New Britain herald., 1920-10-09
HOOVER, ENTERING CAMPAIGN, SAYS
 PARTY RESPONSIBILITY IS ISSUE
Puts League of Nations and Tariff Questions AS Sub- Divisions of Chief Prob lem.

Indianapolis. Oct. 9.-The league of nations and tariff problems are only subdivisions of the main issue in the present campaign, Herbert Hooved decla red today in an address which marked his formal entry into national ticket
 Tho major issues today and for the future of our country" MT. Hoov- CT said, "is party responsibility"
 ''As ours Is a government that must be based on parties he said, '.it is Fundamental that when a party fails in statesmanship or fails to carry out it's promises it must accent the penal ties of that failure: it should be re- tired that its leadership may be re- formed"
 '-This is the real issue. and is inn mcnseIy more deeply seated than superficial partisauship."
 Administration Fails
 "I believe that since the armistice the present administration has made a failure by all the tests that we can apply. No man would be SO narrow as to condemn the patriotism of one hult or ms CountTStneh
 But if VIC are to maintain and sus- tain party government, if we arc to hold true this our only means of expression of the will Of the majori- ty. any party that fails as a party should and must be retired from office.''
 Mir Hoover reviewed the support given by the republican party to win ming the war.
 Hut with victory accomplished, the leaders of the democratic party. dis regarding this cooperation decided to ignore one half Of the people of the United States and to make peace alone. Here. believe. lies the be- ginning of its failure in statesman ship"
 Driftrd For Two Wears "we have simply drifted in the two years. In political leadership this party. has. at least for the present. ceased to function"
 ReRa rdinR inter-party disagreement over settling treaty questions "in which enters only the principle of the preservation Of peace by organized international action" he said: Tho dispute has not been one of principle, for the republican party has supported and does support the | principle. The contnticn has been over | methods. and on methods men must | divide aud good statesmanship will | compromised
 "'rhc most important thing in the | contamination of our relation to this | great world aspiration Is to have the | good will of the majority of our | people, for without such general sup | port any league will fail. Peace Held Up IS Months '"To have obstinately held up tho | peace of the world for IS months: tn | have rejected the opportunity of | amicable adjustment of differences IS l to methods: to have projected the
 issue into the presidential election, is the greatest failure of American 1 statosmauship since the Civil war | Real regard for the welfare of our ! people and the world would have | accepted the treaty with reservations | and then if they thought it SO vital | n matter. have gone to the country on
 the political issue of correcting the ! reservations
 l Mir Hoover advocated establishment | of trunk power lines to carry clcctri- l cal energy through tho great powoi | consuming districts Of the Atlantic
 ssaboard and improvement Of tho
 St Lawrence river opening tho Great l.akes to ocean going slipping.