El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-19

from 50 stauucb and fiery supporter of president
Wilson as senator Henry F. Ashurst Of Arizona II IS
surprising receive admission that the presidents nope
Of securing the unqualified ratification Of the peace ea
is IN vain and more than that Read what the New YORK
Tribune quotes the senator as saying: .
che treaty. viii be ratified, but in form such that It
win amount to very little Article of the covenant, with
out which the league OF nations is hollow she'll VIII be
stricken out do not think the Sbantung amendment VIII
prevail however It is question, the American people
see this thing Of whether they viii thrown this country
into the international whirlpool with the hope Of saving
civilization and thus rskng national existence
ow It be that there is such grave danger OF Dol
fvs spreadinp throughout the world that viii regret
bitterly at time the future that we did not make
the sacrifice now have feeling that this is true but II
viii be of no avail the election for some time
bar silver H H quotation, s115zs; copper, 2S1zGe;
10 come may be winning elections about 1910 on the
strength Of Woodrow Wilson's memory, but not IN the
near future
The Tribune nav have caught MI. Ashurst day
when things breaking badly for the junior senator
from Arizona, day when pessism grPped him Cei-
tsiniv It was frank admission for him to make perhaps
M Asburs communing with himself IN candor, could see
no reason for pretending that things we're as they were NOT
for cershng deuson that president Wilson's peetau-
lar country stupng tour would cause the people 10 pres
On the senate TO change its convictions and that the senate
would yield The fight for Ameneanism as expressed II
reservations the treaty has already been Won wneuel
or not those reservations quite the same as drafted IN ne
majority report the senate foreign relations committee
M Ashurst realizes that do all other senator's natural
" being men Of than average intelligence but Demo
Gratis of the Hitchcock type may not resn the Iaot @
he has come out in the open and confessed that the pres
dents fight is hopeless insofar unauafed rauIeauon
Of the treaty covenant is concerned OF 90 senator's
only 27 are willing ray the treaty as It stands Inere
are At Democrats in the senate Only about hall OF them
are for ratification without change and there IS more than
suspicion that Of them are suppressng theI own
convictions for the sake Of answering loyalty 10 MI
Wilson =.
Most surprising senator Ashursts statement IS his
assertion BY inference that the Democratic party has os
K 1920 campaign for me presidency before it IS begun
Either that OF he means that the Democrats, they hope
to win an election for years to come, VIII nave q
soft pedal woodrow Wilson and the peace treaty his
prediction Is not what would call optimistic, anyhow
Senator Ashurst practicng what he breaches he
soft pedaling the president and the treaty He IS lnoa
ing his own preference treaty amended so as 10 pre-
serve the independence OF the United States And he as no
longer loudly championing president Wilson and al his
works Is 1t possible that the Arizona senator mas
sHr eve out for his own election? It is not too much
to surmse for even M Ashurss severest critics admit
be IS Al astute politician His statement prepares the
Ground 50 that Republican hardly campaign against
him successfully by of attack his position on
the peace treaty And If v. P. Hunt wants to break