New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
lhirty-one Statesmen, Ed
a1cators and Jurists Sav
Best Way to Avert Wars
Is to Elect Republicans
Peril i'm Article X
Too Great for u. s.
Schurman Issues Call
to Eliminate the Objec.
tional Covenant Clauses

Thirty-oae national leaders in vari-
Gus fields Of thought and endeavor
all Of them supporters Of a League
OF Nations, combined yesterday in
the announcement that they could
most effectively advance the Gauss
of international cooperation to pro-
mote peace by supporting Mr.. Har-
ding for election to the Presidency.
Distinguished statesmen, educa-
tors and jurists are among those who
have reached this decision. They
are:
Lyman Abbott.
Nicholas Murray Butler. president
Columbia University
Paul d Cravath
Charles. W. Dabncy, University of
william II. P. Faunce. president
Brown University
- FRANK j. Gocdnow. Johns Hopkins
University.
Warren Gregory, San Francisco.
ton University.
Herbert Hoover
Charles Evans Hughes.
Alexander c. Humphries, president
stevens Institute of Technology.
Ernest N. Hopkins, president Dart
mouth College.
William Lawrence, Bishop of Massa-
chusetts.
Samuel McCune Lindsey, president
Academy Political Science. ColumbSsa
University.
A. Lawrence Lowell. president Har-
ward University, chairman executive
committee League to Enforce Peace.
John Henry MacCracken, president
Lafayette College.
Samuel Mather, Cleveland. Oh;o
George A. Plimpton, president board
OF trustees, Amherst College.
Henry 5. Prichett, president Carne-
gle Foundation for Advancement of
Teaching
Charles A. Richmond. president
unIon College, Schenectady, N. Y.
Elihu Root.
Jacob Gould Schurman, former presi-
dent Cornell University.
Henry L. Stimson
oscar 5. Straus, member executive
committee League to Enforce Peace
Henry W. Taft, member executive
committee League to Enforce Peace.
Isaac NJ Ullman, New Haven, mem
force Peace
William Allen White, editor EN-
poria. Kan.
George W. Wickersham, member ex-
ecutlve committee League to Enforce
Peace
". W. Willoughby, professor politi-
cal science, Johns Hopkins University
Kay Lyman Wilbur, president Leland
Stanford University.
robert 5. Brookings, president Wash
lngton University. St Louis.
Their statement Oiyao
by DR.. Jacob Gould Schurman, presi-
dent of Cornell University. follows:
Best Way to Prevent War
The undersigned, who desire that
the United States shall do her full mart
IN association with the other civilized
nations to prevent war. have earnestly
considered how may contribute
most effectively to that end by our
votes IN the coming election
The question between the candidates
ls not whether our country shall ioin
IN such an association. 1t is whether
we shall join under an agreement con-
tanning the exact provisions NEGOTIATED
by President Wilson at Paris, or under
an agreement which omits or modifes
some Of those provisions that are very
Objectionable to great numbers of the
American people.
The paper signed by thirty-eight
Republican Senators in March 1919,
before the league covenant was adopted
at Paris advised the President that
the signers could not approve q treaty
IN the form then proposed, although
1t was their sincere desire that the
nations of the world should unite to
promote peace and general disarma-
ment.'
"A majority of the Senate voted to
ratlfy the league agreement with modi-
fcatlons which there is good evidence
to show would have been accepted bv
the other nations; but Mr.. Wilson re-
fused to accept these notifications.
INSISTED upon the agreement abso-
lutely unchanged. and Democratic SEN
ators sufficient in humber to defeat
the treaty as modified followed Mr..
Wilson by voting against ratification.
THAT is substantially the differences
between the parties now. The Demo
cratic platform and candidate stand
unqualifedly for the agreement negoti-
ated at Paris without substantive mod
ification.
Pledges by Republicans
"On the other har the Republican
platform says
The Rep w. party stands for
agreement an the nations to pre-
serve the peace If the world. We be-
Neve that such an international &C.
sociation must be based upon interna-
tional justice, and must provide methods
which shall maintain the rule of public
right by the 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 and
power for the prevention Of war
Mr. Harding said in his speech Of
August %:
There are distinctly two types OF
Information relationship. One is an
offensive and defensive alliance OF
great powers. The other typs
is society Of free nations, or an as