The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
WILSON ABOUT FACE
SHOWN BY HARDING
Presidents Declaration in
1914 Against Any Foreign
Alliance Recalled.
JEFFERSON ALSO WARNED
Republican Nominee Further
Repeats What Cleveland
Said in 1885.

Special Despatch TO THE NEw York HERALD.
MARION, Ohio, Oct. Ex-senator
Harding quoted Woodrow Wilson
against his own League of Nations to-
night. The quotation was of some SER
fences uttered by the President early
in 1914. before the covenant Of the
league was thought of. 1t expressed the
Presidents objection to an alliance Of
tho United States with any nation on
earth.
Since Article " of the league con-
verts the member nations into armed
allies 10 maintain the boundary lines
created at Versailles. Senator Harding
finds the Presidents words Of 1914 very
applicable to the situation of 1920.
Certain days are memorable in Amer
can history" the Senator said. "On
this date exactly nlnety-seven years ago,
Thomas Jefferson. looked upon as the
founder OF the Democratic party, wrote
tic James Monroe. President OF the
United States, as follows:
Monticello. Oct "a. 1923.
Dear Sir: The question presented
by the letters you have sent me is
the most momentous which has ever
been offered TO my contemplation
since that of Independence. That
made us a nation. This sets our
we are to steer through the ocean Of
time opening on U.S. And never could
we embark on II under circumstances
more suspicious. Our first and fun
damental maxim should be never to
entangle ourselves in the broils of
Europe. Our second, never to suffer
Europe to intermeddle with Cis-At-
| lantlc affairs. America, North and
| South, has set Of interests distinct
from these of Europe and peculiarly
her own. She should therefore have
| n system OF her own, separate and
apart from that Of Europe. While
the last Is laboring to become the
domicile of despotism our endeavor
should surely be to make our hemi-
| sphere that of freedom.
| ION December s. 1885, President
Grover Cleveland, who In the Demo-
cratic party carried on American ideals
1 said:
We have forborne from taking
part in any controversy between
foreign states but have left to every
nation the exclusive conduct and
management of its own affairs.
"On May .. 1914. the present President
Of the United States was said by tn.
press to have expressed the policy II
these words:
! America should lead her own life.
We cannot form alliances with those
who are not going our way. We
need not and we should not form
alliances with any nation in the
world. Those who are right, those
who hold their honor higher than
their advantage, do not need alli-
ances
ITO all Americans and especially 60 al
Democrats II must appear that Articl
X. OF the League OF Nations. which
would submerge American nationalit
and independence In an armed allianc
wearing a mask of benevolent idealisn
In a complete reversal, not only o
American but of Democratic policy. Ye
Article X. r. represented by the Presi
dent and by the Democratic nominee q
the essential soul of the present Leagu
of Nations.
IL do not hesitate to say that STAN
by the expressions OF Jefferson, Sleve
land and that OF the President mad
in 1914. for / am unfiinchingly oppose
| to Article y.
Furthermore, point out that neithe
jefferson. Cleveland nor the Presiden
in 1914 were opposed to cooperation be
tween America and other nations of tn
world In the prevention OF war or agree
ments in peace. / am not opposed {
such cooperation. / favor II. II is nov
the obligation OF the Republican part
and will be my obligation to take N
the constructive work of an association
OF nations behind which American opin
ion can be harmonized and Americ;
| united