Word: republican
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Republican was inclined to deprecate the passage of this act in the first place on the ground that it was not what it pretended to be and that constitutional prohibition was due only a few months later. Yet, inasmuch as the bill was enacted, even after the signing of the armistice, the present situation is very different from the earlier...
Some two weeks ago, word came to us from Paris that the President was much encouraged by the cabled adherance of a very prominent Republican, whose name was not given, to the draft of the League of Nations Covenant. It now appears that this anonymous supporter of the principles underlying the Covenant was none other than ex-Senator Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Mr. Roosevelt, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague...
...answer to a letter of inquiry as to his attitude from Mr. Will H. Hays, Republican National Chairman, Mr. Root now presents six constructive suggestions in the form of amendments to the Covenant of Paris. He suggests an agency for settling disputes between the "High Contracting Powers," conferences to be called under the League between stated dates to revise the Covenant, and review the conditions of International Law, securing the rights of nations to decide purely internal questions for themselves, authorizing a commission to supervise reduction of armaments, and permitting conditional withdrawal from the League...
...President Lowell for a joint debate with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71 in Boston upon the League of Nations question was announced late Saturday night from Senator Lodge's office. The exact time and place of the meeting will be arranged by the two speakers as soon as the Republican leader of the Senate returns to Boston probably early this week...
...Lodge last Thursday saying that it was of the utmost importance that the question of the League of Nations be publicly discussed. Senator Lodge, who has been the most prominent opponent of the League and who recently presented to the Senate his resolution and the statement of 37 Republican senators and senators elect, declaring opposition to the constitution of the League as now framed, was prompt in his acceptance of the challenge...