The Washington herald., 1918-10-29


of the President will be passed upon
by the people of the country. They
will act upon'it as a jury acts upon
a case submitted to them.
They have a chance to- condemn
the President by making both the
House and the Senate. or either of
them, Republican. Or they have the
chance to vindicate and support him,
by their vote selecting Democrats
to dominate both branches.
In view of the fact the President
has made an appeal, a victory for
the Republicans would be directly a
repudiation of the President. He
has said it would, and the country
will certainly select the Congress
sional makeup this year on that
basis.
On the other hand an election OF
more Democrats than Republicans
will be a direct victory for the Pres
ident, a thorough Endorsement of his
administration of the war and his
steps toward peace.
Further than that a Republican
For it takes a two-thirds' vote of
very clear-would mean Joy to Ber-
lin and doubt and indecision to both
Paris and London. While a Demo-
cratic victory-he has also made
plain-would convince Berlin that
America stands behind her leader
and would encourage both London
and Paris to continue to follow the
leadership which he has assumed in
carrying on affairs for the allies.
Action of the voters at the polls,
however. will not make it possible
for the Democrats to have domina-
tion of treaty ratifications.
viCtory-so the President makes
the Senate to ratify treaties. and
none. of the Democrats believe that
so many OF their party candidates
will be elected as to insure such a
strong control of the Upper House,
Therefore. no matter what the
outcome of the Senatorial elections
both parties will have to support
the peace treaties in order to get
them through. There can be no
other result. Therefore. in the in
tetests of the country itself it be-
hooves cool. conservative men OF
judgment to keep their wits about
them and not to make it impossible
gotten it under headway-after the
Germans have surrendered.
Partisanship should not dim or
distort the vision which men must
have about them when the treaties
come up for action. Neither party
can claim entire credit for their
ratification, both parties must make
the claim and both parties must be
prepared to go into the affair with
thoughts of America rather than
party on their minds.
Do any of you know Snake" King
of Texas?
Well, Snake" is a character. He
gets his name from the occupation
he follows-the collection and sale
of various kinds of reptiles to shows
and museums and the like.
Snake" was in town the other
day. And while here he delioered
himself of a long statement al the
Mexican situation.
The Mexicans are beginning to
see some light in their affairs" said
he. Though its been a long time
trickling through to 'um. They've
been so notoriously pro-German that
they couldn't see America in this
fight. Now that they've heard what
our boys have been doing on the
Western front they're suddenly wax
ing up to the fact that they can
fight.
Why. the MeXiCans thought Black
Jack Pershing was a four flusheT
and the men who followed him into
their country were only army sa-
siety stunters out on a laTk-fel-
lows who didn't know what they
were going after and who wouldn't
have got it if they had known. But
its all changed now. The MeXiCans
who listened to German talk to
that effect are beginning to see that
somebody lied. And some of the
Germans who did. the lying would
not find it healthy to be around
with some of their former Mexican
audiences. let me tell you.
AT that. however, there's lots to
do in Mexico. We've got to watch
ourselves there. The Mexicans still
think after we've attended to the
big job overseas we would be con-
tent to come home and not to pay
any attention to them if they got
rantankerous. The truth is. there
are bandits and the like but they're
in bands that keep making trouble
for us and some of these days
we've got to go in there and nail
these bandits to trees for the good
of the people of Mexico.
And, the State of Texas is ready
to do her part, believe me. All
Uncle Sam needs to do is to say the
word and he'll have our folks be-
hind him tooth and tOenaiL"
This is Snakes" idea and he's
lived in and around the part of the
country he speaks about and he
claims to know whereof he speaks.
Carranzas army. We might add to
what Snake" said, is known to have
been heavily officered, at one time
recently. with German officers. Car
rama had them with him and doubt
less debating to him when he was
congratulating the Kaiser on his
birthday-incidentall the last birth
day the Damned One may celebrate
with any formality this side of Hades.
But Carranza has not bent his ear
quite so closely to what his German
friends had to say during the past
few weeks. we have been informed.
He's really more interested in the
United States than he was. tThe
news from the other side had had a
wonderfully good effect upon him so
far as restoration of reason is con-
cerned.) And if Carranza continues
to improve as a result of tonic ad-
ministered to him abroad, TO the Ger
mans it may be that in time he will
really be worth while from the
standpoint of our nation.