Milford chronicle., 1922-03-31

WHEN PRESIDENT HARDING submitted to the
United States the treaties formulated by the Con-
ference for the Limitation of Armament he said with
reference to their ratification:
Your government encouraged and has signed COM
pacts which had much to do in fashioning. If to these
advanced expressions the conscience of the leading
powers if to these concos guard against conflict and
lift the burdens if to all these the Senate will
not advise and consent then it will be futile to try again.
It begins very apparent that, in far as the
Wilson wing of the Democratic party is concerned the
Presidents words fell upon deaf There be
longer any doubt to conduct ibuster against the rat
fcation of the treaties before the Senate 1t
long been rmored and predicted that this would hap
pen Newspaper correspondents the confidence of the
Wilson Democrats predicted weeks two months
that the Democratic party machnery,whch is admitted
y in the control of the WlsonMcAdoo factionwOuld do
all within its to delay and defeat the ratification Of
the work of the Washington Conference.
The first concrete evidence of this upon the
vote to raty treaty with Japan regarding the Island
Yap An analysis of the roll call of the Senate shows
coere of senators known the Wilson crowd" to
have lined up soidy against the ratification of the Yap
treaty The next bit of evidence presented in the
speech Hitchcock of Nebraska opposing the
ratification of the Four-Power treaty Hitchcock
is ranking Democratic member of the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations and along with Senator Claude
Swanson Virginia, also member of the committee is
recognized of the Wilson crowd.
On the same day Hchcocks speech occurred the Tu
multy-Cox dinner in Washington This the crOwning
bit of evidence split in the Democratic party the
treaties in which it perfectly apparent that the Will
sonMcAdoo crowd against the treaties and
pared OUTLAW" those Democrats who in favor of
their ratification Attending this dinner the old Will
guard capained by Tumulty and the McAdOo guard,
captained by Internal Revenue Commissioner Dan
el c. Roper Hitchcock Pat Harrison and Rob
represented the upper branch of the Congress at
this dinner and the conference which followed it.
The highly significant feature about the dinner was
the absence of Senator Oscar Underwood official DEM
ocratic leader in the Senate, who member of the
American delegation at the Armament Conference and
who stands unaerably of the ratification of the
treaties formulated by that conference Another con-
spicuOus Democratic senator who not at the dinner
was Senator Pomerene of Ohio who is also in favor of
the ratification of the treaties.
It is no longer secret that the Democratic party
under the control of the WlsOnMcAdoO crowd
animated purely by partisan spite work. is determined to
prevent the ratification of the of the Armament Con-
and thereby delay reduction of naval armament
and corresponding reduction of hundreds of millions of
dollars in public taxes.
Another occurrence which has equal political sgnf-
canoe bitter and wholly unwarranted attack made
by Samuel Gompers Secretary Wallace and the Farm
Conference Mr. Gompers trouble apparently is due to
that the rather than Mr. GOmpeTs, ran
the conference This attack in keeping with the policy
of Mr. Gompers and his clique find fault with
thing in connection with the Republican administration
and every public policy that is not submitted
to Mr. Gompers and his crowd for approval. His attack
upon Secretary and the Farm Conference closely
followed the publication of the political program of the
American Federation of Labor decided upon by the
Executive Council of the Federation This program is an
-Repubcan and pro-Democratic from start to finish.
Mr. Gompers of the inner circle under the h
Wilson regime eight years and it is hard for
lm himself to the fact that he is not occupy
ng similar position with the Republican administration