The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-31


Under the caption How Are the Mighty
Fallen" the Christian Work. a non-partlsan
and non-denominatona Journal, gives the
following summary with reference to Taft's
position:
Il worked for the League and hon
esty wanted it. Harding says he will
have nothing to do with it. That is
too bad. am sorry. But am Re
publican and do you expect me to
break with my party, no matter what
it does? Not if you know me. | am
a Republican and couldn't vote for 4
democrat even if agreed with him in
every particular
Hoover VS.. Hoover
Herbert Hoover has been on "both sides
Of the fence" so far as the League is con-
cemed. At Leland Stanford University, Oc-
tober 3, 1919 he said: I'VE cannot fiddle
while Rome burns A peace without us
means more army and navy for US. To
me every line Of the covenant is the complete
negation of militarism. During the course
Of negotiations in Paris, that fact stood out
with regard to the League. Opposition to it
there arose entirely from the representatives
OF the old militaristic regimes and from the
reactonaries of the world in general
On June %. 1920, he said: Anyone
reading Article Ten will realize there is moth
ing in the phraseology that denotes binding
obligation"
Where does he stand now?
Harding and Johnson
In Los Angeles, Cal. September %, 1920,
Hiram Johnson said: Il will speak for Hard
ing because he is against the League of Ma
tons, just as am. We are going to put over
Harding in the Republican party this year so
the League of Nations will be dead past re-
demption."
A few days later Harding said he en-
dorsed what Johnson had been saying and
that he would endorse other speeches he
would make during the campaign.
Recently the pro-League Republicans who
signed statement in which they contended
that Harding would favor League, made
the statements
The contest is not about the principle of
the League of Nations, but it is about the
method of most effectively applying that
principle to preserve peace
On October 9, 1920. in speech in Okla
homa City, Harding said The whole prin-
ciple of the League of Nations is wrong"
Harding VS.. Harding VS.. Harding,
ad lnfinitum
Rather than attempt to show the many
Inconsistencies OF Mr.. Harding, will here
quote the substance of his speech made in
Oklahoma City, to-wit:
1T is complained by good
many people that | haven't 4 definite
plan for new relations haven't and
want you to know it, The world
calls for new relationship among ma
uOnS. The world will never consent to
so back to the old order. Of
course this isn't definite. 1t will leave
YOU in doubt but not in anxiety
He had voted twice for the League with
certain reservations, but now Johnson says
he stands where he does (Johnson opposes
4 League of any kind). and Harding says: 1T
Is not reservations but rejection that | want
He declared he had turned his back upon the
League. He declared IN favor Of "Scrappng
it,"
Just = few years ago Harding denounced
Johnson and Roosevelt in strongest terms,
Now he is playing for JohnSons support,
Republican Party in 1912 and in 1920
In 1912 Roosevelt claimed that the Re
publican party was no longer the party of
the people, but that it was dominated by
special interests and that ii would never
again be the party of the people. Lincoln
predicted that evils would grow up after the
Civil War, greater than the war itself RooSe-
yelt who was opposed by those who are now
the chief heutenantS back Of Harding,
charged that delegations We're manipulated
and referred to the Penrose, Smoot and
Barnes crowd as porch climbers" and dark
lantern artists" After the recent Republican
convention held in Chicago, Hiram Johnson,
in Sunset Magazine, said
AT Chicago those peculiar finan-
cial forces of New York, who believe
the government belongs to them and
that its primal purpose is for their
profit, were brazeuly directing their
willing puppets who. in turn, were ma
nipulating delegations. (Just what
Roosevelt charged in 1929 Boldly
and eontempmously these financial
magnates. and those who represented
them politically. denied the right of
the people to participate in nomina-
ton. They loudly disclaimed against
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