Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-13
JOHNSON HURL.S 'jlUITTER' CHARGE: BACK AT MI. SON Californian is Given 18-Minute
 Demonstration at
 St. Louis. TREATY IS CALLED
 PATCHWORK" AFFAIR Speaking from Same Stage Where President Recently Appeared, Republican Leader Bitterly
 AssaiIs Covenant.

St. Louis, Sept. 12.-When Senator Hiram w. Johnson of California. stepped upon the stage of the Coli scum tonight to plead for the defeat of the league of nations covenant in It's present form, he was given an ovation that lasted IS minutes. The Coliseum is the largest hall in the city and 1t was packed to the doors. Hundreds were turned away unable to lind standing room As soon as Sem ator J ohnson made his appearance the crowd rose to it's feet, waved flags and cheered. Finally the band ended the demonstration by playing "The Star-Spangled Banner the large au- dience joining in singing the song.
 The crowd shouted What's the matter with Johnson, he's all right for several minutes, when pr. John A. Smond, prominent democrat and local head of the league for the Pres efvatlon of American Independence, who presided at the meeting, rose to introduce Senator Johnson. The hall was packed to the doors and many turned away when President Wilson spoke from the same platform week ago.
 ''The United States senate today stands between you and your liber- ties' said Senator Johnson in begin- ming his address. "In my brief ca reer, l have never failed to accept a challenge from an opponent, whether he be a president or an humble private citizen.
 "I want to deny MT. Wilson's charge that the American people are quitters if they refuse to approve the league of nations. The American people never quit. When MT. Wilson went to Paris to demand his 14 points and came home without them, the American people did not quit, some body else quit"
 Treaty Patchwork.
 Senator Johnson described the treaty of peace as patchwork of the secret treaties made between the al- lies, unknown to America, before and during the war, and challenged the recent declaration of the president that failure to concur in the settle ment of the terms of the peace by the United States "would put strain upon our national honor which we never could efface."
 "Does the president intend to say that it will put a strain upon our honor if we do not carry out the sec ret bargainings which were with duplicity unparalleled in the worlds history, concealed from us?" asked the senator.
 He described the visits to this coun- try after our declaration of war, of the diplomatic representatives of France. Italy and Japan.
 "In the full flush of righteous indignation against ruthless enemy, we were bending every energy in be- half of just cause," said Senator Johnson. Before the United States senate, in terms as idealistic as those we employed, MT. Balfour, for Eng land, MT. Viviani for France, 1taly's prince and Japan's representative spoke. Until they came no foreigner had ever stood upon the rostrum of the United States senate since Laf- ayette's visit.
 Secret Treaties.
 "While these representatives of the four great powers were speaking to us upon the same plane upon which we were acting and appealing to the same lofty sentiments, and altruistic purposes, their very pockets were bulging with the secret treaties they made among themselves for the par tition of teh world and the distribu- ton of the snoils of the war.
 "During all the period that they were with us not single one divulg- ed to our government or to any rep resentative of it the treaties they made, a half dozen in number, and which they had been determined to write irto the ultimate treaty of peace. The president said with posi- tiveness at the recent meeting with the foreign relations committee, he had never even heard of these secret treaties until he went to Paris. The secretary of state testified in like fashion. Indeed. in 1917, while the treaty between the four great nations in relation not onlv to Shantung but the Isles of the Picific, safely re- posed in their archives, Viscount Ishii. the representative of Japan, concluded with our secretary of state an agreement by which the United States government recognizes the special interests of Japan in China.
 'During those neeotiations." con- tinued the senator "not a word was said, not a syllable was lisped dur