The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-03-15
DEMOCRATS EXPECTING
CAMPAIGN FOR LEAGUE
TO SPLIT REPUBLICANS
Nationwide Speechmaking For and
Against Scheme Planned.

Washington, March 13.-With the
abandonment by the Republican sena-
tors OF their filibuster against the
victory loan bill, which passed the
Senate at the end OF 4 session last
ing until daylight this morning, Pres
ident Wilson has won victory over
the opponents of the League of Ma
tions, who were trying to create q
situation that would make an extra
session necessary.
The contest over the league will
now be taken before the people.
Opponents of the league and Ameri-
can supporters Of 1t are perfecting
arrangements for the nationwide
speech-making campaign which will
be opened in New York next Tues
day night, when Wilson and Will
liam H. Taft will jointly address a
big meeting in favor of the league.
Later in the week Senator Borah,
Republican, of Idaho, and Senator
Reed, Democrat of Missouri, will
start the ball rolling for. the oppo-
sition by speaking in New York.
Taft's advocacy Of the league and
his willingness to join President Will
son on the same public platform in
the campaign for it's ratification have
made such an appeal to the Republi-
cans, not only possible but the logi-
cal thing for the Democrats to do
Hope to Disrupt G. o. p.
They hope to disrupt the Repub-
lican party of campaign not only
for the purpose of advancing the
prospects of the league, but also with
a view to the presidential campaign
of 1920.
Should the League of Nations be
finally accepted by the country with
the help of Republican votes, as it
will have to be If it is ratified at all
by the senate, the Democratic lead
ers believe the Republican party will
process that it will be in no po-
sition to conduct a successful presi-
dental campaign.
During the two or three months
Of Wilson's absence in Europe the
best campaign orators Of both sides
will tour the country and discuss be
fore the people the issue that has
now become paramount in American
politics.
The speeches made by friends and
opponents of the league in the Sem
ate in the last Two weeks and Presi-
dent Wilson's Boston and New York
addresses, as well as the speeches
of Taft, will be circulated broad
cast in the mails and will serve as
as the textbooks for each side of the
controversy. The great efforts of
the president as disclosed in his ad-
dress on Friday to members of the
Democratic National Committee, will
be to divide the Republican party
on the issue.
Democrats Elated.
Democrats elated today over the
division in the Republican ranks in
the Senate last night, when the vote
was is to 12 in their conference
against defeating the victory loan
bill, the only thing which might have
made II absolutely necessary for Will
son to call an extra session. They
profess to see in this action hope
full circumstance, and they are pre-
dieting tonight that by the time the
president is back from his second
trip to Europe the Republican senti-
ment back home will have brought
many lukewarm opponents OF the
league into line for it, so that rati-
fication will he assured"
The republicans say that 1t win
only be necessary to present the
question Vi its true light to the
people to insure an overwhelming
demand for the defeat Of the league.
They assert that the people have
been carried of their feet by thel
"glittering generalities" of Wilson
and his promise of world peace as
a result OF the operations Of the
league,