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Show I HARDING TAKES DECISIVE STAND ON LEAGUE ISSUE GOMES OUT FOR f REJECTION OF P PICT ENTIRELY HN G. 0. P. Nominee Accepts il , Direct Issue of Ratifying LI or Rejecting PROMISES TO WORK FOR WORLD ASSOCIATION Harding Wants to Turn His Back on All Proposed Reservations DES MOINES, la., 7 Amrei-j 11. any. Senator Warren G- Harding ae- Ilto !.hii I'l'SpOIISe question from hie audience. WM Referring to list of Questions on the league of nations submitted l v the lowa Democratic state committee. Senator Harding said he .11.1 nut want to be In the altitude of nominee m swerlng questions when.the party plat-. plat-. I f, m h id stair, i i he pai t? 'a principles EB - But I want to say to my Democratic friends," he wild, "that before they q testlon me, let them consecrate them-selves them-selves to the welfare oi the I nlte5 H, SI Ites and not that of the old World " B4 Taking up one the Questions about separate p. ace with Germany,, I senator Harding reiterated that he KB had no idea such u step would he "-'- E .-sary To another o,neTron a -TfrTTV whether he believed the league could, call US into war without congressional , BJ ton he n plied BURST OF I HE EKING LMr "Certainly not. But If we entered the IIH league and assumed the obligations of l iho covenant of Paris, anj the council H? of the league would decide we should1 contribute our sons to carry on war, under ine covenant, then congress, B w ould be obliged to send them or we j iST v.ould be guilty of the grossest dishon-; HH The crowd greeted the reply with a burst of cheering and then some one I in the audience asked: "How about the boys who are Still in Germany'"' The cheering was renewed when the B nominee replied: Isbbbbb! "They haven't any business there." 1I ABOUT IRELAND Hl "And Just as soon as we declare a H' formal peace they can ho brought home." he adder "How about Ireland?" yelled some- roH "1 am happy to say." ho replied.: BH. "that I think Great Britain Is ap- J proaehing the solution of the Irish H . question, I would no mure rcii Great flV ) ;rita in what to do vlth Irel nd than HH 1 would permit Great Britain to tell! HI what to do with the Philippines. HB And I would not have the United BBS stales government in any capacity do-1 MftkJ minuted by Ureal Britain" i VKES DIRECT Si I I HI DES MOINES, la., Oct 7. A direct i of ratifying or rejecting the league of nations was accepted by B Senator Harding in a speech here to-, day brushing aside the problem of B clarifying reservations and declaring' he would favor "slaying out" of the covenant written at Versailles-B Versailles-B The candidate said ho wanted no; B acceptance of iiv- League with ueserva- B ttons t clarify American obligations, .ut that the proper course would be to reject those commitments altogether.' B "I do not want to clarify those ob- B ligations. ' he said. 1 wunt to turn fB back to them, it is nol Interpreta- H i Ion but rejection 1 am seeking.' ( ll M.U M.i 1CX EPTI l) Hl Governor Cox's definition of the ls- H' uo was accepted in direct terms by the, I ; pu bllcuti v. ho said Demo cratlc stubbornness had prevented tre senate from perfecting the covenant and bad made the question placed he -fore the voter a simple one. lie called on all thotc favoring a super-govern-' 1 ment to vote" the Democratic ticket Dip md pray God to protect you against ih. enatoi ilso stated his program H" of a world association based n prin- BflH clples in harmony with the constltu- lion, and renewed his pledge to initial B such a concert after tils election 1 "Our opponents.' he said, "are per- slstenlly curious to know whether or perhaps I might better m. when 1 am elected 1 intend to scrap' the. league. It mlKht be sufficient in re-, I pij to suggest the futllitj ol scrap- H ping' something which Is already scrapped." W hether President Wil- P son Is to be blamed or thanked forj the result, the fact remains that the, Paris league has been 'scrapped' by I the hand of its chief architect. The! P stubborn Insistence that it must be! H ratified without dotting an '1 or cross-' J ing at T the refusal to advise that; Hl is to counsel with the senate, in ac- H cordance with the mandate of the constitution is wholly responsible for B that condition. "The Issue, w hich our opponents are endeavoring to befog, is singularly - imple and direct. That issue, as made I by the Democratic president and the Democratic platform and the Demo- cratlc candidal". doCS nol pieselil H i ne a m- i i-,j ii p- oplo the question H " -"' whether they shall avoi some form B of association amonw the nations for Hl ihe purpose rf preserving International ' Hbbb1 pi ace but whether they favor the particular par-ticular league proposed by President Wilson. ' The Democratic platform and candidate can-didate have not declared for 'an' association, as-sociation, but for 'that' association, and It is that association and not some other which wo are promised will be ratified within sixty days if the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate is elected. "The platform. to be sure, approaches ap-proaches its endorsement with winding words and sly qualifications calculated calculat-ed to betray the innocent and entrap the unwary; hut It does, nevertheless, endorse th league as it stands. It ... s not advocate or favor any reservations or amendments or changes or qualifications. qualifi-cations. It goes no further Mian to sug-Rcst sug-Rcst thai reservation will not be op-poSed op-poSed which make clearer or more specific the obligations of the United States to the league- "But there Is no need of reservations reserva-tions of this character. The obligations obliga-tions are clear enough and specific enough, l oppose the proposed league not because I fall tu understand what a former member of the Democratic administration has said 'we arcs being let In for," but because 1 believe I un-dersiaml un-dersiaml precisely what v r iU-e beinK let in for. I do not want to clarify these obligations 1 want to turn mj bad. on them, it is not Interpretation but rejection, tint I am .seeking." |