Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-17
Senator Harding Says to
Follow Wilson is to For
sake Washington.
WILSON MAXI NG WAR
ON LITTLE NATIONS
Harding Points to Franklin Roos..
ve't'' Boast That He Wrote Con-
st'tution Of Haiti After Washjna-
ton Government Sent Armed Forces
There and to San Domingo and Set
: Up New Governments.
By Associated Press.

T s
Marion, Sept. 17.-Pronouncinx the
league OF nations covenant irrecon-
cilable with the American constit1-
ton, Senator Harding Adeclared In Z
constitution Day address here that
the time had come for the United
states to decide whether it would
preserve or abandon the charter
under which 1t achieved nationality.
Senator Harding also assailed the
admlinistration's policy toward the
Smaller nations Of the western
hemisphere. asserting that the presi-
dent had usurped congressional pow
ers to carry or an Unconstitutional
war with Haiti and San Domingo.
He declared the recent utterances OF
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the demo-
cratic nominee for president. had re-
vealed officially for the first time the
American governments rape" of the
two little republics
Constitution Never Fails.
The speech was delivered from the
front porch to delegatio from sew
era1 Ohio counties = ~. &
The constitution has never failed
America, he continued, "and despite
needless assertions to the contrary.
America has never failed the world.
and, now as never before, she stands
ready to lend helping hand, but she
herself must point the way.
How can we, then, make sure OF
ny, y,,ic
maintain and observe the mandates
OF the constitution. We are not do
ing so now. We are at war. not alone
technically with Germany, but ac-
tually with the little helpless re-
publics Of our own hemisphere. The
wars upon our neighbors to the south
were made by the usurpation by the
executive of powers never bestowed
upon him. ~ lgI
f. D. RooseveIt's Boasts
/, of this fact there can be no ques.
ton. 1t is admitted, even boasted OF,
ny the democratic candidate for vice
president. You know, he said. Z
have had something to do with the
running of a couple of little repub.
lies. The fact is that I wrote Haiti's
constitution myself, and If do say
it, think it is a pretty good consti-
tuition. Until last week had two
votes in the league assembly; new
Secretary Daniels has them 70 the
best OF. my information. this Is the
first official admission of tho rape OF
Haiti and San Domingo by tho pre-
sent administration. To my mind it
is the most shocking assertion ever
made by responsible member OF
this government.
Wherein Menace Lies.
"Far more menacing than even
this distressing example is the pro-
posal to transfer by indirection tho
chief prerogattve Of one department
Of the government to another.
''The constitution vests in congress-
exclusively the power to declare war.
but it also declares that s. duly exc.
cuted treaty shall be the supreme
law Of the land,
Under Article x Of the yersairlee
covenant, now being subjected to 9
solemn referendum, it would be the
appointee and representative Of the
president, not of congress or OF the
people, who would either acquiesce
in or reject a proposition In the
council OF the league to uphold by
force Of arms the cause Of one power
against another.
"The constitution or tho covenant,
that, my countrymen, is tho para
mount issue. The two are irreconcil-
able. We can not be governed from
both Geneva and Washington. We
can not follow our present chief
magistrate without forsaking the
father of our country"