Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1919 — FOE RESIGNS SELF TO ACCEPT PEACE TREATY. [ARTICLE]

FOE RESIGNS SELF TO ACCEPT PEACE TREATY.

Paris, June 20. —Indications that a psychological swing in favor of signing the peace treaty had set in in Germany and that all political parties were affected by it were received in dispatches from Germany to the peace conference today. lLast night before the Scheidemann government handed in its resignation, a small majority of the cabinet opposed signing and a small majority of the national assembly was in favor of it. All parties, except the independent socialists, apparently have split on the question and the old lines of cleavage have disappeared. The centrists, democrats and majority of socialist* are said to favor signing. The general change in opinion is reflected in the newspapers. The conservative press is declaring that it is wrong to sign and is inveighing against the cowardice of the government. The extreme radical papers declare that the working people want peace at any price, while the middle group admits that there is nothing left but to sign. Conference circles aTe cheerful over the outlook. It is believed that the signing of the treaty by Germany is now assured.