The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-15
Republicans Elated Over What They Consider
Coup in Announcing Advocates of Peace
are For Their Ticket
Governor Cox Speaks Today in Harding'a
Home Town With Address From Rear
Platform of Special Train.
by Ed. L. Keen, United Press Stan
Correspondent

by Ed. L. Keen, United Press Stan
Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-RspIbhcan
national leaders were elated today
over what they considered one OF the
most effective ooups of the campaign
the statement of thirty-one promi-
nent advocates of international CO.
operation to promote peace support
ing Senator Harding for the presi-
dency
The statement was signed by Elihu
Root, George Wickersham and other
prominent republicans whose position
hitherto has been regarded as luke
warm toward Harding
In the democratic camp it was
held the republicans had published
the statement as a necessary offset
against recent declarations OF other
prominent republicans OF their inten.
ton to support Cox for the presf
'dency. Also it was regarded by them
as a further illustration Of the din
Guilty Of understanding Hardings atti
tuie on the league of nations, mas
much as Senators Borah and Johnson
are supporting him for reasons exact.
" opposite to those ascribed by the
"thirty-one.'
The statement, whose authorship is
attributed in some quarters to Elihu
Root, who hitherto has taken no part
in the republican campaign. mum.
bered among its other signers:
Lyman Abbott. Herbert Hoover,
Paul Cravath, Charles E Hughes, A.
Lawrence Lowell, president Of Har-
ward university; Jacob G. Schurman,
former president of Cornell untver-
sity: Henry w. Taft, brother OF e1-
President Taft: Henry L. Stimson.
VIM. Allen White, Ray Lyman Will
bur, president of Leland-Stanford uni
yersity: Oscar S. Strauss and
Charles A. Richmond president OF
Union college, Schnectady, n. Y. 1t
was understood some signatures were
not attached until message was re-
ceived from Senator Harding that he
stood by his speech of August 28.
Much emphasis was placed in the
statement on this speech, particu-
larly the following paragraph:
II would take and combine all that
is good and excise all that is bad
from both organizations (the court
and the league). This statement is
broad enough to include the sugges-
tion that il the league which has
rfvaled our considerations
and apprehensions has been so in
twined and interviewer into the peace
OF Europe that its good must be pre-
served in order to stabilize the peace
of that continent, then 1t can be
amended or revised so that We may
still have remnant OF the worlds
aspira tions in 1918 builded INTO the
worlds highest conception of helpful
cooperation in the ultimate realiza-
ton"
~ Commenting on the statement of
the thirty-one, Chairman George
White of the democratic national
committee said today:
'"The same newspapers which carry
this announcement report a speech
by Senator Hiram johnson il which
he said of the Harding attitude: He
has put the league behind him. He
wants neither interpretations nor res
ervations, but rejection
Each of these interpretations sup
ports his view with quotations from
speeches of Senator Harding. who has
been most generous in saying some
thing on all sides of the issue"
Is Not War Party.
by Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent
SOMERSET. KY, Oct 15.-All the
republican party would ask OF Mexico
Is protection to American lives and
property there, Senator Warren G.
Harding declared in rear platform
speech here today, replying to asser
tions that his election would mean
war with the country across the Rio
Grande.
The republican party, he said, is
not a war party, but stands for the
golden rule OF international relation
ship.
Many speakers for the democratic
party are telling our countrymen
everywhere republican success means
war with Mericnn Harding said 1T