The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-23

tlon anu chuSo N""s"iiS'' W
heart .wearying task, was walking In
the senate office building, Senator
kenyon. Iowa republican, stopped me
and said Mcclellan. II is great crime
gested we get together In his office;
The next day we did so. and talked
the treaty all day, practically de
called In Colt. OF Rhode Island, ana l
called In Kendrick. Of wyoming. so
We spent all December working on the
treaty, seeing II we could not get q
wording agreement. -.
I'VE were all agreed to. hold the
moral part OF Article X, perhaps eiiml-
mating the legal ASPECT. We were De,
a. the Monroe doctrine has ruled,
through the sense OF its moral obliga-
ton. Then we determined to see II we
couldn't get the senate to agree 10
this. II took sixty-four senators.
democratic senators. l secured the
promises OF every one but dim Reed;
Kenyon had a harder time He had
10 get eighteen; he secured fifteen, and
there no stuck. The other three nee
essary could not be pried away from
Lodges control.
,"so then Kenyon went to Lodge, and
I to Hitchcock, and told them what we
ma done. They both thanked ~, and
determined to try the plan OF pipaIti-
san conferences themselves. 80 Lodge
called Y him Kenyon, g New ana s,,nm mon
and myself We went over the treaty
apain Tor many weeks. along the lines
OF my effort with Senator Kenyon.
Wilson Wiling.
II made II a point 70 discover tnht
President Wilson would agree to the
s.aat,, .atlaod as uA nropoAed to do II,
and he was willing to each Of the
reservations. He wanted the treaty
ratified on those terms.
Seven OF the eight senator's In the
conference were agreed on ou t L",r,,
Cabot Lodge. The burden Of the de-
feat OF the peace treaty lies on the
head OF Henry Cabot Lodge, veH
Ratlfy Treaty,s4s,, "a I1l.
I'VE must ratify the treaty, 70 save
tho wcrld from future wars. Eighty per
cent OF the nations taxes are for wars
ana preparations for war. The COST OF
one battleship would endow n splendid
university that could educate all the
Young manhood OF Tennessee. There II
some $500 0OO, 10000 OF wealth In the
world. or this one-fourth was con-
sumed In the war, which has JUST
will be bankrupt,
"ren millions OF lives OF the young
men OF the world were lost In the war.
war which arose from the infamous
desire OF tho infamous kaiser Tor more
territory. Cannon fodder We Don
want our youth az cannon fodder. Think
OF tho ten millions OF fathers. and OF
mothers we don't want any more
war; There In n crisis in the history OF
the country, and It IL up to the con-
science OF America.
II knew Harding, even before he was
in the senate. He Is generous
minded, courteous, good natured, Pill
able, yielding, wigglinE. webbing man.
Harding's first speech In the senate was
that he was against prohibition, never
was for Il and never would vote for IT,
When II camo up again. two years
later, there had been an election IN
Ohio, ana he had seen some sentiment
there for II, and he made another
speech, saying that he was stlll against
II but II looked like Ohio had changed
It's mind, ana no he would change his.
He did the same way on suffrage.
ION the league, Harding has changed
his mind 80 rapidly that we can't Keep
up with Il. He now wants to scrap the
very thing he has voted seventy times
for. so he says that every one or his
seventy votes was wrong lie was n
mild reservationist, but Lodge con-
tfolled him.
Harding voted for the Knox separate
peace resolution. rhat would make
America pay for all property and ships
of Germans seized by the United states
during tho war; n would also make us
pay for all damage done to German
property by our troops during the war
"That Is the sort OF man the cha
meleon candidate for president Isl
@. o. p, Not Responsible.
'"rhe republican party did not nom
mate Harding, How many or you re-
publlcans ever heard Of him before the
cenventionG Raise your hands" (hut
two hands were raiRedl NO, II was
Lodge, penrose, Smoot. BrRnuegee and
Knox that nominated Harding; that
little senate oligarchy.
"Now no proposes an association OF
nations. Who could join such an ASSOC
Ciation9 Bolshevistlc Russia; Rnarchis-
tic Germany, anarchistio Austria, the
unkpeakable Turks; Infamous Mexico
and the United States OF America,
There are forty-three nations OF the
world now In the league. and these nVe
are all that remain out
Harding has taken many stands,
After his association was pooh poohed,
he wanted n world court OF Justice
along Roots plan, until a newspaper
man told him that In was part OF the
league, and under the league, when he
said no, no, never Then came the
world court OF conscience. whatever
that might he, And from wohhle TO
wohhle untll Johnson and korah read
him the riot act and made him come
out ut Des Molnes unenurocally against
the league, This ia n fine sort OF man
to have for president"
Tho senator concluded his address
with an outline OF the progressive
democratic achievements OF the Wilson
administration Including the federal
reserve banks. laws FOR labor. and SO on.
ana with an eulogy OF Woodrow Wilson.
He received throughout the closest
attention, and NJ the end came a great
burst OF cheering. tribute both 10
senator MCHCilHrR great personal
popularity, and TO hts iucid and rorccril
presentation OF the great moral issue