Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — M’CUMBER FOR LEAGUE [ARTICLE]

M’CUMBER FOR LEAGUE

Charaterizes Criticisms of Paris Pact as “Far-Fetched.” Senator Sherman Assails Wilson and Threatens to Bolt the Republican Party. Washington, March 4. —After Senator Sherman had attacked the league of nations and President Wilson in the senate, Senator McCumber, a Republican member of the foreign relations committee, urged that the United States become a pagty to a league for preserving league peace. He urged amendment of the league charter so that there could be no possibility of any surrender of American sovereignty or the Monroe doctrine, but deplored recent criticisms by Republican senators as “far-fetched.” Senator McCumber said he had not Intended to discuss the league, but because of recent addresses by Republican senators he feared the country “might be misled •nto the idea that all Republicans are opposed to it. “I cannot,” Senator McCumber said, “stand back and say: ‘Oh, let the world be damned; we can take care of ourselves.’ There is some obligation resting on the American people to help maintain the peace of the world.” Senator McCumber criticized opponents who have advanced no substitute plan. Senators Lodge and Knox had proposed substitutes, he said, “but others have simply attacked, without giving the president of our commissioners in Europe the slightest idea of what should be done to maintain the peace of the world.” Washington, March 4.—Digressing from his prepared speech against the league of nations Senator Sherman demanded that there be an open discussion of the league’s constitution and said: “If the president is not a political and a governmental coward he will give it to us. ;,. . And if I cannpt find expression of this privilege in my own party, I will go elsewhere for IL”