Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1922-03-31
MR.. REED EyADEs
THE ISSUE

The Star asked Senator Reed two
questions concerning his candidacy;
1. Would you look upon your nomi-
nation as an Endorsement of your
attitude toward Mr.. Welsin's party
leadership?
2. Would you look upon your noml-
nation as an indication of Missour7s
opposition to the League Of Nations?
To these questions Mr.. Reed made
the following reply:
If am nominated by the DEM
ocratics of Missouri, I would
regard it as an approval of my
general course in the senate
without regard to particular
questions or particular indivi-
duals. I do not propose TO
make campaign upon the mar
row grounds of past differences
of opinion.
The question is not so easily side
stepped. as that. A general course is
nothing but the sum of particular
courses, and the overshadowing issue
at the outset is Mr.. Reeds attitude
toward Wilson and the League of Ma
tions. From a national and interna-
tional standpoint it has an impor-
tance much greater than general ap-
proval" of hostility to women suf-
frage, Herbert Hoover and Incidental
matters.
>The League of Nations is not dead;
neither is the League of Nations is
sue. 1t will come to the front within
a short time. Senator Reed, if re-
nominated and reelected, will, of
course oppose the league, and @will
fight Mr.. Wilson in spirit as he
fought him when he was president,
That is his privilege. But before the
people of Missouri send Mr.. Reed back
to Washington, they have an un-
qualified right to hear from MIR
Reed what Interpretation he would
put upon his reelection.
| AS matters stand, Senator Reet
appeals for support without regarC
to particular questions" covered by
: his record as Senator. Would he te.
his senatorial associates that he wa
reelected without regard to part
cular questions? Would he say
when the League of Nations Sissni
came up when some action was takei
, | in the name of Woodrow Wilson,
. idealism; "My friends, do not lool
upon my reelection as repudiatiol
of the league, Mr.. Wilson's friends
, forgiven me and sent me back?"
! !, Or would he say: II fought Wilson
! land his league from the first day u
j the last; helped bury them both;
lwent before the people of Missour
J ON my record, and they vindicated M
! land repudiatted Wilson,"
J Which course would Senator Rec
/, pursue? Is there man in Missouri
who believes he would not exploi
3 his victory to the utternost?
Consider the Interpretation MI
$ Reed put upon the last presidenta
y election. Mr.. Harding was electe
4 president in a broad political move
8 ment in which the League of Nation
4 issue was a doubtful factor. u
o score and half of the most promi
i nent Republicans in the country, in
4 Guiding the present secretary of statt
e and a former Republican presiden
united in manifesto declaring ths
( Mr.. Harding would carry the countr
: into the League Of Nations. He wa
supported both by the friends an
$ the enemies of the league. And afte
d he twas elected what did Senator Rec
n do? He discredited everything ea
q cept the League of Nations issue an
s declared that the country had vote
n by 100000 majority against tt
e League. Will Mr.. Reed be any faire
: in an Interpretation of his own elet
/ tion, considering that he was BIZ
d ter-end opponent of the league Will
It nobody knew where Mr.. Hardin
/ stood on it?
e Senator Reeds "reply" to I'll
d Stars question simply means thi!
IS He wants the support of the epemit
II of the League of Nations because {
e his opposition to it, and the suppol
# of its friends in spite of his oppOs
Il ton to it.
n Before Senator Reed can legit
n mately ask for one Wilson vote"
# Missouri, he will have to face IL
2 implications of his appeal for vote
e namely, that if he is reelected will
l. lout regard to any particular que
tions, he must say in advance that l
would not look upon his renominatic
e as an Endorsement of his attitude tov
ard Mr.. Wilson or toward the Leagr
of Nations.
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