Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11


 that he had sent an answer that needed no explanation or interpreta tion?"
 Approved It Then.
 Referring to President Wilson's last note to Austria, Senator Lodge pointed out that he was the first to approve it in the senate and that he preferred similar reply to Ger many.
 Il did not want a note that need ed explanation or defense," he said, adding that he favored one bearing the message that it is the voice of the American people denying an at tempt at peace"
 What the chancellor will say, do not know, Senator Lodge continu- ed, but it gives him a chance to say many things. In one instance the President laid down the princi- pie that the wrong done France in 1870 should be righted. The detail is sew it shall be righted France thinks it can be righted in only one way and that is with the return of the lost province without condition or without any German arrangement for autonomy or for a buffer state.
 'I hope l will not say anything to border on treason, but Frances view on that, is my view"
 Wants Pay First.
 Senator Lodge declared he want ed something about reparation agreed to before there was talk of an armis- tice. Germany in falling back is now burning countless villages and towns, hn fol lyi persons into slavery only to turn them back after they have become disease-infected, and for those things as we'll as the American ships and lives that have been lost, reparation should be made.
 Am I to be accused of treason?" he asked earnestly, because 1 de- mand that? It's not in the fourteen principles"
 Senator Lodge said he could not help being distressed over the fact that the Presidents queries might be misconstrued.
 ''The best diplomats are the armi- es of the Americans, the French, and the British, and Italians," he con- tinued. ''The best men leading those diplomats are Generals Haig, Persh- ing and Foch. To these negotiators believe ought to be left the ques- tiCns of peace. They will win it OH German soil. They will bring back the kind of peace the people want unconditional surrender"
 The result must justify the sacri- flee, declared Senator Lodge, who added that Germany must be placed where she cannot break out as "a lunaticc again and disturb the peace of the world.
 No Party Matter.
 "The senator from Nevada under took to give a party Complexion to the matter. If there is any party ad- vantage in it, l say to you that ] would forfeit any advantage either to myself or my party if the Presi- dent would only have written a. note like his Baltimore speech and others he has made, instead of series of queries"
 The senator said Republicans will give full and hearty support to the President as commander in chief of the army and navy, because the laws have placed him there. but that a higher allegiance is to the country and to the cause. "To that all must yield to that all will yield" he concluded. "The American people want an unconditional surrender; a dictated peace. That is my belief and 1 stand for it in private or pub lie at any time."
 Close attention was given the Re- publican leaders speech and as he concluded, several Republican sena- tors shook his hand.
 Senator Haindexter declared the Presidents action had been most un- fortunate.
 Should Demand Surrender.
 Senator PoindeXter insisted that the President should have demanded al once unconditional surrender. "The Presidents acceptance of par ley with the enemy by his answer to Germany's offer, gives Germany the opportunity which she has long been seeking" he said. "The three questions asked by the President pre-