Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-09
HARDING BREACHES ! AGAINST ENTERING ! LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Nominee Makes Eleven Speeches in Con- tested Territory
hRJECTS TO MORE THAN ARTICLE 10
bisputes Interpretations of Pres
 ;dent Relative to Results of
 Mixing in World
 Affairs

l Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 8.-A day O: Militant campaigning against the 5aris league of nations was closed N Senator Harding tonight with z peech in the Kansas City conven Ion hall replying directly to the ap eal for league support recently ad hessed to the. voters of the country President Wilson.
 l Answering the presidents declara, lon that the league covenant woulc bt take from congress the power te eclare war, the republican nominee Pronounced the obligations of article kn so clear and unmistakable that bngress would be compelled to full ll them or bring dishonor on the btion. ....
 "This obligation is absolute and huualified" said MT. Harding Whenever certain specified circum- Eances arose, no matter how much e might regret it, we would have to eep our promise or sneak out of it et no one be deceived; the choice culd be between two things, war
 dishonor."
 Article ten bore the brunt of the Candidates attack on the league ere, but during the day in other Iva and Missouri cities, he aimed Is blows at many other parts of the kvenant. The whole scheme he Characterised as militaristic.
 "The league that we're not going
 have," was the way he described 1 in an afternoon speech at St. Jo- $ph. While the crowd stood and keered, he repeated that he did not vcr entering the Paris league and fomised that as president he never puld submit to a league or associa- Pn containing anything like article n.
 AssaiIs Other Articles
 In other speeches he assailed the venant's provisions on the Monroe pctrine, voting power in the league
 e withdrawal privileges and ressing the labor feature in talk
 packing house employees at South Joseph, he declared that he want
 no covenant that would drag merican labor standards down to lose of the old world.
 In all the senator made eleven Reeches during the day and in ev- " one of them he struck at the Rris league. Seven were delivered
 Missouri along bitterly contest
 sector of the league fight. In all
 his Missouri speeches he also prais-
 the service of Senator Spencer and kked that he be reelected.
 J. G. Hughes, republican state Ralrman of Missouri, and Jacob Bab- Ii, the states national committee an were among the party leaders DO rode through Missouri on the fnator's special train. The arrival
 Kansas City was late in the after Pon and the senator rode to a hotel IT dinner through crowds that kept
 wave of cheering along his path. Leaving immediately after his ght adress he will arrive in Wichita Pnsas, for forenoon meeting and
 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for arr dress tomorrow night.
 In the convention hall speech to- (ght the nominee cited the invasion
 Poland as an example of the com icataon into which he said the |nited States easily could be drawn Poer article ten. He referred to |leat Britain's failure to furnish a to the little Republic and said he euld not look with satisfaction on ny such failure if it were a league |ember. W
 The statement which the presi. Fht made to the country day of Eo ago. said MT. Harding, "empha- Fzes his inflexibile determination to ecure the adherence of the United Eates to the league precisely as the pvenant is written. We know from declaration that the ma of the Democratic candidate and 'ia' or the Democratic president are ' perfect accord. We may assnme that the president speaks ?, the candidate and announces the ol'cy which he will follow if elected !" the presidents statement the e0pie are told that the election is to e genuine national referendum "u 'hat they are to instruct their ~n government what they wish done ' Tar as the league is concerned he N, ays the question which their vote m answer is: ~
 Do they wish the treaty of Var. T;a es ratified and do they I quote ' exact words-tin particular ap- ,.ove or the league of nations as or 'Aeo and empowered in that trea- an, Disputes President
 nose who oppose the treaty in it's Ins ssnt form-and there are quite g mDer of respectable and intelligent Isvp'e N; who do oppose it, are charged
 en gross ignorance and imnndent Suscity, and he tells the peonle Sn; S. 'nere is nothing in the covenant
 ea Tn the least interferes with or ipa'rs the right of congress to de.
 war or not to declare accord