The Cordova daily times., 1920-02-26
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1920
THE SICK MAN OF THE WHITE
 HOUSE

Paris, made his appeal to the people for support against the senate and for the covenant of the League of Nations by saying that the United States had given it's word and must not fail.
 Every person who knows the United States constitution knew that the United States had not given it's word and could not give it's word until two- thirds of the senate consented. Lord Grey, for the British government, says that it was understood the United States had given no pledges until the senate had given them.
 MT. Wilson said that the United States would break the heart of the world if it did not accept without the change of word the covenant he had signed in Paris. Lord Grey says that the British are not only quite willing to accept the United States in the league with it's reservations, but that the British think the United States is right in protecting itself with these reservations. The French government has given the same assurances.
 Mr. Wilson thus made two attacks npon the credulity of the people by whom he was elected President to serve their interests. He called upon the American sense of honor when that honor was not involved. He called upon it's humanity for suffering Europe when suffering Europe said that what he wanted was not needed. He asked the United States to make sacrifices of it's sovereignty and Europe does not ask that they be made.
 An inexplicable leader of this na- tion, i'll in bed for months, unable to consult cabinet ministers or to receive foreign ambassadors, he finds that every reason he has urged for the surrender of American rights is erased by the very peoples in whose behalf he urged the surrender and nothing remains but the indomitable determi- nation to have his way even if he is unable either physically or mentally to explain why he alone in the world wants the United States to impair it's rights, amend it's constitution and sur render it's sovereignty.
 The men whom he controls in the senate do not understand either his position or lis statements. They do not know why he wants the things he insists they shall obtain. Men of his own party are in rebellion against him, but by the power of his unrea- soning "No," unexplained and unjusti- fed, he holds a minority in the senate as an obstacle to the majority. In his sick bed he is more powerful than the Americanism of the majority in the senate, more powerful than the rational leaders in his own party, and more powerful than the statesmen of allies who want us to come into the league upon our own terms.
 He has succeeded in spreading throughout Europe the idea that the Emitted States is a quitter. He has persuaded uniformed people in Great Britain and France that group o1 contemptible partisans in the senate prevented the United States from do ing what it ought to do for the re establishment of peace. He has spread the impression that the United States is a selfish, cowardly holdout
 When wise statesmen use the meth eds Lord Grey and Lloyd George have used to correct this injuious impres sion which is ruining the reputation of the United States and impairing it' friendships there is resentment at thu White House. It is intimated tha Lord Grey, the ambassador MT. Wilso1 would not receive even to present hi credentials, and who had to go bacl home, is guilty of a breach of propri ety which will make him unacceptable to the American government.
 It is an incredible phenomenon il