Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-04-07

is one place | would have to draw the
line.
81 couldn't believe that it was pos
sible for any state to elect delegates
endorsing the league as it stands or
Mr.. Wilson for a third term
couldn't believe it possible. And now
come the results from the Michigan
primary. There we had five men on
the Democratic ticket. Four of them
were not candidates. They said they
were not running and asked the peo-
pie not to vote for them. Palmer
alone was an avowed candidate, and
stumped the state. What were the re-
suits? Hoover leads, with over IT,
900 votes. Then come Edwards,
Bryan and Palmer leading at the tail
end, with less than tenth of the
party vote cast. Now what sort of
candidate would he be for us? How
stupid would it be for US to nomi-
nate the president for third term
or endorse the League of Nations as
it stands.
Going To Pennsylvania.
'I'll tell you what | am going to
do. | am going to Pennsylvania after
the goth of April and beat him in
Pennsylvania, He is already beaten
there, however, so | am not claiming
much for myself. Pennsylvania
Democrats send word that he is not
seriously considered in his home state
for the presidential nomination.
haven't a doubt but that as the
Democratic nominee | could carry a
great many more states than Mitch
ell Palmer. | think he was really
sick yesterday at Gainesville, and
that the result of the Michigan pri-
mary had nothing to do with his con-
dition. | sent him a telegram ex-
pressing my regretsA But | will say
that, were | in his place, and ran as
he ran in Michigan, l would go
home"
Senator Smith then discussed in
detail the League of Nations, pre-
senting the reservations upon which
he insists and his reasons therefor
He showed that President Wilson
took to Paris six -Messrs.
Lansing, White, Bliss, House, Auch-
incloss and Miller-and that all of
these advised him most strongly
against the obligations put upon this
country by the covenant as adopted
by the peace conference, and that all
were dismissed from the presidents
councils sooner or later, the last one
being Secretary Lansing. He show
ed that Herbert Hoover, confidential
adviser to the president, also urged
him most strongly in a confidential
letter not to accept the covenant as
forced upon him by the European
diplomats.
Not Same Article 10.
He showed that President Wilson's
article 10 as drafted here and taken
to Paris was totally different both
in language and spirit from the ar
ticle 10 prepared by General SHUTS,
which the conference adopted The
presidents article 10 especially gave
to subject people the right to deter
mine for themselves whether they
should be subject or should govern
themselves. He showed that article
10 as urged by Attorneys Auchincloss
and Miller, the presidents advisers
on international law, was likewise to-
tally different from the General
Shuts version which the president
brought back and commanded the
senate to accept without a change,
for these advisers urged that the con-
tracing parties pledge themselves to
respect the territory of one another
and stop at that point, instead of
binding themselves to protect and
preserve" one another's territory.
The senator explained that the re-
/ servation he wishes to make in ar
ticle 10 is nothing more destructive
or multiplying than a provision re-
quiring the approval of congress in
each separate case where the United