White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-31
CANDIDATES DEBATE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The much talked of and widely az
vertised debate upon The League OF
Nations attracted d large crowd to
Bio aall Friday night and notwith-
standing the inelement weather there
were not seats enough te ACCOMMODATE
the large audience which filled the hall
upon the opening OF the doors. Stand
ing room space in Inc rear was mteli
in demand
Under the terms agreed upon the de-
bate was opened by Counsellor An
thony ZURICH. candidate for the assem-
blv on the democratic ticket, and he
was limited to twenty minutes for his
opening. He was then followed by
counsellor j. NJ Lockhart. candidate
for tie assembly on the republican,
ticket. Who was likekwise limited To
twenty minutes. The speakers were
introduced by Captain James :. Ben
nett. who presided at the meeting.
In the opening address Mr.. Jurieh
dwelt upon the fact that the Ieasu.
would prevent war, at least to some
extent. aud for this reason II shonld pc
adopted. He said that In no sense
could 1t be claimed that II would work
an injury upon the American people.
and that the claim made as to this ma.
ton snrrendering its Sovereignty was
entirely without foundation; that Il
was not n document In favor of one
country or against another. but a doc
nmant witt, a purpose of maintaining.
as far as possible, the peace of the
whole world. and that II II saved the
life of one soldier il was worth its
weight in gold.
r A. Iaotxh rlFS f9pf% he took tile
nosition that America would be going
,pto something that would be of no
benefit. but would land the countr In
rouble. He pointed out that America
las stood alone for so many years 1t
can do so for just as many more years.
and that the country should remain
out of the league as IL is and attend TO
her own affairs. The speaker read ar
ticles /, 2, 3 ard 3 hurriedly. Then he
Jumped to article Is and back to article
10, but owing to the limited time ana
the fact that much of this had been
covered in his talk before getting down
10 the ne did not discuss the
different articles.
Mr.. Zurich then followed and said
that he was sorry that MIR. Lockhart
lid not give some reason WIS the
League of Nations should not be adopt
ed, instead of being content to tell the
people to keep out and mind their own
affairs. He then read a certified copy
Of a resolution adopted at the last SEES
sion of the Nevada legislature indors-
ing a league of nations and strongly
recommending that America join there
in. The speaker pointed out that Mr..
Lockhart and AIR. Chandler. one of Nr.
Lockhart's running mates for tie as.
sembly. had voted in favor of that res
olution. This brought applause and
laughter from the large audience. Mr..
Zurich then took a newspaper and read
1t In quoting a speech delivered
by Mr.. Chandler at Reno while intro
ducing President Wilson at the time
the nations chief executive was tour
ing the country and speaking an favor
Of the adoption of the league plan. In
this introduction Mr.. Chandler is quot
I'd as strongly ~favoring the league and
sCci ching what he then termed a lew
republicans for opposing a
on political grounds. which
should he above politics and should
be adopted IN the best interests OF all
he world.
Mr.. Lockhart. in closing. said that
the resolution quoted by Mr.. Juricn
Noteu on III fSpAuoiS ahN s"o
under consideration vas not
brought back from Europe until June
of the same year. out made no refer
to the speech of his running
mate endorsing it after the president
had brought IL back aud was publicly
speaking for IL.
While The debate was most Interest
IT cannot be said that many came
away feeling that they had a thor
understanding of the great ques-
ton. and TO many II appeared like the
riddle. why Is a mouse when II
spins?s Because when Johnny dies
we II all eat sponge cake.