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Show THE CITIZEN BAMBERGER PREPARES FOR BUSINESS future, Governor Bam-ergPreparing thriftly for his is organizing a private company to build the big ordnance Davis-Webilant of the government on the county line, and a ray has been found to shut out competitors. The ramifications of he deal are said to reach as far as Washington, where Governor amberger is in great favor with certain officials of the adminis-rationon-offici- al or er n. Certain engineers from the road engineers office have been eleased from duty to prepare the estimates, and among them Mr. 'ishcr, an able engineer, who is working at the Bamberger building the interurban station. He was granted a leave of absence for Sirec weeks to prepare the elaborate estimates. The contract has been so drawn that the $2,000,000 project must He completed by April. 1, 1921, and there is a $200 a day penalty for each days delay after that date. Bids must be submitted by September 4. It is apparent that the governors company has a very comfortable lead and that it will be impracticable for any other company to comply with the terms of the contract. In the case of the Bamberger company, it is reported, an effort will be made to have the $200 a day penalty waived. No other company can possibly build the ordnance plant by April 1, because very little work can be done before winter closes in. J THE NEW LEAGUE :i The Polish war has been a luminous revealment of the Leslie ocf Nations and of the e artful diplomacy. When the Poles slid the Bolsheviki were at one anothers throats last spring and when it was asked why the league did not intervene for peace the old-tim- answer Premier Lloyd George could think of was that the struggle was not a new war but a continuation of the war with Ger many. At no time did the premiers of Great Britain and France permit the council to operate for peace. J Let us suppose that the premiers had allowed the supreme council to act. The council would have been compelled at the very outset to consider Article X and guide itself accordingly. That article guarantees the territories of member nations. It is a contract which tie members must abide by even if called upon to enforce it by f the British workmen to take a stand and they probably would have gone on a strike to prevent the war. Thus the Poles were abandoned by all the allies except France and were almost overwhelmed by their foes. True, our own government aided with money and bacon and at one time with the economic boycott against soviet Russia, but had the United States been a member of the league it is morally certain that we would have been involved in war. There can be little doubt as to what the result would have been. We would have sent enough men, perhaps millions, to crush the Bolsheviki. And we would have done all this in conformity with a contract which is an alliance for war. After the flush of victory had cooled we would have taken stock of ourselves and the League of Nations. We would have asked ourselves whether we were to be involved in every European war by our contract and a great movement would have started for withdrawal from the league. The United States senate, or as Candidate Cox prefers to call it, the senate oligarchy, saved us from all this. By disclosing the real purpose of the covenant it prevented the United States from joining the league and thus prevented the nation from being hurled into the Polish war. The result has been fortunate. The issue has been submitted to the American people and they are to decide whether we shall have a military alliance which makes us subordinate to the orders of a foreign council or an association of nations such as is suggested by the Republican platform. The association of nations will be based on treaties of arbitration and conciliation and on a court of justice which will constantly expand the scope and practical application of international law. Whether the association of nations could have prevented the Polish war is doubtful. At least it would have tried. The League of Nations did not try because the very terms of the covenant committed it to war and the member nations were not prepared to fulfill their obligations. Therefore the league remained utterly inoperative. best means of war. Perhaps some might be heard to argue that if the league threatened war, especially if the United States were a member of the league, the Bolsheviki would have preserved peace. The conclusive answer is that a year ago the United States andjts allies were embattled against the Bolsheviki and had military forces in European and Asiatic Russia. The soviet government conducted war vigorously without the slightest indication of backing down. It defied the world inarms, as did Germany, and was not persuaded by the idealism or coerced by the menaces of the allied powers. hi the spring of this year the Bolsheviki attacked the Poles. This constituted the outside aggression contemplated in Article X and the only successful way to meet it was by war. But those were dangerous days. In the United States senate the sinister secret of tljc covenant had been uncovered and was being exploited before ajshockcd nation. Moreover, the workmen of Great Britain sympathized with the Bolsheviki and wagged their heads threateningly acthe premier. For months Lloyd George, the skilful manipulator j Actions, had been walking on eggs and he saw the danger of coming down with a crash and creating an awful mess. The Poles drove back the Bolsheviki and then I Lloyd George solemn bass tones warned Poland that it must not conduct a war lV& session. From that time forward lie maintained an unfriendly r.Jljitude toward Poland. He was afraid to let the league act because that it would be imperatively constrained to declare for ijj wou have verified the objections then being made in 'w United States senate to the covenant and would have forced J I I OHIO IS REPUBLICAN Democrats have been asserting with buoyant confidence that Ohio will go Democratic and some Republicans have been misled into believing that Cox has been more popular in Ohio than Harding. The reverse is the truth. Even when the Republican vote was impaired by the presence of a Progressive ticket in the field Harding was victorious. On the other hand it was Wilson and the seductive shibboleth he kept us out of war that gave Cox a narrow margin of 5,199 on the safe side in 1916, the president polling 40,000 more votes than the gubernatorial candidate. Since the election which placed Abraham Lincoln in the White House there have been fifteen national elections and Ohio has gone Republican in thirteen of these. In 1912, when the Democrats led, .the combined Republican and Progressive vote exceeded that of the Democrats, demonstrating that the defeat of the Republicans was due, not to a preference of the Ohio electorate for Wilson or Democratic policies, but to division in Republican ranks. In 1916 the propaganda deceived the voters of Ohio. It was in that year that Governor Coxs have committed no newspaper declared that the German alliance. crime against us and suggested a Gcrman-America- n It is of interest to read the record of Ohio elections in recent years as set forth by the Republican Publicity Association. In 1912, when Cox was first elected governor, there was a Progressive candidate in the field, Cox received 50,000 fewer votes than the Republican and Progressive candidates combined. In 1914, for-thgovernorship, although there was still a Progressive candidate Willis defeated Cox by 31,000. If lie had received the Progressive vote also, his majority would have been more than 90,000. In 1916 Cox was carried through by the Wilson deception and in 1918 he won through a local issue which turned to the Democratic column a county normally Republican. Ilis majority in 1918 was only 12,000. Contrasted with this record, the Harding vote makes an exceedingly good showing. Harding was selected senator in 1914, with . kept-us-out-of-w- ar U-bo- ats e |
