New-York tribune., 1920-09-19
Democracy Betrayed i'm
Its Own House, Former
Justice Tells New Jersey
Republican Convention
Declares Article X
Is Vice of Covenant
Says U. S. Must Return to
Rights of Free Speech;
Charges Billions Waste

TRENTON, n. j., Sept. 1s.--Charles
E. Hughes opened the Harding
Coolidge campaign in New Jersey to-
day with an address at an UNOFFICIAL
convention Of Republicans at Shrine
Temple, in this city. The plain and
immediate duties confronting the ma
ton he said, were to effect economies,
10 reach decision concerning a league
of nations and to maintain the prin-
ciples of liberty
The Democratic Administration, he
declared, had shown itself unified for
these duties. 1t was an administra-
tion, he said. which had become ac-
customed 70 the extravaganza of war
times, and such economies as had been
attained were the result of the cut
ting Of departmental estimates by a
Republican Congress. 1t was neces-
sary to send new party into Office
on an issue Of economy to make
reduction in taxes possible, he said
As 10 the League of Nations, he laid
before his audience the covenant
which President Wilson brought back
from Europe. AS to the desirability
OF all international brotherhood to end
war there could be no two opinions,
no declared, and he intimated that
once the Wilson covenant was under
stood plainly there could be no two
opinions about that either.
American Principles First
Any International agreement into
which the United States entered must
be compatible with American princ-
pies and fundamental interests and
have provisions appropriate to it's
professed aim OF ending war, the for
mer justice Of the Supreme Court said.
But the proposed covenant was not
Of this charactcr,' he added.
Article Y he characterized as the
vice" rather than the heart" of the
covenant.
AIN case of future conflict" Mr..
Hughes declared, "whatever our opin-
ION Of the merits and however removed
IL may be from any interest of ours,
we arc bound to go to war, if neces-
sary, to preserve as against external
aggression the territorial possessions
OF member of the league"
There must be a return, he declared,
TO an administration which would pre-
serve the rights of free speech. free
assembly, representation, and dcpriva
ton of liberty only by due process of
law. These fundamental principles of
Liberty had been "betrayed in their own
houSe,' MIR. Hughes asserted.
Rehuke for Maladministration
dr. Hughes said. in part:
"A general election is the great as
SIZE, the only time when administra-
''on IS brought TO an accounting. We
are not censorious people, but lcvity
IN passing judgment upon officers of
government and political parties i'll be-
comes democracy. The best surety
o, tne future Is not in the promise of
platforms, bu; in the certainty Of re-
puKe tor maladministration and in the
c,necking Of harmful tendencies by the
a'splacement Of those responsible for
mem and the refusal to invest with
power those who would continue or
condonc them. We endeavor to appre-
cate accurately the mischief, not sim
ply TO be critical but TO point the rem
Guy and the future course.
"hen we consider the stupendous
Undertaking Of the great war and the
achievement OF American arms we wish
10 give full credit to all, irrespective
OF party, who nobly sustained their
part. The splendid unity we then ex-
h'o'ted Will be one of the priceless
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