The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-30
BIZ GEORGE WHITE.
Chairman Democratic National
Committee.

Chairman Democratic National
Committee.
written for the United Press.)
Copyright. 1920, by United Press.)
New York, Oct. GIVE began
this fight well underneath. For
two years the Republican party
had slowly poisoned the country
against the eight years of the pres
ent administration. the greatest
legislative record in Americas his
tory. crowned by the amazing tri-
umph of our war machine.
An astute politician. Mr.. Hays.
has been furnished with limitless
funds with which to build an or
ganization and to spread propagan-
da against Democrats. The country
was emerging from the unusual
conditions Of the war. Taxes were
heavy and the unthinking blamed
the party in power for their bur-
dens. ignoring the fact that the
Republican party had already been
in control of congress for two years
and had submitted a do-less record.
which, for lack of leadership. for
cowardice. for obstruction OF the
processes of honorable peace. is a
lasting blot upon that party's his
tory.
Under these handicaps we began.
after the nomination Of Governor
Cox and Mr. Roosevelt, to try TO
awaken the American people to the
issues and to attempt to bring them
back to a realization of the facts
about the issues.
C0;orless Candidate.
Deliberately q group of senator's
had nominated at Chicago a color
| less candidate whose every lack
of conviction they we're sure would
provide a channel for all the con-
fiicting Republican elements TO
flow through into victory. Delhi
erately their platform had been
phrased to straddle on the League
Of Nations.
! In the spirit Of that dishonest
platform the candidates have made
/ their campaign until daily in the
press half of the Republicans con-
tend that the candidate is a pro-
Lacquer and the other half assert
that he has scrapped it.
We lacked money at the beginning
and we lack it now. At least two
millions of dollars were required
effectively to put before the people
through orators and general pub
licity and organization the facts I
have touched on above In addi-
ton to this the League Of Nations
proposal had been subjected to
more misunderstanding and down
right misstatement than any great
cause before the American people.
Few had read the covenant: the
demagogy about article 10 and the
"six votes to England" had been
persistently INDUCED in; a-d a
large portion Of the less reputable
Republican newspapers declined to
permit US forum for discussion.
People Aroused.
But the best laid plans of man
; ayers go awry The greatest po-
litical machine ever set up in this
country is no harder for the Amer
ican people to smash than the
smallest township organization. All
that was needed was to prove the
truth and justice OF our cause, 10
present the truth about the cove
nant, to nail the lie that Governor
Cox insised upon accepting the
league as it came from Versailles
to brand the attacks on article 10
in a word, to arouse the moral
conscience CT the people and to
= show them the certain avenue to
q world peace.
We were beginning to move the
mountain when fate decided that
: the Republican candidate himself
: should supply the push That showed
l it over. At Des Moines, seeming To
: break away from his board ci
] strategy and to permit his real
: sentiments to be known, he said ::
: Il do not want any clarifying reser-
] vations. I want to turn my back
5 on these obligations. stand for
l rejection"
Then Came Storm.
. The language was unmistakable.
: Senators Johnson and Borah. the
: leading anti-leaguers. having de-
/, manded 1t, promptly accepted It Tor
what it was: an assurance by Sem
Ator Harding that the United States
would not enter THE league or A
league, however 1t might be modi.
fed or amended. A shocked nation
read and re-read the words. Ther
came the storm.
Realizing that they had been de
ceived and betrayed by those wht
| pretended that Senator Hardinl
/ was . Lacquer, the independeptl
and Republicans who put thei
: country and permanent world peac
;, above party. abandoned tine candi
date to his fate. They came 70 u
d in tens of thousands.