Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — NEW ARMY IN LEAGUE FIGHT [ARTICLE]

NEW ARMY IN LEAGUE FIGHT

Noted R*publ<c*n* and Independent* Organize Appeal for Vote* Favoring Covenant. New York, Sept. 30. —On the ground that the necessity for en-' tering the league of nations oversteps traditional party lines, prominent Republicans and Progressives of the east have organized for an appeal to all independent voters throughout the country to vote for Cox and Roosevelt. A "committee of pro-league Republicans and independents” has been formed by the men and women identified with the movement, which Is spreading rapidly in the eastern states. Member* of Commltt** Among them are: Theodore: Marburg Republican minister to Belgium under President Taft Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent. Prof. Charles Seymour of Yale, author of “Diplomatic Background of the War,” called by Mr. Taft the

most Illuminating book on the war. John F. Moore, Boston, Mass. Charles W. Eliot, ex-president of. Harvard. Caroline Hazard, ex-president of Wellesley. Henry C. King, president of Oberlin college. Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke. Katherine Lee Bates, professor at Wellesley and author of “America, the Beautiful.” James Tourney, dean of Yale forestry school. Prof. Schlesinger, president of the American Astronomical society. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New York city. Rev. Henry A. Stimson, New York city. Moorfield Storey, Boston, Mass. Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale university. Decides Policy for Centuries According to a statement published on behalf of the committee by Prof. Fisher, the main question to be decided in November is the nation’s course for the next 400 years, not the narrow and selfish one of whether Republicans or Democrats are to control the government for the next four. “In view of the logic of events,’ he said, after showing how the senatorial oligarchy of the Republican party set out to destroy the league because they feared a Democratic

president would get the credit, "I believe that the foundations which attach the Republican voter to his party are crumbling away as the mountain side is loosened ny the rains preparatory to an avalanche.” After quoting former President Taft’s arguments in favor of entering the league as “the best campaign document for Cox and Roosevelt,” Prof. Fisher refers to articles written by Theodore Roosevelt in 1915 favoring a league of nations backed by guarantee given by the United States and the other world powers. “A prophet,” he -declared referring to the Roosevelt articles, “could not have described better five years before it was born, the league of nations as It is, including article 10. “Has the Republican party lost its soul in the death of Roosevelt?”