San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-30
PASTORS 0PE n
THREE-DAY
MEETING
Congregational Ministers
Appoint C. H. Gable
as Moderator.

With Congregational churchmen
from all parts of Texas in attend
ance, the forty-third annual session
of the Texas state conference of min
listers of the Congregational Church
opened at the First Congregational
Church, South Presa and Carolina
streets, Friday.
With the Rev. NJ. o. Lambly, min.
lister of the local church, as the host,
the first session of the three-day
meeting opened at 8 a. m.
Charles H. Gable of San Antonio
was appointed moderator and P. d.
Crowder of Houston, assistant moder-
ator.
DR.. Will Holley of Palestine was
elected scribe.
Special services will be held at the
First Congregational Church Sunday
in connection with the conference.
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honest mistake-which the people had
TO correct.
When the League of Nations cove
nant was placed before the Senate by
the late President Wilson, a majority
of thesmembers of that body and also
majority of Republican senators,
were for it.
President Wilson was given ref
erendum on membership in the league.
The Republican party denied that the
"a senator's spoke for the party, and
in all our history no such verdict
against departure from the prin-
ciples of the Republican party ever
was registered.
NINE-LIVED CAT.
Again in 1924. World Court propo-
nents brought forth membership in
the league under the leadership OF
Mr.. Davis, and again the rank and
file-the people, not the leaders BY
an unparalleled majority consigned It
to the morgue and, We hoped, for all
time. II
But like cat with nine lives it
bobbed up again under the guise Of
membership in the World Court.
For a third time we had a refer
endum in Illinois. The issue was fair
ly presented. 1t was put to the vot-
ers, who constitute the party, and the
voters, by an overwhelming majority,
have said TO the nation that World
Courts and Leagues of Nations are
not Republican party doctrine. u
And with the people-the Repub-
hcan voters OF Illinois, take my
stand.
. Our disagreement, il there can be
one after what has Just transpired in
Illinois, is not on party regularity but
upon a fundamental issue of Amer
icanism.
And whenever in the course of ma.
tional government that choice has to
be made, there is only one side Of the
line for a Republican fundamentals
to stand, and that is the American
side.
All that I have endeavored to pre-
sent here, / laid before the Repub-
lican voters Of Illinois. / made no
personal attack on any person. /
treated Senator Mckinley with re-
spect and even conceded his right to
be for the World Court, if he believed
in it, but told our people that he was
wrong.
TRUTH BY HEARST PAPERS,"
We disagreed on a principle, a prin-
ciple / believe is a Republican prin-
ciple and more than that an Ameri-
can principle.
In closing I wish to acknowledge a
debt of gratitude which / think the
rank and file Of the party of Illinois
owe to Mr.. Hearst and his Chicago
newspapers--The Herald and Exam
liner, and Evening American.
In this campaign the Hearst papers,
along with other publications in ILL
nois, saw that the truth was presented
to the voters.
There is no abb in Illinois. The
truth got to the voters, and they ex-
pressed their will. That truth is that
we will maintain friendly relations
with all mankind, giving abundantIy
Of our means to relieve suffering ey-
erywhere, keeping friendly trade rela-
tons, always; but never, so long as
we retain our patriotism and our yiril-
ity and our self-respect, will a fun
damental American principle be sub
mitted to adjudication by any tribun.
al anywhere in the world outside the
T-DitaI State ,f Arnar:n.