The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-08
JOHNSON -''SJPPORT HARDING
CALIFORNIAN OUT
FOR PARTY VICTORY
Declares Preservation of Americanism
Demands Support of Republican
Party Candidate.

aFty CdnCldate.
/ by Associated Press
San Francisco Support of the Re-
! publican party with candidate
standing four-square upon the plat
form" is the only choice left chose
1 who believe in safeguarding, protest.
ing and preserving our Americanism, .
! Senator Hiram w Johnson of Cali
fornia, declared in statement at his
home here today
"For more than year the contest
over the Presidents League of Ma
tions has been waged in congress, ("
Senator Johnson's statement said ct
has been the all-engrossing and para
mount issue. Of necessity, this issue
came to the conventions of the two
great political parties. Both Repub-
licans and Democrats, in their plat
forms, have INDUCED in the usual po-
litical verbasity, but nevertheless these
platforms, indirect opposition to each
other, sharply define and clearly pre-
sent the question for decision in the
November election.
"The Republican party declared that
the presidents covenant failed; name
ly to accomplish its purpose, and con-
tanned stipulations nationally intoler-
able for an independent people, but
certain to produce the injustice, hos
tility and controversy among nations
which it proposed to prevent and re-
undated toIa degree wholly unneces-
sary and unjustifiable that time hon
ored policies in favor Of peace de-
clared by Washington jefferson, and
Monroe.
The Republican party stands, there
4 fore, firmly against the presidents
as breeding war rather than promot-
ing peace, and reafirms the time hon
ored, nation-old policies of Washing
ton, jefferson and Monroe.
Democrats Offering Wilson Policy.
"The democratic party, on the other
hand, rejected every effort to modify
the presidents proposed league Of ma
tions, endorsed the presidents atti-
tude and took its position in favor of
y the ,le4sgue as presented It Il true
that the democrats in effort to please,
say something about reservations
which might make clearer or more
! specific the obligations of the United
/ States, but the language is meaning
/ less and does not at all alter the es-
sential position of the democratic
party for the league as presented.
"The two parties acted in similar
! g.. k,,A
ferent motives and for different rea-
sons. Both rejected the pleas for
adoption of the league with reserva-
tions, the democrats because they
were for the league as presented, and
the republicans because no reserva-
tions devised by the human mind could
anticipate the contingencies which
might arise in the future from an in
strument of such potential possibili-
4 ties for harm.
The Final Issue.
"Thus the issue finally comes from
the forum of congress to the final ar
bitrament Of the American people.
4 The overshadowing question in the
campaign, therefore, is whether we
enter the maelstrom of European and
.Asiatic politics and diplomacy, and
become part of the cynical imperial
ism of the old world, or whether
American shall live her life in her
own way, independent, unfettered,
mindful always of her obligations to
humanity and civilization, but free to
act as each crisis shall arise, and
maintaining always the policy of
Washington and jefferson and Mon
REQ, of friendship with all nations, en-
| tangling alliances with none.
with candidate standing four
square upon the platform, the issue
leaves those who believe in safe
guarding, protesting and preserving
our Americanism, but one choice, and
that is to support the republican
party"