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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday. October 26, 1020
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SENATOR HARDING'S RECORD IN THE SENATE
In describing Senator. larding, his fitness for the pres
idency, and his position, the Washington, .D C, Search
light, a non-political publication maintained to report the
official records of senators and congressmen, sums up.
"Harding probably ranks below every other senator
in initialiove, activity, and accomplishment."
"Neither his friends nor his enemies can connect his
name with a single outstanding issue, good or bad."
"lie neither inhroduced nor championed even one big
constructive measure."
"He was absent or dodged 1163 roll calls or quorum
calls."
"All the bills and resolutions he introduced were local
or private in character, except eight."
"None of these eight exceptions were of big impor
tance." "His senate speechs were halting, inconsistent, and
generally illogical, with always a reactionary point of view.
"As a, follower, politically and economically, he stood
with his party bosses, Penrose, Smoot and Lodge."
"In all matters of spoils and organization, he was with
Ihe Old Guard."
"In issues at all important, he voted with the progres
cive group only nine times in six years."
"He favored woman suffrage after much reluctance
and indecision."
"He stood consistently against conservation."
"On every important test between capital and laor, he
voted Uilh the former."
"On revenue measures, he voted against every amend
ment to increase the tax upon profiteering and large in-
romes.
"He opposed the appointment of Louis 1). Brandies, a
great progressive, to the Supreme Court.
"He opposed a tax on campaign contributions."
"lie opposed adequate appropriations for the Federal
J rade C omimssion.
"He opposed the European food relief bill."
"He opposed Philippine independence and was against
K-'f-dctcriuination whenever that issue appeared."
"He opposed a referendum on war as a peace policy."
"lie opposed disarmament for all nations."
Sin.it Harding voted against making'facls concern
ing profiteering public. He voicd against making income
return public. I le voted agaiut making the profits of cor
jn. ration ; public. He didn't wain the people to know how
much the (oiporatioiis made. He voted for secret diplo
macy and rppo-vd the abolition of secret sessions of the
.senate.
Sena1"!' Harding has a n en d 0,1 prohibition a very
v t record. I n t he vi'ite of August 1. 1 S: ,", be said :
"I am not a prohibitionist, Mr. I 'resident, and nev
er hae prcW mUd to be. I do not claim to be a tem
perance man. I do not approach this question from a
moral viewpoint, because I am un ible to see it as a
great moral question."
I n v otes in the senate on prohibit ion issues, he voted
V I imes vv it h the wet s, t he two dry t it cs coming after Ohio
had adopted prohibition and Governor Go had been
fleeted to nfoice it. Although Senator I larding voted for
the 11.! I tonal pi oh i bit ii mi amend men I. he had prev inn sly pro
posed .ill .ii iendiiii lit making the law inoperative unless it
vv as I.' I ; i d I iv the -tales within si v ears.
Il.oduig voted again-! prohibition in the li-tiiet of
lie voted .i.;,mi-t pwhibitioii in the I'hiiipplnes.
witli 1 ' luh 111 :!t 1 1 , 1 ' '! 1. :i le-l- !! the
bill, the e-pi"ti.'t;c act. and the tmul
'.it I e v 'I ed I ' make I he pi ohibi
AT LAST
The tru,th is out at la-t.
Klihu Root, Charles K. Hughes and William Howard
Tait helped make the league covenant. Five out of seven
Amendments suggested by Charles K. Hughes and five out
of six suggested by Klihu Root were put into the covenant
by the Paris conference at President Wilson's request.
Taft and Wilson were in constant communication.
Taft in Am,erica and Wil.-on in Paris, while the final draft
of the covenant was being framed, as shown by niiae cable
grams. Taft proposed four amendments. They were: First,
covering the Monroe doctrine; second, fixing a term for
the duration of the league and the limitation of armaments;
t hird, expressly requiring unanimity of action in the execu
tive council, and fourth, amending article XV to make
clear that the league shall have no jurisdiction over strictly
domestic affairs. 1
In m,aking these recommendations, Taft declared in ,1
cablegram to Wilson that the "ground would be cut fnpm
under the opponents of the league in the senate."
Wilson replied to T ait's cablegram thanking hi'm for
the suggestions and saying he hoped they would prove use
ful. All four amendments were incorporated in the league
covenant. In the ninth cablegram, Taft urged the presi
dent to make an appeal to the people directly in behalf of
the league. Taft even outlined some of the points that
shoulud be emphasized in the Wilson appeals.
Here is light that thas long been needed. Taft and
Wilson were working side by side in preparing the sove
nant. In one of the first cablegrams Wilson thanked Taft
for offering to make suggestions and requested Taft to
hurry them to hilm.
