Arizona republican., 1920-10-08
Would Deport Treacherous Alien and Bar Doors Against General Amnesty To Political Prisoners
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covenant.
 Declaring that. clarifying reserva- tiOns never would meet the require mcnts of national security. the Re publican nominee put before the votersl of Iowa and Nebraska direct issue of accepting or declining membership in the league.
 'T do not want to clarify those ob- ligations,r he said. q want to turn my back on them. It is not interpretation but rejection that I am seeking. l un- derstand the position of the Demo cratic nominee and he understands mine. In simple words. it is that he favors going into the Paris league and favor staying out
 Sixteen Speeches During Day
 The senator's declaration on the league was made at a forenoon gather ing of several thousand in the Coliseum at Des AIoines. and later was repeated in varied form at several smaller Iowa cities and at a night meeting in the Omaha auditorium. In Is speeches during the day he also restated his po- sition on various other issues of the campaign. and during his address here devoted half hour to plea for en- forcement of law without terrorism or oppression.
 In both Des AIoines and Omaha thousands cheered the nominee through the streets and thousands more turned out to sec him during the day as his train crossed Iowa. He left his private car to make prepared addresses only in the Iowa capital and here. The other Iowa cities in which he spoke from the rear platform of his train were Newton. Eartham, Dexter. Stuart, | Menlow, Casey. Adair. Anita. Atlantic. ! Walnut Avoca, Shelby, Neola and Council Bluffs.
 Senator Albert Cummins. who is 2 candidate for reelection, accompanied the presidential nominee through the state and in each of his speeches the latter asked for Mir. Cummins' election. Tn several of them he praised the | Cummins- Esch railroad law as an ac- complishment unequalled in progres- sive legislation for decade.
 At the Des NIoines meeting the nom fnee carried on a colloquy with several men in the crowd who asked him ques- tions about international policies. In lthe course of the discussion. which | kent the big hall for a time in confu- sion. he outlined his position on the Irish question, declared American sol diers in Germany should be brought home as quickly as possible, reassert- ing his belief that no separate peace
 
 declared the nation would be guilty of 'the grossest dishonesty if it as- stunned the obligations of the league and | then refused to furnish troops at the ! leagues call.
 PledRing himself to law enforcement the senator warned in his speech here tonight against over -zealous law ant order crusades and against "the iror hand of czarism" in the methods oi those i'm authority. By being a little more generous" in its attitude toward minorities. said the government could help to qutet discontent and to keaI the agitaIor within bounds.
 No Pardon for Political Prisoners. The candidate also declared his oppo-
 sition to wholesale pardons for politica prisoners and reiterated his faith in thu
 practice of deporting undesirable citi'
 gems.
 "'Sometimes there are those so zeal
 ous for law and order" he said, "tha
 their words and acts in behalf of ou institutions constitute in themselves
 serious breach of our laws and an of
 fense to our social sense of what is fai and right and just. Then the self termed devotees of law and order them
 selves become menacing to our peace
 "No true American will argue tha .
 my part, I can see uo essential differ ence between ordinary crimes and ordi
 nary criminals on the one hand an' political crimes and political prisoner
 on the other. I have been asked man.
 times whether I would grant genera , amnesty to political prisoners. I woul' not A general grant of amnesty u political prisoners is no more 5ustifle than a general grant of amnesty ( yeggmen.
 ' "'None of us can deny that in emer gencies. of which war Is one, there 1
 an unusual pressure for the convictio and punishment of men and wome
 who appear to be thwartig our join
 efforts in such a emergency or wh
 menace our institutions. But these ar
 cases which must be examined eac
 upon it's merits.
 Many persons have fallen into CT
 TOTS in regard to the practice of de
 portation of undesirable aliens.
 would like to make those persons wh
 are opposed to any deportations
 aliens see that if we may fairly an r justly stop the undesirable alien as - attempts to enter our country, so als 8 We have the right to lead him fort l and send him away when he has DC
 come a menace to our country after h u entry llltO lA- ne AifatitiCh9 ehaAN . within our borders must be led to ou . gateways and told to go.
 $ "Perhaps more tragic than offen' 5. against our laws are the offenses t injustice and of oppression which occt t occasionally by the cats of those WI
 are insinctre or nasty in enforcing ol
 law. A great number of Americans b' 8 lieve that they have seen within 1T ' last few years grave injustice. hars n violent and unlawful oppression undel -- taken unde rthe mask of enforcing la $ and order. They have seen too muC
 terrorism.
 If For Law, But Not Brutality. - "I stand against terrorism, abuse ar e brutality. When l say I am again ie terrorism I am on the side once more
 law and order. Not only is poh n frightfulness and night-stick brutali c. and third degree oppression unlawful 70 itself. but know of nothing which ca 'e so destroy the love which America mu '- in the end awaken in the hearts m those who may learn to understand he 'r "We shall not give countenance sl those who would force upon Ameri' ll the iron hand Of czarism. We mu
 not make the mistake of believing tn " it is possible for authority to contr $ the thoughts or men. When the D; be thetic minority begins to seek to Q, .h press itself in speech. and in writiI O. Continued on page ?