The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-18
REPUBLICANS
TURN DEMOCRAT
Over Hundred Men and Women
Jointly Issue Strong State
ment on League.
PATRIOTISM ABOVE PARTY
Charge is Made That Republican
Party is Drifting Toward
NatiOnaliSm.
tsy Associated Press.)


New York, Oct. IA joint state
ment by "over 100 representative men
and women who have usually support
ed the republican or progressive tick
cts" announcing their intention to vote
for Cox and Roosevelt and those sena-
torial candidates who stand honestly
and frankly for ratification of the
treaty and adherence to the league
was made public here tonight by Ham
ilton Holt, magazine editor.
This statement set forth that 'it is
now too late to talk of new 'associ-
alton of nations, to be created under
republican auspices and, repudiating
the present republican leadership that
has permitted the republican party to
become a little America. party" urged
all republicans and progfessives to put
patriotism above party and add their
names to thelist Of signers
The list, according to Mr. Holt is
increasing daily. An analysis given out
with the statement said that it in
cluded 16 republican officers of the
League to Enforce Peace; clergymen
representing all the principal denom-
nations; the presidents of Oberlin,
Vassar. Smith, Bryn Mawr and Mount
Holyoke colleges; several veterans of
the great war and nine former repub-
lican or progressive party managers
and office holders.
In the last classification are listed
Charles P. Howland, of New York; /;
Violet M. Leroy, New York; Theodore
Marburg, Baltimore: ". H. Nichols,
York: Elias d. Salisbury, Indianapolis; !;
Edwin E. Slosson, New York; Richard
Wellington, New York. and Alice
White, Wellesley. Mass
The statement declared that the re-
publican party is drifting toward ma
tfonalization. and had repudiated po-
litical traditions under which the sign
ers had been reared-traditions en-
phasizing the international responsible
tiles of America, from Lincoln to Taft.
Asserting that they held no brief
for the present administration mad
did not insist on any particular word
ing of reservations to any articles of
thetreaty, the signers set forth that
they did not desire that cause which
should have served to unite all parties
All LiS SdIIlS spirit OF common service
which won the great war, should be
made basis of party difference in the
present campaign. 4
Such republican statesmen as An
drew ID. White, Joseph M. Choate and
Elihu Root labored for the develop
ment of International law and for the
organization of the world through the
two Hague conferences, read the state
ment
I'VE would continue in the path
they Indicated
The statement then cited as proof
that Naturalization has never been
republican watchword' President
McKinley's attitude toward China
Theodore Roosevelt's intervention in
the Russo-Japanese war; the work of
William Howard Taft for the eLaRue
of Nations; the presidential candidacy
of Charles E. Hughes as protest
against what he thought at that time
was the indifference of the administra-
tion to our international responsible
tiles, and republican approval of aban-
donment by President Wilson of his
party's historic policy Of narrow ma
tfonalism to advocate a league of ma
tions.
True republican statesmanship
would have supported the covenant -
continued the statement.