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Show i NATION LEAGUE CHAOTIC ISSUE SULLIVAN SAYS Writer Reminded ol Snake Who Could Not Follow Lodge's Positions EVERY STATE ENJOYS A ITS OWN CAMPAIGN , Political Observer Declares 8W I Some Cartoonist Mas ' Overlooked Good Bet B3 M s( i .IV I National Political Correspondi ill ol I f The Ni h rk Evening I - HU I WASHINGTON. No. 1 MB IJQU) JlilS UlieUCU 111 niunii.ii.i."cii - J i ar as the league of nations is co..- P .erned. the point of view of an mno- Hfl cent bystander if there is any such LW left at this stage ot tne campaign mm will take some int.. est m me loliow- bB: ing random notes ol one whose joo it lias been among other things, to try to keep track of the precise position J on this issue of the two pait.es ana U 3 the various statesmen tncrcui. 1 In Georgia, tne Democratic state convention hist week udopteo n plat- lorm declaring "our unalterable op-position op-position to the league of nations brought back by i're&.ue.ii SViison iroin Versailles." mm Of the three candidates who ran for ; the Democratic nomination for sn- H .iter from Georgia last i.iontn. Gov - H Jd ernor Dorscy used to st.a on the lf .-Jtump that Franklin D ivOOSCVClt'fl H j. positioi th league ... liooa m - tils position, and used to read Ml. Roosevelt's statements as pari ol his own speech. Hoke snilui to c- I fer to Governor l'oxs utterances Hk the league, and say that Cox's position lJP war his; and Tim Watson utied t suj that his position was 1,1 ' bbsi ton ol Senator Keed. and tnu; U,fe i'.uUe f nations is .1 crime. a..d tliat WOOdlJOV HE Wilson Is' an iniameus person. But E Tom. who Is 11 gnted liiufowi US n 1 1 HI express it in ivorus more lUcuuuesceiit than these, OP v 1 son ls QUT. Watson won lae pi'.iiihries and will shortly s;t in the .v.-n..w. the Popullsf H candidate for vice prci.Uent In L8e$, umm .i .d now, by virtue 01 f6ry anlugo- WM i.m to the league of iialio..-J. a Dom- ucratic senator in good siai.dir.fe James u. keed, lJei.ocruL senator Irbin Missouri, is oim-os.uk the elee-lion elee-lion of Cox, and has found the pnlj activity In this campaign congenial t" lils views on the league to he going I up to Wisconsin and n aking speeches in hehaK ot an independent niuidaie H for senator who is u kind 01 . ' H man" for Senator La JftUette BB Senator Borah 01 Id lh IS denoui 0- M in th ! - " 1 the east, while at home In his J state the Republican candidate who H '"- seems to be Borah's ossocaite In the B I senate, lakes a portion on tb- I which merely mjldly tnasents irom in- bBT I feature which gives Great Britain six SB I . U'. .Mil' : 1.1 I : - g V publican managers In Idaho are de- H f ' mandlng that Borah give his OK to 1 f this very mild dissenter from the H league. In order to make sure ot the H Borah 'Republican vote in Idano. t'p - lo the lirne this is vrltten, i haven't H . heard that Borah has done it- i OLOB KDO Bll l ITIOKi H In Colorado TuUy .Scott, nominee' H of the Democratic party ai.d the Non-. H partisan league, indorsi-s the Demp- H cratlc national platform decla ration ' H and upholds Wilson and Cox on thei H league of nations At the same time H and In the same stale Charles S. Thomas, a good old tried-and-lru..-' Democrat, -..ho now represents Colo-i i ,acj0 m the senate as a Democrat, is running for re-election us an iQdepeni dent OH a platfuiin 01 UiorouKl'-oU'Ui. 1 bitter-ending opposition to the shoie M league o nations and all Its parts. in Oregon Senator Chamberlain, B jX who has represented hia slate In thej B fj senate as n Democrat for twcl-- vears. ff is running for re-eleotlon on a record Hr B ofhavingNoi.il tor the league, as Hitchcock reservations, and for the HJ Dxidge reser atloiis, while tbe Wilson f.ir faction of the Democratic party in regon Is opposing him and Lryiug u HB 1 elect In his place a Democratii sc-na- J ! SJu tor of their own who stands by thej mm i 1 Wilson positiou. PHKLtAJi STATEMENT, in California! Senator James i- HL phelan is running for re-election "n HI the Democratic ticket The other day I Senator Phelan's manager gave out! Bl the following statement Which tells Bl " lis own story; HI 1 "A report to injure Phelan has been 1 exposed In the distribution of cards, I bearing President Wilson's photograph! mm and this inscription. Endorse thi Willi Wil-li son administration and league of na IB tions. rote for James D. Phelan for IR I'nited States senator No such cards H have been Issued by Phelan's support-' GOOD CARTOON ll Jt is Surprising that some cartoonist 111 bus not yet seen the possibilities In a rj cartoon of Senator Hjrding. as in--J J 1 neVolent and perturbed mother trying ; j -I to tuck Into the same bed a faimh ol I I1 j1'! ' hlldren who are rather too numerous J j for the bed. and too belligerently tur- j i butenl to maintain peaceful relational !1 in any pkic- a hatt.- m- w l.-i 1 h-. .in HgS. a am arm - lengi li each Othei Kjl. Harding irx to stretch the league of nation bnHikel Far enough 1 rt I 'll j.. - ithei more Republican Leaders thaivl H L n was c-i, ifii-iii i mean) 1 HB the naughty greedy and belligerently (Continued on Page Vwo 1 J Nation League Chaotic Issue, Sullivan Says ( Continued From Page Onr.i vocil Johnson at one ed?e, gr.ihr.uij; enough or the blankei to make bim completely comfortable and thereby leaving th;i(chuobv child, the lss ag-gti ag-gti ',-. , raft. :n the other edjfe, frith his roi und person fully exposed to (he cold STORY OF SMOKJ One v ho ha been charged with t lie bllSlrieSfl o tryinB to keep track of the complicated aitlttie of all ahadea of tatesmen on the league of n.itionR ftnde himself -it the end of th campaign, cam-paign, and with tb'e end of this Iraioie of nations chaos not oven in night, dwelling, ilmost unduly, almost on ihe morbid ;ili.rr her.iton thut BOmetimei with extreme fatigue, on the story of a snake that bus lately been the sub-led sub-led of a Rood deal of talk among Democratic lenders. Thh' snake, by all accounts, had ex- i a ordinary qualities, one guesses from the accounts one hears, thai he must have had exceptional charm of personality. per-sonality. All that Is Known of him tends lo picture him as endowed with jihieilectuaT and spiritual qualities fa , above the average of his kind. He had ambition, and the lust to excel In 'another incarnation he would have been an cxplorci uf continents, or one lot' these gallant, dashing youths who climb mountains never climbed bo-fore, bo-fore, or. os aviators try for new altl- itude records He was youthful and lllhe ind posse ed of exceptional aup- jpleneM Iii tbrtuatlon. in the con- leclousneus of prominence of his capacity ca-pacity in thin kind of activity and In tht Bplrtt of youth and high endeavor that marked Mm :ilwa. this ambitious ambi-tious reptile atternpled the feat oi following fol-lowing the tracks made by Senator 'Lodpe of Massachusetts In his successive succes-sive poslildns on the league of nations, !ln the, BOUrse of this adventure, und in the sight of all who haa gathered I to behold It. he perish, d, so the Democratic Demo-cratic leaders report, of a dislocation Of the apme. ,Cop right, IsL'ii l. fhi New York Evening Poat Syndicate. |