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Show THE PEACE TREATY OF VERSAILLES IS DEAD i Killed By Combination Vote Of It's f Friends And Foes The. Treaty or Versailles Is dead. 1 It met Its death at the hands of its ' Implacable foes and Its best friends last, Friday when 23 Democrats joined join-ed Jl2 lrreconcllablei and put the ( treaty to sleep, Twenty-eltJht Re- U publicans voted for the treaty with 1 the" resenratlons that had passed the senate, and notwithstanding the appeal ap-peal of the president, 21 Democrats deserted him and voted tor the treaty. trea-ty. Notwlthstanlng the fact that Mr". .a , Hoover made a stiff stand for -the treaty with the Lodge reservations, rnnd Sir. Bryan made an eleventh hour appeal, Mr. Wilson appeared to have his finger on enough Democratic Sen-, Sen-, ntors to kill his own child. In' dls- b F. cussing tho matter Mr. Bryan said: I "It Is no longer a matter of per- sonal opinion; It has. now become a teat of the senate's belief In popular i government. The fundamental prln- I clple In n democracy Is the right of tho majority to rule. If wo repudiate il that principle In this country, with K what consistency can wo recommend Jt to Europe. Tho old world Is watch I lng us and will Judge our devotion to our form of gvornment by what we do rnther than by what we say. I assume that the Democrats of the senate will join In ratification now that the roap'oilty has clearlr expressed ex-pressed Itself. "Our.caaiMtfn will b a fare as well as a failure if, after the senate has to emphatically expressed Itself in favor of ratifying with reservations our party Joins the Irreconcilable In opposing ratification In order to make the treaty a partisan Issue." Dul Mr." Bryan could not rally V o forcesi Enough of the faithful wr wedded to Mr. Wilsons program of Internationalism to vote his nan V and thereby permit him to make the Issue or the coming campaign, and lt nil probability force; hfs own nom.1',-' ntlon, Mr. Wilson seems bent on making mak-ing Or breaking, and let it bo si Ho has made the Issue' and Is (he logic,'.! candidate.. As Senator Kenyan s.ivo "Nominate Wilson under tho whit? flag of Internationalism, nnd any loy al Republican under the stars and itrlpes and on a platform of nation-Ism, nation-Ism, and go to tho battlo of ballots. At the finish there will not bo en-ough en-ough of the Wilson followers to mako a good sized funeral." |