Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — BOSTON TRANSCRIPT’S INTERPRETATION [ARTICLE]

BOSTON TRANSCRIPT’S INTERPRETATION

While there can be no question of

Senator Harding’s opposition to the league of nations, as agreed to by President Wilson, It is, nevertheless, interesting to have Interpretations of his speech, and to note that these are in substantial agreement. Last week Senator Johnson, one of the bitterest enemies of the league, announced his Intention to support the Republican candidate, because they were in entire harmony on this subject. Now we have the interpretation of the Boston Transcript, a paper whose political orthodoxy none can question, and one that is more than any other the representative of Senator Lodge. The paper is not able to conceal or dissimulate its Joy. It congratulates Senator Harding on his outspoken announcement, and says that he proclaimed “a two-fold sentence of death” upon the league of nations. The Transcript looks forward with joy to “the final obsequies of the supergovernment of Geneva,” and “the shining triumph of straight Americanism over crooked internationalism.” It also declares, that henceforth there can be no such thing as a Republican champion of the league. It has taken a long time to oring those who pretend to represent the party round to this position, but the thing has been done. There were many who doubted whether Republican senators of the Lodge type ever were sincerely for the league. It can not be forgotten with what unction Lodge, when the treaty with reservations was defeated, in November last year, announced that the treaty was dead. For months the senators had been struggling with reservations, saying that they were for the treaty, and only sought to “Americanize” it. Not one of them, outside the narrow circle of bitter-enders, was willing to be counted against the league. Yet Lodge is now against It, and so IS Senator Harding, both of whom voted for it with reservations. And now the Transcript goes so far as to attempt to read out of the party all who do not wish to see the league killed. Yet, as the New York Times says, that great Republican, Elihu Root, is working with other statesmen to construct an international judicial court, and the result of their labors is to be submitted to the council of the league of nations. —Indianapolis News (Rep.)