Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-16
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING AUG. 14th, 1o2o
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TAFT AND cox

Governor Cox of Ohio the democratic candidate for president, continues to talk about certain nebulous Interpretive changes which he does not object to in the League of Nations without giving us any very definite idea of what these changes are except that they must not disturb the vital principle of the league In special article to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, ex-president William Howard Taft analyses the democratic candidates statements bearing on the league and points out that they can only mean the candidates full accord with President Wilson in rejecting the league unless Article x is included in h
 Mir. Taft says that the only hope the governor has of avoiding the same dead lock which Mir. Wilsoi caused seems to be that the results of the election will so re1ect the peoples view if the dmocratic candidate is elected that the political ly bigoted minority of democrats in the senate, who retain their seats and can defeat the treaty, will be induced to vote for the treaty without the Lodge reserva- tisns. But, MT. Taft is not optimistic that this would be the result, nor in fact. that the senaors, democratic or republi- can, should consider that the merits of Article X would be passed on in a pop ular election with so many other weighty issues involved. The republican sen- ators put their opposition to the article nn the ground that it is against the pub lice veal. They have he support in this view of such men as MT. Root and MT. Hughes, and in all fairness to their op- with being sincere.
 MT. Taft in his contributed article in the Ledger. gives a clear view of the Opposition to Article x in the following words: MT. Lodge has admitted from fhe first that the United States may con 5htutionally agree to make war and bind congress in good faith to carry out he agreement; but he and those who gtand with him object to Article x not -Ascause we have not the power to as- sunae an obligation to make war but be- cause under the article it will inaperiI the nation to do so by constantly drag Yfng us into wars in which we can have no real interest. The supporters of
 
 oppose any obligation which may re- lnire congress in good faith to declare war when, unhampered by the eb1iga- ion. if would not do so. This, they af- hr1n Article \ does. They object to put ting congress and the United States gov srnraent in a position where they would have to break faith in exercising full discretion on the issue, war or no war Mr. Cox's reservation that Article x is 10 be intN,reted in accord with the T -sonstitution does not. therefore, contain the slightest concession to the real ob- lection of the senators to this article"
 MT. Wilson, Governor Cox and the dem ocratic convention all stand on Article x as the sine qua non, and this means a continued deadlock, says Mir. Taft, if Ar Cox is elected president He sees 'gVod ground to believe that through republican victory at the polls and the siection of Senator Harding is to be at aimed the only possible solution of the League question, namely, the league possibly perfected in many ways but Kith the obligations of Article X re- moved"