Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1919 — WILL ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE THUNDER. [ARTICLE]

WILL ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE THUNDER.

A declaration by William Jennings Bryan that if the present senate refuses to approve the league of nations constitution as it is brought back from Paris by President Wilson, the issue will be carried before the people as the dominant question in the 19 20 election, makes of special interest the fact that with the exception of Senators Lodge, Knox and Poindexter, all republican senators most active in fighting the league must come up

for re-election next year. Republican members whose terms expire March 4, 1921, include Sherman of Illinois, Cummins of lowa, Brandegee of Connecticut, Penrose of Pennsylvania, Smoot of Utah, Jones of Washington, Lenroot of Wisconsin, Wadsworth of New York, Moses of New Hampshire, Dillingham of Vermont, Harding of Ohio, Gronna of North Dakota, Watson of Indiana, Curtis of Kansas and Spencer of Missouri On t’he Democratic side, members who are either openly against the league or only half-heartedly in favor of it, who must stand for -reelection next year, include Thomas of Colorado, Gore of Oklahoma and Chamberlain, of Oregon. Reed of Missouri, one of the leading Democratic opponents of the League, last week addressed the Missouri state legislature, giving his views and reasons for opposition. When he was finished the lower house of the legislature passed a resolution asking him to resign from the senate. And that is a prety good indication of the feeling of the people. I venture the assertion that not one out of a dozen of these opposing senators is re-elected unless they change their opinions and vote right in the senate. The facts will be that every one of those senators who started in to fight the League of Nations simply because President Wilson is a Democrat and is one great and controlling factor in getting this agreement between tlhe n&tions of the world, these very same senators will begin in whole companies and platoons to declare in favor of it and, mark my prediction, when I say they will soon attempt to prove the plan wasn’t President Wilson's anyhow.—Tippecanoe Co. Democrat.