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U.S. PRESIDENCY.

THE LEAGUE ISSUE,

(B7 Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ; WASHINGTON, November 4. The irreconcilable Republican senators ' j assert that tho Presidential e'ection ends the fight to have the United States join i' tha League of Nations. This view is »' not shared by other Republicans, who • j sav the League was not the real issuo ■ of the election, and that America's en- ' trance into some form of association was always assured. ' The question now agitating senatorial circles is whether President Wilson will . return the Treaty to the next session of . 1 the Senate, beginning in December, with : an intimation that the Lodge reserva- ! tions will be acceptable. Some friends ' i of President Wilson say that he is un- • 'daunted, and will press for'ratification I of the Treatv before he leaves office. It > is pointed out that the Senate will be I well able to say that the people havo - repudiated President Wilson and his 1 handiwork, and refuse to consider the v Treaty further. ji Republicans who have seriously nna- » lvsed the election results say that Sena--3 tor Harding and the Republican Party j i will enter into control in March com- 1 t mitted to great tasks and facing serious 5 responsibilities. Senator Harding was 1 elected President by the whole people. 5 Above all, the election shows that the 2 people are 110 longer so loyally attached ' to partv as in times past. This symp1 1 torn of" the election is giving the Re- - 31 publicans real food for thought. Thev l ' see in it a real national display or political independence, and cannot fail J to recognise that, unless the Republican f Party, in the next four years, justifies 1 j the verdict of the voters there will ba "! a. decided swing of tho pendulum to either the Democratic or some other partv. . ' j Political experts have _ begun to ! analyse the vote to the exact position of the women. It is self-evi-i dent that the women, like tho men, voted for the Republicans, but the cause jof this is considered complex.- Mr Cox s ' plea on behalf of the League of Nations j was expected to attract the women, nut failed to do so. It is considered that i the women may be expected, during j most elections, to voto like the men, I giving, during the _ so-called "land- | slides," ereat pluralities to the suecess--1 fill candidates. It is felt that on few issues can it bo expected that the women I will vote contrary to tho men. Tho belief that women can de depended upon to cast an indenendent vote*is regarded as only an illusion. None of tho minor parties figured in the Presidential results. Marion Lang, tho first woman Socialist elected to the New York Assembly, j was successful. Senator Johnson declared that the ! election meant an end of the League of j Nations. No amount of sophistry could obscure the issue that the menacing, en--1 tangling League had been emphatically repudiated. The American spirit had ! responded to the endeavour' to denationalise it. Mr W. J. Bryan declares that President Wilson laid the foundation of this disaster, and Mr Cox had completed tho structure. Tho President attempted to drive from public life every Democrat who dared to differ from him, even in the minutest cftetail. Mr Henshaw, chairman of the Prohibition National Committee, telegraphed to Mr Cox that he believed the League of Nations, as advocated by the Democrats, would have been victorious if it had not been so inseparably hitched to the booze waggon by the Administration at Washington and the convention at San Francisco. Mr TV. J. Bryan made a statement at Chicago suggesting that, in view of the result of the election, President TVilson should resign immediately, allowing the vice-President, Mr T. 'R. Marshall, to assume office. Then Mr Marshall should appoint Senator Harding Secretary of 1 State, and then himself resign. Tho ;! law» regulating tho presidential succes- ■ sion would then place Senator Harding 1 m the President's chair, and enable him 1 to carry out his programme immediate--1 ly, instead of waiting till March. (Received November 6th, 12.40 a.m.) 1 WASHINGTON, November 4. . : The view is expressed in diplomatic ' circles that the defeat of the League of Nations will have a profound effect >011 foreign chancelleries, and that one result will probably be the removal of any doubt concerning the renewal of the An <rlo-Japanese alliance. TTie referendum to legalise the sale of light wines and beer was carried throughout the States by a small majority.

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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16985, 6 November 1920, Page 9

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U.S. PRESIDENCY. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16985, 6 November 1920, Page 9

U.S. PRESIDENCY. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16985, 6 November 1920, Page 9

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