Show ll ILSON ON lOSES Tr lEASH y WRITER I Defeat in 18 l Months jows Presidents President's WhipS Whip Thip s Ceased to Crack on Solons' Solons Heads By David Lawrence I IIO Sat Salt Lake k 1 12 to bY tit aSh March 22 Twenty 2 Twenty Twenty- Det Democrats ocr ts stood wlL with 11 President t tc ton c e Democrats D desert desert- twenty one 15 Mm un tIu on f The treaty ty of or Versailles si signed f is Tech Tech- juno t the tho United States is at lt war 17 11 Americas America's foreign polIs pol- pol Is hs undefined and the thic deadlock in n enato will bo be carried into the tho and n congressional elector elec elec- I s tor or final 1 settlement next Novem- Novem Briell that tells the story ston of ot what happened after nine months of ot s 3 debate But the effect t upon rIme jT future futuro of oC both the Republican cn end and parties Is h not as lS simply ted True tho the Republican party the Senate stood 28 8 for ratification lon lonh Hh l h the re reservations eT as ns against who ho wanted neither treaty nor nor cue uc of oC nations But Dut the votes of oC tho the lye lyt were cre grouped with 2 23 Demots Demo- Demo its ts ts who rho bo said they wanted tho treaty treM riot not the reservations to tho the league Determine Illume Blame II sr campaign campal 11 orator or writer of text books who tries tries' to 10 fix Ix responsibility In tho the Senate enato upon tic Republican tt er r tho Iho Democratic or ties lItS as s uch such will have ha about as asch assell sell ch cb ch chance chanco of oC carrying conviction as ns blame tho the M man who attempts to lure Jure of oC the tho treaty treat upon tho is- is weather of oC the past l winter For both Republicans and Democrats Ye tc voted on all sides of oC every mo- mo and anti the tho r record cord of what at Is about as confusing as an nn ani i rne m me tas tax report report- Cm tI there thero is no escaping one ono out out- din ding fact President fact act President ent Wilson Ilson has the third defeat in Sn eighteen Ills His loss 1089 of Congress Cong in No- No ober bet ber l tS was followed b by the tho de- de tot toC a 11 ratification resolution on the tho eity ty 11 in November Xo 1919 In and now In eh eb J 20 t the he treaty is formally I It Bt t I bac back to him with wit h the tiLe Democratic I tr in the Senate split spilt In twain Mr tr Iron nison has lost the tight hold on his r I which ho lie once exercised J Hardly I I Democratic lc senators from norther northwestern north north- er or western states remained with m. m Only a handful of southern stood till Ull the end emI Nor 4 tho tho split phit bo be o measured on the the- basis strength T There ere arc are men menh menh I b h h deserted The President ent who have c tie tC lor tor of oC any 1 kind But Dut I tt the Democrats who favored fa rating rati rati- I iu ng ae t the treaty with tho the Lodge re res- res I and the states from Irom om which l' l haIl hall I of oC g Chamberlain Oregon Oreon Henderson and PIttman of ot nc vada KingS King of or Utah Myers nn and aish of or Montana Nugent of oC Idaho Ian lan of oC California Owen and n Goro Gore Oklahoma Pomerene o oC ot Ohio Walsh Wal I Massachusetts Wolcott of ot D Delaware th of Maryland Ashurst of or Arizona of or Kentucky Kentuck Fletcher and I of or Florida of Louis Louls- Louis Louis-I arid and nd Smith of or Georgia Geor ia Total 21 I Stood With atla Republicans ll nn nl I then hen n examine the list of oC twenty twenty- Democrats who stood stool with tho the ir- ir Republicans for the defeat the tho ho Lodge o r resolution of oC ratification to th n reservations an and it shows Sen- Sen tars tn Recil of or Missouri Shields and an Sellar of or Tennessee and Thomas of or lOrado Th The viewpoint of these those four tour fourn fouren en n on th the treaty by no means colnes coin coin- lies es with that of President Wilson en n though the they were finally recorded th Lb his supporters They Thoy like the Republicans found f und other az as a In tUo tio Uie treaty objectionable and arid t t their Votes otes oes against ratification Mr lir r. r Wilson V on tho the final muster n t have na a I. I majority of his own party th him binL And with time the exception of or tors tOr rs Hitchcock of or Nebraska an arid E on n o of South Dal Dakota ota not a n i. i single C m north of or Mason on I lino line or from Crom tho the west slip up- r ted td l tho the position of or President t. t W Will Wilon Wil- Wil 11 l Ot on th the tho last count i Is defection from froni the leadership the President Is la unquestionably thet tho the t l circumstance of ot all aU It Mo 1 WhIte hite House for it shows the erratic raU party parly stampeded by tho the t of or f Republican Q that at defeat of or tho the Lodge 3 rus might flIght hl ho bo viewed 11 by tho the country countr e to tho the making of or an early he II tattle bAttlo for the control of the next tess ress sa and White Hauso will Ill beed bo be boin M ed in tho north All but two of ot Democratic Senators from th the tho north I can exhibit as goon good a record as Senator Lodge and the tho Republican reservation reservation- Would Attack LO Lodge Lode RC If President Wilson should be nominated nom nom- mated for tor a third term or decide to campaign In behalf of or the tire Democratic nominee undoubtedly Mr Wilson would direct his attack at at atthe the Lod Lodge e Ignoring the votes of time the Democratic The Tho I issue so to far as lS the thc Senate Is concerned Is Js mir d that everybody ody doubts s so pd up C whether tho the President either as a n candidate candidate can can- didato himself or as ns spokesman for some somo other candidate could define the question clearl clearly enough to alter niter tho the complexion of ot the next Congress Cons on that alone I Time The Republicans do o not fear tear tho the treaty as an issue The They arc aro of winning on domestic counts against as tho Wilson administration The Democrats fern Dem on tho other hand who stood with wilh President Wilson believe that tho the league league- of nations issue will furnish amore a amoro ar moro more question for the tho r voters than anything else and will tend to submerge o complaints on do domestic domestic do- do I do-I policies Of Or ono thing thins tho the public pub pub- I lie lic can be sure the politicians have havo managed manas-cd to muddle the tho whole situation so completely that the average averle voter A havo have a difficult time In determining Ins ing- what ho he Is voting for next I time And when ho he has lias gotten ollen through In November tho the Senators who hold bold office until the following March a 1 a year ear from this mon month month can can th-can can occupy the rest of their t terms tr trying ln to Interpret the mandate of tho election So o time the voice olce of the tho people cant can't make malo Itself heard or folt felt mach much before March 1 1921 1 and Senators norah Borah Johnson and the thc called so-called battalion battalion bat bat- muon of or death havo triumphed America will remain tied to a policy of ot isolation at least ono one year car longer i |