Arizona republican., 1920-07-14
DEMOCRATS SEEK MEDICATION FOR
 WILSON FOREIGN POLICY HARDING
President Demands League Be Made Paramount Issue In Campaign, C. O. F. Nominee Declares-Glad- ly Accepts Challenge
[RepubIlean A. ?. Leased WIrel


 Harding charged in a statement to- night that President Wilson had forced the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees to accept his view that the league of nations should become the dominant campaign issue. The presidents one concern, the sem ator said, is the ''vindication of his foreign policy" and he insists upon his issue regardless of costs or conse- quences."
 "The Republican party and candle dates gladly accept the challenge" the willing to make the election a national referendum the question whether we shall have four years more of the Democratic readiness to surrender this republic"
 The statement resulted from the an-4 nouncement of Franklin D. Roosevelts the vice presidential candidate, follow-+ ing his conference yesterday with Gov-s ernor Cox that his campaign would b@ made chiefly on the league issue.
 The statement follows:
 Harding's Statement "Columbus dispatches describing tho conference between the Democratic nominees for president and vice presi- dent on Monday, say that Governor Cox left it to the vice presidential nominee to make known the conclu-@ sions reached, and, thus authorized to speak for both of them, the vice presi- dentiad nominee stated, he considered the league of nations one of the dom- inant issues in the campaign, not only in the East but in the West. He ex- pected to make his campaign chiefly on the league of nations issue
 "So we have the complete proof that President Wilson has won and forced acceptance of his paramount issue The party machinery has been taken over by the Tammanies of New York; l NTa& nd mi dent Wilson has forced his issue on them He has but one concern, and that is the vindication of his foreign policy. first by his party, later by the country.
 '"The Democratic campaign is going ] to harness the party absolutely to the administration policy of ratification | without protection to American inter- l ests Should the Democrats win. the ] league would be ratified and America would become at once a party to the 1 20 odd wars now going on in the world European leaders have repeat | edly explained that it is impossible for ! the league of nations to function eff | fectively so long as the United States has not ratified. The obvious implica- | tion is that when the United states | ratifies, the league will proceed to set | tie up these matters, to enforce its authority i'll the conflict between Pc I land and Russia; to settle the Adrlatic 1 troubles, compel peace between Fur key and Greece, assume responsibility 1 for qualification of the whole near East and middle east.
 Must Give Army and Navy All this cannot be done unless the i league employees force America would have to contribute it's army and navy. | President Wilson has urged accept ance of q mandate for Armenia. which the Harbord mission found would re- quire us to employ a great army ana pour out money by hundreds Of mil l lions. Congress overw whelmingly re- fused. and the country has sustained it so insistently that even the San Fran l cisco convention did not dare endorse the mandate. Yet the mandate would hardly be more than an intimation or the many world flung conflicts into l which America would be projected by ratification of the league without rig- idly safeguarding reservations.
 The president demands a campaign ! on this issue: the Democratic platform makes the issue paramount; and final Iy, the Democratic candidates unquali- 1 fiedly acquiesce The score and more of Democratic senators who voted for the Lodge reservations are repudiated, the real opinion of the American na- tion is fIouted, because the president insists upon his issue regardless of costs and consequeT Nes. The Republi- lican party and candidates gladly ac- cept the challenge. We are more than willing to make -he election a national referendum on the question whether we shall have wour years more of Democratic readiness to surrender this republic"
 Tn order that he might have an op- portunity to work on his speech ac- cepting the Republican presidential nomination, Senator Harding received no callers today.
 He did confer briefly however, with Cs. Mir Longworth later announced that he had discussed the political situa- ton with the senator with whom he said. he was in absolute agreement on the issues involved. The senator made rapid progress on his speech and he plans to devote most of tomorrow again to it as he has no engagements sched- uled.
 Meets A. E. F. Champion
 Senator Harding. shortly before he stopped work for dinner, shook hands