The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-09
DEMOCRATS
PAY PENALTY
SAYS HOOVER
Administration Must Give
Way to Republican Party
Because of Greatest Failure
in Craftsmanship.
POINTS TO new ISSUE
(By Associated Press}

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 9.-The
League OF Nations and tariff problems
are only subdivisions Of the main
issue in the present campaign, Herbert
Hoover declared here today in an ad-
dress which marked his formal entry
into the campaign to elect the Repub-
lican national ticket
The major issue today tor the fu-
ture Of our country" Mr.. Hoover said.
"is party esponsibility."
LAS ours is a government that must
be based on parties Re said, "it is
fundamental that when party fails in
craftsmanship, or fails to carry out its
promises, it must accept the penalties
of that failure; it should be retired
that its leadership may be reformed.
This is the real issue and is i'm
mensely more deeply seated than su-
perficial partisanship.
Administration Failure.
81 believe that since the armis-ice
the present administration has made a
failure by all the tests that we can
apply. No man would be so narrow
S to condemn the patriotism of one
half Of his countrymen.
But if we are to maintain and sus-
tain party government, if we are to
hold through this our only means of
expression of the will of the majority,
any party that fails as party should
and must be retired from office"
Mr.. Hoover reviewed the support
given by the Republican party to win
ming the war.
But 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 beginning of
its failure in craftsmanship.
Have Been Shifting.
eve have simply drifted in the last
two years. In political leadership, this
party has at least for the present
ceased to function"
Regarding inter-party disagreement
over settling treaty questions ''in
which enters only the principle of the
preservation of peace by organized
international action" he said:
The dispute has not been one Of
principle. for the Republican party has
supported and does support the prin-
ciple. The contention has been over
methods, and on methods men must
divide and good craftsmanship will
compromise.
THE most important thing in the
consummation Of our relation to this
great world aspiration is to have the
good will of the majority of our people
for without such general support any
league will fall
ITO have obstinately held up the
peace of the world for IS months; to
have repected the opportunity of am
liable adjustment of differences as to
methods; to have projected the issue
into the presidential election, is the
greatest failure of American states
manship since the Civil war
Real regard for the welfare of our
people and the world would have ac-
cepted the treaty with reservations,
and then, if they thought it so vital
matter. have gone to the country or
the political issue of correcting the
is not on the league, it is on the fail
ure Of the Democratic party.
"The responsibilities of government
should, in my view, be transferred.
The Republican party has the skill and
constructive ability in its membership
to meet them. If it fails to provide
peace on terms that establish organ
lied international association to pre-
vent war; Il it fails to attain it by
methods which secure the good will Of
the entire world; IL it fails to provide
these great measures Of internal pro-
gress and reconstruction that we re-
quire in the next four years, it should
and must pay to public opinion the
same penalty for that failure which
we demand should be paid by the
Democratic party