New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

zion that complications in conferenc,
are many and not clearly understood
ns.e' strong and successful stant
now VIII carry the league"
Appeals to American Jury
=, Another. on April 13. SIGNED hv Mr.
Iatt and Mr.. Lowell reads:
Friends of the covenant are sor;
ous'y alarmed over report that an
u'nehament will be made more snec;fi- :
eally safeguarding Monroe Doctrine
az iuil meeting of executive committee
o. ~, League to Enforce Peace. with
snirty members from eighteen states
p,esent, unanimous opinion that with.
ots % such amendment Republican Sen
ot ns ts WIN certainly defeat ratification
susts;n u".y, y, because public opinion will
trea+,, ,,,;,, ;meih. with such amendment,
Thyo WI. W. oe promptly ratified"
ne mite House memorandum ~ ade
puonc by Governor Cox, said that the
.eesues reservation Of domestic nnea-
IT. r.ons was made "as suggested bv Mr.
az. ~, ana almost in his own words" All
~ 'ne otner suggestions from Mr.. Taft
:. s.ated' were followed, as shown bv
quotations from the league covenant.
r. IN making public the correspondence
Eovernor Cox's statement said that
t'me had arrived "to bring before the
amer mean jury the recorded evidence
;t a., tnat the league is the compos-
.t .se 'nougnt OF the leading statesmen of
ene world and that it "incorporated
all the suggestions that were honestIu
liens" Wv
Sees Partisan Conspiracy
~ Nltlng suggestions by Elihu Root.
SCharles Il. Hughes and others, Governor
(l0X. boil
partisan conspiracy"
1T seems but yesterday" said Gov
ernor Cox, "that all the leaders of
american thought were for the league.
Inc past eighteen months of plot and
conspiracy, holding up the civilization
OF the world and tearing at the heart
strings of humanity for political pur-
poses; are as nightmare"
Governor Cox referred to the White
House dinner in February, 1919, at
which President Wilson, he said, con-
1erred upon the league covenant with
the Senate Foreign Relations and For
elgn Af1alrs Committee, and added:
but before this meeting Henry
cabot Lodge, as the arch conspirator of
the ages, had uttered his defiance and
issued the mandate that peace should
not be if it came as the result of effort
IN which the President had directing
hand. partisan victory born in ha-
tired and discomfort was his goal let
the cost to civilization be what it
might. In sequence, few days after
the conference, Senator Lodge produced
his Infamous round robin, signed by
thlrty-seven Republican Senators, who
declared that the league was not ac-
ceptable in the form presented, but
who, under partisan leadership, made
no suggestions of any kind for its i'm
provement as q means of preserving
the peace of the world.
Proposals Not Unheeled
"1n this connection let it be empha-
sized that not one single suggested
amendment, received from any respon-
slble source, went unheeded; instead,
the majority of suggestions were re-
quested by the Pres dent to be put into
writing, and were incorporated in the
revised draft, virtually verbatim
"Then after the President returned
in July, 1919, with the treaty and the
final draft of the covenant he again
conferred with all the members of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions. The conference was public in
the sense that official stenographers
were present and the questions and an
swers were given to the newspapers
as rapidly as transcripts could be
made. At this meeting there developed
the visible evidence that the Sena-
torial ring of the reactionary forces
had perfected their partisan con-
spiracy, that they had no desire to
understand the covenant, and that they
purposed to becloud and confuse the
public mind. Their attitude was one
of evident and impacable hostility.
"Previous to this development the
President had appeared in person be-
fore the Senate and had discussed the
treaty in submitting it-something no
other President has done in more than
one hundred wears"