Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-07-06
OHIO'S GOVERNOR
UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN
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to the aspirations Of civilized peoples
everywhere.
We commend the President fer his
courage and his high conception OF
good faith in steadfastly standing Tor
the covenant agreed to by all the as
sociated end allied nations 1T war
with Germany and We condemn the
republican senate for IFS refusal to
rntify the treaty merely because 4
was the roduct of democratic states
manship. thus interposing partisan
envy and personal hatred in the wa
of the peace and renewed prosperity
of the world.
BY every accepted standard of in
ternational morality the President is
justified in asserting that the honor
of the country is involved in this bust
ness: and We point to the accusing I
fact that, before it was determined To
initiate political antagoniJm to the
treaty. the now republican chairman .
of the foreign relations committee
himself publicly proclaimed that any
proposition for separate peace with
Germany, such as he and his party
associates thereafter reported to the
senate, would make US guilty OF the
blacklist of crimes"
On May Is last the Knox substitute
for the Versailles treaty was passed
by the republican senate; and this
convention can contrive no more tit
ting characterization of its Obloquy
than that made in the Forum Maya
zine of December, 1918. by Henry
cabot Lodge, when he said:
"If We send our armies and young
men abroad to be killed and wounded
in northern France and Flanders with
no result but this, our entrance into
war with such an intention was
crime which nothing can justify. The
intent Of congress and the intent of
the President was that there could be
no peace until we could create stu
.ation where no such war as this could
,Yecur. We cannot make peace except
in company with our allies. 1t would
brand us with everlasting dishonoI
and bring ruin to us also If we under
xnok to make a separate peace"
Thus, to that which MIR. Lodge, IN
Aaner moments, considered the
E,lackest crime" he and his party in
madness sought to give the sanctity
of law; that which Is months ago
was OF Everlasting dishonor," the
republican party and it's candidates
We indorse the Presidents view OF
our international obligations and his
firm stand against reservations de-
signed to cut to pieces the vital provi-
-sions of the Versailles treaty. and we
commend the democrats in congress
for voting against resolutions for sep
arate peace which would disgrace the
nation. We advocate the immediate
ratification without reservations
which would impair essential integ-
.rity: but do not oppose the acceptance
of any reservations making clearer or
more specific the obligations OF the
United States to the league associates.
Only by doing this may we retrieve
the reputation of this nation among
the powers of he earth and recover
the moral leadership which Presiden.
Wilson won and which republican pol
aticians at Washington sacrificed.
Only by doing this may we hope to
aid effectively in the restoration OF
order throughout the world ana to
take the place which we should as"
sumo In the front rank Of spiritual,
commercial and industrial advance
ment.
We reject as utterly vain, II not
vicious, the republican assumption
that ratification of the treaty and
membership in the League of Nations
would in any wise impair the integ-
rity or Independence of our country.
The fact that the covenant has been
entered into by 20 nations. all as jeal-
-Ous of their independence as we are
OF ours, is a sufficient refutatiOn OF
such charge. The President repeat
~edly has declared, and this convention
reaffirms, that all our duties and Obli-
cations as a member of the league
must be fulfilled in strict conformity
with the constitution of the United
States, embodied in which is the fun
damental requirement OF declaratory
action by the congress before this
nation may become a participant in
any war.
CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
During the war President Wilson
exhibited the very broadest conception
of liberal Americanism. In his con-
duct of the war, as in the general ad
ministration of his high Office, there
was no semblance of partisan bias. He
invited to Washington as his cousel-
4ors and coadjusters hundreds of tn.
most prominent and pronounced re-
-publicans in the country. To these
he committed responsibilities of the
gravest import and most confidential
nature. Many of them had charge of
vital activities of the government.
And yet, with the war successfully
prosecuted and glOriously ended, the
republican party in congress. far from
applauding the mastery leadership Of
the President and felicitating the
country on the amazing achievements
of the American government. has
,meanly requited the c0nsiderate
course of the chief magistrate by saw
agely defaming the commander-in-
chief OF the army and navy. and by
assailing nearly every public officer
of every branch of The service init
mately concerned in winning the war
abroad and preserving the escurity Of
the governmnt at home.
We express to the soldiers and sail
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