Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-15
SENATOR is RAPED
FOR HARKING BACK
TO 80 YEARS AGO
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Germ, and that is the .vindication o


his foreign policy, first, by his party.
later by the country.
"The Democratic campaign Is 60
ing to harness the party absolutely
to the administration policy of rati-
fication without protection to Amer
lean interests. Should the Demo-
Gratis win, the league would be rati-
once party to the twenty-odd wars
now going on in the world. Euro
pean leaders have repeatedly explain
ed that it is impossible for the
Armenia, which the Harbord mission
found would require us to employ
a great army and pour out money
by hundreds of millions. Congress
overwhelmingly refused, and the
country has sustained 1T so in
sistently that even the San Francisco
convention did not dare indorse the
mandate. Yet that mandate, would
hardly be more than our intimation
Of the many world-flung conflicts
into which America would be project
ed by ratification of the league with
out rigidly safeguarding reserva-
lions.
"The president demands cam
paign on this issue; the Democratic
platform makes the issue paramount;
and finally, the Democratic cand1-
dates unqualifiedly acquiesce. Inc
score and more of Democratic sena-
tors who voted for the Lodge reser-
vations are repudiated, the real opin-
ion of the American nation is flout-
ed, because the president insists upon
his issue regardless of costs or con-
and candidates gladly accept the
challenge. We are more than Wiling
to make the election national refer
endum on the question whether we
shall have four years more OF Dem
ocratic readiness to surrender this
republic"
ROOSEVELT ANSWERS
CHARGES OF HARDING
HYDE PARK, N. Y, July IA
Franklin D. Roosevelt, replying at
his home here to-day TO- to- the ere chdrgf
Wilson had forced the Democratlc
presidential and vice presidential
nominees to accept his views that
the League of Nations should be-
declared he wss quite willing, as I
know Governor Cox is, to let the
American people decide whether they
will go back to the conditions OF
1914 or whether they will join with
civilization and humanity IN thls
1.-THE attempt by Senator Harding
yesterday" he said, Ito befog the
true League of Nations issue by
dragging in the name of President
Wilson is merely further evidence
of the historical fact that a GER
more about squar1ng an ancient
grudge against an individual than
it does to consider the true welfare
of the nation. 1t is, of course, Well
known that seven-eighths OF the op.
to the League of Nations but to the
person of the president of the
United States himself.
History will take care of the the
great part woodrow Wilson mas
enters the campaign with the clear
cut purpose of proving that the
world war has not been fought in
vain. Senator Harding says: Should
the Democrats win, the treaty and
the league will be ratified" He is
what would happen should the Re
publicans win. One branch of his
supporters, such as Senator hiram
Johnson, assures the nation that
Republican victory means no League
of Nations. Another branch, led by
such men as former President Taft,
assures the nation that Republ1-
can victory means the acceptance OF
the league with certain underlined
"The rest of Senator Harding's
statement is the usual vague, sum-
moning forth of bogies and imagi-
nary ghosts of horrible pictures Of
American soldier boys waging war
in Poland, Russia and Turkey, and
at the end he talks in glittering
terms about the charge of sur
render of the republic
II yield nothing in my devotion
to the United States to Senator
Harding, to Senator Penrose, to Sen
ator Johnson, or to any of their fol-
lowers. Rather I believe they are
the ones who fail to visualize the
great future and the Independent
future of this nation.
Zone Of the prominent issues is
thus becoming early and clearly
drawn. A Democratic victory means
ratification of the treaty and the
League of Nations, which, as the
world knows, is already CONSTITUTE
ed. Al Republican victory means
that the United States, with Russia.
Mexico and Turkey, shall remain
outside. The election of Harding
means that in case of future war
the United States will enter the war
after the conflict has begun. The
election of Cox means that the Unit
ed States, in participation with the
other civilized nations of the world,
will, through the League of Nations
solve international difficulties and
prevent a recurrence of the holo-
caust of 1914-191S."
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