Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-17

the national committee and in his
second campaign about i've hundred
.dollaFs.~I have always liked him per-
sonally and my relations with him
have been most cordial. He IS g1ft-
ed with one of the brightest minds l
have ever seen. have never failed to
make him see my point Of view when
I could go to him in his studio and
discuss a matter quietly with him
without intrusion. Only when in
company with other people was the
president averse 60 changing his
mind.
Contrary to some of the false
statements circulated in south Geor-
gia, there was never the slightest
friction between US on the federal
and told me the president would APP
point any man L suggested, but de-
clined to accept the offer, and told
him south Georgia was Senator HARD
wick's territory and L would not IN
terfere with him. There was never
the semblance of an acute difference
between myself and the president un-
til the fall of 1918, and then [ did
differ with him most emphat1cally,
when he authorized Bernard Bafuch
to raid the cotton market, costing the
farmers of my state more than fifty
million dollars on their cotton crop.
I am satisfied that if / could see him
now and if he were well, | could
show him L was right, but NOBODY
sees him except his wife, his physi-
clan and his secretary. Wnen ieht
Washington, no member or the CAP
met, with possibly one exception, had
seen him in months. Senator Hitch
cock had begged to see him on the
peace treaty matter. McAdoo mas
been to the White House twice IN re-
cent weeks and has not seen him. lie
is isolated from the world, Isolated
from the country, isolated from the
government, isolated from the lead
ers of his party
Obligations In League
The senator's exposition of the OBJ
LEGATIONS placed upon the Unlted
States by Article x of the League OF
Nations covenant was one o % amI
most powerful he has yet deIlvereu.
He showed that President wilson
went TO Paris with announced lnten-
ton of giving subject peoples the
right of self-government. he reao
an extract from the presldents Ia
Gil in Paris in January, 19lo, III
which he declared that the founda-
tions of the war must be swept away,
that those foundations were the mold
ing together of empires OF un"llllhs
subjects by the duress OF arms
But instead of a treaty giving
subject peoples the right of selt-goV-
Eminent. as the senator showed, there
was brought forth a settIement CIV
ing African colonies, Egypt, Mesoposs
to mia the islands of the4Pacitlc ana
other colonies to Great Britain; Nv
ing SYRIA to France; giving SnantuHs
TO Japan. And there was prougnt
forth a League of Nations that
obligates the United States IN At At
ticIe x to protect and preserve ClIe
control of those nations over Iio 80
subject peoples for the balance; ~ >,
time Everybody GOT s son eI TTnifed
States" .,oo
"what we got was the prlvllege
IF beinine them keep what they goL.
We NAV be obliged to cross the sea $50,
apsin to crush some barbarous enemy
Of civilization, but ms missy {ol ifiS' Who
S MiII then C do the lighting, and bear
We burdens and endure the sorrow,
decide the question for themselves
VINE" = TRYING to Save Party
Concluding this argument the SEN
ator said:
at do not want our party 10 OIL m
dorse the League of Nations WITH
ont reservations. I do not want our
Darty to nominate President wilson
for a third term. l am IN TINS PR
mary to prevent Mitchell Palmer
from delivering Georgia's delegates
TO either proposition, for such a pro-
gram would destroy the party. NO
man can stand before the American
people and defend the League OF Ma
lions as the president brought 1t
back. If you are interested in this
great issue, go to the polls next
Tuesday and vote your convictions
You will render your party a SPLEEN
did service. And now 1 would like
for ali of you who agree with my
line of reasoning to hold up your
hands"
Nearly every hand in the audience
went up. There was not single
vote on the other side. At the close
of the speech the audience gave the
senator a prolonged ovation. Scores
of men flocked around him and told
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