The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-06-22
HARDING SHOWDOWN
DEMANDED BY EDITOR
Time To Reveal Plan For Asso.
citation, Hamilton Holt
Tells President

the delegation OF Pro-League Republi
cans that called on former President
Wilson during the last Presidential
camraign, today made public letter
he had written President Harding
asking him to explain to the Ameri-
can people the terms of the Harding
association proposed to supplant the
League of Nations.
If you delay much further people
everywhere will inevitably conclude
that you have no concrete plan at
all or else that you propose to put
party harmony above world welfare"
declared Mr.. Holt.
I'm that event there will be moth
ing left for those who want America
to play her rightful part in STABILIZE
ing the world but to organize the
country so as to capture Congress
for the league in 1922 and the Presi-
dency in 1924"
This, Mr.. Holt asserted, could be
done. He declared that the League
of Nations and Bolshevism- were the
only great IDEAS that had come out
Of the war as world panaceas and he
asked the President whether he could
guarantee that the world would not
turn to Bolshevism, If it came gener-
ally to be believed that he had no
plan.at all for a substitute for the
league.
Mr.. Holt, a member of the League
to Enforce Peace took a hand in the
last Presidential campaign. by max
ing public list of 100 Republicans
who had bolted the Harding ranks.
Own Followers Left In Doubt
The text of his letter follows:
1T is now six years that the
League of Nations issue has been be-
fore the country. 1t is now two
years that you as Senator, Presi-
Dental candidate, President-elect and
President have had the League of
Nations issue officially before you
for action.
LAS Senator you have voted to
have the United States enter the ex-
listing League provided the Lodge
amendments were made part of that
act of ratification. AS Presidential
candidate you left the country and
even your own followers in doubt as
to your attitude. Thirty-one pre-
eminent Republicans-among whom
were your Secretary of State, Mr..
Hughes, and your Secretary of Com
merce, Mr.. Hoover-assured their
fellow countrymen that you would go
into the existing League. Senators
Borah and johnson and the other
'irreconcilables' assured them you
would not.
LAS President-elect you did not
see fit to disclose your attitude on
the League beyond what you had
said during the campaign. Both the
'thirty-one' and the 'irreconcilables'
claimed you for their own.
"As President, however, you have
unequivocally repudiated the exist
ing League of Nations, whose area
comprises considerably more than
half the earth and whose population
numbers three-quarters of the hu-
man race. You even permitted with
out rebuke your Ambassador at the
Court of St. James to say that you
will have nothing to do with any
commission or committee appointed
by the League or responsible to it,
directly or Indirectly, openly or
furtively.'
Association" Promised
you have. nevertheless, as Presi-
Dental candidate, repeatedly promi-
sed >during the campaign and as.
President you have reiterated that
promise, that you will seek to estab-
lish AN association Of nations based
upon the application OF Justice and
right, binding us in conference and
cooperation for the prevention of
war and pointing the way to higher
civilization and international fraterni
ty in which all the world might
share
You have not yet given the Amer
lean people the slightest inkling of
the terms of this Harding association
that you propose shall supplant the
Wilson league. Has not the time
come. respectfully ask, for you to
do this? NJ
Surely you cannot expect the
forty-eisht members Of the present
league to scrap It and come into
your association unless two things
are perfectly clear:
First. that the new association In