Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-08-01
THRusTS AT PARTISANSHlP.

~, spots through smoked glasses
and let the sun of universal peace
shine full upon them. He told them
TO stop wasting their time disSect-
ing specks with a miScroScope and
10 remember that there are bigger
things in the life Of tine nation than
blind partisanship, scarccrows and
mare's-neSts.
This typical WILLIAMS speech, al
together impromptu, was inspired
BY the exceedingly able address of
Senator Walsh, of Montana. Sena-
tor Williams paid the greater share
of his attention to the charge re-
Gently made by Senator Brandegee,
Of Connecticut, that the President
had violated Section of the Ver-
sailles treaty by not submitting the
treaty with France coincidentally
10 the Senate.
SO Scathing was the Williams
treatment of the New Englander's
comedy in this connection, that the
discomlited Brandcgee rushed for
ward once more with repetition
Of his charge. He declared with
emphasis that it made no difference
10 him whether or not Senator Will
Iiams' revelation of the fact that
The Associated Press had carried
the treaty on July 3 was correct.
|. made no difference whether Har-
vcy'S Weekly had scooped the
whole American press by printing
ii as a fresh matter on July 24th.
The fact remained, Senator Bran
dcscc declared, that President Will
son had failed in his obligation to
present the French treaty to the
Senate.
Before wading in Senator Bran
dcScc, Senator Williams discourscd
for time upon some of the scare
crows which had been wildly dan
sied before the astonishcd eyes of
the Senate. He said "that friend
Reed, of Missouri had scared the
Senate near to death by the decla-
ration that the 'nigger' would run
The league of nations. We had
scarcely recovered consciousness
when my friend Sherman, of Illi-
noiS, scared us TO the point of pre-
clpitate retreat with the idea that
The Pope would soon run us all.
Think of it; the dear old man in
Rome, saying his prayers part of
The time and running the world the
rest Some people believe him in
falible. l do not, but all civilized
men believe him to be good
MIR. Williams showed that the
Brandegee revelation not only was
not brought about on a sudden i'm
pulse, but was carefully planned
the night before and properly stag
Ell with Senator Lodge and others
acting minor parts.
"All that camouflage was unwor-
Thy of my friend from Connecticut"
said Senator Williams, "but not
more unworthy than his effort to
make the country believe that Colo
mel Harvey'S weekly was the first
10 publish the French defense trea-
~ Does not the Senator know that
me Associated Press carried that
treaty on July 3? Does he not
KNOW that it appeared in almost
every newspaper in the country
aNout two weeks before it was sud-
ocniE revealed from the pages
o' his weekly? Perhaps he does
not Know that the Associated Press
Is inc most public thing in the
I Norld except. perhaps The secret
'Necutlve sessions of the Senate.
:, bc that as it may, the fact is that
u'e treaty was given to the world
when ii was presented to the
I,lshch Chamber of Deputies on
Iu'E g. ! suppose my friend Col.
gorge Harvey was so busy draping
'hc America flag about himself pre-
''ratory to the Fourth of July, that
"e old not read what the ncwSpa-
nSrS printed on that occasion.
ihcy call him 'Colonep Harvey.
o not know how he acquired the
n;roiohcl title which he bears, but
nc Is no quicker as q military
n'ah , 'han his weekly makes him out
=" DC, | DO not see how he ever kept
"p with his regiment
implore you objectors TO the
I"8ue OF nations" he said in con-
v,s, ~uS,on, ITO stop looking through
IIi;lokcd glasses at the sun; to stop
"nIoVcring spots upon that body
"nu mlstaking them for the sun it.
,eN' There may be few specks to
Dx observed. There are some things
aoout the treaty of peace which
w. not like. l do not like the Shan
Ing situation. l do not like the
,r " oi making an everlasting mar
IT, out OF the Kaiser. Bu, | know
''n ",al this treaty was framed by the
nne - n'e'!est intellccts of the ruling pow
ran ~ IN the world today. There was
Iho Ihoo'',enccau. the Tiger, representing
T% rIu triumphant spirit of France.
,a" nv'e was David Lloyd George, in
Gne respects the most powerful
nS'lrc in all Tho v,orId ,o,,,,. ,,,J