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Show 1 HOOVER FIRM IN LEAGUE SUPPORT Democrats Defeated Treaty by Selfish Actions, He Asserts INDIAN IPOLIS Ind . Ocl t. Her btrf Hoover, entering tin- prrsnlennal campaign In behalt f lb Harding Coolidfi Uckat, with an address to-befnre to-befnre the Columbia club, of In'ilanapollf. declared that the major lMU4 v..is parti) responflblllty snd exprassod at length bis i n I on the le&gui ot na HAS GIVEN PLEDGES Inasmuch as forty nationa. com prising i broe qurt r ol tht people of th. globe, have embraced the lea at oi aatlop - n a term i prt .- log ertahi Ideas, i in :'" that tenn l,ui I care Imle tur i-rmlnology." said Mr Hoover. "The essential thirjK is, tha Utte Republican party has pledged II oil b platform, by the ac-, tiooa of its majority in the senate, bj the repeated statements of Sen- :,iii Hardin:; that lhe underlake the fundamental mission lo put into lising being tile principle 'f an or-ganixi or-ganixi 'i o sot li 1 Ion ol nal oi iresi-r at ion ol j.eace The iarriiiu .ut of tha promise la 'if- tei I ol , m'm. a Inti Ri I"- latatesman blp of the liepublican party. "The Republican party has indeed pledged IteeH against the unmodified covenanl and those who suppon the' party arc indeed voting r.calnst some : ol the nrei iimis ol the covenant in putting 'in gn ai pi ln Iple Into at Jtion. But this proposition of the part) 1 1 se far as daylight from dark , . om thi Itude ol those w ho v I h 'no league or no association for purpo ISSUE WON'T DOWN "Th. issue ol this principle of proper organised action of nations to pi event war. will not down It belongs to no party and no creed t will be the critical issvre of for-sard-lookltag men in all nations un- I til it succeeds m finally overthrow- I i ing militarism as a basis uf world relai ions." The major issue 'today and for the i fuiure of our country," Mr. Hoover! aid, "is party responsibility." j "As ou"P is a government thai must bo based on parties.'' he said,! I I'll is fundamental that when a party ' ; fails in sfatesnu.nr-hlp, or fails to carry out Its promises ll must accept ac-cept the penalties Of that failure; it j should be retired that its leadership in.i ue i i iui iiii u. ADMINISTRATION FAILED' "1 believe that since the armistice the present administration has made t h failure by all the tests that we can apply No man would be so nar-j I row as to condemn the patriotism i of one-half of his countrymen. j "But if we are to maintain and sustain part;. po i-rnai. nt. if we ;ii . ; to hold true our only means of ex- I pression of the will of the majority, any party lhat fails as a party should ami must ) retired horn oiiice.' Mr. Hoover reviewed tln suppon I given by the Republican parly to winning the war. "But with victory accomplished the I leaders of the Democratic patty, dis regarding this co-operation, decided i to isnnie one-half ol the people of the United states and lo make peace alone. Here. I believe, lies the be sinning of its failure in statesman-:' i ship. "To have obstinately held up the peace of the world fur eighteen I months; to have rejected the oppor- ! Itunity cf ami able adjustment of dif ferencea aa to methods; to have pro ' ,jected the issue into the presidential ! I election, ia ihe greatest failure of American statesmanship since the .civil war. R( il regard for the welfare of our people and the world would have accepted ac-cepted the treaty with reservations, 1 and then, if they thought it so vital a matter, have gone to the country; on the political issue of correcting the reservations. The solemn referendum refer-endum is not on the league II Is on ! the failure of the Democratic party." I |