Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-18

? This list, according to Mr. Holt, Is
Increasing daily. An analysis given out
with the statement said that it included
10 Republican officers of the League
to Enforce Peace; clergymen represent
ing all the principal denominations; the
Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke colleges.
Several veterans of the great war and
nine former Republican or Progressive
party managers and office holders.
Noted Men on List.
In the classification were listed
Charles p. Rowland. Of New York. Vio-
let Nj, Leroy. New York; Theodore Mar
burg, Baltimore: W. p. Nichols. Ben
nington. Verm mt: Herbert Parsons. New
York; Elias D. Salisbury. Indianapolis:
Richard yelling, New York, and Alice
White. Wellesley, Mass.
The statement declares that the Re-
publican partg in drifting toward ne
tienaf isolation. had repudiated political
traditions under which the signers had
been reared-traditions emphasizing the
international responsibilities of America
from Lincoln to Taft
Asserting that they had no brief for
the present administration and did hot
insist "on any particular wording Of res.
ervations to any articles of the treaty.
the signers set forth that they did not
served TO unite all parties III the same
spirit of common service which won the
great war should be made a basis of
party difference III the present caul-
paign.
Follow Roofs Path.
Such Republican statesmen as An
drew n White. Joseph N. Choate md
Elihu Root EaDared for the Development
of International law and for the organiza-
ton of the world through the two Hague
conferences read the statement. We
would continue in the path they Infi-
Gated"
The statement then cited as proof that
national isolation has never been Re-
publican watch word" President Mckin-
ley's attitude toward Chile; theodore
Roosevelts intervention into the Russo
Japanese war. the work OF William How-
ard Taft for the League Of Nations: the
presidential candidacy Of Charles =.
Hughes. las protest against what ne
thought at that time was the indifference
of the administration TO our international
and Republican anproy-
al of abandonment bs President Wilson
"ef his partg's historic policy Of narrow
to advocate League OF
Nations
"rrue Republican craftsmanship would
have welcomed and supported the cove
nant." continued the statement. 1T
would have seen in the league the one
practicable means of restoring AMI in
the authority of international
laws and its agencies designed ultimately
to supplant war
Declaring that during the late war
everyone agreed that it was imperative
TO adopt some measures to prevent its
recurrence" the statement continued:
The question confronting America is
we shall accept the existing lea
que or insist Upon new international
agreement having the same object.
Dismissing the thought OF new AS
of nations the statement said:
Want America First
'tThe proposal to ask 43 member ma
ions to scrap the existing league. en-
.er another peace conference and agree
IN some underlined experiment can no
onger he taken seriously
The statement then reviewed the
work already underway of various lea
que agencies and said:
I'VE want our country to stand first
n the councils of nations We want our
to share fully in the great de
'isions which are shaping the future OF
he world We cannot indorse Senator
Harding's policy of America last"