Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-09
SEN. JOHNSON PLEDGES SUPPORT TO REPUBLICANS

l
 San Francisco. July S.-support of
 the republican party with candidat,
 standing four-square upon the plat
 form" is the only choice left fol
 those who believe in safeguardine | protecting and preserving our American 1 ism, Senator Hiram w Johnson O i, California declared in statement at hi, home here
 For more than year the contest ove1
 the presidents League of Nations hal l been waged in congress- Senator Holm. sons statement read: Tt has been th. l all-engrossing and paramount issue. Oi
 necessity this issue came to the conven.
 tons of the great political parties. Botf ! republicans and democrats, in their pIat forms, have induIged in the usual m, htleal verbosity, but nevertheless tfresf platforms, in direct opposition to eacL other, sharply define and fairly present ] tn equestion for decision in the Novernhe, election.
 The republican party declared that the presidents covenant failed signaIly tc
 accomplish its purpose, and contained stlpulations not only intolerab1e for an independent people, but certain to pro. duce the injustice. hostility and con troVersy to prevent, and repudiated to a degree wholly unnecessary and uniustif7- able the time-honored policies in favor of peace declared by Washington. lief ferson and Monroe
 The republican party stands, there- fore, firmly against the presidents GOV enant as presented, denounces it as breeding war rather than pronno+ine peace, and reaffirms the time bonorad ? nation-old policies of Washington, Jeffer- son and Monroe
 The democratic party, on the other hand. rejected every effort to modify ar qualify the presidents proposed L,eague of Nations, indorsed the presidents ar tltude and took it's position in favor of the league as presented. It is true that the democrats, in effort to pIacate say something about reservations which mlgnt make clearer or more specific the obligations of tn United States hut the language is meaningless and does not at all alter the essential position of the democratic party for the League as presented
 The two parties acted in similar fashion in one respect. but from differen, motives and for different reasons Roth rejected the pleas for the adoption of tba league with reservations the democrats because they wre for the league as nre- sented, and the republicans because no reservations devised by the human mind could anticipate the contingencies whict
 If- ment. of such potential possibilities for harm.
 Thus the issue finally comes from the forum of congress to the final arbttra- ment of the American people The over shadowing question of the campaien therefore. is whether we enter the nael- strom of European and Asiatic politics and diplomacy and become part of the cynical imperialism of the Old World or whether America shall live her life in her own way, independent, unfetterad mindful always of her obligations to hu manity and civilization. but free to act as each crisis shall arise. and maitaininp always the policy of Washington and Jefferson and Monroe, of friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
 With a candidate standing foursuuare upon the platform, the issue leaves those who believe in safeguarding, protecting and preserving our Americanism, but ,,ne choice, and that Is to support the repub lican party"