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Show I BOTH PARTIES UNITED Announcement by thirty-one prominent Rpublioan advocates of some form of international agreement, that they favor Senator fiarding'a election aa presidenl and their statement of reasons for this attitude showe 1 hat the Republican part ifl united Similarly the fact thai Governor Cox, the Democratic candidate, has taken the lame attitude a.- Presidenl Wilson regarding international questions affecting America shows that the Democratic leaders are pulling together in double harness. Among those making the .statement supporting Senator Harding are Blihu Root. Herbert Hoover, George W. Wiekersham, Henry L. Stimson. A Lawrence Lowell, William H Taft and Charles E Hughes The Republican signers have reviewed the history of the league of nations question. They declare that ' the question between the candidates is ool whether we shall join in such au association It is whether we shall join under an agreement containing the exact provision negotiated by President Wilson at Paris, or under an agreement agree-ment which omits or modifies some of those provisions which are very objectionable to great numbers of the American people They declare that the responsibility for defeat of the league covenant cove-nant rests on Presidenl Wilson, because he would not accept modifications modifi-cations approved by the United States senotc. On the other hand, they cite the Republican platform to show that the partv favors an international agreement to preserve peace. The declare that they have reached the conclusion that the true course to bring America into an effective league to preserve peace is not by insisting with Mr Cos upon the acceptance of such a provision as article ten thus 'prolonging the unfortunate situation created bj Mr Wilson's insistence insist-ence upon that article; but bj frankly calling upon the other nations to agree to changes in the proposed agreement which will obviate this vital objecti' n aud other oh,ic tions less the .subp-ct of dispute The issue between the two presidential candidates is made clear as regards the league of nations question The fact that all Republican Repub-lican leaders are joined on one Bide of the question, all Democrat leaders on the oth i should make it easy for the voters to reach their decision on November 2 |