The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-20

hope in the heartszof people around the world, surely he is big enough to be the next vice president of the United States"
 The Indiana senator assailed the democratic position on the League of query in legislative bodies, in part by the. weakness of many of those commis- stoned to execute the law, and in part by the existence and activities of az gressive minority organizations behind selfish purposes.
 In Congress, during the last few 1 years, the American citizen has heard more demagogio ntterances than have ever before characterized it. He has seen men running for Congress and the Senate, advocating in the same state at the same time, and irrespective of 1 their inconsistency, increased wages for railroad labor and decreased railroad rates, and higher prices for beef on the hoof and lower prices for beef on the table.
 It is not too much to say that from the average candidate for office, in either party, he must accept either evasion or a doctrine designed to please him and appeal to his pre- judices, irrespective of whether OF not it tends to plunge the whole cOun- try into disaster.
 He has seen the disposition on the | part of political leaders and office 1 holders to condone in minority organ | izations, acts of lawlessness. He has witnessed the stealing on the part of the candidates, of the hablaments of a conservative party for election pur- poses, and then, after election, the be- trayal of that party to those arrayed against fundamental principles of the l constitution.
 The average man, with his sense of fair play, despises and condemns the man out to catch votes under false pre- lenses, and he feels that the desire of politicians to get votes in this way is endangering the fundamentals of this great republic.
 Principles At Stake As the enemies of the existing order of things group themselves for battle the average good citizen knows that the elemental principles for which his fore bears fought are at stake.
 He demands a strong leadership, standing on the constitution, and mov- | ing forward with law and order, com mon sense and high purpose, to combat 1 strong leadership tending toward dis integratiOn.
 He has this fin Calvin Coolidge and the platform on which he stands. Neither President Coolidge nor his party platform assumes that the con- stitutiOn of the United States is an l OutwOrn document of Old-fashiOned
 ideas, to be discarded for tho prin- ciples of the new socialism.
 Robert NJ. LaFOllette, leading the army of extreme radicalism, has a plat form demanding public ownership of railroads and attacking our courts which are a fundamental and constitu- tional safeguard of American citizen ship.
 Our nation is asked to leave impor- tant constitutional moOrings to embark again into those contests through which it has fought up to the establishment of good government. Through the war of the Revolution, through the Civil war, and through the World war, our peo- pie have struggled to establish and maintain our constitutional principles. They are asked to follow into an attack upon them, massed behind an aggressive personality, a heterogeneous collection of those opposing the existing order of things, the greatest section of which, the socialists, flies the red flag: and into what? Into confusion and conflict of ideas and ideals and into the reOpening of war upon those fundamental princi- ples of human liberty and the inalienable rights of men which are given in this country safety and opportunity to the humbles, and to establish which the blood of our fOrefathers was shed. This is the predominant issue in this campaign.
 League And World Court.
 The League of Nations, however n0- ble, may have been it's intentions, was not approved by the people of the United States because it did not make clear to their minds that It did not encroach upon the sovereignty, and the power and right of independent decision of the ! United States, as to its own duty and ! action under all circumstances. | While many men, after study, be- lieved that the League of Nations did not encrOach upon the sovereignty and rights of independent decision of the United States, the fact that there was just doubt as to this stamped the plan as one which could not beac- cepted by the citizens of the United States.
 Our people, by an enormous ma jOrity in 1920, fearing entangIement in foreign difficulties, properly de- Cided that they would not trust their future to a document involving a question so mOmentOus, which need. ed a lawyers explanation to be read with the instrument itself. And that mandate of tic speOple, 50 clearly and fOrcibly expressed, must be re- spected and Obeyed.
 Perhaps if those who drew the League of Nations plan had felt it in cumbent upon them to make its exact meaning as clear to the avreage man as to those who drew it, the United States might have been spared immer- sion for five years in the immense fog bank el the debate upon the League of Nations. But they did not do so.
 G. o. P. Is Right.
 The republican platform is right in assuming that the United States, in ] it's Own interests and the interests