New-York tribune., 1920-02-12
Treaty Ratified
Before Mar. /,
Says Harding
Predicts That Wilson Will
Accept the Covenant With
the Reservations as Of
fered by Senator Lodge
No Third Term Race
Senator Believes Pres;deu.
Will Not Be- Candidate
Under Any Condition

Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio
said last night at the Waldorf f-Astoria
before leaving with Mrs. Harding for
Portland, Me-, where tonight the Sen
ator is scheduled to make Lincoln
dinner address, that in his judgment
the peace treaty covenant with the
Lodge reservations will be ratified be-
fore the end of the present month, and
that the President will accept the treaty
as ratified. In his opinion President
Wilson will not, in any circumstance.
be third-term candidate.
Senator Harding is strongly oppos sed
to the Wilson policy of selling ocean
going steamships built here during and
since the war to foreign countries
which are sure to be our competitors in
commerce
"All the indications warrant the pre-
diction that the treaty with the Lodge
reservations will be ratified before the
end of this month, and it may come
within few days" said Senator Hard
ing. "The President must realize by
this time that the sentiment among
Democratic Senators is such that rati-
fication as proposed by the Republicans
is inevitable. l think we shall have rs
votes for the ratification.
Sale Of Ocean Tonnage
"The policy of the Wilson adminis-
tration in preparing to sell to Euro
pean nations ocean tonnage built by
this country during and since the war
is all wrong and cannot too strongly be
combated; There are perhaps hum
dred of the small commerce ships that
we could we'll dispose Of. / refer to
as we'll as the steel ships of $500 tons
built on the Great Lakes, at Cleveland,
Saginaw, Chicago and other places.
They, perhaps, cannot be operated with
profit by our shipping people. We should
refrain from selling any ships Of $500
tons and upward except to American
shippers, to be sailed under our own
flag, and for the benefit of the main
tenance of our commerce"
Following the visit of Senator Hard
ing to New York it was said yesterday
by his friends that he would have the
forty-eight delegates from Ohio in the
Chicago convention, and about $50 from
outside the state, making him a real
contender in the convention for the
nomination for President
The Harding men are not spending
any considerable amount of money to
boom the Senator, and they are not
entering other states for support. 1t is
the judgment of the Harding men that
there will be at least ten candidates
presented at Chicago, and that no one
Will have a commanding lead on the
first ballot. After the first ballot, the
Harding men say, the leading men of
the convention will take time to size up
the situation and then agree upon a
candidate upon whom all of the dele
gates can unite.
Situation in State
The Harding men do not believe that
ne VIII be either General Wood, Gov
ernor Lowden or Senator Hiram w.
johnson. When asked if the Harding
men would try to obtain support for
the Senator in New York State they
said that they understood that Nicholas
Murray Butler would have the support
of the New York delegation until Il
became apparent that the nomination
should go to some other candidate
The four delegates es-at-large from Ohio
pledged to Senator Harding are ex-Gov-
ernor Myron T. Herrick, Ex-Governor
Frank B. Willis, Merrick Calvin and
Harry M. Daugherty.
The Harding men said yesterday that
the General Wood campaign managers
are mistaken in assuming that General
w ood is the second choice Of the Hard
ing men, as there is no understanding
to that effect. They said that the
friends of General Wood were told that
II they made no contest for delegates
IN Ohio they would be afforded a
square deal, with no partiality in favor
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