Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1920 — GEORGE WHITE’S STATEMENT [ARTICLE]

GEORGE WHITE’S STATEMENT

Lays Democrat Party’s Defeat to League Confusion. New York, Nov. 3.—George White, chairman of the Democratic national committee, after conceding the election of Senator Harding, issued the following statement: “The abandonment by some of the most prominent Republican leaders of the very league of nations which 'they helped to construct has been successful. The people have succumbed to the confusion wrought by these distinguished men, and to the misrepresentation of those who would not and did not understand the league of nations. I hope it may yet be rescued from the political morass and be saved to mankind. “No one has any occasion for bitterness or of recrimination. What the whole people decide the whole people must accept. The Democratic national Committee abides by the result cheerfully, If with foreboding. Senator Harding Is the people’s president. "In this election Republican propaganda has been shrewdly directed to induce the descendants of six European nations to vote as six European nations instead of as one American nation. They have inveigled these Americans to vote with their thoughts across the sea Instead of on this country. Our common task must be to coalesce these groups again. “The fate of Irish freedom has been settled adversely. Men and women of Irish blood have voted for the cafßtidate who has declared the Irish question to be a domestic problem of Great Britain in which we_ can have no official concern. With their support the American people have returned the Irish problem to Downing street. They have indorsed, I am sad to say, a separate peace with Germany. “For the first time in eight years a Republican party is face to face । with the task of constructive legis- 1 tion and. more than that, the measures of reconstruction for which the country has been asking a Republc-. an congress for two years in vain. ' They must change a negative record into a positive. And in this task they have the best wishes of all who live their country.