To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Election Day is here. Whether we like it or not, the great question of America's entry into the League of Nations has been dragged as an issue into the campaign. Every good citizen should have reasons, based not upon irrational ideas but upon facts, for voting either for Governor Cox or for Senator Harding. Here are ten reasons for voting for the Democratic candidate on the issue of the League of Nations:

(1) Because the present League of Nations is the only practical plan within our reach for international cooperation to prevent wars of aggression, and bring about gradual disarmament.

(2) Because Governor Cox has repeated consistently throughout this campaign that he is in favor of going in, with such reservations as will safeguard, reassure, and strengthen.

(3) Because Senator Harding has told us in unmistakable terms that he is for staying out. "It is not clarification but rejection that I am seeking."

(4) Because that small group a bitter reactionaries, who for reasons of national selfishness, shrinking provincialism, and hatred of President Wilson, defeated the Peace Treaty and League Covenant in the Senate, accomplished the nomination of Senator Harding, because, if elected, he would do their bidding.

(5) Because for the past two weeks, while ex-President Taft has been issuing daily bulletins to the effect that he is sure that Senator Harding must be in favor of going into the League, Senator Johnson has been issuing daily statements to the effect that Senator Harding is irrevocably in favor of staying out. He evidently take the candidate at his word.

(6) Because Senator Harding has stated that he intends, if elected, to make a separate peace with Germany, a "peace without victory" in the full sense of that unfortunate phrase.

(7) Because Senator Harding has stated his further intention, if elected, or recalling our troops immediately from Occupied Germany, and letting our Allies go it alone on the Rhine.

(8) Because, whether intentionally or not, Senator Harding has, through the two statements last quoted, attracted the solid German vote of the country.

(9) Because Senator Harding, while admitting that he has "no single constructive purpose," intends to formulate some hazy substitute League that will have the merit of Republican, not Democratic, authorship. This is tantamount to admitting that he would ask the 43 members of the present League, which has already prevented one war and stopped another, and which in the words of ex-President Taft conflicts at no point with the United States Constitution, to renounce their hopeful work, disband their League, and, to please him and the Republican Party, "rub it out and do it all over again."

(10) Lastly, because when our grandfathers wanted to vote against slavery and in favor of the Union, they did not vote for John C. Breekenridge who said he was in favor of slavery and against the Union. They voted for Abraham

Lincoln.  JAMES GORE KING JR. 1L.  MACLIN P. DAVIS '21.  H. R. ATKINSON '21.

November 1, 1920