Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-31
TREATY TO bE
 SECONDARY
 1920 ELECTION
Democrats Not Likely to Put Pact Unmodified in
 Platform
BY Fl. N. RICKEY

WASHINGTON, March 3O.--Ic has been assumed that the final refusal of the senate to advise and consent" to the ratification of the peace treaty would inevitably result in the treaty being the paramount issue in the com ing presidential campaign.
 It has also been assumed that the logic of the situation would make President Wilson the Democratic caididate for third term on a rati- without-reservation platform.
 Nothing better illustrates the con- fusion of thought on the subject Of the coming presidential campaign than that what nearly every one who thinks politically was thinking and saying a few short weeks ago hardly any one is thinking or saying now
 The senate has refused definitely 10 advise and consent" to the pres ident's treaty and sent the document back to the White House
 The treaty will not be a paramount issue in the coming campaign and President Wilson probably will not be a canddate.
 The treaty will not be the para mount issue, because when the final test came in the senate the only Dem 0cratic senators, with two exceptions. who by their votes acknowledged the presidents leadership. are from south of the Mason and Dixon line.
 By joining the Republican reserva- ton senators. and voting tc ratify the treaty with reservations. which the president said he would not accept, the northern Democratic senators re- pudiated the presidents leadership.
 Strange things happen in politics, but even in politics impossible things do happen.
 And in view of what happened in the senate to the treaty, it does not seem possible that the Democratic will adopt platform call ing for the ratification of the treaty without reservations.
 Even if President Wilson's health would permit of his being a candidate which it probably will not. he certain ly would not be a candidate on . | platform which did not unQualifiedly i demand treaty ratification without l reservations.
 It is not clear just what is to be done. if anything. toward straighten ing out the tangle of our relations i with the rest of the world between | now and the conventions of the two | parties.
 But whatever is or is not done can | not create d situation which will give ! the voters d chance to decide between ! the treaty which the president signed | and the treaty with the so-called : Lodge reservations. for which every | northern senator but two voted.
 The first reaction among the lead | CTS of beth parties to the senate ac' ton on the treaty is to bring purely | domestic questions to the front as the | basis for discussion as to politics and 
 This is exactly the opposite of tho ! reaction that was expected and pre- ! dicted up to short time ago and is another illustration of the confused | among the political leaders 1 of both sides.
 It is doubtful whether in the history | of the latter-day American politics : the near approach of the national con was fraught with so much l and indecision in respect both of platform and candidates as exists as this time. tHtft
 The old guards of both parties have been trying for months to get control of their respective situations, but neither of them has yet found form uIa that works.
 In each party there are half dozen or so avowcd candidates for tue presidency and not one of them has aroused enough popular enthusiasm {,