Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-09
COLLEGE PRESIDENT OUTLINES POSITION
 OF SENATOR LODGE
Doctor Elliot Tells How Lea. que Opponent Changed
 His Attitude

Boston, Oct. 8.-A pro-ieague rally at Symphony hall tonight developed into one of the iiveliest meetings ot the political campaign. The audi. ence, made up about evenly of men and women shouted it's approval q, every reference to the league of na' tions, but occasionally split on party lines. The names of Roosevelt, Park. ed prolonged demonstration as dic mention of Senator Lodge. A rissent CT reused a cheer for Harding and Coolidge, but subsequent attempt to start second demonstration for the Republican candidates was drowned i in storm of misses.
 l Dr. Charles W. Elliot, president Emeritus of Harvard, who acted as chairman of the prologue indepen- dents, made up of Republicans and Democrats and independents, ex- plained the purpose of the organiza- ton.
 "The group of senators who de- feated the league in the senate and a part of the press gravely misrepre- scented the covenant" he said, land attributed to it provisions that no candid and intelligent minded man can find in it."
 Secretary of War Baker, in an ad- dress charged the Republicans un- der Senator Lodge leadering with adopting it's position on the league of nations, that of late Count Hert- ling, former imperial German chan cellor, who said in January, 1918:
 "The German government is glad ly ready when all other pending ques. tions have been settled to begin the examination of basis for a bond for league of nations"
 A Medieval Position.
 "This hard material and medieval position is strangely at variance with the enlightened idealism of Ameri- ca during the war;" MT. Baker de clared. By this position we were to be idealistic, unseifish and helpful to mankind, while the war lasted but at its conclusion to play safe with our own splints, demand our share of the spells and leave the cause of civilization to the ttender mercies of a map of Europe drawn as the in- *erests and selfish purposes of vic tor nations might determine"
 Secretary Baker charged Senator Lodge with inconsistency in his at- titude on the league of nations, say ing:
 First we see MT. Lodge in his chancellor's address at Union Col lege in 1914, declaring that these is no way in which to preserve the peace of the world exceps by d league of nations.
 Second, we have MT. Lodge at the banquet of the League to Enforce Peace in 1916 reiterating the belief that there is no other way and urg- ing the United States to become d party to such a league, nay, become the leader in the formation fsuch a league and increase it's own army and navy in order to have adequate force to match with that of other nations in the enforcement of peace.
 Third, we see Mir. Lodge formu- lating his round robin in the sen- ate in 1919 to repudiate the cove nant of the league of nations as drafted.
 Fourth, Mir. Lodge in the senate engineering the defeat of the treaty of peace, and,
 Fifth. Mir. Lodge making the key note address at the Republican na- tional convention in 1920 declaring the peace ought not to have been of the new and modern and righteous kind, but an old-fashioned peace of victory, with the spells divided and declaring this to be the position of his party and the belief of his as- sociates in the senate
 "In no other instance has other presidents ever consulted the sen. ate or congress before a war, dur ing war, or at the conclusion of a war, as fully as President Wilson our congress and our sen- ate on the subject of this war, its object or the terms of the peace which should conclude it.
 "The senate, envious and filled with partisan hatred, for the presi- dent determined to destroy his pres tige. They nominated one of their own number who would take their phrases and would take alike the