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Show TflCTiCS M. NOWflLTEREO BY WjLSON President in Speeches! Is Making Overtures o Senators Who Favor i Mild Reserv ations.j i Line Being Drawn Be-i j tween Outspoken Op-j ponents and Those De-I siring Minor Changes. By DAVID LAWRENCE. I'opyrieJ.t H'lli hv The Salt l.ak? Tribune.) ASHLAND, (ire., Sept. C, fen mule vvith 1'resi.hiit Wilson to San I'r.in-eisco.i I'r.in-eisco.i I'rcsldent Wilson has iiain ehuneed his tactics, (,r rather he has j removed the inference that he considers iall the men who have been eriticp-.int: the treaty as afflicted w ith "amar.inj j ignorance. " The president st,ill avows that he hasn 't any respect at ail for some of the senators, by which hn meaiiH those who plainly wish to defeat the treaty of peace, but fur most of them he has reason to have respect, he savs, that 'Mhey are just as o-nod Americans as I claim to be.'' Indeed, thr- president Inn at last I drawn the line betw een the majority of opponents in the si-nate and the small minority (if irroroneilablcs like the Borahs and the Johnsons and the Reeds, who are makine; the most noise and saying the most bitter things about the president in public debate. CONFINES ATTACKS TO RADICAL OPPONENTS. Mr. Wilson lias procotMU-d ou the assumption as-sumption that inasiiuH'h as this clement was the most conspicuous, while Theso-callcd Theso-callcd mild rcsorvaTionists wero not out on the stum) trying to heat the treaty, it was his duty to pontine his argument to the j,Toup of senators who want to see the treaty and league together disrupted. disrupt-ed. Hut evidence accumulates through editorial expression and otherwise th:; t some of the so-called mild reservaiion-i reservaiion-i st s have imagined that Mr. Wilson was putting t hem in t he same category us the ot hers. To bo sure. Senator Ken-yon Ken-yon "s passionate- outburst just after Mr. Wilson visited Iowa was said to be due to the remarks of the president about opposition sen a tors. o Mr. Wilson has drawn the line between be-tween the men in the senate who are friendly to the league- of nations but are not yet convinced that it should be adopted without qualifications and reservations and the men who are outspokenly out-spokenly against any league whatsoever. whatso-ever. WILSON THUS FAR HAS GENERALIZED. The president's tactics thus far have been characterized by a tendency to enerali.o, which some of his friends i have thought unwise and strategically I (Continued on Page 8, Column 4.) iilcnt put up in Oregon, where Senator licXsry, Kepublican, is a tvpieal example exam-ple or! a senator whose state overwhelmingly overwhelm-ingly favors the. league, but whose support sup-port of reservations has not eonvineeel the people, of his constituency that he has anything but the friendliest purposes pur-poses in minil. Mr. Wilson's overtures to that group are beginning. In the end it is with that group composed of Republicans and Democrats that lie will deal, in an effort, ef-fort, doubtless, to secure agreement on as few reservations as possible and on sitc.h reservations as will not give America special exemptions or put America on an exceptional footing. May Reach Agreement. Such a course, Mr. Wilson fears, might cause other nations to want special spe-cial advantages and exemptions, and the whole structure of the league might then crumble. But unless the program of the mild rcservationists undergoes radical changes, it. is quite likely that Mr. Wilson's utterances in Oregon mean that he is ready to come to an agreement agree-ment on interpretations, even if they are embodied in the ratifying resolution; resolu-tion; for clearly they woild not be binding on other powers if placed elsewhere, else-where, as in a senate .ioint resolution or declaration of the executive. The president is today in California, where Hiram Johnson holds forth. Chester Howell, Progressive party leader lead-er and national committeeman,' who owns a newspaper in Fnno,' is an intimate in-timate friend of Senator Johnson and supported the latter stauchly in his last, campaign, has, nevertheless, enlisted en-listed his newspaper in support of the league and he himself is to preside at the Wilson meeting at San I'mncisco. So it may be inferred that California Progressives are divided and that Senator Sen-ator Johnson and President Wilson will fight their -real battle before the people peo-ple of that state. StyjactIs President Is Now Making Overtures to Mild Rcservationists. (Continued From Page One.) doubtful. They are better pleased by his recognition of the conscientious character of those men on the Republican Republi-can side who no longer say they want a league of nations and not this league, but who fully recognize that unless the covenant which is now interwoven in the peace treaty is taken as a basis for correction or revision in the future, fu-ture, the opportunity to get any league of nations established may go glimmering. glim-mering. The president has incidentally thrown away all the passion of partisanship parti-sanship which, on past occasions, has embittered the Republicans to such an extent that disinterested observers have wondered how much this phase of the controversy was responsible for the prolonged discussion and delay. That Mr. Wilson realizes the nature of this criticism was apparent in his Spokane speech, when ho said he hoped no personal bitterness would stand in the way of an achievement by America Amer-ica of a great world enterprise. He sought to deprive himself of any special spe-cial share in the making the. the covenant cove-nant and gave the leaders of Republican Republi-can party of past decades the credit for advancing the idea of a world organization. or-ganization. Welcome Note to Republicans. . . It was a welcome note to many Republicans, Re-publicans, who feel still some measure of poignant regret at the partisan character char-acter of his election appeal last fall and the indifference to leading Republicans in his choice of pence commissioners to go to Paris, but the president 's stress on the "constructive force" of the Republican Re-publican party made the deepest impression im-pression on all. For it was only a few years ago that Mr. Wilson, speaking at a Democratic meeting at Indianapolis, upbraided the Republican party for not having had a constructive idea in twenty twen-ty vears. ' One might think the president dislikes dis-likes to be called inconsistent. Perhaps he docs. But he also doesn't hesitate to get right if he thinks he is wrong, and he unhesitatingly admits upon occasion oc-casion the error of his ways. "Don't let facts get you," is the advice he has been giving his audiences. Applied to things Wilsonian, it merely means to admit your mistakes when you are convinced you are mistaken. The difficulty that most critics have is in convincing the president that he is really mistaken, because persistence has often proved him right. Appeals to Party Members. But the president's speeches in the northwest, wherein he appealed not merely to the rank and- file of the Republican Re-publican party to support their own traditions, but petitioned the Republican Republi-can senators who favor the treaty with reservations which are apologies in themselves for what may have been said or done by the president to wound the feelings of his political opponents. "I hope," he said at Portland, "you will not construe anything that I say as indicating the least lack of respect for the men who are criticising any portion por-tion of this treaty. , I must say frankly that I have not any respect at all for some of them; but for others, and for most of them, I have reason to have respect, for I have come into close contact con-tact and consultation with them, and thev are just as good Americans as I claim to be. They are just 'as thoughtful thought-ful of the interests of America as I try to be, and they are just as intelligent intelli-gent as anybody who could address his mind to this thing, and my contest with them is a contest of interpretation, not a contest of intention. Some Too Critical. "All I have to urge with these men is that they are looking at this thing with too critical an ear to the mere phraseology, without remembering the purpose that everybody knows to have been in the minds of those who framed it, and that if they go very far in attempting at-tempting to interpret it by resolutions of the senate they may, in apnearance, at any rate, sufficiently alter the meaning mean-ing of the document to make it necessary neces-sary to take it back to the council board." That is the line of argument the pies- |