The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-02-23
TREATY TO Be MADE
ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN
Opposition of lrreconciIables
Makes II Certain People Will
Pass on League.

The Peace Treaty will be pushed
further into the Presidential cam
paign by the Senate this week.
Republican and Democratic lead
ers regard the die cast, the issue
fixed Ratification. they consider
hopeless for the present. The refer
endum, the verdict OF the people at
the polls, favored not alone by Pres
ident Wilson In his prophetic jack
son Day dinner message, but the
Senators Of both Of the big parties,
they accept as inevitable.
Both Sides Concerned. :
Both sides view the outlook with
natural concern. Torn by conflicting
opinion and fractional strife as are
party lines in. the Senate, as re-
suit OF long, nerve-racking weeks OF
bitter dissension over the treaty. Re:
publican and Democratic leaders out
side the Senate are engaged desper-
ately in seeking to prevent the treaty
from rending the Chicago and San
Francisco conventions.
The bitter verbal attack by Sena-
tor Hiram Johnson of California on
Elihu Root and the "Old Guard" lead
ers who steam-rollered the unofficial
Republican State convention at New
York city last week into advocating
ratification with the Lodge reserva-
tons. is but one rift in Republican
harmony certain to be felt at Chi
cago:
Lodge Faces Fees.
Senator Lodge OF Massachusetts,.
the Republican leader of the Senate.
Is only one OF the "Old Guard" who
find themselves in daily conflict with
Republican Senators like Johnson,
who are determined to fight the pro-
posed commitment of the American
people to the League of Nations to
a finish. reservations or no reserva-
lions.
Lodge is OF the opinion the Repub
lican party at Chicago will take the
same position on the treaty as did
the Root controlled Republican gath
ering at New York city.
Johnson and Senators Borah of
Idaho and other Republicans are OPP
posed to its doing SO. They intend
to go before the people in the CAM
paign. before and after the conven-
ton, on a straight, out-and-out repec-
ton of the League Of Nations idea.
II they are overridden at Chicago,
they may head a third party-an
American party. They are making no
bones about that. The possibilities
OF the situation may develop more
than the threat Of a third party even
before Chicago.
81 have spoken at forty-two mass
meetings already in this campaign
upon the question Of reservations and
the fundamental principles involved
in the league covenant" Borah said.
1.-THE audiences go to sleep upon the
question of reservations.
"They say as an old farmer in Iowa
said to me: The question of reserva-
tions is a question Of dispute between
international lawyers. We do not
know whether unless" means the
same as until" but we do know we
meshed in the affairs of Europe, and
We do not want to be embroiled in her
troubles.
1--WE do not care whether we are
going in face foremost or back in,
whether we are going in with or with
out reservations. What we want to
know is. Are we going in?'"
Lodge win Push 1t.
1.-THE treaty is going into the cam
paign,- Lodge said. mo matter what
the Senate may or may not do, we
are not going to take the treaty out
of the camapign. How idle 1t is TO
even think it is coming out Of the
campaign"
Unless the Administration side is
willing to accept the Lodge reserva-
tons respecting Article X and the
Monroe doctrine substantially as
they are, at is only fair to the coun-
try and to the Senate to have it un-
derstood there are not enough votes
to ratify the treaty" Mr.. Lodge said.
Senator Hitchcock, the Administra-
ton leader, still declared there were
not enough Administration Senators
ready to accept these reservations
without substantial changes to de-
velop the two-thirds vote essential to
ratification.
That was the situation today as
the Senate prepared to wrestle again
with the question Of reservations
after 1t disposes Of the railroad bill.
Before the weekend it was Lodges
purpose to have the Senate act on the
rest of the reservations, as it acted
on the first OF them Saturday. when
efforts to reach a compromise re-
suited in failure, and the Senate found
itself as far away from ratification
as 1t was exactly a year before, when