The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-05-12
THE MANNING TIMES, Manning. s. 6.

nounced by the President The Presi-
dent or Democratic Senators who vot-
ed for reservations will face repudia-
tion at San Francisco, he said.
Senator johnson said he had con-
sistently opposed the "league of ma
tions in its original form and with the
reservations appended" and added:
"The league presented to us was
either good or bad thing. If 1t
was as good as the President and his
associates insisted, it required neither
amendments nor reservations. II it
was as bad as we insisted, neither
amendment nor reservation could
make it good.
"The President has consistently
maintained his position, and I can re-
spect an adversary of that sort. Then
for whom / have no respect in this
contest are the men who were with
the President when they thought his
position was popular during the dis
cussion last year and who then de-
manded the immediate passage of the
league without reservations nor
amendments and who now with the
varying popular winds embrace the So
called Lodge reservations, which they
denounced for so long a time"
Jacksonville, May 1O.-'Broken
down in health by the weight of cares
and anxieties such as have fallen to no
other occupant Of that high office the
Chief Executive has been denied the
information essential to sound judg-
ment and safe leadership stated VIM
Jennings Bryan here today in replying
to President Wilson's plea to Oregon
Democrats to go into the campaign
standing four square in favor of the
treaty of Versailles and against the
Senate's reservations.
Mr.. Bryan stated it was impossible
for Mr.. Wilson to advise wisely with
|, out full knowledge of the situation
which, in his opinion, the Chief Execu-
live did not possess.
He said the Democratic party had
stood by the President and fought for
ratification without reservations as
long as there was any hope of securing
ratification without reservations-an
effort in which he heartily joins-but
the effort failed. Whether the Sem
ate acted wisely or unwisely in the
adoption of reservations, it acted upon
constitutional authority as complete
as the authority which the same con-
stitution confers upon the President,
said Mr.. Bryan.
He said the Senate endorsed reserva
ton by majority Of eighteen and the
tifty-seven Senators-thirty- Re-
publicans and twenty-three Democrats
who agreed upon reservations, con-
stituted more than two thirds of the
seventy-seven Senator'S who favored
ratification, but differed upon reserva-
tions.
"The issue now is whether the
Democratic party believes in the funda
mental principles of Democracy
namely:
"The right of the majority to rule,
said Mr.. Bryan, who also stated the
President asks the Democratic party
to make a campaig non the theory that
the presumption of wisdom is with
! twenty Democratic Senators, plus the
President, instead of with the ma
jority of the Senate, or even the ma
jority of the Democrats of the SEN
ate.
Mr.. Bryan urged an immediate rati-
fication of the treaty with reserva-
tions already agreed upon, leaving the
nation to secure afterwards in the
league such changes as may be deemed
necessary. In closing he stated the
Democratic party cannot die; it must
help solve the problems fthc day
democratic friends of the league OF
nations" he said, "should join Repub,
lican friends of the league and by sc
doing take the issue out of the cam,
paign and speak peace to war-dis.
| tracted Europe"