South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-27
APRIL II. 1920.
MAKING JOHNSON THE LONE SINNER.

Poor Hi Johnson His honesty, though IL be as
the honesty OF an ass infinitely superior in virtue
TO the hyrocracy. demagoguery. and Brutusesque
sneakery of his party colleagues but it is infni-
tude. which. Of course viii avail him nothing and
which perhaps should Having laid down with
swine is nothing him expect but that
ne must get up with the heas. Affairs in Europe
are becoming more and more critical every day.
The responsibility Of the republican party it, is
becoming so apparent due 20 its blocking ratihca-
ton oil Paris treaty League Nations-upon
which the allies had agreed a means of dealing
with those affairs,-that seemingly someone must
be made the goat" and Johnson being too out
spoken try to sneak out. appears TO have been
picked az the one to bear the blunt Get this from
the local. very Independent" republican organ:
Hiram Johnson won in the Nebraska rrcsi-
Dental primaries because ne received the Ger
and the prO-German vote.
He has received the German and pro-Ger-
man vote elsewhere notably in Michigan. The
Germans and pro-Germans favor him because
10 against the treaty of Versailles.
THE evidently was not won at Chateau
Thierry on Jhe Meuse in the Argonne. The is
sue is be decided at the polls of the United
States. unless the American people interfere.
The treaty which Furnishes Germany and
fastens her the burden justly deserved
should be ratified before the presidential cleo
ton. The Germans and the pro- Germans cam
nominate and elect the next president, but
they can make "A showing that will put the
United States in disgusting light before the
world which united 20 crush the kaiser"
Iii Johnson Is against the Paris treaty
and League of Nations than are Henry Cabot Lodge
James Eli Watson, Harry Stuart New Mai. Gen.
Leonard A. Wood. Gov Lowden Sen. Harding
any others of the reservaon:st clique. their
or less uniformed defenders The entire republican
program H. ,he senate has been an appeal to the
German aierican vote, quite the time. TO
the Irsh-American vote. and to every other hyphe-
mated n sight. even to the Dago-American. If
getting the best of the rest Of them they
have no right To kick than Johnson has be
cause; well perhaps. because he would like some of
the monetary support that ne is accusing his oEpo-
nents OF getting.
Johnson and the whole brace of anti-LeaEue and
ant-treatv irrcconclables. have numbered only u;
this including two democrats. The other republicans
if really wanting the treaty and League, could by
% joining with the democrats have afford
cd the document ratification nine months ago-but
they began playing TO the German American. the
IriSh-American and the Dago-American votes. long
even before the treaty was signed They soved thu
wind. are reaping the whirwind, and want to make
Hi Johnson appear the only unwise sower.
The Lodge reservations are nothing more nor less
thar scheme accomplish all that johnson has
stood for by the sneaking process of indirecton by
false Pretense. They haven't hid The TO fight
the treaty and the League. and consequently the
American people. open and above board. as John
has done, but have sought TO fool the peorle-
and learning that the people admire honesty
though IL be honesty in the unwisest OF
That is where the stomach-ache above quoted.
comes from. Il is the wall Of the demagogues.