Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — LODGE’S ROAD A ROCKY ROUTE [ARTICLE]

LODGE’S ROAD A ROCKY ROUTE

Senator Lodge is finding the road he is treading as leader of his party In the senate a rocky route. On one hand he is beset by Senator Knbx, Chairman Hays and others, who are declaring that the League of Nations is not a partisan or political Issue. The next day he is attacked by Senator Borah, Poindexter and others, who tell him that if the G. O.'P. hasn’t the backbone to make It a party Issue, they will establish a party next year to make it a party issue. The Massachusetts Senator will need enough oil to pour on the turbulent waters within the next year to send the price soaring to netv heights. Republican Leader Mondell, in the House, praises his party for saving a billion dollars to the taxpayers, lopped from appropriation bills in the House. But the game is too thin. Many of the appropriations cut out by the House have been restored by the Senate, but Mr. Mondell camouflages by talking only of what the House cut out and not what the Senate put back, hoping that the latter will be overlooked. Opposing the organization of a third party in 1912, Governor Osborn, Republican, of Michigan, said: “I am of the opinion that there is no necessity for a new party. The issue is clearly joined for the people. It is Wall street versus Wilson.” What the Michigan Governor said in 1912 is clearly apropos in 1919. • Packing the Foreign Relations

committee of the Senate to Insure an adverse report on the treaty of peace and the League of Nations J has not produced the reanlta Senators Lodge and Penrose and Knox expected. Senator McCumber, a Republican, refused to stay •’packed” • and bBB come out f° r the League. Senators Lodge and Knox and Chairman Hays all declare in a loud voice that the League of Nations Is not a partisan issue, then do* their utmost to make it such by lining up their followers against it. Every •‘robin” of the famous thirtyseven was a Senator of the G. O. P. Reducing appropriations for the [ Army and Navy as a text for political speeches may prove unpleasant for Republicans in the next campaign. Thousands of soldiers who are deprived of their comforts by this hypocritical “economy” will be home to vote In 1920. .Now that the “Progressives” in i congress have been crossed with • Republicans there ought to be a i name for the hybrid product. “ReI progressives” is offered as a sugI gestion. It has the merit of being different by only one letter from “Retrogressives.”

Chairman Hays of the Republican National commltte Informs the world that his party “has carried the flag and made the music for the Union.” Yes, the G. O. P. has paraded with the flag for a long time and has furnished some music full of discords. “Progressive” Republicans in the Senate are for Hiram Johnson for president. If they wage as sturdy a fight for Hiram for the presidency as they did against the standpat bosses In the organization of the Senate, Hiram will do well. After a month’s control of legislation, the only good measures the Republicans in congress have passed are those which their filibuster prevented the Democrats from enacting in the last session. Republican leaders in eongress began by promising "economy,” but they are wasting much time and language in their opposition to the League of Nations—and time, at least, is valuable. Republicans began by asking “reservations” in the treaty of peace and have ended by proposing "reservations” in the Knox resolution.