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Show HARDING LEAGUE ; VIEWS CONFLICT : 'Mot Repudiated,' Says Taft: Rejected It Outright. Johnson Asserts ! N'KW V'RK. Oct 21- Senator Ml-1 Ml-1 rum Johnson, of California, league of , thins ' Irreconcilable." todai made ' ' State ment at Republican national ,n dyuancr hcie In which he said he 1 would be ' delighted" to sec eeiabllehed , an international forum" Where, In the I Open, there would he a full discussion ' ( International problems which niiKhi form public opinion and thus lend to prevent war. I do nit it present sot- how It Is Ipo.-wlble to no beyond thi." said the ' I senator i n. iswue of this campaipn i the l iue .)i ti.-iMons a specific concrete Dntrnd and not tbe efforts and endeavors en-deavors of civilized people to end wars," he continued. "To ome per- utona party regularity transcends an im- j ,'ort.int principle. ' He added that If he were a candidate candi-date for the presidency he would not tppreclate tfforts lo Interpret his utan'l .ia other than that his back wan turned l on the league Of nations Predicting an overwhelming Republican Repub-lican victory In California, the senator I announced the following rvid iun- crar' for his speaking trip. Tonight, Perth Anibov. X. J , tomorrow, tomor-row, Halt I more, Saturday night, Hartford. Hart-ford. Conn-: Monday, Canton, ., and Tuesday, Detroit. After that he will lea Ye for Chicago. BLOOIfllNfjrrON, Ind . Oct. II, Bgpreaaloni tiiat Bt an tor Hardlni had "scrapped" the league and that he haa 1 repudiated" It are grossH unfair, former President William 11 Taft de-dared de-dared In an address here last night. 1 He haa vigorounly oppooed artb le ten and the lionroe doctrine provision, : but ho haa not repudiated its nllii-t i trr Inlorio and purposes, Mr Tali de j clared. IIRIIN(. NOT OPPOSJCD. In deflhlni Mr H.irdlngs attitude on the league, the iornier president said : III Harding- altitude upon the league haa been thlsi, that in an eam- ( de-oi. i,, help the oth-'i nations he wa.x willing to vote for the league with' the Republican reservations and he did o twice. In his ipaaob of August -8 ajid In his speeches t Indianapolis and (Jr n Castle, Ind.. this week, he made it dear that this country should help in an association of nations to avoid war and that he is willing and anxious to bring about modified or revised league. His Insistence la that the league should center uround a court of Justue and Mr Root's International In-ternational court of Justice furnishes a baela of his proposal." "HARDING fR REJECTION." PBItTH AMBOY, N J , Senator I Harding. Ropubllcn presidential can-did.ue. can-did.ue. steeds for outright rejection, ot the league of nations and there Is nothing aiiildgu.ii or uncertain In his declarati. n of atrltde. .v,.,i lt.,r Hiram Johnson ,,f California, "league! Irreconcilable.'' declared in an addreea lure last night. "For reai,oi): of their own " Sen I ator Johnson mj. certain interested' individuals and newspaper mav mla-repre-ent and mul n fcr p er his s,.,,-I s,.,,-I resent these Imputations upon the! sincerity of the utterance ..f the candidate can-didate and the manifest endeavor In some quarter! to distort his plain langii.ic W ID1 D II U s 1 1 1 i 1 1 "Krom those who believe J do 1 he is entitled to DOl onh the warmest commendation, but the strongest advocacy ad-vocacy and most enthusiastic sup- I port The leaue todaj is the league of nations as presented by President WIN I son. which ox aays he will take thlsi country into, and which Harding says' be will not. i The men and newspapers who pretend pre-tend to be friends of Senator Harding 1 and who ...ss. rt that he Is to take this country Into the league of nations do- him a dlBtlnct disservice and pay him a sorry compliment I speak, of course BOlely from the public utterance- of our candidate and these utterances 1 1 naJC plain beyond call that whet, Senator Harding Is president, he will not tske the United .States Into the league , |