The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-02
WILL TAKE TREATY
FIGHT TO THE PEOPLE
WILSON AND OPPONENTS OF
PACT WILL BOTH TAKE A
SWING AROUND CIRCLE.

command personally to impress the
senate with the necessity for speed
in ratifying the treaty of Versailles
without amendment President Will
son has determined to go to the
people with his case. He will start
from Washington next Wednesday
and will make his first speech at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, Thursday.
Leaving Washington on a special
train the president will swing through
the middle west, thence across the
plain states to the Pacific coast at
Washington and down the coast as
far as San Diego. On the return
trip he will speak in Nevada, Utah,
Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Okla
homa, Arkansas, Tennessee and Ken
lucky, his last address being at Louis
vile on September 20.
The president waited long before
making his decision to leave Wash
ington. He wanted to go before the
people very soon after his arrival
from Paris, but his closest friends
and advisers convinced him it was his
first duty to remain in the capital for
time and endeavor to make
/ friends" with the senate. Mr.. Wilson
saw the wisdom of this advice. He ad-
mitted he had been a little "offish"
with the senators and that they were
entitled to first call upon his services
in their consideration of the treaty
and the covenant of the league of
nations.
To Put Matter Before People.
1t was not a wholly agreeable task.
But, however irksome the burden, he
did make the advances, and he feels
now he has exhausted his own influ-
ence.
If anything were needed to en-
phasize the seemingly irreconcilable
differences between the president
and some members of the senate the
announcement of the forthcoming
trip will accomplish that purpose. In
effect the presidents decision to tour
the country will mean transfer to
the hustings of the controversy which
has been waging in Washington ever
since his return from the peace con-
ference.
For it is an open secret that the
men who are opposed to the treaty
and the league of nations as whole,
and who are trying to make mince-
meat of it, have only been waiting
| for a definite announcement of the
presidents plans before they, too,
should take the stump.
| Foes to Precede Wilson.
The senate opponents of the trea-
ty are not going to trail the president
and answer him city by city, as was
at first supposed. They are going to
precede the president, wherever they
may speak. They are going to open
the attack and endeavor to put the
president on the defensive.
In the meantime the treaty will
Ianguish in durance vile-for a time
in the committee on foreign relations
and later on the floor of the senate
Democratic friends of the measure
will attempt to hasten action upon It,
but they will have no chance Tor sue
cess while the president and the hos
tile senators are con the road" Moth
ing can ever be hurried through the
senate, and in the present temper OF
senators the advocates and opponents
! of the treaty are about as unanl-
mously inclined as two strange bull
dogs.
At Mercy of Hostile Senators.
It is true the president has had
his innings in the publicity game with
I the senate. He was the star OF the
great question and answer bout at the
white house week ago, but even IN
that foray he was placed at dlsad-
vantage in the fact that he was large
! lv at the mercy of the hostile sena-
| tors who endeavored to frame their
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Resolutions Ask Him to Stay.
Representative Rodenburg, repub-
lican, Illinois, introduced resolution
today proposing that congress declare
that "the president should postpone
i his tour of the country at least I'M
til such time as we may know deli
nitely the problems which confront
US" growing out of the country's
! industrial situation and the cost OF
liv problem. -
A second resolution by which the
house alone would ask the president
to remain in Washington was offer
ed by Representative Strong, repub-
lican, Kansas, who in an address IN
support of his measure said domestic
and international conditions were
such that the absence of the presl-
dent would result Gin very grave dam
ger"