The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-06-18
WILL G. 0. P.
AID GERMANY?
is Writer in Scathinu In
dictment of Republican
Party.
WILL PEACE BE REJECTED
Along With Similar Action by
Hun?-For, Wilson TO
Offset Propaganda.
DIV lincoln Eyre.)

Paris, June 17.-(By Telegraph
From N. Y. World, Copyrighted
Twill the republican party in Amer
lea, with Germany. refuse to sign the
allies peace treaty." Is that party
determined. henceforth, to sacrifice
all interests. those of the allies Of
the whole world, to its own inter-
ests?"
In these two questions Georges
Charter summarized. in an article
published by the Journal Des Debats,
the most scathing indictment Of the
republican policy thus far formu-
lated in Europe. LeChartier, who
was LIE Patti Parisien's Washington
correspondent and is thoroughly
versed in American politics. ex-
presses 1.-THE sorrow of France at be-
holding republican leaders like Sem
ator Lodge treading a path which
leads in a direction so contrary to
French and allied aspirations"
The republican aim, he observes,
is obvious the diminution or ef-'
facement of President Wilson's pres
tige "in order to assure democratic
defeat the next election"
Meant Also Loss for America.
ITO achieve this end" LeChartier
writes, "all means not always the
most praiseworthy. were brought to
bear but this was overlooked, for
we cannot believe the fact was dis
counted, that the person of the pres
ident to us foreigners must repre-
sent the American people, and to
diminish his prestige is to weaken,
in our eyes, the prestige of Amer
lea.
Good praise was made too of a
l.. t.. In
lions, a cooling of the friendship be-
tween our two nations, which neces-
sarily resulted, at least temporarily,
from the evil propaganda. With
sorrow he witnessed the singular
campaign conducted from Washing
ton in our too hospitable press by
! "a correspondent toriously allied
With the republican party"
This obviously refers to Judison
Welliver, who has been writing for
the Echo De Paris.
ut is with a certain shame that
we. heard in our drawing rooms
Frenchmen echoing propositions
which they claimed to have received
from American republican friends,
and which attacked President Will
son in his habits and in the individ-
uals surrounding him."
Seized Upon by Republicans.
President Wilson's absence from
Washington, the delays in the set
tlement of American internal ques-
tons and in the drawing up of the
peace treaty, every smallest incident,
in fact, was seized upon by the re-
publican leaders, LIE Charter affirms,
as ammunition against Mr.. Wilson.
Their three chief grievances against
l.. HxI 4 tN,YYn tod
he says, defining these three as the
alleged conflict of the league of ma
lions with the constitution of the
United States; President Wilson's
supposed powerlessness to have the
league accepted by the allied pow
ers, and, therefore, his inability to
attain the objects he had in view in
going to Europe and the paralysis
of American internal affairs due to
his absence abroad and the oppor-
tunity he has lost to make the
Americans the purveyors to the
world as we'll as the worlds bank
ers.
I'VE would be wrong in believing
that this campaign has remained
without effect here and over there"
LIE Charter goes on. THAT these
effects will be lasting, it is for Pres
ldent Wilson, whose political virtues
we all know about, to prove to the
contrary. Let us hope he will not
find it too difficult. Although carried
out continuously and in violent fash
ion, 1t does not seem that the results
of this campaign have yet given full
satisfaction to the party which has
conducted it..
THAT the republican party should
have suddenly discovered particular
sympathies for Ireland is not sur
prising when one remembers how
that party's sentiments have changed
during the war. But Ireland today
is a political force in the United
States. She has, therefore, been
taken under republican protection.
Today they make themselves the
champions of her cause" ,
AS far as the Knox resolution Is
concerned the object in separating
the league of nations covenant from
the peace treaty, lie Charter de-
clares, is found in the rejection by
theA senate foreign relations commit
tee of the clause demanded by Pres
ident Wilson and originally included
in the resolution, by which the
United States would promise aid in
cause of fresh aggression by Ger
many.