The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-07-08
JOHNSON GUT
FOR HARDING
Support Of Candidate Standing
"FOur-Square" Only Choice.
ISSUES UP TO PEOPLE.
Choice For Those Who Believe in
Safeguarding, Protecting and Pre-
serving Americanism, He Says.

San Francisco, July S.-Support of
the Republican party with il candi-
date standing four-square upon the
platform is the only choice left to
those who believe in safeguarding,
protecting and preserving our Ameri
caniSm."
Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of Cali
fornia, SO declared at his home in a
statement reading as follows:
For more than a year the contest
over the presidents league of ma
'tiOns has been waged in. congress. 1t
has been the all-engrOssing and para
mount issue. OF necessity, this issue
came to the conventions of the great
political parties. Both Republicans
and Democrats, in their platforms,
have INDUCED in the usual political
verbOsity, but nevertheless these plat
forms, in direct opposition to each
other, sharply define and clearly pre-
sent the question for decision in the
November election.
"The Republican party declared the
presidents covenant failed signally
to accomplish its purpose, and con-
tanned StipulatiOns not only intOler-
able for an independent people, but
certain to produce the injustice, hos
tility and controversy among nations
which it proposed to prevent and re
pudiated to a degree wholly unneces-
sary and unjustifiadIe the time hon
ored policies in favor of peace declar-
ed by Washington, Jefferson and Mon
roe
1.-THE Republican party stands,
therefore, firmly against the presi-
dents covenant as presented, de-
nounces it as breeding war rather
than promoting peace. and reafiirms
the time-honored, nation-old policies
Of Washington. Jefferson and Monroe.
1.-THE Democratic party, on the
other hand, rejected every effort to
modify or qualify the presidents pro
posed league of nations. endorsed the
presidents attitude and took its posi-
ton in favor of the league as pre-.
scented.
1T Is true that the Democrats, in
effort to placate, say nothing about
reservations which might make clear
err or more specific the obligations OF
the United States, but the language is
meaningless and does not at all alter
the essential position of the Demo
Icratic party for the league as present
ed
1.-The two parties acted in similar
fashion in one respect, but from diff,
ferent motives and for different rea-
sons. Both rejected the pleas for
adoption of the league with reserva-
lions, the Democrats because they
were for the league as presented, and
the Republican because no reserv
tons devised by the human mind
could anticipate the contingencies
which might arise in the future from
an instrument of such potential pos
sibilities for harm.
'"Fhus the issue finally comes from
the forum of congress TO the final
arbitrament of the American people
The overshadOwinG question in the
campaign. therefore. is whether we
enter the maelsarom of Europe and
Asiatic politics and diplomacy and
become a part of the cynical imperial
ism of the Old World, or whether
America shall live her life in her OWL
way, independent, unfettered, mind,
full always of her obligations to hui
mainly and civilization, but free to
act as each crisis shall arise, and
maintaining always the policy OF
Washington and Jefferson and Mon
roe of friendship with all nations
entangling alliances with none.
with a candidate standing four
quare upon the platform, the issue
leaves those who believe in safeguard
Ing, protecting and preserving our
Americanism but one choice, and that
is to support the Republican party