The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-10
Sen. Johnson Indirectly Call
President a "Quitter."
California Senator Opens Anti
League Tour at Chicago.
N A BRIS1uNG SPEECH
Assails Wilson's Remark, "NO
More Troops Abroad"
Says 1000 Yanks Sent to Pa
troll Silesia by Paris.

Chicago, Sept 1O.-The term quit
ter was passed back to President VIII
son today by Senator johnson. In a
bristling speech before the Hamilton
club here the California senator asked
TO what game" the president was re-
ferring In his St. Louis address and
recited the list of American principles
he declared European and Asiatic d.
plomacy defeated and left abandoned
in Paris
Senator johnson did not apply the
direct epithet as he commented upon
the presidents reference to the oP-
position senators as contemplate
quitters II they do not see the game
thru" but declared:
'Who OMIT the Cameo"
ITO what game does Mr.. Wilson re-
Ter? Is 1t the game he started to play
in Europe and did not finish. OF is II
the game that was played for him and
in which finally he supinely acqul-
.esced? Is It the American game that
.he so finely phrased when he went 70
Europe or Is Il the European ana
Aslatic game? The American people
are not cutters. They rose majestical-
Is and won n great war. They de-
sfroved- a ruthless militarism and they
did not quit until they had done tne
lob. When they had played their
game and done their job, Mr.. Wilson
his game was for certain definite oo-
jects. certain specific. plainly phrased
principles, and in the playing OF his
game the American people were reaoy
to hack him up 20 the utmost ana
play It thru. no matter what II Cost
who quit the gamer"
I-nitcd states people Didn't Quit.
johnson then mentioned the pFinci-
pleE OF open covenants, openly ar
rived at; adequate guarantees that ma
tionai ornaments be reduced; Impair
tial adjustment Of all colonial claims;
self-determination; no league or am
ances or special covenants within the
common family OF the League OF Ma
lions" and others as having been
abandoned. and declared It was not
the American people who had quit
And thus It was that the game was
plaved in Paris," Johnson continued.
land the game was the game or the
sinister. cynical European ana Aslauc
diplomacj. in which the American
people neither have part nor want
part. This today is the game of which
Mr. Wilson speaks and this today Is
the game which Mr.. Wilson plays. and
all who will not play IL with him he
called contemplate cutters
send No More Soldiers.
Thus opening his series of long dis
lance debates with the president. in
which he will be Joined by Senators
Mccormick and Borah tonight, john
make the issue" with the PRESIDENT
when he says the League of Nations
f. the only arrangement that will pre-
vent American soldiers going aboard
very soon again, and that because OF
Il boys in khaki will not be ordered to
foreign lands, the days events the
present conditions. answer and con-
found him." said Johnson.
As the president was making these
statements. the senator declared. seven
thousand American soldiers were be-
ing ordered by the Paris conference
20 patrol Sfesian coal mines. At the
same time. he declared, american
youths. sons Of American fathers and
American mothers. were being slain in
Asia, at Vladivostok. in Siberia, in a
war not declared by the American
people or the American congress. but
directed I'm secrecy at Paris by what
now constitutes the Deague Of Ma
tions.
Tics Up United States Until 1851.
THE instrument for which he
pleads. unless vitality amended, ties us
until 1851 in the internal affairs of
Germany and in all European con-
troversies and IL its terms be carried
out as written. it means American boys
for thirty years and perhaps longer,
policing and fighting in foreign lands,
the senator went on.
Further declaring that negotiations
are now in progress to send American
boys into Asia Minor for an indefinite
time he said all these things are
done by the men in Paris, sitting in
secret" and many OF them will be
continued by the same men or their
representatives sitting in secrecy in
Geneva.
On Shantung Issue.
Answering Wilson's justification of
the Shantuhg settlement on the
ground that the original agreement
was made by Great Britain and others
IN order to make 1t more certain that
Japan would come into the war. john
son pointed out that whereas japan
came into the war in 1914 the treaty
awarding Shantung to Japan was not
written until 1917.