Myers calls Davis ‘peace scuttler’
New Castle, Pennsylvania (UP) –
Congressman Francis J. Myers of Philadelphia, Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, last night attacked Senator James J. Davis, GOP nominee for reelection, as one of the “shortsighted Republican isolationists in Congress” who will try to scuttle the peace.”
That group will try to block American participation in an international peace organization “regardless of whether Roosevelt or Dewey is elected,” Mr. Myers charged, but “under Dewey and in a Republican Senate, they would be in an infinitely better position to do the dirty work.”
It was the “shortsighted Republican isolationists” who defeated President Wilson’s League of Nations plan after the last war, Mr. Myers said.
Some are still in Congress – and their eyesight has not improved. They have been joined since 1920 by others who share their isolationist philosophy. Together, they mean to scuttle the next League of Nations plan, no matter what its name may be.
The “compromises” America will have to make in the peace treaty will be “distorted, twisted, emphasized out of all proportion” by these men, the Democratic nominee predicted.
He said:
That’s what happened after the last war when America turned its back on world affairs and the Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
Mr. Myers cited Mr. Davis’ record of “consistently wrong votes on defense measures” and his “obstinate, unyielding, inflexible” refusal to “apologize for his mistakes.”
Cox assails GOP as ‘isolationist’
Dayton, Ohio (UP) –
James M. Cox, former Governor of Ohio and Democratic candidate for President in 1920, charged last night that the “economic isolationists” who wrecked the peace during the Harding administration “control the Republican Party still” and are concealing their plans “till their chance to act has come” again.
Mr. Cox said:
The economic isolationist knows that cooperation of nations pledged to just relations between the nations of the earth bodes no good for him. It will mean not only freedom from war but freedom from commerce… he has found his chance in the international market through that modern monopoly device, the cartel. That is why he so desperately wants his representative in the White House and he pours forth his campaign contributions accordingly.