Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-09
RESPONSIBILITY OF
PARTIES MAIN ISSUE
So Declares Herbert Hoover, VINO
Says Wilson Administration
Has Failed.
nv Associated Press to Every Evening

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indianapolis. Oct. a.-Ihe League OF
Nations and tariff problems are only sub
divisions of the main issue in the present
camnairn. Herbert Hoover declared here
TODAY in An address which marked his
formal entry into the campaign to elect
tho Republican National ticket.
The major issue to-day and for the
future of our country Mr. Hoover said,
ms party responsibility
"As ours is government that must
hc based on parties" he said, ut is fun-
damental that when party fails IN states
manship or fails 10 carry out It's prom
iscs il must accept the penalties OF that
failure: IL should be retired that its leader
ship may be reformed.
This is the real iss,le. and Is immensely
more deeply seated than superficial part,-
san ship.
81 believe that since the armisticc the
present administration has made failure
hy all the tests that we can apply. No
man would be So narrow as TO condemn the
patriotism of oue-half Of his countrymen.
"But If we are 10 MAINTAIN and sustain
party government If we arcto hold through
tins our only meats of expression OF the
will Of the majority, any party that lalls rs
IA party should and must be retired from
office
NIr Hoover reviewed the support gwen
v the Republican party To- wlnnug the
war
"But with victory accomplished the
leaders of tho Democratic party. Disregard
ing this corporation. decided to ignore
orc-half of the pCopl, of the United states
and to make peace alone Here believe,
lies the beginning of its failure III states
marship
we have simply driftcd IN the last
two wears In political leadership thus
hartv has. NJ least for the present. ceased
10 function -
Regarding interpartv disagreement over
settling trchtv CueSticps in which enters
only the principle cf the preservation Ct
peace hy organized international action.
he said
"Thi, DISPUTE hiss n,t hccn ono Of
principlc. for the Republican Tarty has
supported and dccs support The principle
The contention h; been over methods,
and ON methods men must divide and
good Statesman ship viii compromise
The mCst important thing in the con
summation ri our relation 70 tins great
world aspiration ) to have the coed will
- the majority Of our pc pie for without
such general support amy league Will ialL
a. nave Nf1SFHfTfatRkA fieftl ilFA fAAt f3tissft
Il the world for eighteen months. to have
rejected the Opportunity e amicable
adjustment of differences as Ia methods
% have projected the issue into the presi-
apntial clcction. j. the greatest failure Of
American statesmarship since the civil
war
.Rcgl ard for the welfare Of our pco-
ne anal The world would have accepted
tho treaty with reservations and then If
thcN thought it 50 vital a matter have
gone to the country On the political issue
of correcting the reservations.
Mr. Hoover advocated establishment
of trunk power lines - carry electrical
energy through the great power consuming
districts of the Atlantic seaboard and inn
provement Of the 81 Lawrence River.
opening the great lakes to ocean going
shipping