Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — TAFT WILL SPEAK IN INDIANAPOLIS MAY 28 [ARTICLE]

TAFT WILL SPEAK IN INDIANAPOLIS MAY 28

Indianapolis, May 15. —The Indiana state branch of the League to Enforce Peace announced today that ex-President Taft will deliver the principal address at the state convention to be held here Wednesday,May 28, for popular ratification of the league of nations covenant. Other prominent persons who thus far have accepted invitations to speak are: Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, chairman of the woman’s committee of the Council of National Defense and honorary president of the National American Woman Suffrage association. Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard university. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue, New York. Herbert S. Houston, the New York publisher, formerly president of the Associated Advertising Clubs

of the World and a member of the government committee on war advertising. Captain Thomas G Chamberlain of the First Anti-Aircraft battalion, A. E. F. The announced purpose of the convention is to discuss the proposed plan for a league of nations and to organize demonstrations to show the United States senate that the peopl of Indiana favor the ratification of the league covenant at the special session of congress which will be under way at that time. Inquiries received by the state branch of the League to Enforc* Peace, under whose auspices the meeting will be held, Indicate a large attendance from all parts of the state. Arrangements are being made on a strictly non-partisan basis, in the belief that the league of nations question is too big to become a party issutj. League Critics Are Small Potatoes Cleveland, 0., May 13. —The person who opposes the league of nations because he dislikes President Wilson is actuated by a “small potato motive,’’ that is not worthy of the dignity of the pact, William Howard Taft declared here tonight in an address. “I am a Republican, believe that party government is the best agency for administering a republican form of government, but when such issues as the league of nations are up for consideration we should go outside party limitations,’’ said Mr. Taft.