The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-17
ATTACKS PACT FRIENDS
Says There Is No Room to
Doubt That Harding Will
Reject as President
SEES ADDITIONAL DANGERS
Europe Is After More Terri
torial Subjects, u. S.
Should BE Satisfied

CHICAGO, oct lG.--Sc ator
Hiram johnson OF California, iu hiH
first public appearance III Chicago
slpDc his dcfont for tho republican
nomination for president in June,
tonigh, said he was willing to de-
claro a true upon all issues ana all
men" ~ opposcthe league Of ma
tiuns as the greatest issue In the
United states since the Civil war
SENATOR Johnson ~ coucmdiuE o.
speaking tour through the middle
west at tho bch"st of the republican
national committee.
Dcvintcs 10 Defend Harding.
During the evening the senator de-
waited from the speech h" had Pre-.
pared 20 defend the republican nom
inco against mon ana newspapers
who pretended to be friends Of Scna-
tor Harding and who assert that he
Is To take this country into the lea
que nf nations
y Last now the ovcrshadowinE pail
on the republic, which we love Is
tho Wilson league OF nations. II IL
the greatest issue In the United
States since the Ciyil war. The line
OF domarcation in the present cam
pa gn is clcar---thc democrats are on
one side and tho republicans are on
the other There is no ambiguity in
the stand Of the republican party On
In the stand Of Mr. Harding on the
league OF nations.
"rherc IL nothing ambiguous or
uncertain in our candidates dcClara-
! tion. lie has courageously taken hi,
stand. lie has put the league be-
| hind him. lie wants neither inter
prctations nor reservations. but out
right rejection.
Iardlng's Stand Clear
THE men and newspapers who
pretend TO bo friends or Senator
Harding and who assert that he ia To
take this country into the league OF
nations do him a distinct dis-SorViCc
Il any pay hiIl n sorry compliment.
speak, OF course, solely from the
public uttcranCos of our candid ate
and these uttcrauces make It plain
beyond Cavil that when Senator
Harding is president he win not take
he United States into the league.
an his speech Of acceptance. ho
characterized tho league as "a mill
tary alliance which menaces peace
and threatens all freedom lie
called It tho supreme hlundcr' and
asserted that he would leave Amer
icn free. Independent and self-reli-
ant, but offering friendship 20 all
the world lie instanCcd the war
between Poland and Russia 1s in
diCating what we would have been
let in for. aud this Polish Russian
war, he said, brought home to uS
tho danger OF committing ourselves
In advance to causes that we know
not OF. Again he referred to Amer
lea as n member Of the league AZ
one in pi,iful minority amonp
many states merged In world gov.
ernment.' and included himself
among those who had opposed what
I'VE sincerely regard NJ betrayal
of our country In the interest OF
| others He deprecated his vote foI
| reservations and said TINT conditions
| had now changed. Experience had
| brought enlightenmcnt and he sol,
1 emmy added:
Emphasized Stand.
we know now that the league
/ constituted at Versailles is utturl
/ impotcnt as preventative Of wars
| II is 30 obviously impotontl that 4
/ has not even been tried. II coulC
/ not survive a single test. Tho orig
/ inal league mistakenly conceive,
/ and unronsonahly insisted upon ha'
! undoubtedly passed beyond the pc
! riod OF frstoratiou. Tho matpreI
! judgment ~ the world viii o." tha
/ it declined to pass for the simph
! reason that contrary "a au ~ m,
tendencies developed by the civili2
ing processes OF the world j, rostot
upon the power of might, not o
| right
"To mako doubly plain his mean
| ing in hls speech Of ncccptaEro n,
said; 4 am opposed tu the vor'
/ thought Of our republic becoming
party to 80 great am outrage on Dihn
people, who have as good a right q
seek their freedom as wc had n