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Show MAY RATIFY THE VERSAILLES TREATY. Surprise has been manifested In Washington over the report that PreB 'dent -lect Harding has been persuad ed to return to the idea of ratifving the treaty of Versailles, including the ; league of nations covenant. The pres-1 pres-1 idem elect has come under the influence influ-ence of partv leaders of the convictions convic-tions of Elihu Root, former President TSft, Charles E Hughes and Herbert C. Hoover, who visited Marion on in-' jvltStlon and pointed out the difficulty of m-c kinc to form an;. SSSOC atlOS ol inations other than the league now in full operation. What w ill happen to the "irreconcilable.-;," if Mr. Harding rejects their counsel0 Johnson and Borah may br expected to fly off on a tangent and 'say bitter things, but they have lost much of their prestige since the day they were repudiated by the Chicago convention. President-elect Harding will be responding re-sponding to the will of a far greater i body of citizens by accepting the quid I ance of Root, Taft and Hughes than by I being dictated to by the irreeoneil- i a bles |