South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-04


party continues its attitude toward the League
OF Nations il viii regret Il but once, and that
will b. always"
n A IsTAKEN again, John Henry Zuyer had moth
MI thI-g TO do with the coming OF the above
paragraph Indeed. furthermore. It is not a
paragraph alone; # IS the language Of tele-
gram. and from entirely different h N
Henry. It Is the answer Of John Henry Patterson.
head c: the National Cash Register co. OF Dayton.
10 a query from Sen Warren G. Harding OF ohio.
embryo candidate for the republican nomination FOR
president
Harding wanted to know from his good repubu-
can friend back home. what position i'm his judg-
IT. ent the republican party ought TO assume with
reference 20 the League OF Nations upon the ress-
senbIing OF congress following the New Year Pat
tersOn him. not editorial comment.
Harding. we anticipate realizes that John Henry
Patterson IS a republican. and one OF the leading
republican business men OF the nation; contributor
20 republican campaign funds after manner that
the republicans Of Ohio have found him worth cul-
tivating.
Besides ne has travelled: has had experience at
nome and neutrality-suspicious. such Bacon. for
instance, said "maketh a ready man" He was ready
with his answer. when the Ohio senator queried
him; ready with disgust and shame Analyze his
words They speak the language Of a man accus-
brushing aside all the fog and entanglements OF
-ophistry. he goes over the top" with the ugly
truth.
Harding who has been one OF the most unscrupu-
ious of ''Brutus Lodges clique of treaty league
assassns didn't rush TO the reporters with the Pat
terson telegram. It leaked from the Dayton end
after it had been quietly smothered in Washington
and you know why! It said cuttingly and concise
iy: IF the republican party continues" etc.
Which is exactly a responsibility that the repub-
can party would like shake of: the responsible
,ty for the league and treaty's present status
which the leaders OF that party, particularly
in the senate. have worked attain. hoping to
make it acceptable to the rank and file the party
ever since woodrow Wilson stepped aboard the
boat that was first to take him to Europe
That was months before any league existed even
"a paper when the senate leaders began trying by
round robins and demagogic oratory to cut tho
ground from under the president-allies of Ger
sisny and every other opposing influence that ham
pcr,d him in his fight against the old world preiy-
dioes and skurduggeries which the league is cal
.uiated 10 supplant.
They orened their debate upon the league before
90, know what the covenant contained-and from
THAT say on the discussion has continued disseu-
.rauns p~evarication misrepresentation. and all
MANNER OF subterfuge calculated win peo-
pie and especially republicans to their s!ie
Sensible people have understood the significance
% This rass attack.and John Henry Patterson has
newer been accused Of being tnsenstble He is too
Keen to rave been deceived by the prearrangcd on
saughts, first article, then another; on one
clause az the treaty and then ancther-and he
Suows that the purpose has been to so perplex the
masses that they would interest the league
ane that then they would kill it, they thought
they had-and that they could bury it without
beneht OF clergy"
Put Il doesn't bury neither with the people gen
orally vfth all republicans Patterson is not the
only one who has spoken. From business sources the
senate heard much from the New York chamber
of commerce the Baltimore Cleveland and scores of
uthers-though Of course. from South Bend
And the senate politicians are listening II Is be-
ginning dawn upon them that they quite alone
we're fooled.
IF the republican party continues" The above
explains what Patterson warning against the
republican party continuing. What? Their fight
against the league merely or even mainly because
woodrow Wilson took a leading part in the organ
ration OF it-keepng faith with the American peo-
pie and the peoples OF the world-having, the
republican opponents seemingly have had, hon
est regard for the covenants merits.
And how often, oh how often Sen. Harding. did
the cash register maker say your party would re-
gret the continuance OF its attitude?
But once" thank YOU land that viii he always
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