El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-18
Hoover Seeks
Republican
Nomination

political affiliations or fncIinations.
he has naively asked, What is going
TO be the difference tits year le-
tween the Republican and Democratic
platforms? I shall wait and see
which is progressive and which is
Record Being UnfoIded.
But the politicians in both parties
don't like that, and insist upon know
ing what Mr.. Hoover thought or did
unfolded- The unpublished letter is
a more effective argument than any
member OF the Republican party in
the senate has made for a disasso-
citation OF the United States from
European engagements. Mr.. Hoover
wrote his view to president Wilson
in Paris in April, 1919-long before
he could be suspected OF cunning for
any nomination; He said in part:
4 feel strongly that any continual
ton OF the United States in such an
allied relationship would initiate
against the efficiency Of the league
of nations. Ny reasons are as fol-
lows: First, those commissions pri-
marily are TO secure the enforcement
Of reparatiOn and other conditions
imposed upon the central empires.
As the United States is not calling
for any form Of repararfon that re-
quires continued enforcement our
presence on those commissions would
be for one of the following PURPOSES
RepuiEiFe Situation.
tA) To give moral and political
support to the allied governments in
measures generally to their benefit
It cannot be conceived that in the
PROSTATE condition OF the enemy the
allies viii require any physical as
demands In this event the United
states VIII be lending itself 10 the
political and financial interests OF
other governments during peace, a
situation that must be entirely re-
pulsive TO our national interests, ira
ditions and ideals.
LIB Another objecti-e might be
that We should remain in these com
missions with a view to securing JUS
tice and moderation in the demands
pires. Thus would we be thrust into
the repulsiVe position Of the defender
OF our late enemy. Our experience
during the last few months has
shown US bitterly that we thus sub
1ect ourselves 10 complaint and at
tack from the allied gOvernm ants and
such a continued relationship should
only breed the most acute inter
national friction
Mr.. Hoover goes on to say that
''the practical result OF our expert
ence already is that the Americans
who sit on such commissions, II they
don't acquiesce and assist IN en1orc-
ing any propositions from various
government officials. become imme-
diately and personally subject to at
tack as being inimi-al their in
terests, and with the powerful en-
gines of propaganda which they en-
ploy in Europe and in cur own coun-
try, no ouch man can endure for long"
Target OF British PrOpagaudn.
II was known 10 newspaper CORE
spOndents at the Paris peace con
ference that Mr.. Hoover felt particu-
larry embittered over what he be-
leved 10 be a hostile British propa-
ganda directed toward him. and
have no doubt he had this in min
when he wrote the foregoing passage
in his letter.
Mr.. HOOrer's cOmnluni alton
does not oppose n league OF ma
tons, but sayEs If We can bring
10 an early end our whole rela-
ri01ship to these political COM
biuntiOns In Europe which grew
up before and during the war,
and can lend our strength to the
league Of nations that body viii
gain a stability and importance
which IL could not otherwise at
fain.1
Mr. Hoover sees the league as "a
strong and independent court Of ap-
peal that viii have our authority"
He concludes with this observation:
4 am convinced that there has grown
up since the armistice the policy,
perhaps unconscious, but nevertheless
Of dragging the United States into
in Europe and constantly endeaVOriug
to secure pledges OF economic and
political support from US in return
for our agreeing TO matters which
we consider for their common good,
where we have no interest, and con-
stantly using Us as a stalling horse,
economically and politically, solely IN
the interests Of international political
groups within their governments
These detectives and interests may
be perfectly justified from their point
Of view, but IL forces US into viola
tions Of every instinct and into situa-
tons that our own people VIII never
stand For instance, ! don't see how
we can remain in these enforcement
the military enforcement with its
enormous cost and risk and the
tendency Will always be 20 exact the
political objective with -he military
strength OF the United States as
background"
Close to Republican Argument.
The foregoing is a conception OF
closely associated with Republican
argument in the senate that, regard
less Of the extreme point Of view Of
senators Borah and Johnson, IL viii
probably find its way in the RepuD-
lican platform at Chicago.
The Democrats are a bit disap-
IS. the Wilson Demo-
along with the mind Of the president
on the league Of nations, but there are
plenty Of Democrats who think the
Hoover point OF view harmonizes with
the Bryan idea and western democ-
They are not ready to give 8Ir.
Hoover up as Republican And the