Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — COOLIDGE AGAINST LEAGUE OF NATIONS [ARTICLE]

COOLIDGE AGAINST LEAGUE OF NATIONS

In speaking editorially of Governor Coolidge’s speech of acceptance of the Republican vice-presidential nomination, dhe Indianapolis News says: It should not be forgotten thaGovernor Coolidge labored under a great disadvantage, Senator Harding had only the Republican platform to interpret, while the Massachusetts governor had to interpret that and Senator Harding as well. In the speech of yesterday the candidate seemed to speak less decidedly than either his chief or the convention, and yet he accepted the idea —which we think has already been shown to be preposterous —that peace can be “immediately” made by a Republican president and senate. “The proposed league of na> tions,” he said, “without reservations as submitted by the president to the senate met deserved opposition from Republican senators.” But the trouble is that the league of nations even with reservations is now opposed by the Republican candidate for the presidency. We are at least however told — in the usual indefinite way to which we have become accustomed —that the Republican party “approves the principle of agreement among nations to preserve peace and pledges itself to the making of such an agreement, preserving American independence and rights, as will meet every duty America owes to humanity.” So Coolidge, like Harding, must be counted against the pending treaty and covenant. What they propose in substitution is so vague as to be meaningless.