Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — THE LEAGUE PLANK IS SCORED [ARTICLE]

THE LEAGUE PLANK IS SCORED

By Taggart and Spaan as Cowardly Pussyfooting. Indianapolis, June 15. — Thomas Taggart, Detnocratlc nominee for United States senator; Henry Spaan, Seventh district nominee for representative in the congress, and other state Democratic leaders Saturday denounced the league of nations plank In the Republican national platform 'as an evasion, a bompromise and a vote-getting» measure which they said would fail in its purpose. "It they do no more than they have they will have failed to do anything,” Mr. Taggart said, before leaving for French Lick. "the league of nations plank, Mr. Taggart said, is retroactive and not progressive. "It is cowardly pussyfooting,” Mr. Taggart said, "and is a .compromise in the interest of party harmony. It has for its sole purpose the holding of the various factious together. “The Republicans are getting ready to go before the people and tell them that this thing they propose to substitute for the league of nations will give the Irish greater freedom from England, and that Wilson was too hard on the Germans and that the Germans are to get easier terms.” “The league of nations plank clears the atmosphere,” Mr. Spaan said, "and at last the Republicans are in the open. The issue is, 'shall there be a league of nations or shall there be no league at all?’ It is a moral question, and on’ a moral question the American people never go wrong. The Democratic party Insists that the same morality shall exist between nations as between individuals.”

Bowman Elder, who has charge of arrangements for the Democratic special train to San Francisco, said that a train of all-steel Pullman cars will leave Indianapolis June 19 at 2 p. m. About 150 delegates, he said, will travel on this train. The route will be via Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs and Los Angeles. On the way back, the special will stop at Yellowstone park. The headquarters for the Indiana delegation will be In the Manx hotel at San Francisco. Harold C. Feightner, an Indianapolis newspaper man, has been appointed by Benjamin Bosse, the state chairman, to have charge of the publicity bureau of the state. Mrs. Grace Jackson has been appointed an assistant secretary to substitute for Miss Gertrude F. McHugh, the assistant secretary of the state committee, who Is now In San Francisco. Mr. Taggart, Samuel M. Ralston and other state leaders will leave early this week for San Francisco. E. G. Hoffman of Ft. Wayne, national committeeman from Indiana and secretary of the national committee, is now In San Francisco. He left June 8.