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By Paul Lee Ellerbe 259 263 W REVIEWED By VERITAS ELL on in a four-column review of "The Great Deception," by Samuel Colcord, in a great newspaper, the reviewer said: "It may be conceded that the author has thus far proved his contention, that judged by all recognized standards of party opinion and party action, the Republican Party, at the beginning of the campaign, at least, stood committed in case of victory at the polls to some form of league or association with other nations of the world." He then devoted a column to present, without support of facts, his own personal view that all these Republican obligations faded away between June and November, and asked as to the mandate of the election, "Was it a mandate to do what the Republican Party wanted in June, or what the Republican Party wanted on the morning of Nov. 2?" This was followed with this entirely untrue statement, "Mr. Colcord thinks that the June verdict should prevail in determining the policy of President Harding." It The (probably unintentional) unfairness of that statement will be plainly evident to any reader of the book, who will at once see that if the reviewer had really read it he would have found the dates in cold type to tell him that it was not in June but on October 14th when the three pre-eminent Republican leaders, Root, Hughes, and Taft, joined by twenty-eight other eminent Republicans, issued their assurance to the Republican voters that Republican success in the election meant entry into the League with reservations, or some other continuing society of nations, and that they continued that attitude to the end. It was not in June, but October 20th, when at Bloomington, Indiana, Mr. Taft made his strongest pronouncement to the same effect. It was all through the campaign that Mr. Hoover, Governor Lowden, and General Wood, the three most popular candidates for the Republican nomination, with scores of other important Republican leaders, made plain the same position. was later than June when even Senator Lodge in his letter to George R. Bishop said he had not changed his position of readiness to ratify the League Covenant with reservations, and added that the platform had not repudiated that position. It was up to the last day of the campaign that more than 150 important Republican newspapers urged the election of Harding on the same grounds. It was not in June, but on the 28th of August, and later in every important speech of the campaign up to the day of election, that Senator Harding pledged an association of nations or the League "amended or revised if it is so entwined and interwoven in the peace of Europe that its good must be preserved." The party platform adopted in June was the platform for all the campaign and presumably for all the following Republican Administration in its pledge of "an international association based upon international justice * * * so that the nations may exercise their influence and power for the prevention of war." The party record, the only record it ever had on this question-this and only this-support of the League of Nations with the Lodge-McCumber compromise reservations, continued to be the record until the votes were cast, unless it was partly merged into the party platform quoted above, which is all the advocates of international union for peace now ask for. And there is very much more. Urged by all these assurances, the Republicans cast their votes for Harding. Was it in repudiation of all these pledges or in reliance upon them? 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This shows what Senator Kenyon's colleagues thought of him. Despite their regret that he should leave the Senate, once his decision was made they wanted him to have this mark of their regard. Several months ago Senator Kenyon declined an offer to a place on the Federal district bench because the legislative situation at that time seemed to demand his remaining in Congress. But, as he says, "The situation is different now. The West Virginia investigation is out of the way; likewise the Newberry case, and a large portion of the agricultural programme has been put through." Now that another offer comes to serve on the Federal Bench, Mr. Kenyon accepts, for his ambition has always been to serve there. His life has been mainly that of a lawyer and judge. Born in Ohio, he was educated in Iowa, and shortly after his admission to the bar was elected County Public Prosecutor, later becoming Judge in the Eleventh Iowa Judicial District. He was then appointed attorney for the Illinois Central Railway System, and afterwards general counsel for it. When the late Senator Dolliver asked Secretary of War Dickinson about Mr. Kenyon's qualifications for Assistant Attorney-General of the United States (Mr. Dickinson having been former general counsel of the Illinois Central during Mr. Kenyon's early service with it), the opinion resulted in Mr. Kenyon's appointment. Mr. Dolliver and Mr. Kenyon were close friends and lived in the same city, Fort Dodge. Mr. Kenyon succeeded Mr. Dolliver in the Senate. He has succeeded not only titularly, but also in perpetuating that kind of progressivism for which Mr. Dolliver was famous. Neither man was an extremist; each man had intelligence and courage and high ideals. FEBRUARY 15, 1922 THE PILGRIM FATHERS A PROTEST BY THE PRESIDENT OF YALE The new President of Yale, Dr. James R. Angell, thinks that the Pilgrim Fathers are "extolled in terms which would have brought the blush of shame to their tanned and sallow cheeks," and that the praise is not only excessive, but is often "ludicrously misconceived and misdirected." He tells why in an article in The Outlook next week. These qualities have been particularly shown during recent days when, under Mr. Kenyon's leadership, the agricultural bloc has been saved from unnecessary extravagance of legislative demand, and when it has put through and is putting through a body of legislation which proves the power of the bloc. Since Senator Kenyon's appointment to the bench a question has developed as to his eligibility. The Constitution declares: No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time. The salary of the Circuit judgeship to which Mr. Kenyon was appointed was increased from $7,000 to $8,500 by a law passed in February, 1919, while Mr. Kenyon was serving his first term as Senator. The term for which Mr. Kenyon was re-elected Senator began in March, 1919. Thus Senator Kenyon will doubtless take his seat on the judicial bench. LEGISLATING AGAINST EVOLUTION E LSEWHERE in this issue of The Outlook will be found an editorial commenting on the extraordinary campaign now being carried on in the Legislature of Kentucky against the theory and idea of evolution; and it will be noted that those who support the bills before the Kentucky Legislature as we write are apparently in ignorance of the fact that evolution and "Darwinism" are by no means one and the same thing. The facts in this case, as they reach us directly from a correspondent in Kentucky, are that the agitation began just after an address on "Enemies of the Bible" by William J. Bryan, delivered by request before the Legislature itself. The very next day a bill was introduced into the House by Mr. George W. Ellis, of Barren County. The bill is before us. It makes it unlawful for any one connected with public schools or colleges in which State money is used "to teach or knowingly permit the same to be taught: Darwinism, Atheism, Agnosticism, or the theory of Evolution in so far as it pertains to the origin of man." A fine of from fifty dollars to five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for from ten days to twelve months, or both, are the penalties provided. Another section makes it possible, on proceedings taken, to forfeit or revoke the charter of any institution allowing such teaching. Later another bill was introduced by Mr. J. R. Rash in the Senate, but it differs only in eliminating the prison penalty and the charter forfeiture provisions. Our Kentucky correspondent informs us that the newspapers of the State are generally opposing these bills; that at first they supposed there was no danger of their passage, but soon changed their opinion, and we judge that the public opposition of the newspapers has made the passage of such a measure now improbable. The Louisville "Courier-Journal," in its issue of February 3, prints a group of about thirty-five telegrams sent in response to a question put by Dr. Frank L. McVey, President of the University of Kentucky. These telegrams come from scientists, educators, and clergy |