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Show I ROOTS FRANK STATEMENT TO COMMITTEE. Elihu Root gracefully bowed himself out of the presence of the committee investigating the "leak by which the peace treaty, as alleged al-leged by Senator Borah, was given to big financial interests in New Senators Lodge and Borah should be red of face and flabbergasted, flabbergast-ed, now that they know the people of the country realize how the two staged a sensation which they knew was without merit. Senator Lodge, in springing his veiled disclosures, which, by insinuation, in-sinuation, pointed straight at the men in Versailles, said he had seen a copy of the treaty in New York, but could not give names. The Standaid, on the first day of the sensation, predicted it would be shown that some one in full sympathy with Lodge was involved in I the treaty leak and had called the senator to New York. For Lodge to have said that Elihu Root had succeeded in obtaining obtain-ing the text of the treaty would have subjected him to sharp questioning ques-tioning by his political opponents who immediately would have said: "Well, that is not other than we had expected. How many more Roots and feelers and tendrils reach out into soil being cultivated by the enemies of this country?" Mr. Root, we freely concede, came into possession of the text in a regular way and he cleared his good name in a frank statement, but what have Lodge and Borah to say in explanation of their bomb shell exploded in the United States a week ago? How are they to apologize for leading the country to believe a diabolical crime had been committed by the American peace delegation? |