Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-12-12

Germany and the Allies. and this at NO
matter what expense to the people of
With an effrontery umeaualed, they
sought to appoint for him his. peace
commission. The claim was made that
and senate were equal partners in. the
making of peace, and in order to dem
pns tcna this is equality Of the tWo
boldly undertook both to make the
peace treaty and to ratify it. This: is
the republican idea Of a fair division
or organization which opposes them.
:, After the commission went to Paris
it was constantly attacked in the rear
members of the senate in every way
possible. No move that was made re-
fenf f PR 8f thsse
and presented to the: senate for ratl-
fication the warfare became more bit,
ter. Much criticism had been launched
against the president because it took
five months to complete the treaty. YET
it took the senate Something over four
months to bring, it up for ratification
which were clearly unconstitutional
but which. in fact Germanized it.
About the first Of October f6 the ge preS1
White House under the care of his
to rest or pr
vate, from his political opponents? He
did not If possible, since that time
m rnere a mefignant Constant attacks
have been made upon him: lnsln 1!+
tons have been sown broadcast that
phy ai 'U Week; that he was partly par
alyzed: that he was being kept in Sc
clusion when unable to- perform the
attended to his official duties in his
name All this with the very obvious
effort. to induce the people to believe
Wilson, or his administration. was try
ing to put over something upon the
people Of the country: The climax was
reached this week, when the senate in
troduced resolution appointing Sen
ators Fall and Hitchcock a committee
to wait upon the president personally,
concerning the Mexican situation but
really on a shopping expedition to veri-
fly, if possible. the hopes Of the senatei
Concerning the presidents physical and'
mental condition During the inter,
to the published statement by Senator
iny a brain lesion THE president re-
marked" said Senator Fall after the
conference, that he hoped Senator
might be disappointed" Tor the time
being, apparently the presidents men,
tai condition, and perhaps MS physlcal
States senate. but Of one thing we can
be convinced-an attack will be started
from some other angle
dent Wilson just preceding the election
a year ago because he asked for a con-
G wouid have sy thoaght in listening to and
reading the criticisms of republicans
and their adherents. that no public Of
fetal Heretofore had injected pa partisan san
t be- Conveyed w was that President Wilson
as president Of the whole eoo4 NY
party under which he gained his cleo
ton: To do so was to inject partisan a
attempted settlement of the peace
treaty. has proved that the president dent
that he be sustained by a sympathetic
congress, because the republican con
gross. for purely partisan reasons: 4 4as
government ever since it was called IN
to special session. The claim has been
made. that the opposition 70 the treaty
can rights and that its ratlhcatil91n
without reservations was Impossible:
This claim never would have been MAGE 4og
the treaty for ratification. The opposi-
| ton is solely partisan,and I cannot en-
! phasize too strongly the fact that TINS
| iting the president and the democratlc
party in the elections of 1920. Some
| even open minded lndlvldua!s-may
/ believe It can be Demonstrated to the
satisfaction of any reasonable thinking
person.
| from the time President Wilson was in
augurated in 1913, have been dictated
solely from partisan standpoln{; re-
| for instance, the act creating the Fed
| eral Reserve banking system. Today
republicans as well as democrats az
tive piece of legislation passed within
two decades, but when it was before
the senate it was opposed by practical
As a matter of fact, when it came up
for final passage, only four republi-
cans voted for it. Our own senators,
and Gapp We aane na
t tRat if the votes Of these senators
upon questions coming before that
ests Of the country at large they would
have voted against this measure IN
| 1913? Such suppositIon is unthlnk.
! Of what the average republican vii
do in his efforts to build up a republi-
| can organization and to dlscredlt It's
opposition. There was no more patrl-
| otism and no more statemanshlp pc
| hind the republican vote OF the senate
on the peace treaty than was as exercised erct q
| by them in their vote upon the question
| of a Federal Reserve bank.
| q
In Michigan the Federal Grand Jury
has indicted Senator Truman H. New,
berry and 1874 Of his republican political
Iieutenants on a, general charge e., OF OF
| conspiracy. fraud bribery and perjury
in the Newberry election OF 1913. II
is acknowledged by Mr.. Newberry
supporters that his election oyer aenry
Ford cost in the neighborhood Of S25O,
900, $4,000 of which was contributed
by his brother, John S. Newberry. OF
Detroit Notwithstanding these gsne mel,
Gus family expenditures, Senator New.
berry made an affidavit stating that
he had not spent any money during the
election and did not know of any nay
ing been spent in his interest. On the
strength of this affidavit, he is char@@-
ed with pertltry Il; one, count Of the
indictment. Since the indictments were
found, number Of the small try Nhc
received money from his managers
have plead guilty to the indictments
ments, and very possible indeed tha!
convictions will be obtained. me Irla
will serve one useful purpose, however
& will illustrate the method by Wh1cl
the republicans induced the country te
discredit President Wilson by the ei n1 3
ton of a republican congress IN l9! %
| OF least S25O.UUU