Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1920 — FAILS TO OFFER ANTI-WAR REMEDY [ARTICLE]

FAILS TO OFFER ANTI-WAR REMEDY

Rockville, Oct. 18.—In a speech before an enthusiastic audience of men and women voters, Samuel M. Ralston, former governor of Indiana, declared that no political party is worthy of the confidence of the people that does not deal with the league of nations in an open-minded manner and along constructive lines. He outlined the course the Democratic party proposes to pursue and pointed out that this course was the “surest, if not the only practicable means of maintaining the peace of* the world and terminating the insufferable burden of great military and naval establishments. “The Democratic party presents a constructive plan by which all the great nations of the earth will be pledged and united for the maintenance of peace of the world. The Republican party has nothing to offer on this question. Senator Harding has said that he has not a constructive thought along this line. The league is vehemently denounced but the denouncers do not offer any scheme for the dealing in the future with International questions that they are willing to offer for the consideration of she public.” The speaker declared the Republican leaders were conducting a campaign of deceit on the overruling question of the league. “The senatorial cabal which is conducting the Republican campaigii is not square in its dealings with the different camps into which the Republicans are now divided. It is lacking in frankness in its discussion of certain sections of the league. Article 10 is one of the most humane provisions of \the covenant. It is desigend to protect those of its members, not strong enough to .defend themselves, against attacks of f outlaw nations—and yet this cabal levels its heaviest juns against this provision'.” ' It