Show f 7 t 1 LOOD THREATENS f J GALVESTON t III CROWD HEARS SENATOR DENOUNCE LEAGUE X PACIFIC JC FLEE FLEET REVIEWED BY COMM COMMANDER CHIEF CHIEF J S I It Is t fERE 1 16 MINUTES Kansas City Crowd Td Compares Compares Com Corn I pares Address With That of Wilson Vilson Says Latter Laner Pretty Facts Picture Former Fonner Is By Sam Sam Blair I Sen Ice taU Correspondent CO I Kansas as City Mo to io Sept 13 And And now cones comes 11 HIrum Johnson I LI I. to Kansas nt h CRy City th I dU i UI I n O. O paintings President Wilson Composed here a week ago ngo on the tho thoI I rj beauties of oC the peace treaty treat Jand d the league of or nations s an interesting g game mc this trailing with the California senator deven even ways dys 48 behind the chief proponent of or UnI Unreserved undeserved un Un- I deserved served reserved ratification of oC tho the lea league ue covenant l Thc President paints his pictures and there arc expressions Just before eVor every Johnson address showing he arouses enthusiasm for his work of oC art Then J Johnson J happens In cs the tho crea- crea Uon flon rubs rub away avay the pretty colorings find d to his hs own o Satisfaction ll demon demon- that underneath th there rc are arc no 1 Q Jines lne of or form or finish finish- I A picture th the senator says 8 it n effect but Lut It doesn't o mt mean any- any hing and thus far his au audiences have havu almost unanimously to be Le on t kit Tit was vas SQ so o tonj tonight hl when the senator o ok ok k the rostrum ut at Convention hall hail ind jid nd one ono by one ono answered the th u arg-u- In behalf of or the th I league that President WIlson had made from Crom tho the tame inc platform as well a as those he heade aide ade dc as recently as yesterday speak speak- g In Jn Spokane of or those who heard both tho the Jison all J tho the Johnson addresses addressee cx- cx 1 ed tonight after tho the Johnson p ech that the President was there th f tn the tho language but Johnson had hade hadlie lie e C tact facts tl Cron-tl Record n hen Theodore Theooore Roosevelt was Pres- Pres i t l lie he e came caine to Kansas City and i oke oe In Convention hall hail Ho lie hid hed a capacity attendance record president resident Wilson didn't quite equal hat at t those In charge chargo admit r Hiram Johnson broke the tho record toIght to- to Ight Convention hall hail seats eats In the neighborhood neigh neigh- of or per persons Tonight fully J men and women were scalar scat scat- d or ar standing standing- within tho the giant c Inure in- in ure oure The doorways were blocked Mth Ih humanity that l at first struggled i ally ly iy for admission and finally ro- ro abed Ined quiet and nd on tiptoe straining rs I to cathi occasional sentences from frome e distant stage It H may have o been Jeen Cause Joe Kansas Cit City was vas once some some- ig JT o of a ell e town and antI that prisons prison's i long lonk association with the hUng President lent Jent him something It the Teddy drawing ma magnetism may ha have been boen that tho the audience is i Intensely predisposed toward the thenon non Oon Arguments ars or or as opponents of ot reservations 8 several eral times Insisted Inflated f ft nay Y y have b elJ that bitt thousands ands of BU U rs were planted ed In the tho 11 U tonight t i Ch er fur for n fcc l it might be l b that Kansas I City e or alert to equal surpass or occa- occa n. n M for lor publicity St. St Louis achieve e Was wa was dot U to record r reception c to th the h len tor as tlc tie Ic a HS 1111 that hat CD la last l night in the t tim rn Missouri city the rca reason on It Is n. n fact that that I n JO stepped on the tho sta stage o ut lit t d clock the audience roso rosa as a unit and ch for sixteen s ruin ruin- uno n week ago tho those c c In the tho hall hail n ny Of 1 i. i t J. J lm n II P Jt tonight stood j up and cheered l r fl minutes b by tho the clock hole bote i sections of or Kansas lanas and MIs- MIs ns were wert represented n ted in seat eat kJ iv kz especially U feIH reserved rd on either t e f Hie UIO Stage Gov Gay Henry J J. J Mien Allen fleas nua aa occupied u II box The Th Ih stage with po political leaders of oC Arties from b both beth th states h h u. u ev Father tl d John VV tv Ke Keys s 's prof pro- pro f an tho Invocation that Uial appeared to lo ll orti of ninny many of or the from irom the o fashion of or laue He lie asked that God see sec ce i be h b done our boys bO who lie Ho In Jn that no iio Injustice r 4 he ma may Our ow own United States for tor on Page ue 2 JOHNSON SPEECH J if r IS EFFECTIVE T t A A k ff lf i Kansas Kans as City Cily IttY C Crowd Com Com- l That j h pares arcs Address Address' With ith lat t of f President n j I f r ff ff Continued from Page 1 1 which our lovo 10 I is s second cond only to that for for God Almighty Missouri I is the of or Jim Heed Iced first of or tho the Democrat senators to como put pUl as ns S a 1 bitter opponent of ot unreserved acceptance of or league to So 0 IL It I K Ball o Jail prominent Democrat opened l the meeting lie He Introduced E. E 1 K g. E. E Mc- Mc Ic- Ic it cY of or Springfield J who i In his hla turn Introduced Senator Johnson as aa n a man inan to whom tho country ml might ht well trust powers loWel's far wider willer than those con allied in a a. tanned n L nf f lI Aft I B ii t 11 ono n Ol n testimony o UL r. r u of of the Presidents President's peace conference ap- ap given yesterday at nt Washing Washing- ton tall clear clearly ly Indicates the adverse x opinions to the treaty Mr 11 Johnson laid ald In to his hla n address Thus we AVO learn from a L new source