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Show pEn; Delay in Ratification May Deluge De-luge World in Blood and Flood Country With Woe. RECENT PRIMARIES i SHOULD BE WARNING, Democratic Party Must Share,! If Not Assume Responsibil- ity For What Follows. PITTSBURG, Pa , April 29. William j J. Bryan in a statement issued here ' tonight declared that the recent primaries pri-maries were a warning that Demo- i cratlc senators, should lose no time In 1 voting for immediate ratification of the peace trenty. ; "Delay In ratification may deluge the , world in blood and flood our country with woe," said Mr. Bryan. "The re-cont re-cont primaries should be a warning. In Georgia less than one-third of the Democrats stood for the treaty without with-out reservations. Two-thirds wero divided di-vided about equally between ratification ratifica-tion with reservations and total rejection rejec-tion of the treaty. In Nebraska, Senator Hitchcock's vote would not have been worth counting count-ing had he been compelled to rely on 1 thoso who endorsed his attitude on the i treaty. "My fight was made on a platform declaring for ratification with reser-i vatlons already agreed upon by a large majority of the senate. Senator Johnson's John-son's Yoto is largoly a protest against ' the treaty and against the blundering j of the senators who talk for the treaty , but quarrel over reservations. j "A campaign in favor of ratification without reservations would result in overwhelming defeat, but what 1b in-1 finitely worse. It would prevent the ; consideration of pressing domestic Jprobloms and leave tho -world to chaos. iOUr council and advlco today may contribute con-tribute more tho world peace than an I jarmy of a million men- would a year (from now. "If our tfarty refuses to favor ratification rati-fication now it must share, even if it 'does not fully assume, responsibility !tor what follows." |