The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-15
Wilson Mexican Policy
Assaled By Harding
Governor COO|idge'S
Position On League
Of Nations Discussed
By DAVID LAWRENCE
Copyright by The 1ntclliSenccr

Boston Mass. Oct. 14.-Governor Cal
vim Coolidge. Republican candidate for
The Vice Presidency is about as clear
headed and dispassionate q person as
can be found BY the political waytarer
who wants To get at the currents OF
tides of partisanship.
Perhaps its the atmosphere created
by men like President Lowell or the in
tlucnce possible Of Root. Hughes. Taft.
Hoover. Wickrrsham. but the State
House in Boston doesn't eSude bitter
cnders'' or irreConcilable spirit on the
League or Nations. Governor Coolidge
insists with emphasis that he Is in com
pletc agreement with the Republican
platform and Senator Harding s
speeches.
The governor himself with natural
moGesty doesn't attempt to argue issues
that are more properly within the 1ur-
isdiction OF the head Of the ticket
Senator Harding. but such thoughts as
ne does express in his public speeches
rather incline toward the Elihu Root no
ton Of what the Republican National
platform means than the Borah or John
son view.
Quotes Harding
Mr.. Coolilr, r;.lled my attention to
a telegram Grrm senator Harding pub
lishcd in ,h' last TWO days IN which
the latter says he speech at Des Moines
was not ouJ 81 harmony with the one
delivered at Marion on August 2S. 1t is
from the latter address that Governor
Coolidge always quotes and he picked
up a copy OF IL while we talked and
pointed TO paragraph In which. after
discussing the present League of Ma
,iors and the Hague Tribunal. Senator
Harding said:
II would GO even further. I would
take and combine all that Is good and
excise all that is bad from both organ
81 1f broad
TO include the suggestion that II the
league has been so entwined and inter
woven into the peace treaty OF Europe
that it's good MUST be preserved in or
der to stabilize the peace Of the con-
tineut. then il can be amended or revised
SO that We may St!ll have a remnant OF
world aspirations 1918 builded into the
worlds highest conception OF helpful
cooperation"
For Treaty Revision
That's the policy which Senator Hard
ing Is expected here IL fulfil II nc Is
elected to the Presidency. Plainly the
people who with Governor Coolidge IA
vor League Of Nations or associate ion
OF nations are pinninS their faith on the
revision Of the Treaty of Versailles 10
conform to Republican doctrines. Some
folks here accept the johnson interpre-
tation OF the Republican platform but
the predominant Republican feeling Is
for some kind OF = league even though
IL has to be built on the foundations
uf the present structure. Senator Hale
OF Maine in the recent campaign In that
State made u clear that hc didn't be-
Reve Republican victory meant repudia-
lion, Of the itfoa or principfe OF a Lea que
OF Nations. Maud anyone who talks with
Governor Coolidge or reads his speeches
recognize in them an emphasis on the
aftirma tive rather than the negative
side OF the league controversy. For In
stance. he said recently.
"A world relationship exists. 1t IS. IL
% did not come into being as the result oil
any proposed treaty. and IL viii not be
changed by any great and solemn refer
cndum.' =
The foregoing is a significant warn
ing that Republican victory in nation
should not be interpreted as rejection
OF the idea OF partnership or association
with Europe in an effort to preserve
world peace Rather II carries the Sug-
gestion that the interests OF the United
states and the rest OF the world have
almost irreyocably drawn together.
Not Roundsd on Force
The course Of true statesmanShip'
continued the governor is to seek out.
TO Discover that world relationship. and
put the action OF the nations in harmony
With n, This Senator Harding is pro-
posing TO do. That relationship is not
founded upon major force. Prussia made
that mistake. It Is founded upon COM
pelling reason. It's herald Is not clank-
ing sabre but the still small voice. To
,bs cstabIishment of that relationship
through the recognition of reciprocal
rights and dutios the Republican party
BY it's history. by Its policy. BY its can
didatc stands pledged. This Is the way
with national honor with independence
10 q world peace. In that direction Sen-
ator Harding leads.
Examination of other utteranceS by
Governor Coolidge shows that he Is by
no means "A bitter ender' or a member
OF the Rorah-J ohnson faction. but wants
some League OF Nations. He argues
against the mourning of obligations that
America would not wish to fulfill. He
believes International morality Is not
aided bv the acceptance OF obligations
in a treaty that is not intended to be
enforced,
The Reservations
Reservations such as Senator Lodge
framed in the Senate would probably
please Governor Coolidge. In some OF
his speeches he goes back to the Lodge
reservations and analyses them. This
cannot be merely affection Tor the Worx
Of a fellow Republican from Nassachu-
setts but is unoucstionably based on a
Fundamental belief in world co-ope ration
as essential and Inevitable in the pres
ent day and age.
Governor Coolidge Is not a spectacular
individual but he talks common sense.
Even in private conversation. he doesn
talk like q candidate or politician. he
doesn't breathe the bitterness OF parti-
sanship which the writer has encounter
ed so often in WASHINGTON and else
where in the last two years. II he Is
elected Vice President he will give
such advice as Is asked OF him. VIII
preside as fairly a. he knows how In
Tho Senate Viii not insist on place
in the cabinet or anything else that is
outside a Vice Presidents bailivtck. He
has no exaggerated idea OF the part he
may play IL the Republican national
ticket is elected. He doesn't seem TO DC
excjted over the campaign or the fate
Of the United States OF the rest Of the
world no matter what the verdict Is next
November. He's n plain everyday citizen
who is evidently not wrapped In arnoi-
lion but in useful toll.
Tomorrow's dispatch will deal with
the political situation in Central New