Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-11
JOHNSON SAYS WILSON WAS TOO
 LONG 'C0NFINED'
One Whole Month in Washing ton Cause of His Condition,
 He Claims.

Chicago, Sept. 10.--Crowds to- night beseiged in vain the auditorium where republican senators began their western speaking tour in an swer to President Wilson's demands for unconditional acceptance of the peace treaty and the league of na tions covenant. Before 8 o'clock the | hour for opening the speaking the theatre was filled and between 5000 and 10000 persons were left in the streets.
 The streets were so dense with dis appointed persons who surged to- ward the theatre entrances that police reserves were called out. The thousands within and without had come to hear Senators William F., Borah of Idaho, Hiram w. Johnson of California and Medill Mccormack of Illinois the latter presiding at the meeting, eXpound their views of the peace treaty and league covenant, and reply to President Wilson's utter ances on his swing around the cosn- try.
 Senator Hiram w. Johnson said in part:
 "The opening sentence of the pres- dent at Columbus in this memorable swing around the circle struck with 1 you as with me responsive and
 sympathetic chord, I have for q
 long time chafed at the confinement of Washington he said, and as we contemplate the extraordinary rigors
 of a White House existence, the silent suffering there for the long period of month and half. as we
 visualize his inability to communicate to the country the thoughts of which he says his heart was so full, as we view the enforced restraint during 1 this awful month which made it im-
 possible for him from the nations
 capital to report to his fellow citi-
 zens, we welcome him enthusastical-
 ly from his present trip and breath a
 sign of relief that the confinement in Washington is at least temporarily
 at an end.
 "You have read doubtless, as
 have, his various addresses. what he
 terms his report to his fellow coun- trymen concerning those affairs of
 the world which now need to be set tled.' You have searched, doubtlessly |, dS HdVC, ycdIHiIlSV anu IOuS lIlEiy for that report of which he speaks and you may have discovered, as fear l have, that his report apparent ,, ly has degenerated into rather in- temperate and harsh criticism, and irritable and some times abusive characterizations
 Confined Too Long.
 "We may charitably ascribe the
 presidents condition to his long
 "confinement" of month at Wash ington of which he complains. and tc
 the absence of that ready and subser. vient agreement which he demands for his most cryptic expressions anc 5 his most mysterious acts. l am hop - ing, because of my knowledge of the g far western state to which he is going
 that it's salubrious climate and the ', balmy breezes of the Pacific may soothe his perturbed spirit and assu z age his anguished soul. The occas f ion is too important, the matter witt
 which we deal is fraught with conse f auences too serious to the republic for you and me to deal with it other
 wise than calmly, judicially and il
 good temper, and with every intellec
 tual faculty with which God has en s dowed us.
 l Violates Word.
 t "The crisis in the affairs of thu e republic, however, is so grave tha f while we would not yield expression e to the hot indignation we feel, an' e while we would accord to all our op d ponents. the full measure of goo y faith which they deny us, vet never
 thless, we would speak plainly an.
 without ambiguous phrases or mysti
 cal or yelled allusions, point the ma VI |tiou's peril. 70 "The president, in violation of hi o word and of the will of the America Ji people, is seeking to impose hi ~ arbitrary will on the nation. H s is asking us to hand America ,,. destiny over to the secret council 70 of Europe It is the sworn duty Q v the senators of this nation to uphol 'e the constitution; to keep Americ " American.
 ,ss "When he spoke of bringing ou if soldiers back. American rallied { t- lhis support When he spoke of sell 'd determination of nations the Amer .e can people rallied to him immediate s1Iy. But all the things he has prom i- ised and sworn to accomplish hay
 either been scrapped by the secrt .d councils at Paris which has Amer le can destiny in it's own hands or b
 its own bad faith"