Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-28
DEMOCRATS LOSE
SUCCESS CHANCES,
IS COOLIDGE VIEW
Candidate Addresses Mass
Meeting of Republican
League at Boston.

BY the Associated 1reSS
BOSTON, August 2S.-The democrats
at the San Francisco convention
meant to indorse the administration
in the platform and repudiate it in
the nominee. but by strange turn
of fate failed in the accomplishment
of their purpose, and with that failure
went whatever chance there was of
democratic success. Gov. Coolidge as
serted in an address today. The re-
publican nominee for Vice President
was speaking at a mass meeting of
the Republican League of Massachu-
setts at Braves Field.
He said that it was recognized at
San Francisco that the country had
been brought by the management of
it's foreign affairs into contempt
everywhere, and that the people were
tired of the situation. but that sub
sequent statements of the President
and Gov. Cox and Secretary Roose-
velt's declaration that their splendid
accord and their high purpose are an
inspiration" left no doubt in the pub
lie mind that they were in complete
agreement on the league of nations
issue.
IndOrses Administration.
"This." said Gov. Coolidge, has put
into form the fatal assurance that
what the last administration has been
and is the next one, if successful, pro-
poses to be. By the necessary and in
evitable force of circumstances what
mad been intended as a reputation
has been turned into an Endorsement.
Every friend of the league of ma
tions knows that to insist on it's adop-
ton in the form originally submitted
to the Senate by the President, un-
modified and without reservations
that limit-in short. to insist on what
the administration insists on-means
the defeat of the league entirely and
completely. Even democratic senators
themselves would defeat it in that
form. But suppose some miracle
should provide a Senate willing to
ratify the league as submitted to the
Senate by the President. In that case
those who oppose article Y and in
general demand an Americanized
treaty. cannot support for President
a candidate who is pledged to a con-
tinuation of the policy of the present
administration"
Country Weary of visionaires.
Gov. Coolidge said that while the is
sues OF the present campaign have not
appears unmistakable that the country
us not only weary of but completely
exhausted by and disguised with all doc
trinaires and all visionaries.''
1T is determined to seek restoration
not by deserting it's ideals. but by turn
There is everywhere an unyielding de-
termination that America must be re-
stored, that her traditions must be re-
established and her purposes recon-
structed."
Our downfall, he continued, began
in Mexico, where ,fn failure to protect
Americans, in failure to assist Mexi-
cans, our country stands dishonored."
Referring to American entrance into
the world war, he said: What was
happening to our citizens then law
fully on the seas is all too well known.
What other countries thought of us
during that period and what terrible
sacrifices that opinion finally brought
to us as an inevitable result, cannot
now be disputed.
"Question Of Peace"
1.-The time came for the making of
peace. What came after the terms of
the armistice agreed to, on November
IL. 1882" he asked. mo less an au-
thority than Col. House says peace
could have been agreed upon by
Christmas, a peace with the safe
guarding guarantees of established
facts. That would have been accepta-
BILE to our associates and left to more
mature deliberation the question of a
league to make the peace of the world
more secure. Contrary to what is now
understood to have been European de-
sire. the league and the peace were
|inseparably bound together that the
great longing for peace might force
league.
During all this time war has gone
on. l say this advisedly, war is still
going on. 1t has not yet ended. We
have had victory, but the world is
without peace. Long after the armi-
|ctIN | 100 fnV
were engaged in warfare. Europe is
not yet pacified. Ratification of the
league. and the peace would have
made no difference in this matter 1t
would have had no effect on soviet
Russia. 1t would not have made the
boundaries OF Poland therein set up
any more defensive
THE position l have here under
taken to set out must not be miscon-
strued or misunderstood I say the
nation is tired of the present admin
istration in part because it has
earned TOT US the contempt of the
other people of the earth. 1t is no
answer to say that the reason for
this is that the administration has
not had a free hand. 1t had a free
hand in Mexico. 1t was not entitled,
under the Constitution, to a free hand
the binding obligation of a foreign
treaty. l am questioning no motives;
l am assessing no blame.
Il am reciting facts and drawing
the perfectly obvious conclusion that
the policy of the present administra-
by promise, and by necessity, to CON
| tinue, can only result in a continua-
! tion OF the discredit of the nation
abroad, because it forces on the coun-
try the choice between contempt and
| a state of war abroad. or the ratifica-
% tt to hnvv, nv
| fully and completely Americanized.
Nor is it any answer to suggest
that this plight might have been
| avoided by a course that would have
sacrificed American interests. 1t is
| the policy of the republican party to
| recog nize the necessity of remedy
| that does not sacrifice any American
! interest. and To annlx that rem edxn