Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
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Senator Reed Expresses
Confidence in American
ism of Governor Cox and
His Victory in the Fall @

SAN FRANCISCO, July Support
of the Republican party with a can
didate standing four-square upon the
platform is the only choice left
those who believe in safeguarding
protecting and preserving our Amer
icanis1n," Senator Hiram Johnson, of
California, declared in a statement at
his home here today
For more than a year the contest
over the presidents League of Ma
tions has been waged in congress-"
Senator Johnson's statement said. 'It
has been the all-engrossing and para
mount issue. OF necessity, this -
sue came to the conventions of the
great political parties. Both Repub-
licans and Democrats, in their plat
forms, have INDUCED in the usual
political verbosity, but nevertheless
these platforms, in direct opposition
to each other, sharply define and
clearly present the question for de-
cision in the November election.
"The Republican party declared
that the presidents covenant failed
signally to accomplish its purposes
and contained stipulations not only
lntolerable for an independent people,
but certain to produce the injustice,
hostility and controversy among ma
lions which it proposed to prevent,
and repudiated to a degree wholly
unnecessary and unjusti1able the
time-honored policies in favor of
peace declared by Washington, Jeffer-
son and Monroe"
1.-THE Republican party stands,
therefore, firmly against the presi-
dents covenant, as presented, de-
nounces it as breeding war rather
than promoting peace, and reaffirms
the time-honored, nation-old policies
of Washington, jefferson and Mon
roe.
1.-THE Democratic party, on the
other hand, rejected every effort to
modify or qualify the presidents
proposed League of Nations, indorsed
the presidents attitude and took its
position in favor of the league as
presented. 1t Is true that the DEM
ocrats, in effort to placate, say some
thing about reservations which make
clearer or more specifio,the obliga-
lions of the United States, but the
language is meaningless and does
not at ali alter the essential position
of the Democratic party for the
league as presented.
'"The two parties acted in similar
fashion in one respect, but from diff
ferent motives and for different rea-
sons. Both rejected the pleas for
adoption of the league with reserva-
lions, the Democrats because they
were for the league as presented, and
the Republicans because no reserva-
lions devised by the human cind
could anticipate the contingencies
which might arise in the future from
an instrument Of such potential pos
sibilities for harm.
''Thus the issue finally comes from
the forum of congress to the final
arbitrament Of the American people.
The overshadowing question in the
campaign, therefore. is whether we
Asiatic politics and diplomacy and
become part Of the cynical imperial
ism 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 civilization, but free
to act as each crisis shall arise, and
maintaining always the policy Of
Washington and Jefferson and Mon
roe, Of friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none.
with a candidate standing four
square upon the platform. the is
sues leave those who believe in safe
guarding, protecting our American
ism but one choice and that is to
support the Republican party"