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CoMMuniTY STAR OF Hore f "0"' o A WO\ - « TRADE ' WHERE ; _ YOU g LIVE g/ % & Mome rrpsk > _ Five Points o ProcrEss NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET : - For President - GOVERNOR JAMES M. COX, OHIO / For Vice President FRANKLIN D. ROOSBVELT OF NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET For United States Senator THOMAS TAGGART, INDIANAPOLIS ; For Governor CARLETON. B. MCCULLOCH, INDIANAPOLIS L For Lieutenant-Governor ' SAMUEL M. FOSTER, FT. WAYNE For Secretary of State CHARLES WAGNER, COLUMBUS For Auditor of State

CHARLES R. HUGHES, PI;RU’ For Attorney-General GEORGE D. SUNKEL, NEWPORT For Treasurer : GEORGE H. DEHORITY, ELWOOD For Reporter of the Supreme and Ap- . pellate Courts ' ~ WOOD UNGER, FRANKFORT For State Superintendent of Public In- = struction MISS ADELAIDE STEELE BAYLOR . WABASH For Judge of the Supreme Court, Fifth District ‘ FRANCIS E. BOWSER, WARSAW For Judge of the Appellate Court, : First District ELBERT M. EWAN, ROCKPORT For Judge of the Appellate Court, Second District JOHN G. REIDELBACH, WINAMAC COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET For Congress ~JOSEPH R. HARRISON Joint Senator : .- -SAMUEL C. CLELAND Judge Circuit Court . DAVID V. WHITELEATHER . Prosecuting Attorney ' GLENN E. THRAPP ; .State Representative . . THOMAS J. MAWHORTER Clerk .of the Court . MARTIN H. SPANGLER i . County Treasureer ~ FRANK C. KELHAM e - County Sheriff GEORGE W. STARR - ° -~ County -Recorder ; JOHN A. MEDONALD . : Coroner ' ‘ . DR. FRECH F. WORMAN . : Surveyor ' : ; BARNEY C. HILE i Commissioner . North District . JACOB BRUMBAUGH : Commissioner South District GEORGE H. BUCKLES IS fl‘llE UNITED STATES A : COWARD? e

No great paper has ever been subjected to more downright mendacity than the covenant of the League of Nations, and no -other provision of that covenant has been the object of so - much deliberate falsehood as Article X. 25 S ;

The language of Article X. is plain and the meaning of it is clear to anybody who is not trying to pervert it: - The members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression, the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.

. The Republicans who are opposed to the League, and in particular the Republican Senators, insist that under the terms of this article the Council of the League can order the United States into war and send our troops wherever it pleases. They are the only people in the world who so construe it. :

Senator Harding continues to talk about “a foreign Council” commanding the United States to go to war and Congress being obiged to submit. That is not demagogic nonsense

but Senator Harding knows that it is dwemagogic nonsense. . Even so illiterate a candidate as he cannot be so ignorant as he appears. - :

Lloyd George, in defining in a speech in the House of Commons a few days ago the reponsiblities of Great Britian, said: ‘ We have entered into a covenant with the nations who signed the peace treaty to have recourse to . other methods thanh the: brutal methods of ‘war for the purpose of settling international disputes, and the whole gov. erning and root _idea of that covenant, as I understand it, does not contemplate, necessarily, military action in support of-an imperilled nation; it contemplates economic action and pressure. It contemplates support of the struggling people, and when it is

said that if you give any support at all to Poland it involves a great war, with' conscription and all the mechanism of war with which we have been so painfully acquainted during the last few years, that is inconsistent with the whole theory of the covenant into which we have entered It contemplatés other methods of bringing pressure to bear upon recalcitrant nations which are guilty of acts of aggression against their neighbors and endanger their independence.

