The Penn's Grove record., 1920-08-27
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES AND
PLATFORM
For President, Warren G. Harding
of Marion, Ohio.
For Vice President, Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts

AS the Treaty of Peace and League
of Nations included, between The
Allied Nations in the World War with
Germany and Austria, is the para
mount issue in this Presidential cam
paign. below is the preamble to the
Republican platform and the plank on
the Treaty and League.
Preamble
The Republican party, assembled
in representative national convention,
reaffirms it's unyielding devotion to the
constitution of the United States and
to the guarantees of civil, political and
religious liberty therein contained. 1t
will resist all attempts to overthrow
the foundations of the government or
to weaken the force of its controlling
principles and ideals, whether these
attempts be made in the form of inter-
national policy or of domestic agl-
tation.
For seven ear the national govern
ment has been controlled by the Demo
cratic party. During that period a
war of unparalleled magnitude has
shaken the foundations of civilization,
decimated the population OF Europe
and left in its train economic misery
and suffering second only to wal
itself.
The outstanding features of the
Democratic administration have been
complete unpreparedness for war and
complete unpreparedness for peace.
Treaty and the League
The Republican party stands for
agreement among the nations to pre-
serve the peace of the world. We be-
lieve that such an international assocl-
alton must be based upon international
Justice, and must provide methods
which shall maintain the rule Of pub
lie right by development Of law and
the decision of impartial courts, and
which shall secure instant and general
international conference whenever
peace shall be threatened by political
action, so that the nations pledged to
do and insist upon what is just and
fair may exercise their influence ana
power for the prevention of war. we
believe that all this car be done with
out compromise of national lndepen-
dence, without depriving the people OF
the United States in advance OF the
right to determine for themselves what
is lust and fair, when the occasion ar1s-
es' and without involving them as par
ticipants and not as peacemakers In a
multitude of quarrels, the merits OF
which they are unable to Judge.
The covenant signed by the Presl-
dent at Paris failed signally to accom-
plish this purpose and contained stlp-
Nations not only intolerable for an
Independent people, but certain to pro-
duce the Injustice, hostility and con-
troversy among nations which it pro-
posed to prevent.
That covenant repudiated to a de
gree wholly unnecessary and unJustl1l-
able the time-honored policy in favor
of pea declared by Washington and
Jefferson and Monroe and pursued by
all American administrators for more
than a century, and it ignored the uni
versaf sentiments of America for gen
erations past in favor of international
and arbitration and it rested the
hope of the future upon mere expedl-
ency and negotiation.
PeroratiOn
The unfortunate lnSlSCeIce VI liio
President upon having his own way
without change, and without any re-
gard to the opinion of the majority
of the Senate which shares with HIM
the treaty making power, and the
Presidents demand that the treaty
should be ratified without any modlfl-
cation, created a situation in which
senators were required to vote upon
their consciences and their oaths &C
cording to their judgment upon the
treaty as it was presented, or submit
to the commands of a dictator in a mat
ter where the authority under the con-
s~titution was theirs and not his.
The Senators performed their duty
faithfully. We approve their conduct
and honor their courage and fidelity,
and we pledge the coming Republican
administration to such agreement with
the other nations of the world as shall
meet the full duty of America to civil
ization and humanity in accordance
with American ideals and without sur
rendering the right of the American
people to exercise its judgment and
its power in favor of justice and peace.