Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — DEMOCRATIC TICKET [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC TICKET

For President JAMES M. COX of Ohio For Vice-President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, New York State Ticket. For U. S. Senator THOMAS TAGGART, Indianapolis For Governor CARLETON B. McCULLOCH, Indianapolis For Lieut.-Governor SAMUEL M. FOSTER, Ft. Wayne Presidential Electors at Large MISS JULIA E. LANDERS, Indianapolis PAUL U. McNUTT, Martinsville For Contingent Electors MISS MARY GALLAHAN, Pern CORNELIUS O’BRIEN Lawrenceburg Presidential Elector. 10th District EDWARD McCABE, Williamsport Contingent Elector ELMORE BARCE, Fowler For Secretary of State CHARLES H. WAGONER, Columbus For Auditor of State CHARLES R. HUGHES, Pera For Attorney-General GEORGE W. SUNKEL, Newport For State Treasurer GEORGE A. DEHORITY, Elwood For Supt. Public Instruction DANIEL C. McINTOSH, Worthington For Reporter Supreme and Appellate Courts WOOD UNGER, Frankfort For Judge Supreme Court, sth Dist. F. E. BOWSER, Warsaw For Judge Appellate Court, Ist Dist. ELBERT M. SWAN, Rockport For Judge Appellate Court, 2d Dist. JOHN G. REIDELBACH, Winamac County Ticket For Congressman, Tenth District FRED BARNETT, Hammond For Joint Representative Benton. Jasper and Newton Counties JAMES EMMET SCANLON, Boswell For Judge 30th Judicial Circuit > TERENCE B. CUNNINGHAM, Kentland For, Treasurer MARY E. DRAKE, Marion Township For Recorder GERTRUDE "BESSE, Remington

For Sheriff RICHARD BOWIE, Wheatfield For Coroner STEPHEN D. CLARK, Wheatfield Tp. For Surveyor (No nomination) Commissioner, First District ALBERT STEMBEL, Wheatfield Commissioner, Third District WILLIAM H. KENYON~Remington THE LEAGUE AND FOREIGN WARS Those who are at heart opposed to any league of nations are very much given to saying that under the league proposed It would be possible for a president of the United States to “send American boys” abroad to fight. In the September issue of Current Opinion Dr. Frank Crane, in a very able djseussion of the whole subject, has this to say on this particular point: Mueh has been made of the bugaboo that if we join the league Ameri can boys may have to be sent to Armenia, China or Africa to fight battles in which we have no concern. They may, it is true. But without the league 4,000,000 American boys had to take up arms to fight in Europe! And without the league a similar crisis is likely to arise any day. Would it not be better to have a few Americans in an army to help police the world than to have the great body of American manhood called on any minute to put out a universal conflagration? The president, it should not be forgotten, has the power now, and always has had it, to send “American boys” to fight anywhere, if it is necessary to do so. The power has many times been exercised. It was a Republican president who sent “American boys” to fight in China during the Boxer rebellion. We have heard no criticism of that action from any one —-have heard nothing but praise. Another Republican landed “American boys” in Panama, acting wholly within his power. Yet there was no league of nations in existence. To defeat the league will not free our boys from service—• and perhaps death in that service—in foreign lands. The American marines have fought all over the worid. What is sought—among other things—by those who favor the league is to reduce the possibilities of foreign service, and to make it less likely that American soldiers will be sent abroad to fight. The league covenant does not enlarge this power of the president in the slightest degree, but it will, it is believed, make it much less probable that the power will ever have to be exercised. Surely the people will not be influenced by such claptrap as that which comes fron) those who argue that “if we join the league American boys may have to be sent to Armenia, China or Africa to fight battles in which we have no concern.” That is the merest humbug. What we really have to fear is that, without the league, our government may again find it neces-1 sary to draft millions of young men into the armies of the republic, and throw them into another war compared with which that from which. we have emerged will seem tame and merciful. The mothers and wives of the nation ought to understand this, and we believe they do. Dr. Crane says:

The league of nations is not a far-off question, one of politics and diplomacy that does not concern you and me. It is of most ,vital, individual importance to every man, woman and child In the United States. Does it mean nothing to you, mother, that your boy may be called out when he reaches manhood to take his post in the next world war? Does it mean nothing to you, business man, that gigantic taxes be forced on you to keep up a huge army and navy? Does it mean nothing to you, workingman, that you may be used as a pawn in the next game of bloody international chess? Does it mean nothing to you, O lover of. your race, when you pray daily that wars may cease and brotherhood prevail, that at last the nations of earth are honestly trying to answer your prayer? But George Sylvester Vlereck and William Randolph Hearst are against the league, as are all those who opposed, either openly or secretly, this government in its dealings with Germany and in the war which resulted. They, too, did not like the idea of sending our boys abroad. They were sent. Eowever —and there was no league of nations. If there had been they would not have been sent —for there would have been no war. —Indianapolis News (Rep.).