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AUGUST 12, 1920 “While there is Life there's Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Cuartes Daxa Grorce B. Ricuarosox, Vice-President Le Roy Mitre, Tr Geonce v'Utassy, See 17 West Thirty-first Street, London Offices, Rolls House, Breams Bidgs., ND so, the Re- publican Con- vention having dis sembled its love for the League of Nations, the Re- publican candidate proceeded to kick it down stairs. In that particular Mr. Harding has done an effective job. Mr. Lodge himself could not have improved on it—doubtless did improve on it all he could while it was still in the making, and rejoiced in it per- fected There was the sort of confidence in Senator Lodge's address of salutation to Senator Harding that savored of knowl- edge, accurate and precise. “Here to- day,” he said, “you will chart the course to be followed by the Republican party, and will declare your purposes and those of the party you lead. We await this declaration untroubled by any doubts and with the most entire confidence, (knowing) that you area patriotic Ameri- can, imbued with the spirit of Washing- ii 1 and Roosevelt, (and who) al think with complete unsel- of your country and your coun- try’s interests first, a high qualification for an exalted office not too familiar to us of late, and therefore peculiarly neces- it this moment.” Everyone who read fishness Mr. Harding's speech of acceptance shou!d also have read Mr, Lodge's speech of salutation. Mr. Lodge is, so far, the Republican win- ner. Things have come his way. There is more humor in his speech than in Mr. Hardin, didate : as when he said to the can- It is not for us to enumerate SON, President Epwarp S, Martin. Editor Tuomas L. Masson. Managing Editor F, De Sates Cassy, Art Eduor New York London, E. C. (policies) to you, for it is to you that we look to set forth the proper policies to be pursued by the Republican party, both in the campaign and when charged with the responsibility of administration and legis- lation.” The full report in the E Sun of Mr. mention “laughter” or “cheers” at this point, but it is much as though Mr. Henry Ford, in an address of congratulation to the Ford should say: “It is not for me to prescribe to you, whose merits have won the confidence@of millions, how to do your job, but knowing as I do the kind of works you have in you and who has thought them out and tinkered them, I look, untroubled by any doubts, to you to set forth to the admiration of beholders the proper manner for 4 motor car to travel on the road.” The representative Republican of this campaign is Senator Lodge. It is he who has won his fight. Neither Johnson nor Borah was at Marion to hear Mr. Hard- ing’s speech. The concessions that have been made to them have been made to keep them quiet, but nothing has been done to keep Mr. Lodge quiet. He is the real voice and brains of the Republican party as represented in Marion. He pro- poses to control our relations with Europe, with Mexico and the rest of the world outside of our boundaries, and if Harding becomes President, no doubt he will. ing Lodge’s remarks does not R. HARDING is funny about the League. He does not seem to have one clear idea in all his blessed bean on that subject except that the League of Nations as compounded with the com- plicity of Mr. Wilson was fine to beat, and that we must never get into it. He calls it “a military alliance which menaces peace and threatens all freedom,” some- thing “conceived for world super-govern- ment, and intolerably urged by its Ad- ministration sponsors.” of the Senate, he said, The Republicans halted the barter of independent American eminence and influence, particular having sa for hav and he is not for having that trade reopened. Mr. Lodge ed the country, Mr. Harding is ng it remain rescued. ee ET Mr. Harding has an uneasy sense that to keep us out of the League isn’t quite enough, and that something ought to be done to medica’ out reputation as quitters. “There is a genuine aspiration in every American breast,” he says, “for a tranquil friend- ship with all the world,” and he goes on in that vein for one newspaper column, quite sloppy, to reach the “ big. practical, unselfish way to do our part,” which he says is very simple. And this is how Harding would do it. First, he says, “I promise you formal and effective peace so quickly as a Republican Congress can pass its declaration for a Republican xecutive to sign "—which means another Knox bill. Then: “With a Senate ad- vising as the Constitution contemplates, 1 would hopefully approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes us a will- ing participant in the consecration of na- tions to a new relationship, to commit the moral forces of the world, America in- cluded, to peace and international justice, still leaving America free, independent and self-reliant, but offering friendship to all the world.” It was reported about the middle of last comicbooks.co