The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-29

in party government as dlstlnguisneI
from personal government, individual
dictatorial autocratic or what not
No man is big enough to run TINS
great republic There never has beei
one. Such domination was never IN
tended Tranquility, stability, depend
ability-all are assured in party spon
sorship, and we mean to renew tht
assurances which were rendered in int
cataclysmal war.
Our first commital is the restora
ton of representative popular govern
ment under the constitution, through
the agency of the Republican party
Our vision includes more than chic
executive. We believe in a cabine
of highest capacity, equal to the re
sponsiblities which our system con
templates, in whose council the vic'
president, second official of the re
public, shall be asked to participate
The same vision includes cordial un
derstanding and co-ordinated activities
with house Of congress, fresh from
the people, yoicing the conviction
tact with the electorate, and cordia
coordination along with the restored
functions of the senate, fit to be thu
greatest de!!hcratiYe body Of TN
world.
1T is not difficult, Chairman Lodge
to make ourselves clear on the ques
ton of international relationship. WI
Republicans of the senate, conscious
of our solemn oaths and mindful o.
our constitutional obligations, whe1
we saw the structure of world super
government taking visionary form
devotion to this republic. If the torch
of constitutionalism had not beeE
dimmed, the delayed peace Of the
world and the tragedy OF disappoint
ment and Europe's misunderstanding
Of America easily might have beer
avoided. The Republicans of the sen
ate halted the barter OF independent
American eminence and influence
which it was proposed to exchange
for an obscure and unequal place in
the merged government Of the world
Our party means to hold the heritage
of American nationality unimpairec
and unsurrendered.
The world will not misconstrue
We do not mean to hold aloof We
do not mean to shun single responsi
hility of this republic to world civiliza
ton, There is no hate in the Ameri
can heart. We have no envy. no sus
picion, no aversion for any people in
the world. We hold to our rights and
mean to defend. aye, we mean to sus
tain the rights OF this nation and om
citizens alike everywhere under the
shining sun. Yet there is the concord
of amity and sympathy and fraternity
in every resolution. There is gen.
uine aspiration in every American
breast for tranquil friendship with
all the world. One may readily sense
the conscience of our America. am
sure l understand the purpose Of the
dominant group Of the senate. Wv
were not seeking to defeat world
aspiration. We were resolved to safe
guard America. We were resolved
then, even as we are today, and will
be tomorrow, to preserve this free and
independent republic.
Gin the call Of the conscience OF
America is peace, peace that closes the
gaping wound of world war, and ST.
lences the impassioned voices of inter
national envy and dishust. Needing
this call and knowing as l do the dis,
position OF the congress, promise you
formal and effective peace SO quickly
Is a Republican congress can pass its
declaration for Republican executive
to sign. 1t is better to be the free and
disinterested agent of international
Justice and advancing civilization,
with the covenant of conscience, than
be shackled by a written compact
which surrenders our freedom of ac-
ton and gives to a military alliance the
right to proclaim Americas duty to
the world. No surrender of rights to
a world council or its military alli-
ance. no assumed mandatory, however
appealing, ever shall summon the sons
Of this republic to war. Their supreme
lea and It's call OF honor. There is a
sanctity in that right we will not dele
gate.
Disposed as we are the way is
very simple. Let the failure attend.
Ing assumption, obstinacy, imprac-
ticabiltty and delay be recognized, and
let us find the big, practical, unselfish
way to do our part. neither covetous
because Of ambition nor hesitant
through fear. but ready to serve our.
selves, humanity and God. With "a
senate advising as the constitution
contemplatesr I would hopefully ap.
proach the nations of Europe and of
the earth, proposing that understand.
ing which makes us a willing partici
pant in the conservation of nations to