The covenant then is not a Wilson covenant. It is a
Taft-Wilson covenant. It is also a Hughes covenant and a
Root covenant. Instead of resisting suggestions, as has
been claimed, Wilson gratefully accepted them and induced
the Paris conference to incorporate them into the pact.
It will also be remembered that on his return from
Paris with the first draft, Wilson invited every member of
the foreign relations committee to a meeting at the White
House where the covenant was discussed and suggestions
invited. Lodge was there. Harding was there. J5orah 're
fused to attend. Lodge sulked through the meeting and
went back into the senate to carry on his fight.
The cable correspondence between Taft and Wilson
exposes the injustice and duplicity of the whole campaign
against the league. Accepting suggestion after suggestion
from Taft, Root and Hughes, Wilson, in his desire to make
the league acceptable to its opponents, secured adoption of
the changes in the covnant.
It was of no avail. Ten million dead in the war were
of no alvuil. Ten million human beings starved to death
by the war were of no avail. The war taxes that every man,
wiiman and child in America is paying every day to meet
the war bills were of no avail. The fact that the whole pur
pose of the league wa's to prevent the recurrence of another
horrible world war was of no avail.
Nothing was of avail before the grim purpose of the
senate brigadiers to destroy the league and through that
desrucion to discredit Wilson. Nothing was of avail in the
terrible resolve of the senate politicians to make a campaign
issue at whatever cost to civilizaoion and crucified man
kind. It is on the false claim that the covenant is solely a
Wilson covenant that Mr. Harding is making his campaign.
It is on the insistence that the covenant was framed by
Wilson's "single track" mind that he says "the league is al
ready scrapped."
It is in the face of the fact that Taft worked constantly
with Wilson in franiiing the pact that Harding savs "it is
REJECTION OK THE LEAGUE that I am seeking."
Many a molher who kissed goodbye to a son who nev
er came back from the war will rue the day if the league is
rejectod. And many a child yet unborn will rue the day.
Portland lonrnal.
TWO VIEWS OF THE LEAGUE
Senator Handing has surrendered to Senator IJjorah of
Idaho, the man who declared openly that "he would not
vote for the League of Nations even if the Savior of man
kind should come down and tell him to do"it." Senator Bo
rah demanded of Senator Harding as the price of his sup
port that the Republican candidate come out against the
Versailles treaty, including the League of Nations, either
with or without reservations. The answer to this demand
came in a speech at DesMoincs, Iowa, when Senator Hard
ing, according to the Associated Press, declared that "he
wanted no acceptance of the League with reservations to
clarify American obligations, but that the proper course
would be to reject those commitments altogether." Con-
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uiiiLiiiii- uv.imLui 1 icli emit ctiu . i t u i m v .1 1 11 tt i
those obligations, I want to trim my back on them. It is
not interpretation, but rejection that I am seeking."
Governor Cox in a speech' at Nashville, -Tennessee, in
commenting on Senator Harding's utterance said: "Mr.
Harding is against the League, I am! for it." The issue is
now clearly defined and we believe it is well that it is, as
the people have a right to know what they are voting for.
Here we have the declarations of both candidates on
this vital question. Morrow county men and women who
are opposed to war and who want to see the horrors of
1914-17 eliminated from the future program of civilizajtion,
should consider these two statements carefully before cast
ing their vote next Novmber 2nd.
WVEDXKSDAY, OCT.
:" Sylvia ISicuiiier and Herbert I.uwliiison
in
"A House Divided"
J. Stuart Blackton's greatest drama, taken from the famous novel
"The Substance of His House"
Also TOM MIX in "Shooting Vp the Movies"
THOtSDAV, OCT. 28 Mary I'itkford iu
"Heart o' the Hills"
Also Charlie Chaplin in "The Pawn Shop" 20c and 30c
Fit DAY, OCT. 29 LYCIXM
First Number Lyceum Course t
SATIUDAY, OCT. 30
"Dawn"
A Human Heart Drama. All Star cast. Also rathe Review
SUNDAY, OCT. 81 Jessie I Lanky presents Hryant Washburn in
"A Very Good Young Man"
A Paramount Picture
Tl'KSDAY, XOV. 2 The Hi-oadway I-nuuli Ulnt
"Please Get Married"
SturriiiK the luaclnalinK VIOLA DANA: l,' a honeymoon min
tidvetuure; funnier than "Parlor, Hedroom and Bath"
Star Theatre
WANT ADS
LOST Larue cameo brooch at Star
theater or on street. Suitable re
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