Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-10
ASSERTS LEAGUE
WAVE" SWEEPING
HERE FROM WEST
GoItra, Missouri Democrat,
Sees WhirIWind Victory
Based on This Issue.

The League wave"-the latest thing
in waves-is on the way from the
west, according to Edward r Goitra,
democratic national committeeman
for Missouri who was in washington
yesterday. Mr. Goltra expressed sur
prise that the wave had not yet
reached the Atlantic seaboard
In the opinion of the democratic
committeeman the league of nations
issue is going to sweep Cox and
Roosevelt into office. The women and
the church people in the west ne SAID
have become aroused. he predicts a
whirlwind finish of the campaign'
with the league of nations as win
ming factor.
This is the view publicly expressed
by many OF the democrats The an
nouncement by Senator Harding. the
republican nominee. that he was DELI
nitely against the United States enter
ing the Paris league of nations has
given them a new lease on life. They
believe that the long hoped-for Spllt
in the republican party Is arriving.
They point to the detection of Her
cert Parsons who was republican ma
,.onal committeeman for New YORK
state until the new committee came
into being at the time of the national
convention in Chicago last June. But
it takes more than one swallow TO
make a spring. and more than the loss
of Herbert Parsons and few others
to make split in the republican,
ranks. the republicans in Washington
insisted last night.
Republican Views On Peace.
There are many republicans who be-
lieve that the United States should
not and will not make a separate
peace with Germany. What is more.
they do not believe that If Harding
and Coolidge are elected it will mean
that the United States will make such
q separate peace. or that a republican
Congress will pass a resolution de-
claring a separate peace with Ger
many. These republicans insist that
as the United States went into the
war with Germany and pooled it's re-
sources, military and material. with
the allied nations to win the war it is
the duty of the United States to see
the thing through to finish. They
regret extremely that the President
saw fit to tie the peace treaty up with
the league of nations. realizing that
the peace treaty, by itself. could have
been ratified with little trouble. But
they do not believe that he United
states should do more than obligate
itself to see the terms of the peace
treaty-so far as they relate to the
war with Gerr and Austria-car-
.sd out The n t1s opposed to the
supergovernment plan that would
take from the United States any of
its independence of action and its
sovereignty. And they fear the Paris
l68k Uc OI llOuS llcdhS SUCH d super.
government.
II the republicans elect Harding the
contention is that it will not be nee
essary for the republican Congress to
pass resolution declaring peace with
Germany and Austria. The new chief
executive will be in a position to ne
gotiate peace In which the interests
of the United States and the allies
will be safeguarded. whether this
country becomes member of the
present league of nations or not. The
belief exists that the allied nations
viii make no objections to this, since
such peace would be more to their
interest than to have the United
States make a separate and independ-
ent peace with Germany and Austria.
VIII Avoid Details Now.
Not little interest is being mani \
Tested in the form which the ''asso-
citation of nations" for peace, for
nounced. will take. 1t seems unlikely
that any attempt will be made to go
into details. regarding such an asso-
citation until after the election. Ger
tainly the ''irreconcilables' opposing
the Paris league of nations are not
now to be drawn into a discussion Of
any proposed international tribunal
to handle disputes between nations
when these nations lay them before
it-though it is known that some OF
these 'lrrecOncfiaDieS nave views on
this subject
They fear that such discussion
might be taken as a sign that they
are weakening on the subject of the
league of nations. and that it might
be said they are seeking a compro-
mise. But after the election has come
and gone 1T is to be expected that
there will be much talk of a substi-
tute for the present league of nations
plan.