The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-26
THE DAILY EDITORIAL
DIGEST
A National and Nonpartlsan
Summary Of Leading Press
Opinions on Current
Events.

the LVd1uC u f-aEty
When the democratic candidate for
the vice presidency, Franklin ID. RooBe-
Welt announced that the league OF ma
tIons was to be the dominant issue of
the campaign. and the answer from the
front porch at Marion came back, Very
WELL" II brought forth confusing COM
ment from the American press, divided
by personal opinion as well as by party
prejudice.
Republican writers in the main are
positive that President Wilson has
forced the hand OF Governor Cox and
played into the interests Of Senator
Harding, and most Of the democratic
newspapers feel that the republican
nominee has been Unanswered into po-
sition where he is on the defensive.
A few refuse to accept the league OF
nations as real issue at all. 1t Is not
an Issue. the New York Globe Und.)
contends. NOR can 1t be one until both
candidates come out clearly for opposite
views" At present
what is called the league Is a fac
tional and personal dispute, yielding no
credit TO either side, which might never
have taken place II Mr.. Wilson had con-
sented to take to Paris with him non
partisa npeace delegation"
The Springfield Union (Rep.) is also
OF the opinion that the league holds
no such position in the public mind the
country over as 1t Is made TO hold APP
parently in the minds OF the ccandi-
issue until the candidates are able ana
talking about" II the parties persist.
OF course. the indianapolis Star. Qnd.,
Rep admits. they may force this sub
ton cannot be a party issue In one
sense because both parties are divided
internally upon 1t and because both
platforms straddle the issue" 1t Is pos
sible that the difference referred to by
ments Of the Los Angeles Times Qnd.,
Rep. which, while 1t is for Harding's
election heart and soul. cannot agree
with his conclusions in regard to the
league OF nations" for
HE has laid stress on the wrong
thing, His fear of entangling alliances
and foreign ENVIRONMENTS Is stronger
than his hope for world unity and
universal peace"
But no such objections are raised by
the Manchester Union Qnd., Rep.).
which thinks that the republican. can
didate dropped bomb In the demo-
ly against unqualified ratification" In
deed the Union believes that since then
the leading democratic organs have
printed. editorials which are strongly
reservationist in character" The Dur
ham Sun Qnd.) says Senator Harding
has "called the hand of the other gem
tleman from Ohio" and Governor Cox's
lodging away from the Wilson stand to-
ward the reservation policy will either
be halted or will go on as an open rup-
ture between the nominee and Woodrow
Wilson," This view the Harrisburg
Telegraph CRep) supports:
1.-THE president is still the big boss of
the party. With Wilson on one side and
Tammany on the other. Mr.. Cox's po-
sition is not one to be envied."
DID - H.
cratic cause flout all suggestion that
candidate and administration are not in
harmony. Says the Louisville Courier
Journal (Dem.):
Senator Harding seems so anxious to
combine opposition to the president with
opposition to the league Of nations that
he does Governor Cox the injustice Of
saying that he has been forced by Pres
ldent Wilson to accept the league Of ma
tions as the leading issue OF the CAM
paign."
But Jim" Cox is man Of his own
mind, the newspaper continues, and he
| expressed 1t freely on this subject be-
| question about this. in the opinion OF
| the Oklahoma City Oklahoman (Dem.)
which considers that both Cox and
Roosevelt have already made 1t clear
| views ON them, but that they were
heartily in accord with the platform"
| Following this phase of the argument
| still further, the Wheeling Register
| (Dem.) asserts that "the Harding state-
ment was nothing more than yelled
threat to make President Wilson the is
sue" which attempt, 1t believes. failed
because Mr.. Cox and Mr.. Roosevelt
were not caught mapping" The Canton
| News Dem.l, however. seems to take
| for granted that the republican nominee
has achieved his purpose, for 1t scores
him for being hardly consistent" In
making his campaign on "personalities''
promised. Hardings action was ma
| llcious," IN the opinion Of the Richmond
| Times-Dispatch (Dem.), for Governor
Cox is in hearty accord with his
party's position on the league, voiced
by Mr.. Roosevelt; but, the Knicker-
the latter's statement was "a dangerous
assertion, and II 1t had not been made
| necessary by the presidents insistence
upon II probbly would never have been
| made"
But II. after all, It is upon a policy
concerning the league that both parties
are to stand or fall. there still exists a
| difference of opinion as to who origl-
| nally presented the opposing organiza-
tions with the problem and whom II
will benefit. Says the Harrisburg Pa
triot Qnd.. Dem):
Republicans who thought they had
laid this precious issue upon the shelf
| will have to revise their ideas. There
are other important issues in the cans
paign. but none las compelling as the
American attitude toward the world
The Sun and New York Herald Qnd.)
appears to Welcome 1t:
IF the democrats are willing to take
or must take their Murphyized ticket
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