Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-09-24
Bourbons
.Falsehood
Effort in Platform to Show
Lodge Condemned Separate
Pe,Nc. III Stands, Book
s,cA:N, ?og,LH closes. I
ass Admits Mistake
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.

Washington, Sept 23.-The lie
IN the democratic platform, as re-
publicans characterized the demo
cratic effort to make it appear tha
Senator Lodge condemned a sepa.
rate peace with Germany after, in
stead of before, the armistice. has
not been retracted, the democratic
campaign textbook discloses.
AS adopted at San Francisco
July 2, the democratic platform, re,
ferring to the Knox resolution de-
claring peace with Germany, said
that which Mr.. Lodge in sanel
, moments considered the blackest
crime he and his party in madness
sought to give the sanctity of law
that which l8 months ago was OF
Everlasting dishonor' the republic.
AN patty and its candidate today ac'
cept as the essence of faith"
The declaration made it appear
that Senator Lodge condemned
separate peace in January, 1919
nearly two months after the conclu'
sion of the armistice that ended the
war. Republicans Immediately pro.
nounced the statement lie, mas.
much as Senator Lodge had uttered
the opinion referred to on October
II, 1917, six months after the coun-
try entered the war and exactly a
/, year before it ended. Admitting
that there had been misrepresen-
,tation, Senator Glass inserted a
change of phraseology i'll the next
edition of the platform, citing the
June, Job, number of the Forum as
the source of the Lodge quotation,
but not disclosing that the Forum
article, as the Forum stated in all
editorial note, was reprint of the
Lodge speech of October II, 1917.
Retraction Omitted. .
Even this partial retraction has
been omitted from the official text
of the platform.
Senator Lodge made the address
before the Massachusetts, Historical
society, of which he is president, and
It was first published in the Octo-
Der, 1917, proceedings of that body.
Ins that address, he said:
The government, congress and
the president, mean to carry the war
through Yet we see the newspa-
pers filled with talk about peace,
which all comes directly or indirect
ly from the enemy; it either eman-
,stes..frQm Germany or Is accidental
" very Ike Msfat the Germans are
suggesting. We have had note
from the pope, we have had resolu-
tons in congress, and we hav had a
great deal of general ifresponsibletalk
about peace. This talk all proceeds
with slight variations on the basis
of the status quo ante bellum. To
my mind-and l hope this is the
view of the adninistration-every
man, the president, who delivered
the war message and congress. who
voted for war, would be guilty of
the blacklist of crimes if they were
willing to make a peace on the status
quo ante be1lum and recreate the
situation which existed before the
war.
Intention Crime.
IF we send our armies and our
young men abroad to be killed and
wounded in northern France and in
Flanders with no result but this,
our entrance into war with such an
intention. was a crime which nothing
can justify The intent OF congress
and the intent of the president,
which | saw he reiterated only day
before yesterday, was that there
could be no peace until we, could
create a situation where no such war
as this could recur. To make peace
on the basis of the status quo ante
bellum, simply means that Germany
will have breathing spell and the
whole horror will come again. We
must have peace with victory, COM
plete victory; no other will stand or
be worth having.
THE president in his letter to the
pope, stated what is the absolute
truth-that we have no one now we
can negotiate with. We cannot
negotiate with a government which
has declared that treaties are scraps
of paper to be torn up when it feels
like it. There may be no written
conventions or treaties, but it would
brand us with everlasting dishonor
and bring ruin to us also, it we un-
Gertook to make a separate peace.
Therefore, there is only one alterna-
tive and that is to bring Germany
to her knees and force upon her, a
peace which we shall dictate and
which will make the world safe
not merely for democracy, but safe
for all the allied free countries to
pursue their own way in security
and work out their own salvation"
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