The Washington times., 1920-06-11
JOHNSONNOW !
LOGICAL MAN
Other Candidates Died With
Treaty and League in Platform
Committee, Says Borah.
~ WILLIAM II. BoRAH-
Copyright. 1870. by the International Nsws

Copyright. 1890. by the International News
CHICAGO. June 1.-THE attempt
TO pledge the party TO q ratification
OF the treaty and League of Nations
has wholly failed. A treaty and q
league which cannot have an afnrma-
tive indorsement with reservations
after eighteen months of debate II Q
dead treaty and league
The principle upon which this
league is built Is denounced in the,
platform. the league itself is de-
nsunced in the platform. and there II
no pledge TO ratify any kind of .
league. This ought to termfaate sa
once and for all the attempt - sur
render the isdependenee Of the United
states, and ! thiRk IL does.
The defeat of the plank to ratffy
the league makes johnson the logical
candidate.
One of the most famous and con-
scientious supporters Of the League
OF Nations. a man who has taken an
active part in the night for q league
for the last several years, and who
has contributed large sums of money
to the cause, stated to me this after
noon that the only logical thing for
the convention now was to put the
man upon the platform who is In
harmony with the platform. and that
we should. therefore. nominate john
.son.
While he is very much opposed to
Johnson individually and very much
in favor OF the league, he said there
was only one logical thing to do. and
that Is TO make the only man who is
candidate that fts the platform the
nominee.
IL must Inevitably he the judgment
of everyone that johnson is now the
logical candidate Of the convention.
II grows more and more apparent
each day that he Is not only the
logical candidate. hut that he is the
one who comm ands the popular sup
port and arOuses the public interest
necessary to n certain election.
1t is one of the most remarkable
things / have ever heard in a con-
vention to hear delegate after dele
gate say that General Wood could not
carry his State because, first. tho
farming classes were in a great ma
jority against the nomination OF
Wood: second. on account of his
belief in compulsory military train-
ing, and third. because of the perfect-
ly intolerable expenditure of money
to secure the nomination.
Yet this delegate by reason of some
situation, or some conditions. felt he
had to vote for Wood. at least for
ballot or two.
The Republican Congress rejected
universal compulsory military train
ing, the Republican conventlonSh has
rejected it, now, to nominate man
who stands for that and that alone
as a distinct issue would be blunder
the fruits of which would be gathered
later. When there is added to this the
fact that millions have been expended
to secure the nomination It seems in
creditable that a Republican conven
ton would even contemplate such aca
tien. s~
Hourly, therefore. by reason OF the
platform. by reason Of the policies
for which General Wood stands. Of
the practices preceding his nomina n
tiou, johnson becomes the logical cans
didate OF the convention.
His nomination will be equal to an
election.
We have put out a platform cover
ing a multitude OF subjects of most
vital concern to the American people,
platform which would admit of a
campaign upon the highest level, deai-
| ing with subjects of vital concern 10
the American people. This convention
is certainly, therefore. not going to
make the dominant issue OF the CAM
paign the question of the improper
use of money in elections.
We have just decided today that
you cannot sell the republic. tomor-
row we should decide that you can
] not sell the Presidency.