Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-09
HOOVER DECLARES JOHNSON ATTEMPTS
 10 AVOID ISSUE
Personal Abuse, He Says CharacteriZes Statement
 of Rival

| New York, May S-Herbert Hoover { tonight issued the following state i ment in response to Senator John sons statement today answering his l query in regard to the senator's ] stand on the league of nations cove
 nant:
 Senator Johnson has not answered
 my questions. Instead he has em- itted a smoke screen of personal
 abuse and questions which he at 1 tributed to me. As matter of fact, some one else. l have never made
 or approved any of them. Perhaps the senator will correct this mis- impression. The senator apparently does not wish to say yes or no as to whether the 'E.igiisn league as he calls it is the eov>n3n. with the Lodge reservations. Does the senator wish to leave an imputation
 on the patriotism of the majority Of the republican senators or myself? "The league is not, however, a matter of trival personalities. It is an issue upon which hangs the mo- ral and economic well-being of the whole world, from which the Uni ted States, even if we would, cannot
 be separated.
 "The presidency is an office of constructive leadership. The affairs of the nation can not be conducted by destructive criticism without al- ternate proposals. The voters have right to know what the senator's constructive alternatives are before pledging their votes.
 "The world is drifting further and further into increasing antagonism, i increasing armament. We are faced with crushing taxation for increas- ed military establishment, our ec- .onomic relations with the world are
 becoming more and more demoraliz- ed because of the delay in settle ment of these questions. This de- moralization is already manifest ing itself in the prices of raw ma terials from our farms and will soon manifest itself in the employment of our workers.
 constructive solution of these prob lems? If so, what?"
 Washington, May S.--Senator John son of California today replied to Herbert Hoover's query of yester- day as to the senator's position on the league of nations. He said:
 "The league presented to the sen ate by the president, which MT. Hoo yer advocated last year, neither pro- notes peace nor reduces armaments During MT. Hoover's advocacy of this league last year he never mentioned reservations; on the contrary the tenor of his speeches was in direct opposition to any reservations. "With his candidacy came his change of heart and for the first time we find him when a candidate, never before, favoring reservations These reservations last year, it was asserted, broke the heart of the world,' 'cut the heart out of the covenant made us 'scuttle and run and the 'slackers of the world.'
 "Mr Hoover from apparent oppo- sltion to the reservations now em- braces the opportunity to 'break the heart of the world and 'cut the heart of the covenant I have consist ently opposed the pact as presented and with the reservations attached I would welcome, of course, any real attempt to promote peace and pre- vent war;"
 MT. Peyton Baughman, representive of Johnson and Murphy shoes, will be at the Hotel Pines today, room 326 from 4:30 to p. m. We will give you chance to select from this entire line of shoes. Wm. Rosenz- weig, agent. Adv.