Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-01
SAYS SEN. BRANDEGEE WAS
 BRAINS OF TREATY FIGH'

BRAINS OF TREATY FIGHT
 If the Washington correspondents were to take a vote on the brainiest man in the whole senate, they might surprise the na- tion by picking out Brandegee," says a special desi2atch in Mondays New York Sun from it's Washington bureau There is no question but that Senator Brande- gee of Connecticut was what might be known as the brains of the treaty fight" it continues after saying that mo one has ever give him the proper measure of credit for his work, or debit, if you like the league of nations" This, it explains, was because the Connecticut senator did not seek the limelight but kept in the back grousd
 The following Is a copy of the article '1n K street, near Sixteenth street, in Washington, are three houses that in the opinion of followers of Woodrow Wilson, would be called ''Murderer'S $ Row" In the opinion of others, who do not follow Mir. Wilson, but who believe in the traditional rolicy of non-entangling alliances, these houses might properly be preserved as one of the shrines of the American Republic Tn the house nearest Sixteenth street on the north side, lived the late Senator | Knox of Pennsylvania. In the the next | house lives John Kirby, formerly an as- | siStant in the publication of Harvey's weekly. In this house George Harvey gen | erally stays when he comes to Washing | ton. In the third house lives Senator Brandegee of Connecticut-F'rank Bos- worth Brandegee.
 Tt was in this row Of houses trat the l league of nations was nurde cred or sent to | a rightful death, as you would have it. l There were held the council of war of the ireconcilables and the battalion of death. There were wont to gather Knox, Brande- | IIoT NTosfN1 fnIr pd t6a others who carried on the fight against the league of nations through the whole of 1919 and part of 1920. There was where the orders were given, the strategy de- cided
 ''The parts that Knox and Harvey play ed are we'll known to the public. Knox was the great international lawyer; liar vey the pHIblicist. But the lCart tha- Brandegee played was as important as either of these, possibly more so, and nc one has ever given him the proper measure Of credit for his work, or debit, if yor like the league of nations.
 Brandegee Brains of Treaty Fight.
 'PThere is no question but that Grande
 gee was what might be known as th<
 brains of the treaty fight As a mat ter of fact, if the Washington cores
 pondents were to take a vote on tht
 brainest man, In the whole senate they
 might surprise the nation by picking ou
 Brandegee He is clever, he is adroit he thinks clearly and well. He has . remarkable faX1Ity of knowing wfha: the other fellows will do and of making the proper move to stop him. He know
 the abilities and limitations of his col 7 leagues, and like a. general, knows hay to place and dispose of his allies
 During the treaty fight Brandege
 
 any one who opposed the league 0 { nations. Johnson and Reed and Bo ] rah, of course, were the great speech
 makers, the men who provided tn
 noise, the oratory and the fireworks
 They were the Paul Reveres who wen ? up and down arousing 1t to the possl V bilities of the league of nations an , warning against 1t. But their part wa | i no less important, probobly not so muc : so, as that of Brandegee who seldoI . made speeches outside the senate, an e of no great effect even there. but Win : was on the inside all the time plannin S scherning, plotting, if you will, the deat s of the league of nations
 Many of the ideas used in the treat e fight sprang from the brain of Brandt y gee. Most of the strategy was his. H ! for instance, seemed dnstinctively e know haw to make President Wilso e more and more stubborn against resel u vations to the Versailles treaty. H y seemed to know how to split ths den J ocratic side and keep the republican g virtually intact for the purposes of fr
 al voting.
 GeneralissimO in Fight. ''There were many critical periods IT the treaty fight but Brandegee foresa n and provided for them all: Hardly
 move was made in the whole fight witl
 out the advice of Brandegec. He was Il
 generalissimo of the opposition. IT
 others were field marshals and genera T under his direction.
 r. Many thought enroneously tn y Brandegee's opposition to the lea97le l. nations and the treaty came from hatr, r. af Woodrow Wilson and the democrat ss party, but those who know Brandeg s. best known that Is not the case. h Tt was only last spring when he hea 3. that Secretary of State Hughes was 2 I. tempting to rewrite the Versailles Urea [. that Brandegee did a hop step and ,e jump to the White House to record l sr own emphatic protest and to persua a the president out of any such folly. e. ''It made no difference to the Connec V cut senator whether it was a republic ' or democratic administration that souy n to foist the Versailles treaty on the r ,a ton. He was opposed in either case n this despite the fact that he is the rec ,d lar of regulars when it comes to polit ,a and that he leans backward with cc l,, servatism.
 n, IrreconciIable in Several Ways.
 Fact is that the senator is an irr n- oncllable about good many things.
 did not think. for instance, that prohi