Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-09
COMPROMISE DEAD,
TREATY FOE SAYS
Lodge Asserts Wilson Favors
lnternationalism Against
Americ anism
is READY FOR REFERENDUM

Washington, Jan. 0.--Senator Lodge,
OF Massachusetts, the Republican lead
er, declared in II statement last night
that he feared President Wilson's Jack
son Day message had made impossible
the hope that in the Senate we might
have come together and ratified the
treaty protected by the principles set
forth in the fourteen reservations"
The President has made his posi-
ton very plain said the senator. ''He
rejects absolutely the reservations
adopted by decisive majority of the
Senate. He says we must take the
treaty without any change which al
tiers its meaning. or leave IL. He will
permit interpretations, whatever that
may mean, expressing it's undoubted
meaning. when there is hardly line
of it which has not been questioned
and given many meanings. This per-
mission is valueles. He stands as he
has always stood, for the treaty just
as it is.SN
'The issue is clearly drawn. The
reservations intended solely to protect
the United States in it's sovereignty
and independence are discarded by the
President. The President places him
self squarely in behalf of information
alism against Amcricanism.
81 had hoped that in the Senate we
might have come together and ratified
the treaty, protected by the principles
set forth in the fourteen reservations.
The President. / fear. has made this
hope impossible. If it is impossible,
then we must bear the delay insepara-
BILE from the Presidents attitude and
appeal to the people. which l for one
shall most cordially welcome"
Senator Borah, Republican. of Idaho,
n -. 4 L.
ternity opposed to the treaty and the
Mr.. Wilson's letter with undisguised
elation.
Must Represent Himself
But Mr.. Borah went step further.
He declared that no man could repro
sent Mr.. Wilson in such contest and
I Mt it therefore was incumbent that the
President personally go before the peo-
pie as a third term candidate for in
dorsement of his position.
1t had an opposite effect upon those
cnators, Democratic and Republican,
who agree with Mr.. Bryan that the
treaty should be ratified; those senators
WIN have worked against the great odds
of the joint obstinacy of Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Lodge to bring about compro-
mise ratification.
Mr.. Borah and the irrcconci!able Re-
publicans are ready to split the Re-
publican party on the treaty issue.
They hold personal view and partisan
prejudice higher than international OBJ
legation or party principle, and except
for that element of the Democratic party
which holds that Mr.. Wilson can do no
wrong there is rather general agreement
that the President is as much bitter
ender'' as the Republican extremists.
Mr.. Wilson has left in hole Demo-
cratic senator's, seven of whom voted
for ratification with the Lodge reserva-
tions, who believed that sincere conces-
sions involving perhaps changes in the
principle of the league covenant. in so
far as the United States would be bound,
should be made to bring victory to the
treaty.
Compromise Door Not Closed
Senator McNary, of Oregon, and Sen
ator Lenroot. of Wisconsin, leaders of
the mild reservationists' among the
Republicans in the Senate, would not
concede that the President had closed
the door to compromise. but their op"
timism was not supported in other
quarters, especially Democratic.
10 bring about compromise on
basis of acceptance of the principle of
the Lodge reservations, which the SEN
ator from Massachusetts, holds to be the
Hirreducible minimum and has about
thirty eight Republican senators to
support him, it would be necessary for
thirty of the forty seven Democrats OF
the Senate to follow William Jennings
BRYAN in preference to Woodrow Will
son. ~
Seven Democrats voted for ratlhca l.
ton with the Lodge reservations on
November 10. On that final rollcall
| there were a total of forty one votes
for ratification. Mr.. Lodge therefore
needs twenty three additional votes
They must come from the Democratic
side, since fourteen Republican irrecon
ciliables are opposed to ratifying in any
form.
Mr.. Wilson dominates the organlza :
ton of the Democratic party. lhere
was not the slightest doubt that the
Democratic national committee II
adopting unanimously today its reso-
luton Endorsing the President ada
mant opposition to 'nullifying reserva
tions" was represented as having done
so in full. knowledge of what MIR. Bryal
was TO tell the Jackson Day diners to-
night. The national committee had the
toSt of Mr.. Bryan's speech early in the
day. as it was given out to the news
noncrs jn mimeegraphed form during
the afternoon. No one doubts that thu
resolutions committee, realizing VIVA
it's action meant. voted to go with tht
President instead of with Mr.. Bryal
/ in the matter of the treaty.