Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — ARE MAKING THEMSELVES RIDICULOUS [ARTICLE]

ARE MAKING THEMSELVES RIDICULOUS

One of the Republican newspapers gloats over the fact that certain Republican senators do not indicate a willingness to accept the president’s invitation to visit the White House and discuss with him the terms of the peace treaty. Among the absentees are certain senators who have been loudest in damnation of the treaty and condemnation of the president, no matter what he may or may not do. And one of the things they have damned him loudest for was his alleged tendency to “go it alone,”

to refuse to take senator* into his confidence. But now that the treaty la ready and the senate’s innings are at hand, these senators who have been most vociferous in their denunciation are not disponed to take advantage of the opportunity they have been’ so loudly demanding, to go over the treaty's provisions with the president. It is strange that critics of this type are so blind that they cannot see that they are making themselves ridiculous; that they cannot understand that his position will become impregnable because of their refusal of the opportunity to go over the terms of the treaty and the articles of the league covenant freely and frankly with him. He was Instrumental in the drafting: he is more familiar with the terms than they. Is it not their duty under their oath of office to gain all the information they may from him or any other source, so they can more intelligently discharge their duty when the time comes to vote on ratification? We believe the American people feel that it is.