Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-21
. REVIEWER
REVIEWED

WELL on in a four-column review
w Of "The Great Deception" BY
Samuel Colcord, in a great new,.
paper, the reviewer said: ut NAV
be conceded that the author has
thus far proved his contention, that
Judged by all recognized standards
of party opinion and party action,
the Republican Party. at the begin.
ming Of the campaign, at least, stood
committed in case Of victory at tbs
polls to some form of league or as.
sociation with other nations Of the
world" He then devoted a column
to present, without support Of facts,
his own personal view that all these
Republican obligations faded away
between June and November. and
asked as to the mandate of the
election, WAS It a mandate to DO
what the Republican Party wanted
in June. or what the Republican
Party wanted on the morning Of
November 81" This was followed
with this entirely untrue statement,
"Mr. Colcord thinks that the June
verdict should prevail in determining
the policy of President Harding"
The (probably unintentionaD un.
fairness of that statement will b
plainly evident to any reader Of the j
book, who will at once see that II
the reviewer had really read 1t hs
would have found the dates in cold
type to tell him that 1t was not in
June, but on October 14th. when the
three pre-eminent Republican lead.
ers, Root. Hughes and Taft. Joined
by twenty-eight other eminent Re.
publicans, issued their assurance 70
the Republican voters that Repub.
lican success in the election meant
entry into the League with reserva.
tions. or some other continuing s0ci.
ETY. of nations. and that they con.
tinued that attitude to the end. i
was not in June, but October goth
when at Bloomington, Indiana. Mr.
Taft made his strongest pronounce.
through the campaign that Mr..
Hoover. Governor Lowden and Gen.
eral Wood, the three most popular
candidates for the Republican noml.
nation. with scores of other imports
ant Republican leaders. made plain
the same position. 1t was later than
June when even Senator Lodge 70
his letter to George II. Bishop said
he had not changed his position Of
readiness to ratify the League Cove.
nant with reservations. and added
that tho v,1a ffnryr, ha n pnt rpNlldiated
that position. 1t was up to the last
day Of the campaign that more than
$50 important Republican news.
papers urged the election Of Harding
on the same grounds. 1t was MOI
in June, but on the 28th Of August
and later in every important speech
of the campaign up to the day OF
election. that Senator Harding
pledged an associa ton of nations OF
the League amended or revised u
1t is so entwined and interviewer ~
the peace of Europe that its good
must be preserved" The party
platform adopted in June was
the platform for all the cam.
paign and presumably for all the
following Republican Administra'
tion in Its pledge of IAN inter-
national association based upon
international justice so that
the nations may exercise tneT ~
tiuence and power for the prevention
of war" The party record, the only
record 1t ever had on this question
this and only this-support OF inc
League Of Nations with the Lodge
McCumber compromise reservations,
continued to be the record until tns
votes were cast. unless 1t was parity
merged into the party platform
quoted above, which Is all the adyo-
Gates of International union for
peace now ask for. And there ls
very much more. Urged by all these
assurances. the Republicans cast
their votes for Harding. Was 1t ID
reputation Of all these pledges OF
in reliance upon them? In view OF
these facts, the eminent reviewer
who conceded that Mr.. Colcord had
won his case up to June must ike
wise concede 1t to November =
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