Show AN HI AT CAP CAPiTAL IT At 10 To BATTLE mini FOR FORI I RATIFICATION Commoner Expected to War on Wilson Hitchcock Program By William Willia Philip Philip Simms I International onal News Service Staff Cor Cor- Cori i res respondent ond nt I WASHINGTON March larch 17 Wllliam William William JennIngs Bryan arrived hero here today en cn route for tor the San Francisco convention via New e ew York Boston Indiana Illinois Illi nois Nebraska Los Angeles and points between Tho The commoners commoner's arrival coincided with the tho final spasms of the treaty wrangle In the s senate nate and before nightfall nightfall night night- fall full his friends predicted he will h have ve flung the whole weight of ot his Influence into the balance for tor ratification on the best terms possible in direct opposition i to the wishes of President Wilson Senator Senator Sen Sets ator atos- Hitchcock and other leaders of the Democratic party part CANDIDACY BROADLY HINTED I Bryan Is scheduled to speak in New NewYork York Tork Friday night at a dinner tendered him by his followers In a way ray this 1 I dinner will mark marl the tIme beginning of pf his j I campaign for fOJ the Democratic nomina nomina- tion But St St. Patricks Patrick's day in Washington Washington Wash Wash- I ington finds him at t locked horns hortis with the administration vehemently opposIng opposing opposing ing what be he denounced as th the farce of or a campaign based on the treaty of ot Versailles FORLORN HOPE I Bryans Bryan s chances o of swinging enough I Democratic senators his way to bring about the treaty's ratification Ts Ta considered considered con con- on by both Democrats and Republicans Republicans here as the tho most forlorn of forlorn for for- for I I lorn ben hopes 1 Il S SAY Y PACT DOOMED Senator Hitchcock Whom Bryan is Sa l I destined to meet again in Nebraska Ina in ina ina a bitter bItter fight for tor a place in that states state's del delegation gatlon to the Dem Democratic conven n Lion tion has behind hUn him twenty three Democrats who it is believed will riot riOl be budged an inch even by bythe the commoners commoner's com corn I mone moner's moner eloquence nc and with them It Is s claimed are sufficient to present the passage of ot the pact as amended by the L Lodge dge reservations reser reser reser- |