. That is substantially President Wilson’'s interpretation of it. "~ It is interpretation of all the luutgen who framed the covenant, all of them representing constitutional Governments in which the war-making powes is solely in the hands of the legislative department. Article M. gives the Council no authority whatever, It can only “advise,” and that advice must be unanimous in order to be official. The whole machinery of the League is designed to prevent war, and Article X is the Magna Charta of the small nations. It was not inserted for the benefit of Great Britian and the United States, which can protect their own territorial and political integrity from foreign ag gression, but for the security of the little countries. It is the pledge of the civilized world that the rights of the weak are not to be overridden by the strong. ' ~ g "There was little opposition to this article in Republican circles until the Senators discovered that President Wilson was the author of it. Since that time they have centred their attacks upon it regardless of truth or even decenéy. : Twenty-nine other nations have accepted Article X. without question, twenty-nine other nations that are quite anxious to preserve their nationality unimpaired as the United States and quite as scrupulous about Kkeeping their treaty obligations. None of them is afraid that ‘a foreign Council” as-Senator Harding calls it, can order it to make war against its will or send its troops to fight on alien soil. Of the thirty nations immediately concerned with the League only the United States is ac-tlz:g the part of a coward, and the reponsibility for that cowardice rests entirely upon the Republican Senataors, including Warren G, Harding. = = = . A GREAT CRUSADE. The reflex of Gov. Cox's recent speeches in Indiana, shows that he made a deep and favorable impression rot alone ‘on members of his own party, but also on the independent voters. Reports are coming into state headquarters showing that the governor's plea to place the League of Nations above a partisan basis is meeting a generaus response from throughout the state, the movement being accentuated by scores of republicans breaking party ties in order to support the Ohioan in his fight to consummate an honorablg peace. | Indications show that' Gov. Cox spoke with prophetic vision when he ‘said the campaign would “take on the fervor of a religious movement,” for observation made in various points in Indiana, as well as reports from other states, show that the American people regardless of party fealty, are rallying around him for the sake of safe-guarding the covenant. His solemn request for the members of both parties to weigh the question in the balance before voting and then to cast their ballots as their conscience dictates has created a profound impression everywhere. = The nation must keep faith with the boys who served in the war, he said, and showed cepclusively that a return to the old balance of power, such as existed before the war, will ultimately resuit in . another holocaust. His pledge to bring about disamament under the league with a consequent reduction in taxation, and an illustration of the arbitration features of the covenant evoked prolonged cheers from the audiences. i

Opinion sounded out in the wake of the Cox speeches shows that he has raised the covenant issue from the depths of misrepresentation where it was sent by republican propaganda, to the supreme issue of the hour. His incotrovertible facts and his willingness to declare from the platform that the Old Guard statements “are not predicated on truth” has had a telling effect. :

TAFT'S ATTITUDE

In a recent issue of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Willlam Howard Taft shows that he is still for the League of Nations, without reservation. His statement is a follows: : - ;

“When Mr. Wilson brought to this country the league covenant as reported.to the Paris conference, I urged on the same platform with him, that we join the league. I thereafter re-. commended amendments some of which were adopted into the final form. gl

“Had I been in the senate I would have voted for the league and treaty as submitted; and I advocated its ratification accordingly. I did not think and I do not think now that anything in the league covenant as lenti to the senate would violate the constitution of the United States, or would involve us in wars which it would not be to the highest interest of teh world and this country to suppress by universal boycott and if need be, military force. ‘

“I consider the moral effect of Article X on predatory hations would restrain them from war as the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine has done, and that the reguirment of the unanimous consent by representatives

of the great powers in council before league action : would safeguard the United States from any perversion of the high purpose of the league. ,Moreover I believe that the issue of the league transcends in its importance any domestic issues and would justity

and require one who believes so to ignore party ties and secure this great boon for the world and this country.” ‘One can imagine Senator Harding's feeling when he read the above. st e - HERE ARE SOME OF THE PRO- - ~ VISIONS ‘ Here is what the league of nations covenan! provides: _ £ “To promote interpational cooperation and to achieve international peace and security.” in the following four ways: = : - 1. By the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war. ' 2. By the prescrition of open, just and honorable relations between nations. * - 3. By the firm establishment of the undertakings of national law as the actual rule of conduct among governments. .

4. By the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another. Article XHI of the league covenant provides for referring disputes to the court of arbitration and Article XIV specifically provides for the creation of a permanent court of international justice.” ' ,

EXPOSED FROM INSIDE

Evidently some person closely allted with the republican national committee furnished Gov. Cox with the campalgn subscription quota list to prove that fifteen million dollars are being raised to secure the election of Senator Harding. And some republican on the inside furnished the information that Indiana republicans are to put up a big fund with $75,000 coming from- the Twelfth district and over $7,000 from Noble county. There are some members of the republican party who evidently do not take kindly to the scheme of the national committee. to buy the election for their candidate. Chairman Will Hays says the republicans are to raise a campaign fund of $3,000,000.. Treasurer Upham of the committee says the goal is $7,500,00, but admits New York's quota 1s $2,000,000. So Gov. Cox has the evidence to prove his charges that the republicans have placed their stakes at $15,000,000 for a campaign fund. : :

Influence- of Aleoholism.

Governor . James P. Goodrich has been invited by the State Department to appoint official delegates from Indiana for the meeting September 21 to 26 of the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism which will be held in this country this years for the first time since it was organized in 1880. The meeting will. be under the auspices of the State Department and sessions will be held at the Pan-American building. : . The full program for the six days of the Congress was announced yesterday. It includes addresses by many of the most famous sclentists in the world, the congress being concerned almost exclusively with the scientific phase of the subject. . This years™ congress is the first to be convened since that held in Milan Italy, in 1913, the world war having prevented an earlier méeting. Under the original plans the fifteenth congress was to have been held in 1915

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