The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-15
COVENANT MADE
HARDING TARGET
IN B0RDERLAND
Nominee Swings Into Indiana
from Borderland and ''Solid"
South
OPPOSES ONE-MAN RULE
Tells Hearers That Return of
Republicans Means Return
to Constitution
OPPOSES ONE-MAN RULE

On Board Senator Harding's Spe-
clal. Oct. l4.-In whirlwind trip
through southern Indiana today SEN
ator Harding continued his warfare
against the Versailles league of ma
tlons and asked for a return to the
constitution through the election of a
Republican administration and Re-
publican Congress" He will speak
in the Indiana capitol tonight and to-
morrow night will wind up his trip
with a speech in St. Louis.
Among the nominees guests on his
special train were Senator James e.
Watson and several Republican NOM
nees foS Congress and he spoke for
the eletcion of each of them telling
his crowd that if they were to have a
Republican president it would be bet
ter to make a clean job Of it and
choose a congress that would CO.
operate with him.
The administrations attitude to-
ward foreign trade. the Wilson policy
in Mexico, and the league covenant
written at Versailles, Were,the special
objectives of Senator Harding's as
saults on the Democratic lines in his
campaigning yesterday and last night
through the bOrderland OF the "solid
south"
Charging that "secret diplomacy
as practiced by Democratic officials
had kept America business, men from
learning of trade opportunities
abroad, the Republican presidential
nominee declared the state and COM
merceN departments must be reor-
ganized to give more active aid in
developing commerce with other ma
TONS ~....
The presidents Mexican policy he
denounced as having brought dis
trust in Mexico and humiliation at
home, and he advanced a program
Of amicable relations to insure pro-
lection Of American interests on
Mexican" soil without interfering un-
duly with the internal affairs of the
Mexican republic. N
-. Opposes Dictation
In his discussion of the league he
reiterated that he wanted no council
|of foreign powers to dictate Ameri-
cas- part in the world. and, reading
Article X, told his auditors that. as
spokesman, for the Republican party.
he was Opposed to it. He added
that in due time the nation would
find way safely and practically to
organize the conscience of the world
for peace. Spending the night here,
he will turn northward tomorrow
for whirlwind swing through In
diana. .
Stigmatizing the state department
as representing the ''1owest possible
cbb of government service in, build
ing foreign commerce, the candidate
declared in his speech here tonight
that complete new policy was
necessary if America was to make it's
place in international trade. The
diplomatic service, he said, had been
"demoralized" by the appointment of
men. some of whom had no other
qualification than that Of being large
campaign contributors" ....
Referring to Governor Coxs sug-
gestion that the voters be supplied
with copies of the league covenant,
the senator showed to the crowd at
Oneida, Tenn, a bulky print of the
$4,000 word peace treaty and said
that even a reading of the English
text would be unsatisfactory because
it differed from the French. ,
OFFER LOT OF MONEY
New York, Oct. 14.-Democratic ma
tional headquarters today announced
cash prize Of $4,000 offered by the
pro-league Independent to Senators
Harding, Johnson, Borah and Lodge,
Chairman Hays of the Republican ma
ti0nal committee or anybody else who
could first prove that the league of
nations would "abridge the sovereignty
of America. aoJieT'i