Arizona republican., 1919-05-30
Cumminas' Threat

That brilliant and astute political manager Chairman Cummings of the national democratic com mittee has rather surpassed his previous feats of brliancy by threatening the republicans with tihrd term unless the covenant of the League of Nations ts ratified We do not know whether the wise Mir. Cummings is trying to scare the members of the senate whether he is trying to throw the whole American people into paroxysm of fright in which they will implore and demand the ratification of the covenant in order that the peril of the third term may be averted
 This is not the first have heard of this threat Nearly two weeks ago the New York World uttered it. We were given to understand that though MT. Wilson desired retire to private life it might be necessary for him to go before the country again with the covenant of the League of Nations as the issue It intended to be conveyed that the only way country could free itself of the incubus would be to accept the league-the price of the nations free dom from Q continuity of the Wilson regime.
 It seems not to have occurred to either the World to Mir Cummings that if there are enough people to be influenced by this threat of a continued caam- ity. to exert an effective pressure upon reluctant senate, there must be enough of them defeat Mr. Wilson handiy if he should aspire on any pretext to a third term.
 This kind of a threat is calculated to affect ad- versey senatorial and public sentiment with respect to the covenant. A who might favor it or who would tolerate it, something which it might to him 10 be worth trying, would turn against it if he told that he take that or something No man likes to have his fears played upon 10 be treated coward. That sort of an argument is neither persuasive nor convincing
 As to the candidacy of MT Wilson that is not worrying the republicans Mir Bryan once said that at the end of MT Wilson's term there would be no demo- cratic party, but Wilson party. There was never good for that prediction It was in the first place insult to democrats to intimate that there might be desertion of their principles for any man. And whatever the status of the democratic party may be-we may know that with it's Burlesons it's Bakers, it's Redfields, it's Kitchns and it's Dents it has been brought pretty low-therc is no such thing a Wilson party. Mir. Wilson has come to be recog- nized as responsible for the blundering and incom- petence of the men with whom he surrounded him self and whose laundering and incompetence have been approved in his retention of them
 No repudiation could have been more open un- mstakabe and thorough than that which MT Will son invited and received last fall If She people since then have changed their minds with respect to him. there has certainly been for them to do so in anything he has accomplished abroad or in any thing Burleson and the other bunderers have been doing at home.
 MT. Wilson could, no doubt, secure a noninatiosfS for third term if he should ask it. Without other leadership the democratic party is divided and :4y sea- Against the powerful federal machinery .ses could be successful coalition of democratic cY ments And it may be believed that he is the slro q est democrat that could be nomfSatcd Ycts( tain would he be of crushing ata huiulgaf
 feat have no doubt that the repabear s would prefer his nomination to tsst of ~ democrat.