South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-10

letting the Paris treaty and League OF Nations 90
70 the people need be. rather than submit TO their
cmaseulation by anything like the Lodge reserva-
lions Mr.. Bryan did not approve OF the Lodge res
eryations. but regard until after cleo
iion' too long wait and encouraged eompro-
misses seeming in a frame Of mind TO have the dem
ocrats do all the compromising II necessary
The president made himself plain on the point.
III the senate wishes to saw what the un-
doubted meaning OF the treaty is. I shall have
no objection. There DE no reasonable OBJ
lection 10 Interpretations accompanying the act
Of ratification itself, but when the treaty is
ed-upOn / must know whether we have ratified
rejected IL. We cam rewrite this treaty.
We must take II without changes that alter It's
meaning or leave it, and after the rest OF the
world has signed H. Il will have In a few
days. We face the unthlnkable task os making
another and separate kind OF treaty with Ger
many"
Ii the situation sensbIy Afr. Bryan join
the republicans in seeking 10 psecptate that sort OF
'unthinkable task he wants to- but doubtful il
he helps himself the situation. or the party any
by doing any his name were Jim
Reed or Tom Gore Mr.. Bryan has been great as
set to the democratic party in the past however.
For years he was virtually the only man in il who
dared suggest something night for. and had
The nerve 20 fight for a. Democracy needs to re-
member Furthermore that but for Mr.. Bryan
might have gone down to d feat in 1912 under the
leadership OF the impossible Champ Clark, instead
Of coming out victorious under Woodrow Wilson:
also that in 1916. had not the Nebraskan cam
Daigned the west, despite the democratic national
committee. which sought suppress him-party
because he was anu-booze and PARTY because OF his
retirement from the Wilson cabinet,--the president
today would probably be Charles Evans Hughes In
deed, YES. he has many claims upon the gratitude
Of the democratic party. and though he may
taken in judgment in this instance and deserving
of criticism. the democrat who would him
overheard entirely makes mistake. lie has earned
The right 10 be a Withdrawing
faith red SO many good things that the country has
adopted.-and especially would those
democrats who must critcise him. let them 90 Q
intelligently. and not from prejudice because
he has been an anu-booze advocate. opposed 10
John Barleycorn their more preferred advisor.
Aside from which. and from the pre- sidents let
ter Atty. Gqn. Palmer. SEN Pomerene. former
Ambassador Gerard and several others. assured the
country that the party is still alive, Numbered
il broadcast that il is not ashamed Of its
indisposed to defend it. in reality, II the Jackson
day affair be taken criterion. democracy
was never more militant than IL Is today: not dis
posed 20 lie down. but this thing through
In a Nay. iNcame like bolt from clear sky Re-
puhlicans in congress have been making so much
noise that there seemed no chance for the demo
Gratis to break through. bnt they did. They seemed
TO have something to say and they said il.
OF the opposition viii fault Sore
body will ind some little word somewhere, COM
ma in the wrong place. period upside -dov
and they viii play that for while; that az =
the 2. O. D. custom--there being nothing to
play.