Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-27
CAPITAL STIRRED
BY WILSON'S ACTION
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
BY ROBERT BARRY.


Special to Indiana Daily Times
ana Philadel phia Public Ledger.
BY ROBERT BARRY.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27.-Something
akin to a political sensation stirred
Washington over statements by compe-
tent Democratic spokesman that Wood
row Wilson had decided to wage active
warfare against ratification of the Hard
ing Hughes treaties with Germany, Aus
tria and Hungary, now pending in the
Senate
Mr. Wilson's return from Elba" was
said to have resulted from reports thai
Democratic members Of the Senate were
prepared to fight the Harding Hughes
treaty. The former President is under
stood to have invited to his home a num-
Der OF his closest friends and there to
have rallied them once more to the ban
ner of the League Of Nations, and the
common cause with our partners in the
war"
The former Presidents return for
another battle with Senate over inter
national policy a related by his con-
ferees. rested on a stout conviction that
tine pending instruments were separate
treaties and constituted such an abandon
ment of the nations with which the
United States was associated in the war
that Democrats should not support
them.
The concern of the French foreign
office over the proposed withdrawal OF
American troops from Germany-de-
scribed by treaty opponents as a selfish
abandonment Of the Allies-is greeted as
q most helpful aid to the Democrats.
Only yesterday the former President, &C
companied by Mrs. Wilson, drove past
the White House.
Executive avenue The former President
looked very fit.
Mr.. Wilson's Intervention complicate5
things badly in the Senate fight. Sena-
tors Jim" Reed oe Missouri and
Tom" Watson of Georgia, Democrats,
are opposed to the Harding Hughes
covenants because they believe them a
back door entrance to the League Of Ma
tons Now, the Wilson Democrats are
against the treaties because they are
IAN abandonment Of the allies"
SENATOR LODGE
EXPLAINS THINGS.
on the Republican side Senator Borah
proclaims with great ability the fears
If Reed and Watson. while Hiram John
son and others of the famous Battalion
Of Death" 90 along with the Admins
tration, which contends through Senator
Lodge that the treaty foes are running
finn shadows.
Senator Lodge took the Senate floor to
deny rumors that the Republican Admin
istration was embracing any ghosts of
Mr. Wilson'S international policies in the
pending treaty.
Mr.. Lodge responded to the challenge
that American participation In the deci-
sions Of the reparatious commission was
but a step toward involvement in the Yer
sailles treaty and The League Of Nations
The Majority Leader denied charges the
Republican party having refused to fol-
low Mt. Wilson through the front door
at Geneva was trying TO sneak In through
a side entrance.
Mr.. Lodge pointed out that without
any treaty, the President could name 4
personal observer or any international
body or could, through an act Of Con
gress. create the office of Repreations
Commissioner. Under the reservation pro-
posed by the Foreign Relations Commit
tee he said, the treaty conferred not one
iota Of supplemental power.
Senator Borah INDUCED in 4 sharp at
tack on the pending treaty with Germany.
He declared 1t meant inevitable embroiI-
ment in the treaty Of Versailles.
TREATY DEAD WITH
DISARMAMENT"
Il think" Mr. Borah said. through
the league Mr.. Wilson hoped to anchor
ate its conditions and humanize the terms
Of the Versailles treaty. So, standing
alone the Versailles treaty is to me more
objectionable because Of the principle Of
force which runs through il, the policy
in which it is founded and the theory on
which it is built.
I'VE have called a conference to con-
slider the question Of disarmament. 1t
is my oplon disarmament by land is an
impossibiity SO long as the Versailles
Treaty continues I'm existence. With the
League of Nations eliminated from it, It
stands there as a complete miltaristio
document making it impossible TO dis
arm Europe until the Versailles Treaty
shall have been executed. The moment
you stack any arms the treaty is as
dead as Julius Caesar Until that treaty
shall have been executed and the count
less subject peoples who are under 1t
shall have been reduced TO subsection
reonaEe if you please and have ac-
cepted their fate. you will have no dis
armament in Europe The League OF
Nations itself instead of becoming. as
was hoped by Mr. wilson, an instru-
mentality Of peace, has been reduced to
an instrument to execute the sinister
mandates Of the military instrument It
self."-Copyright 1921, by Public Ledger
Company