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Show CONSTITUTION OR COVENANT? ASKS JOHNSON At the Republican Rtato convention conven-tion recently held at Sacramento, Calif., recently Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California In his flrsl speech In behalf of tho Republican national ticket, Indorsed tho attitude of Scantor Harding on tho League of Nations. Senator Johnson's speech follows: "I congraulate you upon tho outlook out-look for Republican success. So widespread Is tho dissatisfaction with the present administration, so great tho hostility to many of the acts of tho president and so acuto tho Justifiable Jus-tifiable fear ot tho metamorphosis of our foreign policy that apparently nothing can prevent overwhelming Republican success In the November election, "Tho indictment brought against Mr. Wilson's government Is severe, but warranted by thg facts. Tor tho first tlmo in our lives tho Democrat-la Democrat-la administration taught what repression re-pression and suppression wcro. This administration not only curtailed' tho constitutional prlvllego of citizens at home but endeavored to drive us Into In-to perilous paths abroad. "Free speech has beqn threatened, not in the Interest of patriotism but for existing power. A freo press haB been endangered. A rigid censor-ship censor-ship cither diluted the news. and facts to which all wore entitled or else forbid publication whllo government govern-ment propaganda colored 'and often distorted tho information permitted to come to tho peoplo. These assaults as-saults Insensibly bred Intolerance the ancient too of freedom, "Tho necssary restrictions of war tlmo have been Inexcusably prolonged prolong-ed In peace, and our government haB strayed far from those fundamental principles upon which for more than a century and a quarter tho Republic has so securely rested. "Not only have those things transpired trans-pired domestically but whllo our intellects in-tellects were numbed- with the anguish an-guish ot war and free expression wai controlled the present Democratic administration sought to revolutionise revolution-ise the time honored foreign policy ot the nation and to make us a part or every distant quarrel and controversy contro-versy and of every mad militaristic adventure. Under the specious guise of a League of Nations to promote pcoco and prevent war wo were to be Inextricably bound hereafter to every futuro world war. "When first In soft and honeyed phrases tho subject was broached we had becomo so accustomed to ready asont to every word and act of autocratic auto-cratic power that our peoplo enthusiastically enthu-siastically acclaimed tho league without with-out knowledge of Us detail or understanding un-derstanding of Its Injurious possibilities. possibil-ities. The long and arduous debate In tho senate finally Illumined the subject. And what was originally accepted ac-cepted as humanity's greatest boon was finally seen as tho most perilous project which had ever been attempted attempt-ed In tho republic. "Tho Lcaguo of Nations not alono will irrevocably change our foreign policy and Involvo us In tho quarrels and controversies In which wo have no concern and from which wo havo over held aloof but will also seriously serious-ly affect us In our domestic relations. It becomes thoreforo, as both candidates candi-dates assert and ns tho president him self has desired, tho domluant Isauo In this campaign. "Men lfko ourselvos who havo fought tho good fight for the laBt year and a half enthusiastically will como this Issuo and In tho election in November wo will repudiate bo- tH yond redemption tho Wlson league 1H which has been presented to us and III reaffirm tho tlmo honored policies . IH pt Washington, Jefferson, Monrou Mm and the whole -galaxy of American VI Immortals. Ijl "Upon tho lcaguo of nations tho JH Issuo Is clean cut. Thoro aro somo - fill gentlemen who seem by n Bhltty con- Inl structlon ot words to obscure It. I fl do not object to theso gentlemen and ' H their newspaper protagonists saving Urn 'heir faces so long aa they do not H (ontlnued on Last Page) H H 1 CONSTITUTION OR CON- H VENANT? ASKS H JOHNSON H .-(Continued from Face Ono) BBBBBJ ' H save their Iauq. But tho languago H ' of the two candidates s plain au.l' H unambiguous. Tlio one says ho will H go Into the lertguo and I am proud H to say thnt our cnndldato nays that he will stay out of tlio league B "Every normal man desires to Hj promote peace and prevent war. Ev- R try private citizen and every lndlvl- K dual in olllclal position will do their K utmost In the endeavor to promote Hj peace and prevent war. It Is pobsI- ! bin that this may he dono In ono way H! or another In the futnro without In- H? volvlng uh In estrangements or In H .Imperialistic policies or European or' B, Axlatlc schemes or aggression or atd- 'j "That wo will sttlvo to find a way BBHBBBv' BBK In prevent war roi-s without saying t' " y'hut (ho present Issue Is the LcagUb B' V "' Nations. This has boon the Issuo I T K '.nlnce the return of Mr. Wilson from B'l , Europe. During nil tho bitter vln- H' tllctlvu months this has been tho K 'right. It finally culminates now in B solemn referendum to tho people. B "Mr. Coz says It ho Is successful H he will go In. Our candldato says ho H will stay out. Mr. Harding, happily Hi for hlmsoir and for America, lias B" scrapped the league. On August 27 B' he K " ;Wo know now that tho leaguo PBB .constituted at Versailles Is utterly Hj , Impotent ns a provontlvo of wars. It BBMi '' bo obviously Impotent that It has PBK .not even been tiled. It could not j tmrWve a single; test. Tho orlgllal K; I 'league, mistakenly conceived and tin- B' reasonably Insisted upon,' has un- PpVIe -doubtcdly passed beyond tho posslbll- BrF), v (' or restoration. It relied upon tho BV ' "' power of might, not of right.' " J "And in this Mr. Harding la7 otcr- "On Saturday lasty&cnator allrd- i ' ' l " cr: Ing again stated: Tho Issue Is tho Constitution or tho covenant, that Is tho paramount Issuo. Tho two arc Irreconcilable. We cannot bo governed gov-erned from both Geneva add Washington. Wash-ington. Wo cannot follow our present pres-ent chief magistrate without forsaking forsak-ing the Father of. Our Country.' "Here Is an Issue, my friends, whklt arouses not only our greatest enthusiasm but our loftiest patriot-Ism patriot-Ism and whirl! can carry us to tho highest pitch of endeavor.' It Is European Eur-opean and A.Iatle Imperialism and cynical dlplo. acy on tho ono hand and our time honored policy upon tho other. "Wo nelthe hazard nor forget nor Iloso our prof, essjriam and our Independence In-dependence ut -n such an Issuo .but .rather safeguard and protect them In safeguarding and protecting our country. "' I "It Is nonsenso for our opponents to chldo ua with aloofness and sol-j fish Isolation remaining as wo bavo over been. Wo nover have beon and never will bo Isolated from tho rest of tho world. Wo will over play our proud part generously and unselfishly, unselfish-ly, but wo wilt play It In our own way, In our own time with our Independence In-dependence untouched, our sovereignty sover-eignty unimpaired, our freedom of action unfettered. "Wo will play It as sovereign Americans, Am-ericans, not as subject Leaguo of Nation men. Tho Issue Is under which flag. Tho Republican party marches to victory In this campaign under tho banner of Americanism," t |