Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-07
HI JOHNSON TAKES
HIS BITTER DOSE
Californian Issues Statement Dc
claring He Will Support Hard
ing and Coolidge.
ny Associated Press 70 Every Evening

ny Associated Press To Every Evening
San Francisco. July Support Of the
Republican party with candidate
standing fo,ir-square upon the plat
form il the only choice left those who
be.reve IN safe guarding, protecting and
preserving our Americanisrn, Senator
Hiram ". johnson of California declared
in statement at his home here today
"Eor more than year the contest over
the Presidents Tzsarrie of Nations has
been waged on Congress, he said: 1T
has been the all engosSinE and paramount
issue. OF necessity this issue came 70 the
conventions Of the great political parties.
Both Republicans and Democrats IN
their platforms have indulged in the usual
political verbosity, but nevertheless these
platforms, in direct opposition 70 each
other. sharply define and clearly present
the question for the decision IN the Noyem-
her election
The Republican party declared that
the Presidents covenant failed slgnally TO
accomplish its purpose and contained
stipulatlons not only intolerable for an
independent people but certain to pro-
/ duce the Injustice, hostility and contro-
versv among nations which it proposed
To prevent and repudlated TO a degree
wholly unnecessary and uniustIhable the
| tlme-honored policies IN favor OF peace
| declared by Washington Jefferson and
| Monroe
The Republican party stands. there
! fore. firmly against the President cove
nant as presented, denouncing 1t as pro-
/ noting war rather than promoting peace,
| and reaffirms the time-honored, nation
old policies OF Washington, Jefferson and
! Monroe
The Democratic party, on the other
/ hand. rejected every effort to modify or
1 qualify the Presidents proposed League
of Nations, endorsed the Presidents at
titude and is in favor of the league as
presented. The language as to amending
| the covenant is meaningless and useless
The two parties acted insimllar fashion
| in one respect, but from different motives
and for different reasons. Both rejected
! the pleas for the adoption of the league
| with reservations, the Democrats because
| they were for the league as presented
| and the Republicans because no reSer-
yations devised by the human mind
| could anticipate the contingencies which
| might arise in the future from an nstru-
ment of such potential possibilities fol
/ harm.
.'Thus the issue finally comes from the
| forum of Congress to the final arbItra-
ment of the American people. The over
shadowing question in the campaign there
| fore is whether we enter the maelstrom oi
European and Asiatic politics and diplo-
macy and become part of the cynical
| imperialism of the Old World, or whether
America shall live her life in her own way,
independent, unfettered mindful always
of her obligations to humanity and civil
| ization but free to act as each crisis shall
arise and maintaining always the policy
of Washington and jefferson and Monroe
of friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none.
with candidate standing four-square
upon the platform the issue leaves those
who believe in Safeguarding, protecting
and preserving our Americanism, but one
choice, and that is to support the Re
publican party