Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Talegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. SOLON FLAYS WILSON HATERS Mississippi Senator Charges Vile Plot to Defeat Treaty. Jackson, Miss., Meh. 27. —The peace treaty was rejected by the senate as a result of a “great conspiracy” against President Wilson, Senator John Sharp Williams de dared yesterday in an address to the Mississippi legislature. / “I believe there are now n>en glad that the president is sick, perhaps hope for his death,” Senator Williams said. Declaring the treaty debate was the “most confused gabfest in the history of* the world,” Senator Williams, long known as a master of sarcasm in senate debate, excoriated those who helped defeat the league of nations. “I do not see how any man who loved his country can look with unconcern on what has just occurred," he said. “There was a chance for the United States to stand at the head of a council of nations of the world; to lead the universe In the pathways of peace. The opportunity was rejected and future historians will refer to the last two years as the ‘time of the great conspiracy.’ “We preached to our boys at home and in France that this war was being fought that wars might be no more. We looked on the sufferings of Belgium and Serbia and resolved whet we would do when it was over. Then it finally was over and we have done nothing. So far as we are concerned it appears we are willing to go back to 1914 before it all began. “The .long-winded arguments in the senate were like fiddling as Rome burned, talking with a world in chaos. Do you blame me for saying that I would rather, be a dog and bay at the moon than to spend one minute in the senate after the expiration of my term of office? “The great conspiracy commenced when the president went to Versailles and every time news came from Versailles that the president advocated or opposed something the conspirators opposed his plans. They are 2x4 politicians. Senator Lodge is the head of the poison squad. “Has any great institution founded by our forefathers fallen down at the time of stress and travail like the senate has fallen down? “I believe there are now men glad that the president is sick, perhaps hope for his death. When McKinley was shot down, when Garfield was shot, was there a Democrat but expressed sorrow. Has any one seen words of sympathy for the president in any Republican paper? A great man is sick, a great mind and a great character, and they have whispered 'we’ve got him now.’ .“Men sometimes disparage Idealists, but they are coarse-grained jackasses who do so, and do it because they are coarse-grained, but the idealists point the way and cheer men’s souls.”