The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-14
ROOSEVELT IN
DEFENSE LEAGUE
Says Harding Attack Reveals
Type of Mind Bent on
Squaring Grudges.
G. 0.P. BANKS ARE DIVIDED
On Great Issue, While Demo.
cratic Victory Assures Rat
ification of League.
G. O. P. BANKS ARE DIVIDED

- Hyde Park N, ", July I4-Tranklin
~ Roosevelt. replying at his homo here
To-Day TO the charge OF Senator Harding
mat President Wilson had forced the
democratic presidential and vice-presi-
dental nominees TO accent his Views
mat the league Of nations should be-
come the dominant campaign issue, de-
clared he was quite willing, MS | know
SoVernor Cox Is. to let the American
people decide whether they will 40 back
they VIII join with civilization and
humanity In this great step forward Z"
The attempt by Senator Harding
Yesterday" he said, ito befog the true
the name Of President Wilson, Il merely
further evidence OF the historical fact
that a certain type OF senatorial mind
cares more about squaring an ancient
grudge against an Individual than Il
does to consider the true welfare OF the
nation. II is OF course well known that
seven n-eighths OF the opposition OF these
senators ts not 10 the league OF nations
but 70 the person OF the president OF
the United States himself.
World War Not In Vain,
History will take care OF the great
part woodrow Wilson has played. But
the democratic party enters the cam
paign with the clear-cut purpose Of
proving that the world war has not been
fought In vain. Senator Harding says:
Should the democrats win. the treaty
and the league win be ratified He IL
right No one. probably not even Sem
ator Harding himself, Knows what
would happen should the republicans
such as Senator Hiram Johnson, assures
the nation that republican victory
means mo- league OF nations Another
branch, led by such men as former
President TAFT. assures the nation that
q republican victory means the accer-
lance OF the league. with certain upde-
fned reservations.
THE rest OF Senator Harding's state
ment IL the usual vague, summonlng
torth or bogies and imaginary ghosts OF
horrible pictures OF American soldier
hoys waging war. In Poland, Russia and
Turkey; and at the end he talks In gilt
tering terms about the. charge OF n Sur
render OF the republic"
y Yield nothing IN my devotion TO tho
United states to Senator Harding, 10
Senator Penrose. TO Senator johnson or
70 any of their followers, Rather.
believe they are the ones who fail to
visualize the great future and the inde.
pendent future of this nation,
Issues Being Drawn Early.
. 'One OF the prominent issues is thus
becoming, early and clearly drawn. A
democratic victory means ratification
OF the treaty and the league of nations.
which, as tho world knows, Ia already
constituted. A republican victory means
that the United States, with Russia,
Mexico and Turkey, shall remain out
SIDE The election OF Harding means
that In case OF future war the United
states viii enter the war after the
conflict has begun. The election of Cox
means that tho United States, in par
tinipatlon with the other civilized mas
tiopE OF the world, viii, through the
difficulties and prevent recurrence OF
thaI hnlnNauAt of 1DlAslQlR"