New Britain herald., 1924-08-19
WATSON ANSWERS
 DEMOCRATS QUERY
Points to Dawes Plan Acceptance as COP. Triumph
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 Chicago. Aug, is.-Allled- -deTmah
 acceptance Of the Dawes plan was de-
 elsEsd by senateF Watson of Indiana
 in an address today before the Hsmll-
 ton club of Chicago 10 be the Ter
 publican Psrty's answer 10 the inquiry
 Of Jehn w. Davis democratic PFesi-
 dshtial nominee, as 10 what single
 contribution the present republican
 administration had made to the peace
 Of the world.
 'The arms conference, and the
 Dawes plan represent the two longest
 steps ever taken for the paelheallan Of the world and the United States under a republican administration took both of them without belonging 10 the league Of nations or being in any way ehtangled in its political in- .olvements." Senator Watson asserted, Tn very truth. if We had belonged. We no longer could have we'll eSerled the powerful and conclusive influence that We did
 Tribute to Dawes
 Senator Watson. himself one of the | candidates for the republican vice. presidential nomination at the cleve- land convention. spoke at luncheon of the Hamilton club held as pre- iimihary 10 the notification ceremonies tonight for the conventions vice. presidential choice, Charles c. Dawes, He paid high tribute 10 Mir. Dawes. saying:
 'As Charles c. Dawes was big enough 10 head the first budget com mission and successfully launch that craft on an uneharted sea, and as he was big enough to formulate the plan that has restored peace to Europe, and planted hopes into the hearts of peo- pie around the world. surely he is big enough to be the next vce-president of tho United States"
 The Indiana senator assailed the democratic position on the league of nations and on foreign affairs as in- consistent and grotesque. The demo- cratic platform proposal for national referendum of the league. he said, was "fanciful. illegal, constitutional and ( revolutionary
 "The truth is.' he added. that our 2 democratic friends. being alarmed at s the majority given against the league 1 four years ago, were afraid to embody { In their platform mere unequivocal c demand that we join that organlza- lion. and yet, on the other hand, did a not have quite courage enough to l. throw it out altogether, because of Il what they said and did four years o ,go, and further because of the in- p iuence of Woodrow Wilson's friends n the New York convention and in he party. t
 Questions of Expediency ti
 "The whole thing, in other words, o resolved itself into question of ex- o pediency and not one of right; into a ? proposal for votes and not one for V principle. and this proposition ap- 1t ,ears all the more grotesque in the D ight of the opposition of William n ennings Bryan and his brother, al 'harles. to our participation in the tf eague of nations in any event and nder any conditions" pt Quoting from speeches by Mir. Davis ot I the campaign of 1920 declaring it ce ) be the duty and interest of Amer f1e "a to join to relieve the world of war tn 5 soon as possible" through the tn ,ague, Mfr. Watson accused the nominee as now having La turned squarely about, faced in the "a pposite direction and feebly proposing se lat vote be taken on this question efore we finally take the step."
 The elction of 1920. Senator Wat M ,n contended had provided refer tn ,dum and the course of the republi- on m party under President Harding rel Id Coolidge, he added, had been in a ! r,ct accord with that referendum.
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