Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-17
JOHNSON OUTLINES
 POLICY (. 0.P, WILL
 MAKE HARDING TAKE:
Californian Declares Republi- can Press Putting NOm-
 inee in Wrong Light
{NTIMATES WHAT HE
 EXPECTS OF PARTY
IrrecOnciliable Reiterates Flat Stand Against Entering Lea que and Says Senator
 Agrees

Johnson of California, in his first public appearance in Chicago since his defeat for the Republican nomi- nation for president in June, tonight said he was willing to declare a truce upon all issues and all men" to oppose the league of nations as "the greatest issue in the United States since the civil war"
 Senator Johnson is concluding a speaking tour through the middle west at the behest of the Republican national committee.
 During the evening the senator dcviated from the speech he had prepared to defend the Republican nominee against linen and newspa- pers who. pretend to be friends of Senator Harding and who assert that he is to take this country into the laegue of nations"
 "Just now the overshadowing pail on the republic which we love, is the Wilson league of nations. 1t is the greatest issue in the United States since the civil war The line of de- marcation in the present campaign is clear-the Democrats are on one side and the Republicans are on the other. There is no ambiguity in the stand of the Republican party or in the stand of MT. Harding on the league Of nations.
 "Put League Behind Him."
 "There is no ambiguity or uncer- tainty in our candidates declarations, He has courageously taken his stand He has put the league behind him. He wants neither interpretation nor reservation, but outright rejection.
 "The men and newspapers who pre- tend to be friends of Senator Hard ing and who assert that he is to take this country into the league of na- tons do him distince dis-service and pay him a sorry compliment. l speak of course solely from the pub lie utterances of our candidate and these utterances make it plain be- yond cavl that when Senator Hard ing is president, he will not take the United States into the league.
 "In his speech of acceptance, he characterized the league as "a mili- tary alliance which menaces peace and threatens all freedom He called it the Supreme blunder' and assert ed that he would leave America free, independent and self reliant, but of fering friendship to all the world.' He instanced the war between Russia and Poland as indicating what we would have been let in for. and this Polish Russian war, he said brought home to us the danger of committing ourselves in advance to causes. that we know of Again he referred to America as a member of the league as 'one in pitiful minority among many states merged in world gov ernment' and included himself among those who had opposed what we sin cerelM regarded as betrayal of our own country in the interest of oth- ers.' Experience had brought enligh tenment and he solemnly added:
 "'We know now that the league constituted at Versailles is utterly impotent as a preventative of wars It is so obviously important that itI has not even been tried. It could not survive a single test. The orig inal league mistakenly conceived and unreasonably insisted upon, has un- doubtedly passed beyond price of retoration. The maturer judgment of the world will be that it declined to pass for the simple reason that, con trary to all of the tendencies develop ed by the civilizing processes of the world it rested upon the power of might, not of right
 "And yet 1nen and newspapers who claim to be friendly and assert that Senator Harding is going into the league' would have him guilty off the very outrage he denounces.
 Cites Marion Speech [. "At Marion on September IT, Sena- tor Harding said:
 "'The constitution or the coven- ant-that, my countrymen, is the par amoGnt issue. The nation cannot fol- low Woodrow Wilson without forsak- ing George Washington
 "There is of course but one answer to this and that is that Washington's policy of no entangling alliances is the policy of Senator Harding, and that when Harding is president, the American policy will be, as ever since we became nation, the policy enun ciated by George Washington. No language could be more explicit than Senator Harding's expressions uponI this subject in his speech of accept ance, in his Des Moines spech and at Marion, and resent the imputa- ton upon his sincerity by those men and newspapers, who, while conced- ing that he has explained his attitude plainly, contend that he will act at variance with his unequivocal ut terances.
 "The league of nations and the treaty are the same instrument and in extricably co-mingled.