The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-10-29
OHIO @. o. p. FOR LEAGUE
TWO WEARS AGO,

we would nave the WIN
kept safe for the cooperation OF
mankind and the maintained fra
ternity OF nations, great ana
small. To that end we favor the
participation of the united
States in a League OF Nations to
maintain the peace OF the world.
Pending such an established Sc
curity we favor universal mil
tary training. in the spirit OF
republic which condemns mill
tary domination"
The above Is paragraph from the
Republican state platform, adopted
in convention, August 20, 1913.
Senator Harding was chairman oil
that convention, and Frank D. Wills.
Republican candidate for United
States senator, was candidate 1or
governor that year, and OF course
both endorsed the platform.
What change two years nave
wrought!
II the League of Nations was a
good thing two years ago, why Is l.
not a good thing now?
THE LANDSLIDE
STARTS.
Political leaders In the East have
come to regard the Herbert Parsons
declaration against Senator Harding
as assuming the proportions OF a
landslide. comparable only with the
bolt led by. Theodore Roosevelt in
1912. The movement has become in
fictitious. Hourly the list of promi'
nent Republican men and women
who are golting the Marion candi-
date grows, to the CONSERVATION OF
the Lodge Penrose-S leadership
and the qualification of League of
Nations advocates.
Roosevelt Progressives everywhere
are to be found among the increasing
numbers of Republicans who are
stepping out and away from the
traditions Of personal vote and
putting themselves on record in fay-
or of principle over party.
From New York, the movement
has spread to New Jersey. Pennsyl-
|yania, Connecticut. Massachusetts
and other New England states, thence
to Ohio, Indianna, Illinois and TO
commemorative which many years
ago were accounted rock-ribbed In
their allegiance to the Republican
party. From both practical and
necessary viewpoint the men and
women thus quitting the Republican
ranks call the league the supreme
issue, beginning Toward a thing
the world has waited for many years.
Ministers and educators. no less than
the day slaborer and the artisans in
plants, and the women in Industry.
have actually bolted the unspeakable
program OF retrogression which
Harding publicly has championed.
Lifelong Republicans have referred
to the Senate candidate in such terms
as: devious and insincere." wabbly
and unstable" selfish and self-cen-
tered" One bolter declared that ne
could not endure Hardings "gyra-
tions on this all-important subject
Another said Harding has mortgag-
ed his soul. playing politics and In
tends to keep bad faith with some
body. II Harding does not openly
declare his opposition to Borah and
Johnson within another week thous-
ands upon thousands more Republi-
cans. hoping that he will take this
step. but doubling that he will. are
sure to desert the standard whlch
the Marion nominee has raised.
Rev. DIR. Stanley White. secretary
of the Board Of Foreign Missions oil
the Presbyterian church, and an au
thority on problems concerning the
Near and Far East. Is one OF the lat
est to declare himself openly fol
lGoyernor Cox. Henry Van Dyke is
another prominent Republican who
writes his devotion TO the League Of
Nations and the candidate who stands
for 1t.
| If there is such thing as Destiny
| IL is playing an immeasurable par'
In the affairs of human interest ant
gigantic concern In America at TINS
moment
/