Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-11-27
LET PEOPLE VOTE
ON PEACE TREATY
AND NEW LEAGUE
Republicans, Including Mild
Reservationists, Said to
Favor a Decision by the
People on League Of Ma
lions and Entire Treaty.
(By the Associated Press,

Washington, Nov. "a. C0mpro-
mise efforts to ratify the peace treaty
were thrown into the background by
developments strengthening the pos
sibility that the whole controversy
might be transferred to the political
arenas for decision by the people n
1920.
Senator Lodge, chairman Of the
foreign relations committee, and re-
publican leader ofSthe senate, declar-
ed in a statement there was "no
room for further, compromise" aid
urged that the reservations of tn"
senate majority be carried into the
campaign.
There was no formal expression 10
determine whether a like stand would
be taken ultimately by President
Wilson and the administration sena-
tors, but it developed that the presi-
dents senate supporters had no def
mite assurances as yet that he would
reopen the subject for compromise by
re-submitting the treaty when the
new session Of congress begine Dec.
1.
The declaration of Senator Lodge
reversed the position he and most
other republican senators had taken
toward injection 5sof the treaty into
politics, and was accepted in congress
sional and official circles as clothed
with an added significance by MI.
Lodges conference with Will II.
Hays, the republican national chair
man, just before the unsuccessful
fight Wednesday for ratification with
the majority reservations included.
The statement follows:
IT have no especia. comment to
make. The case is very simple. At
ter four months OF careful consider
tion and discussion, the reservations
were presented to the senate. They
were purely American in their chdr-
acter, designed solely to Americanizc
the treaty and make it safe for the
United States.
"Under the presidents orders the
followers of the administration in the
senate voted down these reservations.
It was also shown by vote thas
there was decisive majority against
the peace with the reservations.
Those reservations as presented
to the senate will stand. There is no
| room for further compromise Le-
tween .Americanism and the super
government presented by the league.
All that ask now it that We may
have the opportunity to lay these
reservations before the American
pepnte. To that great and final trib-
| una1 alone would I:appeal. I
II wish to carry those reservations
| into the campaign. i wish tho Amer
lean people to read and study them.
They are not like the covenant of
the league. They are simple. DO
not see that there lis one Of them to
which any American can objecr. !
want the people to see them, under
stand them, and to think o. them in
every household, on every for1n, in
every shop and factory th-uout the
land. Then Let them decide"
IN his letter advising democratic
senators to vote against ratification
with the reservations. Presiden' Will
son characterized them as ccast;tut-
ing a notification of4the treaty and
some Of his senate following 10 not
consider It q remote possibility that
he may decide To- Join the issue and
|let the majority program stand or
fail by q popular dseision in the ea1,i-
paign.
Should he take such stand and.
declining to re-submit the treaty. let
matters stand for tho present as they.
are It Is considered 1 certain on all
sides that the result would be to put
the ratification light squarely into the
presidential contest.
They we're confronted with the
fact, however. that the republican.
group Of mild essrvationists, on
whom hope Of a compromise was
placed, has served notice that any
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