Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-08-29
G. O. P. Nominee, in Explain.
ing Position, Declares That
Z Covenant Is ''Definite and
IrredeemabIe Failure" i
CITES CASE OE>POLAND
TO PROVE STATEMENT
Proposes Plan to Construct
World Association Along
Lines Mapped Out by The
Hague Tribunal.
sRy Tho Associated Press.

Marion, O., Aug. 28.-Pronounc-
ing the existing league of nations a
definite and irredeemable failure,
Senator Harding today proposed a
new effort to construct a, world as
sociation ON the frame work of The
Hague tribunal clothed with such
attributes of the league covenant as
may be found safe and practicable.
He pledged himself, If elected
president, to make an immediate ef-
fort, with the advice of the /ablest
men of both political parties, to
form such an association either by
putting teeth" into The Hague
court or bt revising the covenant to
protect Rational aspirations.
The declaration was made in
front porch speech to delegation
of Indiana republicans.
Disagrees With Cox.
THE democratic nominee" he.
said, 'has fatty said he is in favor
of going in'7on the basis announced
by the president. l am not. That
is the whole difference between us,
but it is a most vital. one because
it involves the disparity between the
World court of justice supplemented
by a world association for confer
ence on the one hand, and the coun-
Gil of the league on the other.
"The one is judicial tribunal to
be governed by fixed and dehnites
principles of aR administered witir5
out passion or prejudice. The other
is an association of diplomats and
politicians whose determinations are
sure to be influenced by considera-
tions of expediency and national
selfshness."
The league, the candidate asserted,
had broken down at its first test in
Poland and now had passed be-
yond the possibility of restoration"
He quoted from British statesmen
to support his statement that a re-
vision of the covenant will be well
coined abroad.
Passage of a peace resolution, he
continued, would make an actual
and effective peace without negotia-
ton OF separate treaty with Ger
many.
Touching on Mexico, the republic
can>nominee proclaimed "a plain no.
tive to every government on the face
of the earth," that the United States
would submit to mo wrong to its
citizens i'll person or property
He also replied to charges OF un-
due senate influence by asserting
that as president he would be e'quite
as vigilant as he had as senator to
prevent trespass on that branch of
the government in which he served.
Text Of Speech.
The text Of the speech follows in
parti
"Let us suppose the senate had
ratified the peace treaty containing
the league covenant as submitted to
it by the president in July of last
year. Before this day we would
have been called upon to fulfill the
obligations which he had assumed
under Article 10 of the league cove
nant to preserve the territorial in
tregrity Of Poland as against 'ex-
ternal aggression
The council of the league of ria-
tons would have reasoned, and rea-
soned correctly, that the United
States could furnish the munitions
and. # necessary, the men to with
stand the hordss advancing frow
Russia far more easily than could
the exhausted nations of Europe.
What would of necessity have to re-
suito Nothing necessarily, we are
glibly informed, since only the con-
gress can declare war, and the con-
gress might reject the appeal Of the
executive. But would the congress
do that? Could the congress do that,
without staining indelibly the hondr
of the nation? Nl
U. S. Would Never Welch. :
The people would never permit
the reputation of a debt of honor.
No congress would ever dare make
this nation appear as welcher, as
1T would appear and would be in
such an event before the eyes of the
world.
$50 many things have been done
bN the present expiring adn1inistra-
tioi tiidt iio poWel On SdItH COulu :.
induce me to do, that Hcannot even
attempt to recount tlleni i may re-
mark casually, however, that ifsII
should be. as / fully expect to be. y
elected president of this just and
honorable republic I will not en-
power an assistant secretary of the
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