The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-11

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Opposition Gains Courage.
IBy l.. G. Martin, United Press starr
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept n.-Gaining
courage from what they term the
failure of President Wilson to start
back fire against them IN the
west, senators opposing the treaty
of peace in its present form are as
Stunning more belligerent attitude.
Senator Kenyon's speech yester.
day was pointed to as sample Oh
the trough manner" in which the
opposition intends to go after the
president from this time on.
Senator Hitchcock and other
treaty supporters, however. profess
neither surprise nor disappointment
over the visible results of the presl-
dents trip, nor are they concerned,
they said today, over the situation In
the senate.
when the fight is over" said
Senator Hitchcock, lit will not be
President Wilson who is hunting
cover"
Hitchcock today will present to
the senate the view Of six democratic
members Of the foreign relations
committee, who will urge that the
treaty be accepted Immediately,
without amendment or reservation.
One democratic member OF the
committee, Senator Shields, OF Ten
nessee, declined to sign the minority
report, as he favors reservations.
Those who signed it are Hitchcock,
Williams, Swanson, Pomerene, smith
of Arizona, and Pittman.
The report, it is understood, Will
reply to some of the assertions made
yesterday in the majority report.
With both reports before the SEN
ate, the debate will continue for the
remainder of the week along the
lines it has followed for months.
Next Monday, however. the real
work begins, when the senate will
take up the pact article by article.
Borah Goes to Omaha.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.-Borah left
for Omaha, where he will speak to-
morrow night. Monday night, john
son and Borah will speak from the
same platform at Des Moines.
Betrayal OF America.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11-Accept-
ance of the league of nations covenant
in its present form would be betrayal
of America, Senator Harding, Ohio, de-
clared today, in his first speech to the
senate on the league.
Harding said: +:
"Our present involvement and our
further ENHANCEMENT and most OF the
worlds restlessness and revolution and
threatened revolution are largely
traceable to pre-war utterances ana
wartime announcements.
"The president told the people of my
state that soldiers were drafted for the
very purpose of ending war and this
league as negotiated is the only thing
that will do 1t. Still more recently a
very eminent authority has proclaimed
all opponents of the covenant as CON
temptible cutters If they do not see
the game through.
There were no cutters, either In
congress or among the people, once the
task OF war had been assumed
Nobody Is going to shut up Demo
cracy does not demand such surren.
der. The dictatorship was for the war
only. and does not abide in the after
math. Speaking for myself, alone.
voicing no action, no group. no party,
do not see how any senator can de-
eide upon this final vote till the ois-
puted amendments and proposed
reservations shall have the stamp of
the decision of senate majority"
Mild reservations Harding said will
no more satisfy him than mild Amer
icanism would.
You can tell what kind Of man he
is by whether the children run to