The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
G. 0. P. STAND ON
 DISARMAMENT MAY
 CAUSE PESSIMiSM
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(Continued From Page One.) arming. Furthermore, his course in the Senate has been with little re- spect to the national pride of Eng land or Japan.
 Comment of Bornh
 Quite recently, the President has taken occasion to tell the country that wars cannot be eliminated, and that disarming Is impossible. He left the impression that all that could be hoped for was reduction. Later still the Secretary of State, MT. Hughes, informed Washington correspondents that it was improper for them to re- fer to the conference as the "disar- mament" conference. The Npsycholog- ical difference between that term and "the conference for the limitation of armament" would he evidently held, create a disastrous psychological ef- feet.
 Senator Borah has noted the hand writing on the wall. The statement of the President, followed by the statement of the Secretary, caused him to comment.
 "soon,". he said, "the conference will be merely gesturew
 But when Linthicum said these things, the republicans, as if anxious to make a political play, charged his expressions against the democratic committee.
 The democratic committee fsvors disarmlng. it is explained.
 The Committees' stand
 By misapprehening the meaning of a news article sent out under my signature as part of my regular cor tA Iar deu uu papers, certain papers have sought to characterize 1t as an attack by the democratic national committee upon the forthcoming disarmament conference. In view of the record of the democratic national committee, the democratic party, democratic senators and congressman, and demo- cratic leaders everywhere, which has been consistently and persistentiy in favor of disarmament and world peace, this charge is without justi- fNation. The democratic party and it's national organization and lead ership Is as firm for disarmament as ever and is as anxious for the success of the forthcoming confer ence as MT. Harding and his party. No amount of hysteria. nor misun- derstanding, can change this record or this fact.
 "The news article which was sub jected to a wrong meaning did not contain a single fact which had not already appeared in print, and most of the facts were printed in the pa- pers which were harshest in criti- cism, including President Harding's War college speech, which made the news pertinent and timely, and which caused him to be criticized for fear he was back -pedaling on the disarmament conference in trying to create the impression that the peo- pie were expecting more than they would get thereftom.
 Simply the Facts
 "In view of this. I set forth in news form for the domecratic papers l serve with correspondence f-om democratic national committee head quarters the main facts and condi- tons which confronted the confer ence as they had arisen since the call was issued, pointing out that some of these were due to the enlargement of the scope of the conference which were more likely to compli- cate it's work than to simplify It. These facts were collated from pa- pers in which they had been pub lished. It was the first time they had ever been set forh in one\news arllcle. Any Other newspaper corre- spondent. in Washington might have done the same if he had desired and wanted only to give facts. The al- legged opinion in the article that there was some pessimism concerning the outcome of the conference instead of the glowing optimism which pre- vailed when it was first called Is obvious by reason of these matters which have since arisen. and the same opinion, if it can be called such has been expressed in several metro politan papers.
 With this statement of facts. it ought to be evident that no political capital can be made out of such misinterpretation of plain news narrative and an attempt to hold the democratic national committee to re- sponslbility for an attitude it has never expressed and does not hold