Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1919 — PATRIOT VS. PARTISAN. [ARTICLE]

PATRIOT VS. PARTISAN.

In discussing the league of na-, tions in the senate Wednesday, Senator McCumber of North Dakota,' a Republican member of the foreign relations committee, who argued in a three-hour speech that the league covenant offered a just and practicable plan for the preservation of world peace, said, among other things, in reply to arguments of Senator Knox and other -Republican leaders, that he could not be influenced against the league by party consideration. “Partisan that I am,” he asserted, “I hope I shall never be so hidebound or so blinded by party •exigency as to oppose a just undertaking or a truth declared by a member of any opposition party. 1 could not cast my vote against any reasonable plan for the preservation of world peace without a conviction that would follow me to the grave that I had committed an ■unpardonable offense against all future generations.” The North Dakota senator

charged there had been a campaign of misrepresentation against the league. He opposed as a proposal calculated "to sound the death knell of any scheme to preserve peace," the resolution of Senator Knox, which would declare the senate’s opposition to accepting the league covenant along with the peace terms.