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Show HARDING DIFFERS WITH EjJHU ROOT Cablegram to Nominee in Midst of Campaign Upset Friendship W ASHINGTON'. N'ov. 9. The mob I ness between T'rcsldent-elcct Harding nnd Ellhu Root, which has silenced ill 'Ik nf that eminent Republican I being considered for secretary of state, resulted from a cablegram, stating that "a new deal abandoning the treaty I of Versailles Is Impossible, and that tr attempt It would bring chaos and gen-I gen-I eral disaster Involving the United States, ' sent bv the former senator to 1 the presidential candidate durlntr tho heal of the campaign, it was learned today. Mr. Root Is understood to have Informed In-formed his friends thnt he would be ery happy to necept the portfolio, hut it is reliably stated that It will not b- tendered him. Tho cablegram Is understood to have hi en the result of an Inquiry from Will H iys, who desired to know of the coutr Li The Hague could not be amended so to perform all the necesxary func-Lions func-Lions of the league as drafted at Versailles. Ver-sailles. In his reply Mr. Root said: MR, ROOT'S RJEPJjT. "Declaration on which Hays .iks ,.n Opinion cannot be defined. The HagUe court cannot be made to cover anything but justiciable uucstinns. Matters Mat-ters of state policy must be dealt with hy conference of powers See explana- j tlon In my letter to Raya March. 1910 I If la very unwise to declare the league .lead It would not be true. The league has hardly becun to function, because the terms of peace have not yal been enforced by the victorious nations. Polish questions, for example, are properly being handled by the foreign for-eign offices without any reference to the league They are not the league's business. "In my opinion. a new deal here from beginning b abandoning the Versailles Ver-sailles treaty Is impossible. To attempt at-tempt It wduld bring chaos and an entire en-tire loss of results of the war nnd general disaster Involving the United States Tho only possible course is to k ep the treaty, modifying it to meet the requirements of the senate reservations reser-vations and the Chicago platform, and probably in some other respects. I I R ERSE REFtJSAXi. "Tho precise way In which some modifications can best ho made must be determined at the time In conference confer-ence with the other parties. It Is impossible im-possible to forecast the methods, bc-canso bc-canso conditions next March arc necessarily neces-sarily uncertain. Now the central idea is that the deadlock resulted from President Wilson's perverse refusal to negotiate for the consent of other powers pow-ers to Americanization of the treaty but that our new administration will secure that consent. "A separate declaration of pence was Justified only by President Wilson's refusal re-fusal to act. After March 4 that Will no longer be Justifiable, unless other powers refuse to consent to rrodifi-cation, rrodifi-cation, which I do not anticipate Don't allow Cox to drlvo you off Die ground of Harding's senate voat and o ground of Harding's senate vote and our platform. Keep to the simple Issue. Is-sue. 'Americanization." Close friends of Senator Harding say that when this message was received at Marlon the senator exhibited unmistakable unmis-takable signs of displeasure. Moreover, It gave Senator Harding a new understanding of Root's VlSWS with respect to America and foreign a f f It which made It ImpOSMbl ! lor him to be considered as a possibility ror the secret Try of state. |