New-York tribune., 1920-06-14
Harding Stands
Firmly Against
Wilson League
Nirile Americanism as o.
posed TO Internationalism
in Covenant To Be RI.
Issue, His Friends Saw
Denounced One-Man Ruls
Nominee in Senate Speech
Demanded That Congress
End War by Resolution
From, The Tribne's Washington s,r.,.

From The Trtbune's Washington Btrec,
WASHINGTON, June ia y;r,.
Americanism as opposed to intern
tionalsm suggested in the league q,
nations covenant as sponsored h,
President Wilson is to be one of the hi,
issues advanced by Senator Warren G.
Harding in his campaign for the Pres;
dency, his supporters here assert.
An aggressive opponent of the Pres;
dents peace policy, Senator HARDING,
participation in the long treaty fight n
the Senate and his discussion Of tbs
Knox resolution were not tempereS
with the infiammatory utterances ths.
have been used by some of his col.
leagues. Instead, the Republican Pres.
dental nominee, after careful study q;
the question OF restoration OF peace. n
the Senate on May Is gave utteranco
to bis ideas or the Senate's nar4 @";s :
treaty making. when he said: ''' III
Il think the significance of the ne,
sage of this (Knox peace) resolut;o,
lies in its reestablishment of the con
stltutional powers Of the Americsr
Congress. 1t not only reestablishes ,Sa
powers of Congress. but it particularlv
emphasizes the powers of the Senat,
as a coordinate body in the making Of
| treaties. '"
At Issue With Wilson
Il like to think that the so-ca,les
Knox resol luton is going to do for
America what the World War did fOr
the autocrat of Germany. The Wori
war demonstrated that no one man
and no one power can rule the worl5
and the Knox resolution is eoine n H.
formal demonstration that no ons
man can run the United States 'of oi
America" "
Sharp issue with President Wilson
was taken by Senator Harding.
1t IS very easy thing" he said "to
become intoxicated with power; ave
ana 1t is very easy thing to be car
red away with a consuming ambition.
can sympathlze to q reasonable de-.
gree with the ambition of the Presiden.
to writc for himself the most eminen,
page IN the history of the world. Il
would have been very remarkable
thing to have committed thirty nations
OF present-day civilization. to a super.
government OF the world, and | can
see how the historian was led far afed
by very natural ambition.
President Given Warning
"But the President was warned when
he went abroad He was not only
warned before he went by refer.
endum to the American people on his
own appeal in the elections of 1915
but he was specifically and formally
warned by members of this body afte,
he went abroad, when notice was given
that the Senate of the United States Of
America had no thought to surrender
American independence of action. But
in spite Of these things gs-warnings from
the people on the one hand and warn.
ings from the Senate on the Other
handEt the President insisted, My will
or none
Il am sorry that we could not 60
info 1t on our own terms, as we ought
when the league covenant first cane
back But we frittered away our day
of opportunity to dictate the terms on
which we might enter. 1t ought to
have been done in the beginning.
Now we witness the world at peace
and here is the United States of Amer
ica at formal war with Germany, and
there is no necessity for it. There is
no sense in it. 1t ought not to be for
single moment. We are literally a.
peace. Why not say so-and If tn
President of the United States in his
obstinacy refuses TO say so. then let
the Congress assert itself and say that
war no longer abides"