South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-08-22


70 what says. and what 1t does not say, and by
Misrepresentation. fraud and large campaign con-
tributions effect its permanent defeat
the things fttingly exposed by Gov. James n. Cox
IN his Thursday Speeches re might have called
attention to the statement Of Sen. Warren c. Hard
ing. that
1T viii avail us nothing to discuss in detail
the League covenant
as q warning from the senator against any awaken
Ing Of public intelligence. to the truth 1t
rounds that document but he spared his opponent
the indignity Of being charged with such
charlatanry.
II was generous Of the governor. Somebody, prob
ably Of the repubIico-gangrene school, says he
Threw mud" at tho senator. but # that is what
thew call criticism Of an attitude then maybe.
bcnceforth ser. Harding and his platform should
be discussed in a vein Of pity rather than OF crla-
cisn It is too that gang Of political high
binders such as control the republican party, and
10 whom with their rinE-lcaders, adherents must
~ necessity bow should now after throwing mud 10
these many moons come to feel that mud
turning to dust and flying back into their faces
They have accused the president Of the United
states OF almost every political crime the calen
dar and have besmcared the League covenant un-
I'll as they have pictured. the truth regarding It is
unrecognizable and Of # is mud singing"
now TO apprse the PEOPLE Of their misrepresenta-
tive methods.
Gov cox distinguishes between the republican
leaders and the republican rank and file whom the
leaders have inocuated with their virus. The dir
ference Is considerable; quite the same as the differ
ence between the physician and the patient, in this
case with the physician a quack. The mass Of re-
pubiicans are right heart when they understand.
That was proven in 1912 and the republican lead
ers are the same old leaders those against whom
they rebelled It is Penrose and Lodge and Smoot'
and Harding watson. playing a double game
this time TO catch under one interpretation the
followers OF Iii johnson. Of Roosevelt and un-
der another Interpretation, the followers of VIII
lam Howard Taft. It is game Of humbuggery, in
one way the other, and probably both
The time is past for letting these political high
binders have the whole say They had It for months.
As 1roof that the fight is only political take note
that the mad opposition began, even before the
treaty was signed. the governor points out, the
senate conspirators even going so far rather than
10 wait for the to begin their de
Hberatous over an unofficial text obtained from the
enemy AS political maneuvcr. it planned
long in advance to discredit tho League in order
merely to dlscredIt the political party that had
elected the president who negotiated it, and whom
they had come to hate just as the devil hates
heaven.
And there YOU have all there it, What the
people need is 10 know more about what the League
covenant really it, it actually and they
viii know for themselves and at once that it does
not mean. nor say. portend. what its opponents
cay OF it at all that is exactly the reason that
sen Harding would have it discussed lin de-
TAIL" but would have his party so with its sub
t,rfuEe assuming that conceived for super
government. negotiated in misunderstanding" ETC.
in the expectation that the people will believe it
without looking to see for themselves
But il won't work any more. The League has
well man ON the stump. champi5ning its virtues
as supplemental TO, and indeed taking the lead over
the sick man in the white house--whose broken
health due the burdens OF the war enhanced by
republican intrigue. make him truly war vic
tim as though he had been wounded Arsonne
The commander in-chief OF the United states army
and navy is a health-broken and wounded soldier
hut with wounds sorry to say inflicted from behind
AS Brutus stabbed Caesar.
The American people are not Of that sort when
they understand: whom brought to their senses.
Normal republicans are not it, In the main, they
regard FIRST what is best for the county-the pop
ular velfarc.-ard unlike the politicians, would
rather have that than not. even though some poll
teal party not their own. does chance to give it
10 them When they learn they will, that the
reason Sen Harding and his school assert that 1T
viii avail them nothing discuss tn detail the
League covenant" is because they wish to keen
the people in ignorance of those details ther viii.
II they are good Americans, resent the ATTEMPT to
set up a government by ignorance and taking TO
informing themselves place their patriotism and in
teIIi-ence above their craftsmanship
Gov Coxs exposition Of this government by ig-
norance" rlovcnaent-thourh he does call It
that-was among tho best we have heard Il hurts!
OF course. It hurts-those whom it hits.-5ut if
the shoe pinchcs why shouldn't 81 hurt? Gov Cox
wants il TO hurt a part Of his philosophy that
when a thing hurts a he begins TO cast about
10 find out what IS. and that the best place 20
strike at disease at tho seat Of it. The seat Of
the present. opposition 10 the League Of Nations is