The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-17
CONSTITUTION
HARDING THEME
Nominee Declares U. S. Char
ter and League Covenant
Are IrreConciIable.
MUST CHOOSE ONE OF TWO

Marion, O., Sept. 1T-Pronouncing the
league of nations covenant irrecon-
ciaLle with the American Constitution,
Senator Harding declared in a Consti-
tuition day address here that the time
had come for the United States to de-
eide whether It would preserve or
abandon the charter under which II
achieved nationality.
THE Constitution or the covenant,
that is the paramount iusse," he said.
THE two are irreconcilable. We can
not be governed from both Geneva and
Washington. We cannot follow our
present magistrate without forsaking
the father of our country
The nominee also assailed the admin :
istration's policy toward the smaller
nations of the western hemisphere, as
sorting that the executive had usurped
congressional powers to carry on an
unconstitutional war with Haiti and
San Domingo. He declared the recent
utterances of Franklin, ID. Roosevelt,
the democratic nominee for vice presi-
dent, had revealed officially for the
first time the American government s
rape" of the two little republics.
The speech, delivered from the front
porch 10 delegations from several Ohio
counties, reviewed the circumstances
surrounding the making of the Consti-
tuition and outlined the candidates
conception of balanced powers of tho
legislative, executive and judicial
branches of the government Only by
preserving that balance, he said. could
the United States fulfil its greatest
destiny.
1.-THE Constitution has never failed
America" he continued, ''and despite
needless assertions to the contrary.
And now as never before, she stands
ready. and let us hope, will soon be
in position. through earnest coop
Grafton of all branches of our govern
ment, to lend a helping hand, but she
herself must point the way"
Talk about self-determination.
American ideals and right for small ma
tions. We know little of the conduct
of these wars of occupation. The cen
sorship is no less strict now than II
was during the conspiracies in Paris
Congress, the war making body. has
not been informed.
More About Haytl Affair.
practically all we know now Is that
thousands of native Haytlans have
been killed by American marines and
that many OF our own gallant men
have sacrificed their lives at the be-
hest of an executive department in
order to establish laws drafted by an
assistant secretary of the navy to Sc
cure a vote in the league and to con-
tinue at the point of the hayonet
nlllIdIy tlidI NV" iNfp''N
the presence of no less than 5000 oil
our armed men on that foreign soil"
Senator Harding pointed out that I'M
der the Constitution, congress is the
sole war making authority.
"Under Article 10 of the Versailles
covenant" he continued. ut would be
the appointee of the president. 1t comet
down, then, to this: Do the American
people transfer the war making power
from congress to the president? That
is what acceptance of Article 10 would
do"
Quotes Franklin Roosevelt
Senator Harding after charging the
Wilson administration with making
wars upon the helpless little republics
of the south. named specifically Hayti
and San Domingo. He quoted Franklin
D. Roosevelt as saying he had written
the constitution of both these republics
and that he controlled their votes In
the league.
"This," declared Senator Harding,
as the first official admission OF the
rape of Haytl and San Domingo. IT IS
the most shocking assertion that eyer
emanated from a responsible member
of the United States government