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Show HARDING CLEAR ON LEAGUE ISSUE, JOHNSON SAYS Californian Declares Nominee Stands for Outright Rejection Re-jection of Covenant CHICAGO. Oct 16 Senator Hiram W Johnson of California, In hla first public appearance here since his ele-feat ele-feat for the Republican nomination for president, tonight said he was willing to declare a truce on all Issues and all men" to oppose the league of nations as "the greatest Issue In the United States since the civil war " Senator Johnson is concluding a speaking tour through the middle west at the behest of the Republican national na-tional committee The league as the chief issufl of the campaign Is i 1 '.uly defined, be Raid, the i e mooes in being on one sld mid ,the Republicans on the other. H- emphasized bis statement thai thre Is no ambiguitv In the sland of the Republican party or In the stand of Mr. Harding on the league of nations." na-tions." LAXGV vol: IMSTOK I ! I '. "For reasons of, their own certain interested individuals and newspapers may misrepresent and misinterpret his words," the senator said ' 1 resent re-sent these imputations upon the sin-' ccrity of the utterances of the c.andl- 1 dale anei the manifest endeavor in i some quarters to distort hl3 plain Ian- I guage. "1 will not permit to go uncbal-'l lenged from other sources the falsification falsifi-cation of the position of the Republican Republi-can part and Senator Harding's forthright forth-right stand. He has courageously tak-j en his stand. He has put the league behind him. He wants neither Inter- i pretatlons nor reservatiems, but out-' right rejection. 'From those who believe as I do, he is entitled not onl to the warmest! commendation but the strongest ad-; vocacy and most enthusiastic sup-port. sup-port. v illKV MPLIMENT "The men and newspapers who pre-! tend to be friends of Senator Harding and who assert he Is to Take this coun- ' trv Into the league of nations, do him ; a distinct dls-servlcs and pay him a! sorry compliment J speak, of nour.sr, ! solely from the public utterances of our candidate and these Utterances m.iKf it plain that when Senator Harding is president he will not take the United states Into the league. 'In his speech of acceptance he characterizes the leaKLe as a Military alliance which menaces peace and threatens all freedom.' He called it the supreme blunder" and asserted ' that he would have Arnerlea free, in-1 dependent and self-reliant, but offci-inf offci-inf friendship to all the world He' instanced the war between Poland audi l-n-.siii is Indicating what We would' ha'. been kt In for. In the language' O Secretary lansing. but for the ac-' "f the x n.it. , and I his I ulish- Russian war, he said, 'brought honi" I to us the danger of committing our-' selves in advance to causes that we know not of ' His MEANING PLAIN. "I do not appreciate the friendship of individuals who, in the teeth of declarations describing the league ,.s I a 'military allian.e menacing peace and threatening all freedom, the su-premej su-premej blunder, abvfously impotent' resting on the power of might, not of i I ncht will still Insist that the words, are meaningless and that senator I Harding intends something else than' he says. rio make doubly plain hia meaning,! mi his speech of acceptance, he said. I am opposed to the very thought of our repuplii becoming a party to I so great an outrage upon other people who have :4S good a right to seek the ir1 freedom as wo had in 1 776. and the' same right to develop eminence under the Inspiration of nationally ai we had for ourselves ' WOULD II.W I. HIM GUILTS Ami ye men and newspapers who ' "'" " frtehdly and assert that Senator Harding is goinp into the league w,..,id have him guilt) oi thi ' ! outrage he denounces. "Eighteen months ago the league was presented as the greatest Magna ' haria humanity w)ls ever given war-worn people yielded a ready aC- tui s' Ai thai time It was tn a son, disloyalty j nounce II or to "'" " " Amei l inlsm and natfonalii m but thank Ood. after a year and .. han it is respectable to preach Amer- n Mini again. "Gradually the mystical veil which enveloped the document was torn 'side l didn't want the president to gO OVersS but when be determined to go. 1 bade him Godspeed. When he returned, w0 were handed a treatj (Continued on Page Twoj , I Harding Clear on I League Issue, H Johnson Says I (Continued from Page One.) ' which divided up the earth according J io secret treaties. 1 PEOPLES GIVEN AWAY. The league of nations anil the I treaty are the name Instrument and I inextricably commingled. 'Every wrongful, wicked terrltori- al disposition UDder the treaty of peace I the league and its members are pledg- Hj od to maintain. 4 Wo iirr the only non-proi iting na- J uoii under a treaty which ha given J lands and peoples to Great Britain, X Prance, Italy and Japan and we are aked to bear tho burden of maintatn- I ,ng the profit Of others. They maj H have the territory, which they have H gained in this manner, but they shall Vl not commandeer our blood and our 1 fceasurc to nuiintaln It I O. s BREAKS rviTTi 1 "America broke faith for the first J iirno In her history nt Paris, when President Wilson permitted the- rob- Hl i. tv of Shantuuf the turning over HI of tn.dOo.noo Chines., to Japan We are as babes In swaddling clothes In tho hands of European diplomats. We are different trom the pe'oples across the sea. They are imperialists, they want new territory, new peoples; we an- not impt ria list., ip.l dt-slrc no additional ad-ditional lands, no new subjects. ' Referring to the accusation that the Ri publican party seeks to fix upon the United States a policy of isolation by not entering the league, the senator said. "We've never been isolated in this country either financially, socially or politically We have only been Isolated Iso-lated geographically by the two , . which God Knvi ns and whhh P i dent Wilson, or the league of nations cannot dry up. America never failed to r-Hpond to n call of distress and it never win- but let the American pi t- ' pli and not the European Tuitions decide de-cide when." |