Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-22
Government by Fraud
From the No~ York World

Senator Harding said in his Des Moines
speech, in discussing the League OF Ma
tons.
II do not wish TO clarity those obi
cations. | want 20 turn nv back on them.
II is not Interpretation but rejection that
MI Root said in his Carnegie Hall
speech:
1T is plain, therefore, that the issue
is not between League Cf Nations and
no League Of Nations. The question Is
whether the agreement shall be accepted
absolutely unchanged CT shall be modified
10 meet the American objections.
Senator Hiram johnson said III his
Hoboken speech:
There is nothing ambiguous or un-
certain IN our candidates declaration
He has couraeoously taken hs stand.
He has put the League behind him.
He wants neither Interpretation nor
reservation, but outright rejection"
Mr. Taft said IN his Bloomington
speech
''Fxpresions that Mr.. Harding has
'scrapped' the League, has 'repudiated'
1t, are grossly unfair expressions.
Senator Borah said IN bis Danbury
speech
But association OF league, it's just
the same 10 me ! am opposed 20 any
association, combination, society or league
OF nations
Senator Harding said IN 8 statement rs
sued at Marion:
'I approve what Senator Borah has
SAID IN his public addresses. He will CON
tinue TO make speeches for the Republl-
can ticket, and am sure ! shall approve
l. & -. Ea
future"
Senator Harding said in his speech at
GreencastIe, Ind.
France has sent her spokesman TO
me. informally, asking America IN It's new
realization Of the situation to lead the
way for an association Of nations
Senator Harding said IN his reply TO
President Wilson's letter:
II am sure that my words could not be
construed to say that the French Govern
ment has sent anybody to me"
These exhibits might be continued IN
definitely IN their revelation of the colos-
sal false pretenses Of the Republican cam
paign In respect TO the League of Nations.
There is no honesty IN it; there is no IN
tegrity in IL; there is no honor IN IT;
there is no truth in it. II represents the
lowest degradation of responsible free
government"
Voters who favor the League OF Nations
are urged TO support Harding, on the
ground that no matter what be may say
in his speeches he Is in sympathy with
the pro-Ieague program of Root and Taft
and Hoover and " ckerslam. Voters who
oppose the League of Nations arc urged 10
support Harding on the ground that no
matter what Root and Taft and Hoover
and Wickersham may say, Harding has
scrapped the covenant and will keep
the United States out OF the League OF Ma
tons.
II is as if Abr aham Lincoln in 1860
had gone before the country both as the
enemy Of human slavery and the ally OF
human slavery; as the defender OF the
Union and the champion Of secession.
II is as if William Mckinley IN 1896
had made his campaign as the advocate
both of the single gold standard and OF
the free and unlimited coinage OF silver
at the ratio Of 10 to ].
The Republican program OF 1920 is
based on the premise that the American
people are fools, that they are without
character or conscience or conviction,
that they are volatile ard unstable igno-
ramuses who want q change Of government
and do not care what happens afterward,
whether If be dishonor or disaster or cha
os Certainly in all American history ther
has never been such campaign as this
conducte by great political party that
habitually boasts of its record and its
traditions. There has never been such
self-confessed abnegation of principle,
such cynical contempt for party respon-
sibility, such brazen admission that the
chief concern of "a political organization
is to get possession of the offices and then
betray the voters who put it In possession
of the offices
The same kind Of fraud that is made
penal offense when practised by an in
diyidual has been erected into a system
of government by the Republican leaders
o. the United States.