Chat which we vc must lia have suspected all l that the other American delegates delegates dele delo- gates hates protested against tho the Infamy of 4 thc h hu Shantung decision J Mr 11 remark that the sectary sec- sec r tary of state stale said the IC would w not accept it if the they knew h. h contents is is' significant and anel omin- omin t lI t hen ent Wilson Wilson- spoke to lyou ou in in n J City he tol told j ou Oll his hist covenant l t was penetrated l throughout the principles to which America merica had had otc devoted l her life Ilse Ie II I Surely In ht InIc View dew of Mr h tes I f timon mony lie must have ha been speaking peaking in I lill Ironical vein In lie He could not have hav havea a 4 intended 1 that you rou ou tako him hini serious serious- I 1 reminded his hf audience 4 The senator that le President ident Wilson ha had told them the th league swelled 1 world disarmament I The Th Thc California senator was insistent lit the covenant cotenant disarmament ll was Wholly optional and amI that Great Britain I h had gone on Oil record as refusing to surrender sur- sur render I a Jot or Clr of or her supremacy I of oC th the i Sens ca He lie pointed out as he he rias done In cr c every address ress thus far I made that under the league plan the United States has now o e evolved c a n tary mili-tary tary arr pro program ram lo to a year year an and l Involving conscription of or 19 lr- olds olds car an and a n standing arm army of or men The fhe senator quotes the Presidents President's I assurance within the thc that everywhere c m I area arca lea of or settlement covered cred b by the thern po- po I II j lineal questions Involved In inthe the tho ireat treat reaty people have ha been given ghen their freedom ree om and guaranteed cd their free free- dom doni oo Wilson I oo He must have hae made this assertion Mr Mr Johnson decided ed because of or the I natural exu exuberance erance of ot the occa occasion lon nn and I the influence nce of oC your cordial welcome In the exaltation of tho moment ho he forgot the Egyptian delegate arrest- arrest Cd td 1 and detained at ralta Malta until Ho lio o had recognized recognize England England's s new protectorate I over ver Egypt He lie forgot our allies the I Chinese He forgot ot Persia protesting taut t tut ut taken laken over o almost In his presence 1 l lw y Great Britain He forgot Ireland suffering is under centuries of or b by Great Britain knocking at his hla door alJ and 1 begging begging- only a hearing from lithe the men who were creating creating- his nc nett world order r rAnd And then Mr Mr- Ir J Johnson drew from hit hll I J- J audience one of the thc thunderous bursts burst 1 I r for or prolonged applause that so genei lh hn have e punctuated his ad addresses gene I x In his peroration to you ou the Pres- Pres ilent told you ou that he hid had ome om to fish for tor a cause gt n than th u. u the tle wS S Senate greater reater greater than the tho United States States Slates he ho said saW But we we too you ou sand r and I I. I are fighting for a cause But bur cause Is not greater than the thet t I. I t. t States Stales It Is 15 the United States of V t Veto Co IN Is explained I One of I the chief Johnson arguments during dueing this this' campaign has hns been directed 1 against the six to one ono voting power which the tho league gives Great Britain over the United States Yesterday at Spokane the President sought to rebut the Johnson argument by h a assuring his hearers that Great Britain's six votes otes give o her no real predominance of ot Influence because every ev ever every ev- ev er ery vote vole In iii the thc council has a veto volo Here Hore Is the wa way Senator Johnson tonight answered the answer of or the President Why U then Great Britain should have o been given six votes is not ap ap- ap parent Perhaps because it is of or no consequence this power has been so strenuously insisted upon b by Britain But the veto power b by byno byno no means removes es the objection An Any matter of or dispute In the council may mayy ma b by either cither party be bo removed o 1 to tho the as- as In the assembly all aU mem mem- I b berg bers vote except except those who ho are are parties parI parties par par- I ties to the dispute Suppose Japan and the tho United States in a controversy ers finally come conic to the assembly of or the league There both Japan and the United States standing aside Britain with her of offensive offensive offensive of- of and defensive alliance with Japan which both countries insist will be In full force notwithstanding the lea league ue will six votes otes An And while the council requires a unanimous unanimous vote ote the assembly exclusive o of I the tho members of the council requires for action but a majority vote But nut the influence of or a preponderance ance of votes voles may often turn the scale The veto oto powe power Is not such a potent weapon as the President suggests sug At Paris In the peace conference anyone anone of or tho the big five Che ha had 1 that veto eto and a unanimous decision was required Nevertheless Nevertheless Nev Nev- the Shantung decision was rendered and apparently was easily obtained b by tho the four who decided It It j i the one our President protest protest- In Ing l. There Is neither defense nor justification justification cation for giving Great Britain six I times as many votes otes as tho the United d States It was supply an Instance i when the practical diplomat got what II he wanted from the man who sat unI uncomprehendingly un- un 1 In tho the diplomats diplomat's I I game gam |