Arizona republican., 1919-06-25
Chairman Cummings

Chairman Cummings of the National DemocrahG Committee the most reckless of rainbow chasers is in our midst" MT. Cummings with a sufficient entourage has crossed the continent is thus on the back track. The whole journey has afforded him panorama of democratic triumph year. He has seen nothing but democratic returns from the elections that to be. As his train whzzed by the villages of Podunk Billville and Sorghum Center, he gathered unmstalabe proof of the overwhelming and rising prevalence of democratic sentiment. Everywhere he has viewed the disntegration of the republican party There will be nothing to do so far as his observations his transcontnental flight have impressed him but to count the votes, declare the result and give the republican party decent burial In all it's history and amid all it's viciss tides that doomed party thoroughly licked and put to sleep year before the beginning of a national campaign.
 But has Mir. Cummings seen all these things he professes to have seen? Has he imagined that he has seen them? Has he fooled himself? Is it not possible that he is trying to mislead the people?
 We do think that his has been ingenious y presented; that he has presented all the facts of which the people should be informed We think moreover that he is bent upon creating false issue. that of the League of Nations.
 2 address at the Y NJ C. A last night be republican; ah attempt by the republican party to disrupt the peace conference This opposition magnfed by him into abuse and vtuperaton of the president AS matter of fact, the republican party is not united in opposition to the league. Many of the eminent republican leaders are supporters of the league. We have doubt that Taft and Wicker sham and other foremost republicans will do far
  popular issue than the president plsh Nor is the democratic party united in support of the league.
 The press is for the most part for the league, perhaps, in the form in which it has been presented but in form. The division of the press with respect to it is, suppose, proporonae to public sentiment with respect it. Mir Cummings offers reason, by the way, why any American should be the league against it. He merely sets it up something of democratic Wilsonian creation and measures the Americanism of citizens by their attitude toward it.
 a matter of fact, few Americans of prominence have expressed opposition the principles of the league. The Knox resolution so bitterly denounced by MT. Cummings a deliberate to '1eave the world in chaos" does condemn the league but proposes to separate it from the peace treaty Bet ter than the Knox resolution however is the Root plan which divulged since Mir Cummings de. vsed his speech and did not engage the attention of the chairman That plan nsures the prompt ratification of the league without the change of word of it. a change of the meaning of word or phrase from the meaning which had been given it by it's friends. It only proposes that Mir. Wilson's gen. eralzations concerning doubtful things shall be agreed upon by members of the league as clear and specific
 What, asks MT. Cummings would the repub- cans have said about the president if instead ing led triumphant he had brought the nation disaster and defeat? Such criticism as has been made of the president has been only that while America has done well it might have done better if Baker had been earlier restrained by the president The chief blame of the president is for having left handicaps too long. It is believed that greater and earlier decision would have saved many thous- ands of American lives if indeed, it would not have saved America from the war
 No doubt there have been foolish partisan and dishonest attacks upon the president. but doubt whether any of them have equalled in unfarness and partisanship Mir Cummings presentation of ti.u democratic case.
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