late
Murray Crane, Governor Coolidge was
more influential than was any other man
n oh g.
IN CLOSING DAYS
OF CAMPAIGN.
I'VE are now In the closing days OF
a presidential campaign. We expect heat,
but we do not expect hypocrisy. We ex-
peet pugnaeity, but we do not expect
mendacity; we expect advocacy, but we
do not expect apostasy.
"The League of Nations day commit
tee is headed by A. Lawrence Lowell
president Of Harvard University, and
Republican. It's membership is absolute
~ non-partisan.
ain his debate with Senator Lodge ut
Boston on the league. he reminded SEN
ator Lodge in opening the debate that
he (Lowell) had always been consistent
Iy Republican, The suggestion, there
fore, of this committee to have Oct g
designated as a day for urging careful
study Of the league covenant was obso-
lutely free OF partisan purpose. and moth
ing more than serious attempt by men
and women of good conscience, good tasts
and high intelligence to obtain fair and
disinterested consideration of the sub
feet.
''Mr. Coolidge as the Republican nom
inee for Vice President. is no longer the
Governor Coolidge Of Massachusetts,, who
introduced President Wilson at Boston,
who advocated the Endorsement Of the
league in the Republican State copven-
ton at Massac husetts, and who upheld
the Law and order in the Boston police
mems strike.
"He is rabid political partisan who
has Joined Republican managers in their
systematic efforts to choke the channels
OF publicity and to suppresS~the truth.
'"They do. not care to let in the light.
and make known the truth upon the
league for it means the defeat Of the
Republican ticket. Mr.. Coolidge knows
this. Even his prostitution Of his official
position to quench the light and to stifie
the truth will not avail