The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-09-18
WASHINGTON OR cENEvAp

CIT lie constitution os the covenant that is the paramount issue,
said Senator Harding IN his speech at Marion yesterday. 1.-THE
two are irreconcilable. We cannot be governed from both
Geneva and Washington. We cannot follow our present chief mag
istyate without forsaking the father of our country
This is what the New Mexico republican state convention meant
when it adopted the following statement Of principle as the dominant
plank Of its platform:
1--WE stand for the Americonization of Washington, Lin.
coin and Roosevelt as opposed to the internatonelism of
Woodrow Wilson. We are opposed to any international ar
raneement which will surrender any part of our constitu.
ton, our free institutions or our national sovereignty, or that
will send American boys and American treasure to fight the
present and future wars in other parts Of the world at the
Wilson Governor Cox stands pledged by his own statement
as follows.
"'what he promised, / shall, II elected, endsavor with
all my strength 70 give
(which means. To give the sovereignty and the indie
pendence Of the United States; to give to European pow
es a control over the army and navy of the United States;
to give Great Britain six votes to America $ one in the league
ing; to give to alien coursels a power over war and pence
that the constitution now limits exclusively to the congress-
and the protection Of the blood and the wealth of the United
voters Of Maine expressed this week when they gave the amazing
majority Of $1,000 against the cause Of Wilson and Cox in the sol
in that election, meant to say for themselves to the rest of the nation
il is what VIII II. Hays, chairman of the republican national commit
tee meant when he said, apropos of the women vote in Maine;
Article IL.
being to the soldiers. They have had no voice in their dis
position For $50 years the women have inspired the sol.
have had no hand in the disposition of these soldiers. Now,
voice in the disposition Of our soldiers. The republican
party is ready to leave 1t to the women Of the nation to de-
eide whether or not this country shall enter into an obleag-
ton which will enable her sons to be ordered by foreign
powers to settle foreign disputes in foreign lands" 80
What Senator Harding said yesterday at Marion is what Gov
crnor Stephens and leading business men Of California meant when
in Chicago this week, they united in forecasting a more amazing ma
iority in their state against Cox and the Wilson league than that just
recorded on the eastern coast,
Perhaps Governor Cox unconsciouIy indicated his knowledge
Of the truth Of what Harding has said and the now demonstrated un
derstandins and approval of the republican candidates position
against the leagne Of nations, when he began his tour Of California
with q palpahle effort to plarate the friends of Senator Hiram John
son. whose courageous opposition first aroused the people of the west
10 the menace of the league.
1t will be interesting 10 note just what effect the Cox apphca
lion of soft soap will have upon the sturdy spine of the Californian.
for Senator johnson is to follow the democratic candidate through
California IN a speaking tour.
II will be equally interesting to note what will be the effect oil
the earnest efforts Of a little group of office holders, office seekers
deaagogues and red herrings to divert the attention of the men and
women Of New Mexico from the overshadowing issue in this cam
paign the issue of government from Washington or Geneva.
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Colonel Bronson Cutting and Frank A. Hubbell have finally ere
ated the long-threatened spin in the republican party, by going over
10 the cause Of Cox, Hanna and msathsfed longings for things that
cannot be. Thus we have an interude OF custard pie comedy in