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Show THE CITIZEN WILSON THE POLITICIAN WILSON had maneuvered himself into such a whichever way the vote went in the senate on jrticle X, he would be able to accomplish one or the other of his main objects. Had the senate bowed to his edict and adopted a reservation simply interpreting Article X, he would have gained the victory for the treaty which he desired, or feigned to desire. Now that the senate has adopted a strong reservation, tantamount to the complete elimination of Article X, the President sees his alternative purpose accomplished. By refusing to accept the reservation he will make the treaty an issue in the campaign and, if he finds the cards shuffled satisfactorily, may announce his candidacy for a renomination. In view of his action threatening the allied powers with a of the treaty the President cannot escape the imputation that he did not want the treaty ratified, but preferred that the outcome should be just what it is so that he might create an issue and run for a third term. Twice the President challenged his opponents to submit the covenant to a vote of the people. How the question could be placed before the people he did not explain; obviously it has many phases and if it becomes an issue it cannot be confined simply to a question of for and against. It will have at least as many angles as there are factions in the United States senate. The President argues that he need not disturb himself about how the issue shall be formulated. . He stands for the covenant without the dotting of an i or the crossing of a t and, to pse the vernacular, PRESIDENT 6 its number devoted followers of one who has been eminent in war and peace, an efficient administrator in the highest executive positions, and one who, if he were to be chosen President, would take rank with McKinley and Roosevelt. BRYAN STAGES MELODRAMA Mr. Bryan is preparing to stage a spectacular melodrama San Francisco convention, none can doubt, for he has. already proclaimed his lurid plans. The play promises to be of superior excellence, eclipsing even the spectacle at Baltimore in 1912 when with rage at Tammany, stamped Bryan, grown that organization of civilized savages into a pulp. No politician ever sank the dagger of revenge so deep or twisted it around with such gurgles of sanguinary satisfaction. Next to Tammany and the money trust no combination of iniquities has so systematically hounded Mr. Bryan as the rum cohorts, and when they were not hounding him, he was hounding them. In that sense Mr. Bryan is a veritable booze hound. William Jennings has sworn a fat oath that he will duel to the death with the whiskey ring, and eke the beer and light wine gangs, at the Democratic convention. Like Sampson, armed only with the jawbone of an ass, he will attempt to massacre the pampered Philistines of the East all over the convention floor as well as on the stage. And he will enact his slaughterous role with all the more zest because he will find arrayed against him the thirsty Tammany-ite- s thirsting for vengeance. Oh, what an opportunity presents itself to the glorified vision of Mr. Bryan! With the League of Nations out of the way, as he he will let the other fellow do the worrying. hopes it will be, there will be only the paramount issue of the drys trunks and a white bathrobe, It is manifest that his maneuvering has made it possible for him and wets. Mr. Bryan, in will step jauntily into the ring and insert his solid ivory dome into to seek the Democratic nomination. Events may so shape themselves that he will not try for the prize, but he realizes that his jockeying the first of the champion wet, whoever that may be, whether Governor Edwards of New Jersey or Bainbridge Colby, the new secretary for position has placed him in the running. The suspicion will be irrepressible that he is not mourning over of state. This gives us a chance to introduce the new secretary to our the senates action, that, in fact, he rejoices at the opportunity to ride grandly forth as the champion of a sensational cause, amid readers by way of digression, or, as it were, between rounds. The sunny secret is out that Mr. Bainbridge Colby was selected the blare of trumpets, the fluttering of flags and the majestic waving of gonfalons. All other candidates of his party will fade away as secretary of a Tuesday and that he was to have been toastmaster of a wet meeting on the immediate succeeding Thursday to promote misty ghosts, he figures, if he can but make his covenant the parathe candidacy of Governor Edward I. Edwards for the Democratic mount issue. nomination. Presumably he would have delivered the How the public will view the Presidents politics who shall say? presidential or corkscrew speech proclaiming the Governor as a man Those who still trust in the clarity of his intellect and the purity of keynote all know and inviting the assembly to stand and drink to that his puropse, will see in him only the spotless knight. Whether these you and champion of a moist democracy. deluded zealots are myriad or but a small army we do not know. great patriot Mr. J. F. Tucker, secretary of the society giving the dinner, said : Our own guess is that the President has fallen into another of those This dinner was born out of discontent at the Metropolitan astonishing blunders which have made the whole world stand agape. Club in Washington, when Bainbridge Colby and I could not get a drink, and I want to say that we have continuously rebelled since LEONARD WOOD that day in Washington and elsewhere. And a result of that is this dinner and Bainbridge Colby is responsible. HE success of General Leonard Wood in the Minnesota primaries And as a result the thirst of Bainbridge Colby is apt to become has revealed a strength which causes no surprise and which will almost as notorious as the wrath of Achilles. delight his friends and admirers. Whatever fate may hold in store for Of course, Mr. Colby did not attend the dinner. He realized him his place in the affection and esteem of the American people is seas soon as he heard from the White House that his davs of continuous cure. He is one of the great Republicans ; one of the greatest Amerirebellion were over. Henceforth he was to be an humble clerk whose cans of his time. That he was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt was testimind must go along with that of the President. from come the of Had them. of both discernment the to they mony Mr. Bryan will be delighted to have big men at the convention comends of the earth they would have recognized that they were fighting the cause of wetness. The bigger they come the harder rades together of some high destiny. they fall, is his theory, which has been demonstrated many times in It will be a practice. If only little fellows should go to the convention chirping The Chicago convention is not to be noble competition in which one of many magnificently efficient Repubrum and rebellion, how could Mr. Bryan stage a splendid seriolicans will be nominated for President of the United States. If the comic spectacle? How could he obtain any glory for himself by candidate should chance to be Leonard Wood the party would enter using a sledge-hammto smash a handful of intoxicated fleas? It will be the disappointment of Mr. Bryans life if the wets upon the campaign with the utmost confidence. fail to come out into the open and permit themselves to be annihilThe Utah delegation will go to the Chicago convention unine when he and down him with a structed, if present plans are carried out, .and Utah will gladly cast ated. If they side-ste- p its electoral vote for any progressive candidate who may be named. isnt looking he will be sore for months. But he has no doubt that the expected will happen and that Needless to say the delegation will have on it friends of General Wood, for no delegation could be selected that would not have among there will be a direct issue between the wets aiubthe drys at the with-'ftlraw- THAT bald-head- ed al star-spangl- ed m rp m cut-and-dri- ed. er beer-bottl- |