Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-20
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 Party leaders declared tonight that the convention would not instruct the delegation to support any particlar po- litical candidate.
 Mir. Roots address contained the following passages:
 More important than all is the ne- cesSity that we shall restore our Re publican form of government with the liberty of the individual citizen pre- served by limitations upon official power, and put an end to the dictator ship which We created, in order to car ry on the war. By series of statutes unprecedented in scope ana morality, with singlenesS of purpose and patriot ic devotion worthy of all praise, the American people conferred upon the president powers broader and more autocratic than were possessed by any sovereign in the civilized world"
 There is double immediate pur- pose to be served One, to restore rne habit of freedom. It is dangerous for a people to acquire the habit of lowing to power without limits. They soon become subservient, and then charac- ter essential to freedom degenera;es. The other is to stop multitude of in reference, ill-judged although well meant, with the natural course of busi- ness through which alone natural laws can operate to restore normal condi- tions."
 "'The presidents defiance of the au- thority Of the senate to advise upon the covenant of the league of nations and to give or withhold it's consent to the ratification of the treaty ccntain- ing it, was a chalelnge to the right of any officer of the United States gov ernment to exercise his powers in any way which had not the approval of the chief executive.
 "The treaty is fatally defective in several respects, not only from the standpoint of the vital interests Of the United States, but considered as an instrument designed to secure the fut- ure peace Of the world The reseTva- tions adopted by the senate, remedy so far as the United States is concern ed, the chief objections to the treaty.
 Should Rstify
 Tt seems clear to me that in the interests of the worlds peace, which all Americans desire to promote, this treaty ought to be ratified with the reservations of the senate, and that without those reservations Tn them fair and honest substance, il ought not to be ratified. l hope the treaty will be ratified with the reservations long before the presidential election. That will be done ii the president permits k. Ii that is not done, then that is what 1 thnk the Republican party ought Io stand for
 Would Reform League
 immediately after the fourth of March, 1921, a Republican presidenc should urge upon the society o1 na- tiUns the reform of the league Go, en- ant so as to make it establish the rule of public right rather than the rule Of mere e&pedlency, so as to make the peace of the world rest primarily upon law and upon the effectiveness and enforcement Of law. 4 congress of all nations should be called 70 con slider and declare what of information al law still remains of binding force and to provide for the further develop ment and extension of that law. and Tor the application of the law to ali justifiable cases Of controversy be- tween nations by impartial tribunals, and to make the decisions of such tFi- bunals upon questions Of fact and up on questions of law binding and ei- fective. That is the old American doe urine and that is the necessary method of democracies, for democracies can live only under governments of laws and not Of meh.
 'The extreme effects of the posses sion of arbitrary power are seen in tho extraordinary letters of the president to Secretary Lansing published on the 14th of February. 1920, by which it ap- pears that honest and independent ad- vice from officers of th- 2rvsiuenGs own selection is an offensc,s and that the exercise of the most ordinary pow CTS of the heads of departments with out consulting the president when his illness prevented consultation is cause for resentment