The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-02
League of Nations.

The Democratic party favors the League of Nations as the surest, if not the: only, =practicable means of maintaining the permanent peace of the world and terminating the in- sufferab1e burden of great military and naval establishments. It was for this that America broke away from radittonal Isolation and spent her blood and treasure to crush col losal scheme of conquest. It was upon this basis that the President of the United States, in pre-arrange- ment with our allies, consented to a suspension of hostilities against the Imperial German government; the armistfce was granted and treaty of peace negotiated upon the definite assurance to Germany, as well as to the powers pitted against Germany that "a general association of nations must be formed, under specific cove nants, for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political inde- pendence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike" Hence we not. only congratulate the presi- dent on the vision manifested and the vtgor exhibited in the prosecution of the war but we felicitate him and his associates on the exceptional achievements at Paris involved in the adoption of league and treaty so near akin to previously expressed American ideals and so intimately related to the aspirations of civilized peoples everywhere.
 We commend the President for his courage and his high conception of good faith in steadfastly standing for the covenant agreed to by all the as- sociated and allied nations at war with Germany and we condemn the Republican Senate for it's refusal to ratify the treaty merely because 1t was the product of Democratic states manship, thus interposing partisan envy and personal hatred in the way of the peace and renewed prosperity of the world.
 By every accepted standard of in ternationa1 morality the President is Justified in asserting that the honor of tile country is involved in this business; and we point to the accus- ing fact that before it was determin- ed to initiate political antagonisn to the treaty, the now Republican chair man of the Senate Foreign Relations committee himself publicly proclaim ed that any proposition for a separate peace with Germany such as he and his party associates thereafter report ed to the Senate, would make us guilty of the blackest crime.'
 On May 18th last the Knox substi- ute for the Versailles treaty was passed by the Republican Senate; and this convention can contrive no more fitting Characterization of its obloquy than that made in the Forum Maga- Hine 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 a crime which nothing can justify
 The intent of Congress and the in tent of the president was that there could be no peace until we could create situation where no such war as this could recur. We cannot make peace except in company with our al- lies. It would brand us with ever lasting dishonor and bring ruin to us also if we undertook ts make a separate peace.
 Thus to that which MT. Lodge in saner moments considered the black est crime he and his party in mad ness thought to give the sanctity Of law: that which IS months ago was everlasting dishonor." The Repub- lican party and its candidates today accept as the essence of faith.
 We endorse the presidents view of our international obligations and his firm stand against reservations de- signed to cut to pieces the vital pro- visions of the Versailles treaty and we commend the Democrats in Con- gress for voting against resolutions for separate peace which would dds-