The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-29


no longer audible, should recall that one William jennings
bryan was working overtime in Washington, when ne wasn't
on the stump, opposing the ratification of this treaty and trying
to rally his party against it. And among the most vociferous
of his supporters were Senator Hitchcock, Champ Clark and J
Ham Lewis, who had threatened to read out of the party any
man who even voted for the bonds to finance the war after it
was formally declared. And these same gentlemen who have
been shouting parisanism at all who hesltated>to place their
rubber stamp on the presidents treaty twice afterward urged
|nrs Bryan on the people as their candidate for president.
When Mr. Wilson returned from Paris last spring he
sailed his ship. at the governments expense, 400 miles out of
The way to land at the home. of the chairman of the foreign
relations committee of the senate with a chip on his shoulder
and a challenge on his lips, to.arouse the constituents OF that
senator to force the surrender of his own convictions, what.
ever they might be, and yield obedience to the executive will
Before returning to Paris he summoned senators to the White
House and learned at first hand that there was strong objection
to coupling the proposed league of nations with the treaty OF
peace. He disregarded this. And then thirty-nine senators,
more than enough to prevent the ratification of the treaty,
notified him and through their action the conference at Paris,
that the league covenant, whatever it might contain, must be
considered on its own merits and not as a rider" to the treaty
that would restore peace to the world, on which the people
were impatiently waiting. Mr.. Wilson's response to this, IN
his parting address, was:
when the treaty comes back, gentlemen on this side will
find the covenant not only in it, but so many threads of the
treaty tied to the covenant that you cal not dhsect the cove-
nant from the treaty without destroying the whole vital
structure.
The conference at Paris took these senator's at their word
and proceeded to disentangle the two documents. When Mr..
Wilson reached Paris there was a scene, and the treaty and the
covenant were again united.
During this time and later Mr.. Lloyd George, premier OF
England, visited and revisited the seat of his government,
seeking always the view of the people and those responsible
to the people. Orlando of Italy was twice called home for
conference. Clemenceau was in touch all the time with those
who were, with him, responsible to the people. The repre-
sentative of one nation, and one only, stood alone making hi
individual view supreme, and defying all others.
No president of the United States ever had the people o.
America more firmly united behind him than Wilson had from
the time we entered the war to the 2fth of last October, when
lin spite of his previous plea that politics be adjourned" h.
asked the people from the White House for the election to
congress of those only who were of his party. The people, by
a N majority of more than 100000, rebuked this appeal for more
power and a nation that should be still, and was united, was
al once divided.
1t was aply remarked that on October a, any man who
spoke disparagingly of the president anywhere was in danger 0
Ia swift punch in the nose, which was as likely to come from a
republican as from a democrat. The next day any man could
call him anything anywhere.
All this represents a state of mind. There are millions of
Americans who feel toward Wilson as they have never felt
toward any other president-who feel toward him as they hope
never to feel toward any future president. Certainly they are
not all responsible for this state of mind. For they once sup
ported him as Loyalty as the members of his own family could
have done.
Who is responsible for this state of mind?
LET THEM 81 EEp IN FRANCE