The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-15
MANY REPUBLICANS
FAVOR A LEAGUE.
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Issue Statement Pledging
Support to Harding and
.. League
FAVOR CHANGING II II ]
|. FAMOUS ARTICLE 10
Would Not Pledge United States to Col
TO War for Other Nations Demo
cratic Plan Means War-Repnblican
Plan Would Bring Peace.

cratic Plan Means War-Repnblican
Plan Would Bring Peace.
NEW YORK, Oct. IA statement
explaining the position in the presidential
campaign of 81 prominent men who have
advocated SOME form of International
agreement was issaed over their sigma
lures here last night and announced they
would support Senator Harding, the Re
publican nominee.
Elihuj Root, Herbert Hoover, George
w. Wickersham, Henry L. Stimson, A.
Lawrence LpweH,. Henry W. Taft and
Charles e. Hughes were among the sign
ers of the statement. The statement says
in part:- sf.'sA -
1.-THE undersigned who desire that thea
United States SHAH do her full part in
association with the other civilized na-#
tions, SO prevent war, have earnestly cons
sidered how we may contribute most efec-I
lively to that end by our votes in the COM
1.-THE Question between the candidates.
is not whether our country shall join in
such an association. 1t is whether We
shall join under an agreement containing
/ the exact provisions negotiated by Presi-
dent Wilson at Paris or under an agree
EmeIN which. omitS or modities some of
those provisions which are very objec+
tionable to great numbers of the American
Calling attention to notice given to
President Wilson by IS senators that
they would not approve a treaty in the
form then, lpFEQpo}sSed, the statement de-
cIared 49, ''N NV '.
"A majority of the senate voted to
ratify the league agreement with modi-
tications which there is good evidence to-
show would have been accepted by the
lother nations = but Mr.. Wilson refusedt
to accept these notifications. and insisted
upon the agreement absolutely unchanged
and Democratic senators sufficient in
number to defeat the treaty as modified
followed Mr.. Wilson by voting against
ratification"
After pointing out that the Democratic
candidate and platform stand for theI
agreement negotiated at Paris while the
Republican platform stands for. agree
ment among the nations to preserve the1
peace of the world, the statement qpOtesi
Senator Harding from his speech of Aug.
There are distinctly two types of in
|ternationdp relationship. One is an often
fsive. and defensive alliance of great pow
ers The .9theE typgfs a society of free
nations, or an association of free nations
or a league Of free nations animated by
considerations of right and justice insteadi
of might and Self-iRterest, and not merely
IFaqeaalmed an agency,i in pursuit of peace,
but so organized ana so participated in as
to make the actual attainment of peace
reasonable possibility. Such, an associa-
tiops l favor with all my heart, and L 4
would make no line distinction as to |
whom credit is due. One need not care
what it is called. Let il. be ar, association.
q society or a league or what not. Our
concern is. solely with the substance, not
the form thereof
Mr. Harding has since repeatedly |
reafirmed the declarations of this speech, |
in the most positive terms.
'"The principal change proposed con- .
Germs article 10 of the league covenant as
negotiated at Paris. Mr.. Wilson declares
this to be the heart of the league and the |
chief controversy is about this.
Article 10dprovides that the nations
agreeing to the treaty shall -
-" Preserve as against external aggres- |
sion the territorial Integrity and existing |
political independence nof laIl members Of |
the league. '-at8 ~4s-s ~ t-+
This is an obligation of the most vital /