The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-21
CAST OFF SPELL.
|OF FPARTISANSHIP
Mississippi Senator Appeals
to Republicans to Help
Ratify Treaty.
lARRAIGNS G. 0.P. LEADERS
Tactics Employed to Embar-
rass Wilson Worse Than
y Bolshevism Gone, Wild.

pute0 TO republican ledueTS IN du al
. raignment In the senate today b!
, Senator Harrison. democrat, Of Mis-
sissippi, speakip- in support OF tn
! league. tM
Never befoT = the discussion o
great nation : sstion," said Sen
ator Harrisoi : As deception beer
SO lavishly ! ! ced and misrepre'
sentation so .rously employed.
"Just crif : is always accept
able. But : opposition to inter.
national 7 ; s, such as are con.
: ltained in : : treaty. is founded or
rank par. hip and personal dis
like Of ocular individual, 1t Il
worse bolshevism gone Wild
i Naming Republican Leader Lodge
Chairman Hays, of the republican
national committee; Senator Borah
4 of Idaho; Senator Knox, of Pennsyl-
yania. and others, Senator Harrison
asserted that the republican leaders
had sought to embarrass President
Wilson at Versailles and now were
seeking to 'strangle" the treaty for
partisan purposes.
II appeal to you," said the Missis-
| sippi senator ito come out from that
/ spell of partisanship. Help us ratify
| this treaty. Give to the people the
| peace they desire.
| ''When China, stirred and influenced
| by expressions emanating from your
| leaders, refused to sign the peace treaty.
| they received a most sincere co-opera-
| ton and sympathy from you. When
| the representatives of America were
doing everything within their power
commensurate with rgnt and justice
a ruifh
Japan, your leaders famed the fires OF
discomfort and did everything to widen
\ the breach. You are still doing It.
Before Germany signed the treaty
your leaders in this chamber by elo-
quence that sounded to German ears
showed to them opposition that was
sympathetic and akin. Nothing has
been left undone by you to have failure
written over the conference door at Ver-
sailles. Your action is only comparable
to the conduct of the never-ceasing
hell ll-hounds Milton stationed at the in
fcrhal gates"
The objections raised over the Mon
roe Doctrine, withdrawal from the
league, racial and religious questions,
Senator Harrison said had been made
Ito allure and deceive the unsuspecting
public" He denied that Great Britain
could dominate the league or that the
Denounoes Series of Charges
Referring to charges that the black
race would control the league, he con-
stinued.
1.-THE black man at no place and ut
no time in history where he and the
white man sat at the same council
table dominated or controlled.
'The opponents also have appealed |
to the religious prejudice of the people, |
saying that the papacy might control, |
am Protestant, but l denounce as |
unfair, unjust and infamous such argu
nents against the league of nations.
You have tried to arouse the Irish
OF the nation into believing that If the
league of nations is adopted Ireland's |
hope for self determination is gone. You
have tried to arouse their prejudice.
There is nothing in that language (of
article X) that could be construed to
make it obligatory upon the United
States to interfere in any way between
Ireland and England. We might side
with Ireland
That the republican leaders also have
sought to arraign labor against the
lenSe was asserted by Mr.. Harrison, who
said their argument was exploded" be-
cause of the part Samuel Gompers had
in drafting the labor sections of the
treaty and also because. he said, vir-
tually every labor organization in the
country has endorsed the league almost
unanimously.
"'Do not think yourselves wiser than
your masters; do not think that the
wisdom of the republican party Is
lodged in your membership. The thous-
ands OF men and women throughout
the country who have never voted any,
thing but the republican ticket believe
that this treaty should be ratified.
"Sirs If you are to defeat it, let me
appeal to you to meet the issue in the
open. DO not put yourselves in the
attitude of voting reservations that are
meaningless or ratify 1t with a string
led to 1t, such string that will stran.
gle it,"
Reservations Unnecessary. {
The reservations urged by Chairman /
tays and other republican leaders, !
Senator Harrison said, are not only ,
Unnecessary, but would require re-
consideration Of the treaty by all the
lsnatores Through the hope Of man 1
tlnd for worlds peace"
The republican leader he charged Y
With having sought to arouse rectal q
abor, religious, Irish and other preju-
Ices in their partisan opposition. Their G
eal opposition, however. he declared, :
'as because President Wilson had I
and in making it. and because they I
bJected to the disarmament and COM r
1ercial equality clause. In this con- G
ection. he pointed out that NUM- a
ions industries are important in the Z
tates of prominent senators attacking :.
ne treaty. I
mo argument has been too falacious, I
o illustration too far fetched" said o
Ir. Harrison. "for you to seize upon o
your desperate efforts to becloud the D
'sue, They became jealous OF the
rowing ascendancy of this man (Pres-
lent Wilson,. He was becoming too
opular, too influential. Your opposi-
on arose simply and merely because II
e happened to be the spokesman and
'ader of another political party.
ad never believed partisanship would II
ecome SO acute that jealous leaders O.
,untry dimmed than to witness the "
scendancy of one individual simply a
ecause he was of a different politi- Il
Il faith.
Wilson Won Against Odds. oi
You tried by every possible means
'complshed against such unfavor- =
lie Odds in a foreign country. against G.
propaganda conceived by men in this ~
amber. adequately financed and con-
stently prosecuted. that his infu- r
ce might be destroyed and his plans
feated he won. |
And now, with the work finished,
d signatures of these able statesmen
the allied countries attached, you |
We organized the machinery of this |
dy that their work may be undone
irgaining has been INDUCED in and
effected that you might
rry out your nefarious schemes The |
stwhile pretended progressives OF the
publican party buried all their diff
'ences and solidly voted for the SEN
ors OF Pennsylvania (PenroseD and
yomng (Warren). as chairmen OF
2 finance and appropriations COM w.
tees. While II appeared an awak- ~
fro at Ataal ffV1Nn dN1H N~l
d the deliberate stacking of the for nc
IN relations committee against this tn