Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — MISREPRESENTING THEIR PARTY [ARTICLE]

MISREPRESENTING THEIR PARTY

In the attitude and actions of: Senators Lodge, Knox and a few of their close associates in the fight* against the League of Nations there has been an implication that theyj constitute the Republican party as well as the sole source of authority in making treaties. Senator McCumber’s repudiation of their leadership and bls espousal of the League was the first disillusionment vouchsafed to these ‘•makers of destiny.” Now come some of the most Influntlai Republicans in the country to urge the Senatorial Tailors of Tooley Street to regard the wishes' of some hundreds of thousands of other members of the party by whom the opposition to the League of Nations is deemed both distasteful and disastrous. This little cabal of Senators have not thus far been moved by considerations of patriotism, but they may now be expected to pay some heed to threats of defection In the ranks of their party. Their whole i conduct has been such that it is not unfair to believe they would rather withdraw from the fight on the League than be withdrawn from the Senate.