Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-30
STRONG PLEA
FOR PACT MADE
BY MRS. GAIT
Suffrage Leader Asks How
Harding Would Win Others
to His League.
CONS PLEDGE DEFINITE

NEW YORK. Oct 30-lIrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. the most distinguished
suffra gist in America. speaking at a
meeting Friday afternoon at the Thirty
Ninth Street Theater, said:
''I. for one, want this Nation to enter
the league"
The speech was made under the aus
pices of the women's division of the ma
tiona1 Democratic committee.
Other speakers were Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Raymond B. Fosdick. fog
nler under secretary general of the
League. of Nations.
All three earnestly urged the election
to the presidency of Governor James NJ
Cox.
Mrs, Gait said:
Just as certainly as a baby has to
cut its teeth before ii eats, or creeps
good cause that cannot be answered III
a logical manner always throws mass
Of detail into the controversy, and
probably they do it as instinctively as
the cutie fish sends out its dark fluid
that hides it from sight.
Two things they do: Discredit the
leaders and fail to meet the argument
~ drawing attention from it, There
fore, beg of you. Americans. to have
Your eye on the League of Nations and
conslGer all other questions from that
light.
Do not be drawn off by somethin.
else. As matter of fact. the League
OF Nations is no more Mr. wilson's
league" than it is your league or my
league. The idea of League of Nations
is so old that nobody knows who tirs.
propounded it
DWELLS AT LENGTH
ON SENATE OBJECTIONS.
Mrs. Gait analysed the League OF Ma
tons and dwelt at considerable length
on the opposition to it by the Senate.
She also said:
I for one, want this nation to enter
the league. I want 1t more than | want
anything else in this world. So / have
tried TO figure out how to get there and
/ want TO tell you that IL is not an
easy road, which ever one We choose
There are now horns to the dilemma
There are really about three horns to
this dilemma.
The first one is that the President has
the right to act first. 1t his privilege to
present treaty - the Senate. The
Constitution says that it shall he es-
tablished by the advice and consent Of
the Congress Now there Is nothing
obligatory about asking the advice and
nothing obligatory about taking: but II
is necessary that the Senate consent.
Consequently. we must ask ourselves:
What will Mr.. Cox do and what will
Mr.. Harding do:'
The Democratic platform was a straight
out and out Endorsement OF the League
OF Nations ] have read all of Mr. COx's
speeches and al Of Mr. Harding's
speeches, ana a lot of others besides,
and Mr.. Cox has never varied from the
statement that he knows it Is difficult to
get 1t through the Senate, but he pro-
10 get some ground upon which the
Senate will unite to put the present cove
nant through with such amendments as
they viii deTne nd
We know what he Will do. What viii
Mr. Harding dOf
In tie event Mr.. Harding IS elected IL
may be construed by many. and justi-
dably so. that Our nation has given
mandate for some kind of juggling Of
the idea of a league; Of trying to set up
a league instead of the League. Conse-
qHently there is mandate and II there
Is anything under Gods sun that will
make some Of those Senators bend and
Yield It will be mandate from this
country. and it is the only thing that
will (applaUsel and consequently, I, for
one. do not clre whether Mr.. Cox is wet
or dry or what he Is, I am going to cast
my first presidential vote for Mr.. Cox.
WONDERS ROW THEY
WILL GET a LEAGUE.
Shall We have 4 league or the leaguei
How are they going to get a leaguef
trefeTring 10 the Senator's.
There are forty-three nations that are
already In the league, 1t Is going con
Germ. What can they do? Have 4 rival
league, inviting the nations of the world
TO join II. and be a rival on the other
enc, or ask the forty-three nations to
substitute the constitution they have
for the one the United States offers:
Will they 90 before the world and say
I'VE hold that the constitution that you
have Is too democratic. and we want
republican constitution: take ouTsf"
Now will they do that? That Is the
only process.
How could it be adopted: BY a ma
jority Of the opinions Of forty-three
nations?
Now. suppose one nation doesn't like
our leaEue-Our republican One-suppOse
Canada does not. and she turns it down
But a majority do accept it, then
what?
Shall we say. Canada. YOU must now
take your choice Of accepting this new
covenant or leaving the league:"
And it is not unlikely. when Mr.. John
son and Mr.. Borah and all the rest of
them have told the world what an Ia
fringement 1t is upon independence and