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Show Bryan May Be Weans of - Getting ': TfeatHtt Reservations .. -'' ' Up :to Pres. Wilson Lord Grey's fEndoiJgeme'nt ndv Mr. crits Cannot Afford id Take Article 10 to People May. Get Xfeatyto Wilson Wil-son with the Lodge Reservations. That tho treaty wTlh tho Leaguo-of Leaguo-of Nations covenant accompanied by tho Lodgo reservations will pass the ' S.&utu uecomus more evident every day, especially sosjneo Lord broyTtas niado'lt' pfnln that Great Britain 'endorses 'en-dorses tne Lodge stand, and more.es-1 t' ' ' ' i ? " pcclally since William Jennings. Dry-' ' ' I fin has' Jumped into the arena and told the Democrats where to head ; -, &! 4 i i ' in. Slade the 'Bryan annoancemem " n--"! i - S ' 't the Democrats appear to.be aUffenv log vol the back, and .are sot so prone to danco 'to tho .music 'from, the Whlto House r In summing up the situation Senator Capper of Kansas says In Cappet's Weekly: ! - " , ja - ' ' .1 "Tho peace, treaty might have, been ratified oven b"eforo tho trip that brdiight hlg regrettable Illness upon him, bad tho President conscntod to' AmorlcanUIng reservations. J "Ifwould Tjavq been ratified No-rombcr No-rombcr 19 had the p'resldent not written His letter directing' the Democratic Dem-ocratic senators to voto again reservations reser-vations 'for thcretworo enough Dem crata ready to give their assent to tho reservation adopted by tho majority ma-jority after tboy had failed to got a majority for their own reservations offered by Mr.' Hitchcock as a sub-tltuto' sub-tltuto' for tbo Lodgo . rosorvatlons had tho; president not cracked the whip. ' iiirjr ."The aubstonco of these rcserva- ttons Is now' agreed. ..upon, and Oto wholo qur.it." Is when .approximately thirty Democratic senators Icon, be found whq wiHsuppofi: them 'whether 'wheth-er the president approves Jtbem t not. Seven1" Democratic f senators ,al-.rcodyvhaer ,al-.rcodyvhaer voted for the. Lodge 'reservations. 'res-ervations. ' "The outpnoken Assertion of iWil-'ilam iWil-'ilam Jeaalngs Bryan that .hiBWrty could not affbrd't.o-go toltheco'aatry oa article 10. whlcV take's away,' from G0AgraMaiidtciT0a tthe leagueol Batio&a:tfie power r.to decido when' this country' shall go to' war. oV to saaWo a party issue of the refusal to adopt Americanizing reservations? has had much to-do, I think, with the growing disposition, of Democratic senators to accept reservations, whether tho president approves or 'not. I "Still it is a qucstlOB whether ' sulllclent number of Democratic sen-ators sen-ators can bo obtained' without' the president's consent, to adopt such reservations, while thero la not the sllghtet-questlon that tho number can bo obtained any moment tho president presi-dent will say tho word. If tho president presi-dent should docllno to accept reser-avtlons. reser-avtlons. and plgeouholcs tho treaty, the next campaign cry may bo not I 'ho kopt us out of war,' but 'ho kept us In tho war.' " |
