REPUBLICANS' ERRORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 9

REPUBLICANS' ERRORS.

LATE PRESIDENT BLAMED. A SENATOR'S REFERENCES. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, April 4. Mr. G. W. Pepper, a member of the Senate, who is frequently mentioned ~as a probaßle Republican candidate for the vice-presidency, "delivered a so-called "keynote " speech before the State Convention, at Portland, Maine. His remarks disposed the apparent intention of the party -to attribute the Republicans' mistakes to the late Mr. Harding and to absolve Mr. Calvin Coolidge from all blame. Mr. Pepper termed Mr. Harding' s appointment of Mr. Forbes as head of the Veterans Bureau, and of Messrs. Fall and Dattghprty to the executive as terrible mistakes -and grave errors of judgment. I am speaking of the mistakes not of the living but of the dead, be said. These were the mistakes I believe of a leader whose virtues were many and whose lapses were few. Mr. Pepper, referring to the World Court, said that America was not holding aloof from the rest, lof the world, but would never submit to entanglement through the League of • Nations or any other permanent organisation seeking to influence international conduct.