The Washington herald., 1920-07-14
More Than Willing for Ma
tional Referendum, De-
clares c. O. P. Head.
FORCED BY PRESIDENT
Candidate Says Wilson Only
Seeks to indicate His
Foreign Policy.
tBy unfver..I s~rviee.)

Marion. Ohio. July 13.-Repub!ic-
an candidates are prepared To piect
;ne Democrats paramount i-sue OF
the league of nations, which the
Ia n.ocraHc candidates proclaim as
th.i- issue, with all Its certainties
of war for -he United states, Sem
At r Warren G. Harding. the Re
publican Presidential n m nee de-
c,ared today.
I'VE are more than Wiling" he
.aio. TO make the election a ma
ti"nai referendum On the question
VIII .;IICr we shall have four years
more # Democrats readiness to
surrender this republic"
Speaking cn the league OF "a
o. ms as an issue in tn. campaign.
tn. senator continued:
Columbus dispatches describing
the conference between the, Demo-
cratic nominees for President anc
Vice President on Monday cay that
Gov. Cox left it to the Vice Pre-i-
Dental nominee to make known the
Conclusions reached. And thus att
thorized to speak f1r bath OF them.
10" NicA Presidential nominoe stat
I'll that he considered the league OF
nations one of the dominant is
sues of the campaign, not only in
the East. but in the West. He ex-
&C ell to make his campaign chiefly
Un :he leas1e OF natl ms issue
Wilson Hand Still Seen.
- We have the complete proof
Shat Pessi ieht Wilson has won and
forced acceptance of his paramount
issue. The party machinery has
h.cn taken over by the Tammany
.f New York. New Jersey and In
diana. but President wilson laj
fired his isJue en- them. He has
hut ons concern. and that is the
vindication of his foreiyn policy.
c'.t by his party and later by the
country.
The Democratic campaign is 60
ing to harness the party absolutely
to the administration policy of rati-
fcstion without protection to Ameri-
can interests. Should the Democrats
win the league woulo be ratified and
America would become at once a
party to the twenty-odd wars now
going on in the world. European
leaders have repeatedly explained
that il is impossible for the league
of nations to function effectively so
long as the United States has not
ratified.
Armenian Mandate Failure.
President Wilson has urged ac-
ceptance of a mandate for Armenia,
which the Harbord Mission found
would require US to emplo~a a great
army and pour out money by hum
dreds of millions. Congress over
whelmingly refused and the country
has sustained II so insistently that
even the San Francisco convention
lid not dare indorse the mandate.
Yet that mandate would hardly be
more than an intirnation of the
many world flung CONFLICTS into
which America would be projected
by ratification of the league without
rigidly safeguarding reservations.
The President demands a cam
paign on this issue; the Democratic
platform makes the issue paramount
and finally the Democratic canaI-
dates unqualifiedly acquiesce. The
score and more of Democratic Sena-
tors who voted for the Lodge reser-
vations are repudiated, the real
opinion of the American nation Is
nouted, because the President in
sists upon his isue regardless OF
costs or consequences. The Repup-
lican party and candidates gladly
accept the challenge. We are more
than willing to make the election q
national referendum on the question,
whether we shall have four years
more OF Democratic. readiness to
surrender this republic"