The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-08-12
ELECTION OF HARDING
MEANS AN EARLY PEACE
ELECTION OF COX MEANS REPE-
Triton OF LONG DEBATE
ON COVENANT.

Senator Harding by his speech of
acceptance has insured making and
maintaining the league of nations as
the dominant issue of the presidential
campaign. His stand is so clearly in
opposition to the stand of Governor
Cox. who has declared himself in ac-
cord with President Wilson, that the
issue is now squarely drawn. and the
fight resolves itself into a contest be-
tween the believers in early peace and
those who would indefinitely prolong
the controversy over the league of
nations and indefinitely prolong the
theoretical state of war between the
United States and Germany, says
Washington correspondent.
If Harding is elected. congress will
be called in special session soon after
March 4. and the first business will be
the passage of the Knox resolution or
some similar resolution, repeating the
declaration of war. and by legislative
enactment restoring peace. That is
the quickest and surest way of bring
ing theoretical as well as actual peace.
and that is what Mr. Harding wants.
Moreover, he makes plain that if
elected he will let nothing stand in
the way of securing immediate peace
by this means.
Cox Would Resubmit Treaty.
On the other hand, if Mr.. Cox is
elected and does not in the meantime
change his attitude, he intends to re-
submit to the senate the Wilson treaty |
with the league of nations interviewer I
That means another long, tiresome |
controversy and endless debate, with /
the same outcome ahead as was
reached when Mr.. Wilson first submit
ted the treaty.
If the democrats should carry the
election in November and should gain
control of the senate they could not
under any circumstances have more
than So senators on the democratic
side, and it would be little short of
miraculous if they got that many. BY /
granting the democrats So senators, [
they would still be II votes shy of the
necessary two-t thirds majority, and
would have to get II republican votes
in order to ratify the treaty with res
ervations.
Without the reservations even the
democratic senate would reject the
treaty, as q democrats in the present
senate refused to vote for the treaty
without reservations at the past ses-
sion.
Slim Chance to Ratify Treaty.
Unless the election should be over 5
democratic, and unless {
the people should leave no doubt as to {
their overwhelming Endorsement of {
President Wilson's stand on the league, ?
there would be no chance whatever of c
getting II republicans to vote with {
the democrats for ratification. There $
fore. unless the democrats gain an g
unprecented victory in November [
and roll up majOrities bigger than
they themselves expect, there will be
no possibility whatever for ratifying i
the treaty in the form in which Presi- t
lent Wilson wants it.
Boiled down, the issue between 7
Harding and Cox seems to be this: If i,
Harding is elected there will be early q
peace soon after March by congress G
sional resolution; if Cox is elected the d
I'D treaty fight will be revived, will go n
'ver the same ground covered twice e
BEFORE and will end in a similar situa- Q
ion to that which confronted Presi- n
lent Wilson when he refused to sub h
nit the treaty with reservations as it T.
vas ratified by the present senate. fl
The election of Harding will mean n
Deace during March, 1921; the election p,
# Cox will mean postponement of d
,eace indefinitely. Il