New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
IFrom The Tribune Bureau

WILL. FIGHT FOR PEACE-The Presl-
dont has by no means given up his night
for general arbitration treaties with France
and Great Britain along the lines OF lho'e
recently amended by the Senate. lie is ue-
termined to keep up the fight as lohs as
need be. and he has little DOUBT tha' HIS
efforts will meet with success once the po-
IiticaI situation has ceased to be acute. NOT
is there any warrant for the assertion that
the President regards the existing treaues
as dead Regarding the conventions III
their present form. or. rather, as TAKEN III
connection with the action OF the senate
the President will make no effort TO redch
a decision or TO determine on course Oh
action until he has discussed the subject
with the British Ambassador, the French
Amba ssador and the Secretary OF state
He has briefly reviewed the conventions
and the effect of the amendments proposed
by the Senate with Chandler Anderson So
licitor of the Department or state WIN
pointed out that much of merit would re-
main in the conventions even WIN 'he
amendments recommended by the senate
The President however. is heartily III ldNor
of that fundamental provision to whlch the
Senate refused to consent, and he Is lar
from persuaded that the treaties Win 'hdl
nrovision cannot be ratified after the ma
tional conventions or, at most, aller 'he
national election. 1t is quite possiole 'hd'
as a result of his conferences with the am
bassadors named. and in the Nght OF the
EXPRESSED objections of the Senate, the
President may decide that some revision OF
the language of the present conventions
could be made with profit. He appreciates
that When the Senate refused to consent "
the conventions in their present form u
did so not on the merits or the treaues'
but from partisan motives. and that the
amendment of the treaties was erected py
a coalition of the insurgents and the Demo-
Gratis, both OF which factions were loath 10
permit him to gain the credit of so great
victory Just at this stage or the poil'lcal
game. If after a time there is reason TO
believe that by permitting the subject to
rest in allegiance until after the natlohai
election treaties containing all the essen
tials of the pending conventions would De
approved by the Senate, that course VIII
be pursued; but in no event VIII any ueh-
mite decision be reached until after the re-
turn az the Secretary Of State to Washing
ton. in May.
HALO GOES WITH HAT.-A Kansas
farmer is the author OF an epigram oi
which a good deal is likely to be heard III
the pre-convention campaign. The halo
goes with the hat" writes this constituent
of Governor Stubbs TO the White House
and he goes on to explain that 1t Is an Ola
maxim of the advocates of square deallns
in hide trades that "the tail goes with the
hide" and that those same advocates OF
'the square DEAL have been so disappoihl-
ed at the course of ex-Presdent Roosevelt
in casting his hat into the ring that theS
are now unanimous in declaring that III
the Coloners case the halo goes with the
hat"
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES.-There Is
infinite rejoicing at Taft headquarters TO-
dav. and at the White House as well, over
the results of the Presidential primaries In
Indiana. the more so. of course, because II
has been the insistent cry of the ant-Taft
forces that If the people were permitted 10
EXPRESS their choice through Presidential
primaries Mr.. Tafts candidacy would he
overwhelmingly rejected. Mr.. Tafts sup
porters have been equally confident all
along that he would prove as strong where
legally protected primaries prevailed as
elsewhere. but they are more than grati1ed
to have the correctness of their views so
conclusively demonstrated as it has been
in Indiana. In Marion County. in Which