The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-10
BATTLE |
MORAL ISSUE Of ]
THE CONVENTION
CRANE AND BUTLER
IN EFFECTIVE FIGHT.
Mark Sullivan Declares That
Cranes Plan Endorses the
Wilson Stand. 4

CHICAGO, June 9.-Your correspond.
ent is aware that conditions here are
such as to create a tendency toward exs
cited statement With due qualities.
tons for this fact. your correspondent
ventures TO assert that the one episode
of this convention so far which has the
moral dignity Of a straightcut fight for
principle uncomTIcated by one rows
ing eye on votes. is the fight which Nj.
Murray Crane Of Massachusetts, has led
in behalf Of adopting pro-league or
nations plank. And. also, with due reA
gard for the tendency toward large
genera liZation essential in this hasty
writing, your correspondent asserts
that the league Of nations plank which
Senator Crane Is fighting to get into
the Republican platform does not diner,
except in terminology. from the Ieaene
row Wilson Is trying to force into thS
Democratic platform. -.
Sees wilson's Endorssmsnt. -
Stated broadly and briefly. and yet ae-
curately. the League OF Nations plank
which Mr.. Crane is forcing upon the
ment Of the Versailles treaty with
proper reservations" OF course. the
word proper" is elastic. That Is the
reason II is being used: That WORD, if
il is adopted, will enable the kepuoii.
cans t. say there is some differences
between their League Of Nations PLANK
and Mr.. Wilson's League OF NationA
plank. II there were no politics .co4s
cerned no necessity for seeming to die
fer from the Democrats. Mr.. wilson's
League Of Nations would probably b
adopted without any qualifications, ex-
cept those unessential ones which woui1
he acceptable to him. II the League OF
Nations plank which the dominant
forces here are fighting for. contains
any different and concrete line OF cleay-
age Distinguishing it from what is to-
day Presidents Wilson's League OF Na"
will be not conviction but merely the
cXpedicncy Of having something 70
mark off the Republ isnn position from
the Democratic position. 10 avoid Goin1
into the campaign with League OF Ma
tions plank identical with Mr.. Wilson'S
present plank.
Praise for Crane.
or course, Senator Crane and the
other dominant force, may be demano-
ing more than they expect to get. But
what they are demanding is Mr. VII
sons League of Nations. with proper
You may like the League OF Nations;
or You may not. In either event h
you are open minded, you Will admirs
brought cander and dehniteness into a
situation which before they came was
wholly in the world OF compromise.
camoufiage and kind OF woozy har-,
mony. -
About the same time that Murray
Crane came. the president OF Columpia
University. Mr.: Nicholas Murray bnt
gether and what they did when they
got together deserves TO be chronicled
hy some contemporary historian. under
the title OF The Fight Of the TWO Mur-
rays" ~
apnrs. Murray Crane fought in the
printed words. Murray Crane It,as rTusn. n
openly and most belligerently that the.
Republican party must go on record IN
favor OF the League OF Nations an@ an@
said further that II anybody IN fnla
town held contrary view he, Butler.
would like to take any or all Of such
on in 4 joint debate on the convention
floor. Murray Crane didn't issue any
detiances to anybody. but he took tne
same. simple and direct stand that tne
convention must neither commit what
he considered the atrocity OF opposlnS
the League Of Nations. nor go pe1ors
the country with the weak straodle of
a compromise. 70 =
Cranes work Effective.
So it went until the committee on.
met, il was quickly demonstrated that
cranes work had been effective. A ma
iority of the committee was in favor OF
a pro-L League plank. They went ON
record 10 that effect with vigor when
changed the whole situation and PuS
the burden Of digging for a compromlS
on the hitherto belligerent shoulders OF
tc bitterenders.
So the thing stands tonight ThA
committee is in session as this - WIZ
ten. Within an hour each side OF tnS
controversy has stated to your cores
spondent that they won't compromiHe:i
Hearing in mind that newspaper writerH
who are either unwary or else Wea
willing to MI such q role are frequenuYi
usnd as the vehicles for political blum
ing, your correspondent is decidedly cs
tho belief that tho Crane league party,
will not compromise. II any comproS
missing is done it will be done by inc
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