Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-30
VOTE FOR SOMETHING AND SOMEBODY
 SAYS U. 5. SENATOR GEORGE MEAN

thing as We'll as Somebody" Senator Geo;Sa P. Mclean of Connecticut is- sued on Friday powerful campaign ad- dress that sums up the situation. for Connecticut voters.
 He sketched the failures of democratic advice and leadership, not only in the last few years, but at other periods in the nations history, and called upon the voters of the state to make sure that this leadership should now be rooted out by voting a. straight republican ticket.
 Senator McLeans address was as fol- lows:
 vote for Harding and Lonergan will be void of governmental purpose or po- litical significance or sense.
 In local affairs where the discretion of the official to be chosen is limited to the administration of existing law par Fly lines may be disregarded at times but, when we come to the consideration of entirely new and untrieds proposals, national and international in their scope proposals which. are intended to dis turb, if not destroy, long established economic principles and international un- derstandings-the . intelligent voter will support that keadership. which, by it's traditions and record, can be trusted to oppose unwise and dangerous experi- ments.
 Lengue of Nations.
 The long and bitter controversy over the league of nations, whatever be its merits or dernerits, has produced results which must be taken into acIvum, .s those who believe, in and would realize some sort of an international associa- tion or understanding in the interests of peace and disarmament Anyone who can count as high as thirty-three must realize that Mir. Wilson's league and treaty. with or without the Hitchcock reservations to which MT. Cox is now willing to subscribe, cannot be ratified It cannot be ratified because of the votes | of the thirty-five or more hold-ovel senators who are bitterly opposed to the acceptance of the league under condition: less drastic than those imposed by the 1 Lodge reservations If every democratic candidate for the senate should be elect ed next Tuesday. they could not save Article 10 and kindred obligations. More over the representatives of the nations now constituting the controlling force il 1 the league freely admit that the de- clinatIon of the United States to sub scribe to Article 10 was fully justified thus inviting candid and careful recon sideration of the whole subject
 And how much better it will be for all concerned to resubmit the many momen tous and far-reaching international prob lems and necessities raised by the grea war to the mature judicial consideration of these who, in the light of the two years Of keen analysis and trial to whicl the league has been subjected, may b, able, to arrive at results to which all the nations interested can safely and gladl! subscribe. Is it not altogether probabl that this course would have been found necessary had the league been accepted by Mir. Wilson with the Lodge reserva- tions? Certainly, if We are to have a written agreement with the other nation of the earth it should be an agreement that can be kept, and. if this is true it must be an agreement that can be un- derstood if possible without referenc to dozen or more long and involved re- strictive reservations.
 Democratic Leadership Fails.
 The question, then is, which party can best be trusted with this all import !, ant errand? Shall we trust the part. that started right sixty years ago, o shall We trust the party that declaret the war to save the Union a failure? Shall We trust the leadership that gay liberty and hope to Cuba and the Phil ippines or shall We trust the leadersh that denounced Mckinley in 1900 as denounced Lincoln in 1860? Shall " trust the leadership that urged prepared ness in 1915 and 1916 or shall we trus the leadership. that thanked God we wer unpreparedi to meet the terrible emer gency of war and admitted in the au- tumn of 1917 that the executive depart ments had broken down and ceased t function? In word, shall We trust th leadership that, for more than half ,N..,-v
 never failed, or shall we trust the lea6 ership that, for more than half a centur. has never done anything but fail?
 And this is not all. The league of na
 tions is not the only issue of consequent
 in this campaign. The hell of war doe
 not end whens the guns stop firing. Eng
 land is still on rations; Europe is stil
 eating black bread ard Russia is sti
 eating liberty, or land or nothing.
 Europe loses her industrial and polite; sanity, she is in for another dark age
 and its shadow will cover America.
 There is an old eastern proverb tha every war leaves three armies-an a
 my of mourners, an army of cripple and an army of thieves" The recent wa
 left moro than this; it left it's mourner. . and maimed, and an army of dema gogues. and very large army of the di
 contented. E.,
 The great revival in industrial ethic . which we all hoped for as one of the fir fruitsuo of the sacrifices r.ade during u war, has not arrived. On the contrar ! too many of us. since We stopped dom our bit for our country, have been doin
 each other and that is one of the reason why there are several hundred agnost and scoialistic publications in this cou try that are now on paying basis.
 Government Must Set Good Example We cannot believe, and we do not b,