The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-25
MONDAY, OCTOBER rs. 1920
THE STAMPEDE TO cox

The country is witnessing re-
markable stampede OF patriotic Re-
publicans to the standard upheld by
Governor Cox, because Of the deplor-
able and wibble-wabble attitude of
Senator Harding on the question of
the League of Nations.
The country Is Witnessing a train
load of prominent Republicans going
from New York to San Francisco
speaking at numerous cities en- route,
telling the people that they think
more of the principles of the League
of Nations thar the success of Hard
ing to get on the pie counter"
Among these prominent Republi-
cans, is Herbert Parsons, former Re-
publican National Committeeman from
New York, one of the leading Repub-
licans Of the nation. And among
this great number Of prominent Re-
publicans, is Hamilton Holt, editor
OF the independent and staunch
Republican. Mr.. Holt writes to Mr..
Parsons, as follows:
Permit me to congratulate you on
your courageous determination to quit
the Republican party and vote for
Cox and Roosevelt on the League of
Nations issue. Although / enrolled
my name this week as "a member
of the Republican party, / too, shall
vote the Democratic national ticket
OH November 2.
II wish that Mr.. Taft, Mr.. Hoover
Mr.. Straus, Mr.. Lowell, Mr.. Wicker
sham and our other fellow-Republi'
can and progressive members of the
executive committee of the League tc
Enforce Peace could see their way
to act as you have done. johnson
and Borah threatened to bolt if Hard
ing would not scrap" the league
but our associates on the League Il
Enforce Peace did not show equa
courage, for they proposed TO suppor
Harding on the remarkable theorl
that he could be depended upon I,
break faith with Borah and johnson
and go into some sort of league
Senator Harding in his Des Moine!
speech has taken that argument from
under them.
The question that now confront
the American people is the creates
moral issue since slavery. Shall w
play our part in substituting interna
tional cooperation for competition ol
earth, or shall We scuttle while tn
world is on fire?
~ have just returned from Europ
where l got in close touch with tn
League of Nations idea. The state
ment that / find being made b.
Senator Harding and others that tn
League of Nations is dead, is exactl
contrary to the truth. The leagu
has already achieved more than an
one might have believed possible
year ago, with its Commissions o
Disarmament, World Court, Finance
Labor, etc. The Council, which ha
already met nine times, has settle
two international disputes whlc
might have led to war-that betwee
Finland and Sweden and that betwee
Lithuania and Poland.
THE proposition of Senator Hare
ing TO declare peace with Germany
when he must know that peace ca
only be negotiated and TO ask fort,
three member nations TO scrap III
existing league, enter another Peac
Conference, and agree on some und,
fined experiment, cannot be taken ser
ously. Holding, us every sane ma
must, that war is the greatest ev
on earth and that the last war wa
the worst war that has ever hal
pened, / cannot believe that the An
erican people, II the issue is full
presented to them, will support Sci
ator Harding's policy OF "Amerlc
last" In bearing her responsibility,
for establishing the peace of Il
world d"-Enid News.