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GETTING DOW N TO BRASS TACKS.
"The poor old League ot Nations gets bigger every day as a
campaign issue.” suggests the Macon Telegraph in its leading editor-'
ial today, in commenting upon the Georgia situation. W hich shoul
be true but um't. Hoke Smith gets bigger every day as a campaign
issue in Georgia Which is true but should not be.
Enemies ot Senator Smith, through their hatred that seems to
know no bounds, have MADE HIM the issue in Georgia; they have
proceeded to effect a line-up of the voters of the state either for or
against Hoke Smith. This situation is very unfortunate, for, of
course, the League of Nations is the thing that vitally affects us all
and affects the whole world, and the question that we want settled
and settled tn the best possible way at the earliest possible moment.
The Times-Recorder has very deep convictions on the League of
Nations as an issue. It has followed the president implicitly; it be
lieves his administration the greatest this country or any other coun-.
try has ever seen. We like the League of Nations as it stands. But
we do not like it well enough to believe that we should sacrifice the
welfare not only of ourselves but the whole world to try to get it just
as it stands when that is impossible- XX e believe that it will be so
great and so good when ratified even with the reservations proposed
that it will be of lasting benefit to the world, and provide the work
ing basis for its perfection as time goes on and experience shows its
shortcomings. This being the case, we cannot find any enthusiasm
for Mr. Palmer as a candidate on the platform of the ratification of
the League without reservations. Why? Because there doesn t
seem to be the remotest chance that the League covenant can be
ratified just as it stands EVEN SHOULD MR. PALMER BE NOM
INATED AT SAN FR ANCISCO AND ELECTED NEXT NOVEM
BER. The senate will still lack the necessary two-thirds favoring un
reserved ratification, and we will have spent a year or more of delay
—for nothing.
Much as we have disagreed with Senator Smith in the past, and
much as we believe his fears for an unreserved ratification are utterly
unfounded, we believe that the endorsement of Senator Smith on
April 20 by the state of Georgia will bring an end to the treaty fiasco
near and mean the shaping of the national campaign on lines that
will make victory in November more than possible. We believe that
the need for ratification of the treaty on the best possible terms tran
scends any man s candidacy, or even the endorsement of the admin
istration in blanket form, and, therefore, that victory for Mr. Palmer
in Georgia on April 20 would not be for the best interests of the state,
the nation or the world.
That the campaign in Georgia is a renewal of the old personal
fight of Clark Howell, national committeeman from Georgia and edi
tor of the Constitution, against his old enemy. Senator Smith, is well
known throughout the state. The Atlanta Georgian ably exposes the
inconsistency of the Constitution’s position in this campaign in the
following editorial:
Under the caption, “The Treaty Showdown,” the Atlanta Constitution
of Friday, February 27, carried the following editorial:
Is seems at last that a final showdown on the peace treaty in the Senate
is in sight—that the world is soon to know whether the document is to be
ratified or rejected by the Senate.
After all of the quibbling, the debate, and the playing of petty politics,
that have kept the world in a state of uncertainty, doubt, unrest and chaos
for nearly a year, the indications are that the matter is soon to be disposed
of one way or another.
Up to this time the responsibility for the delay has rested squarely
upon the shoulders of the Republican senators.
They have undoubtedly sought to make it a partisan issue, with the
hope of realizing political capital out of it. ,
The people are sick and tired of it all, and disgusted with the attitude
of the Senate in not disposing of the question one way or another.
The public knows that a large part of the unrest that exists the woild
over is attributable to the Senate’s failure to dispose of the treaty.
At last the Republicans have come to realize this; and it seems as
though they are prepared now for a showdown vote.
If the Democrats do not meet them half way and acquiesce in accepting
the best they can get out of the treaty situation, then from this time on the
responsibility for whatever the consequences may be will rest upon them,
and not upon the Republicans!
The only practical course left for the Democrats in the Senate is for
them to make the best fight they can to preserve the treaty in as nearly as
possible its original form, and then to take the nearest to that they can get,
putting the responsibility—if anybody is to be held responsible for any
material alterations in the document —upon the Republican majority.
The main thing is to get rid of tha treaty!
If reservations must be accepted in order to assure ratification, then
the Democrats who are friendly to the treaty as it stands should vote for it
with the least objectionable reservations that may be offered.
If they can not get it in that form, they should accept the next best
ossible compromise; then, that failing, the next best, and the next, and so
n, until, by the process of elimination, it comes to a final decision on the
•eaty, with such reservations as may have been attached to it by the
enate.
The Democrats should then vote to ratify it in that shape, rather than
to have action upon the document indefinitely suspended, thus further penal
izing the world by a continuation of the indifference that has characterized
the Senate’s attitude toward the treaty up to this time.
The people want the treaty ratified, with or without reservations.
Even if it is ratified with reservations, the principle, atl least, of a uni
versal league to enforce peace and prevent war will have been recognized.
While it may not be all for which the advocates of the treaty have
fought, it will at least be a start in the right direction.
The world wants a start toward real peace, which will be impossible
until the treaty is ratified, either with or without reservations.
It is manifestly the duty of the Democrats in the Senate to vote for tne
treaty upon the best terms obtainable, and not to lay the party open to the
charge of being responsible for further procrastination and delay.
If the Constitution was even fractionally sincere when it carried the
foregoing, then it should be applauding and commending Senator Hoke
Smith today, instead of criticizing him and bitterly assailing him.
If the Senator had been looking to the Constitution for advice, he could
hardly have followed a course more honestly in keeping with the Constitu
tion’s demands of February 27.
The Senator proposed and voted for certain treaty reservations, and
after they had been written into the treaty the Senator voted for ratifica
tion—just as the Constitution so vehemently insisted that senators should
vote.
Having done so and appealed to the people of his State for endorse
ment and approval, the Constitution should have been among the first to ex
tend it.
If the Constitution meant it when it promulgated the advice set forth
herein, then it should be manly, fair and square enough to stand up for
it now.
Presumably the Constitution on February 27 was seeking to preserve
the Democratic party and to insure its proper equipment on the treaty issue
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Rhymed Review of Recent News
RHYMES BY HOWARD MANN.
PICTURES BYF. W. PARKS.
FAIR San Diego gave Prince Ed
A royal time and then he said:
“I’m glad to have four weeks of ease
En route to the Antipodes,
For when these Yankees entertain
They surely work with might and
main.” I
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Detroit decided it had had
Enough; the citizens got mad.
Strap-hangers, those long-suffering
souls,
At last united at the polls
And made the traction barons groan
By voting bonds to build their own.
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Jap soldiers seized Vladivostok
And gave the Bolshevik a shock;
They grabbed a host of whiskered
gents
And locked ’em up as malcontents.
If they should shave these hostages
They’d stuff a million mattresses.
for the fall elections; certainly the advice it gave then would seem to be sus
ceptible of that construction.
The editor of the Constitution is Georgia’s member of the Democratic
National Committee, and thus his advice was in order. And inasmuch as
Senator Smith pursued the course he did, in keeping with the Constituton’s
advice, then Senator Smith was quite as mindful of the party’s interests as
the Constitution was; and his responsibility n the matter was far greater.
On February 27, before Senator Smith became a candidate in Georgia,
the Constitution was; and on his responsibility in the matter was far greater,
issue; Senator Smith still is talking that, but the Constitution is assailing
him and abusing him and calling him hard names.
Apparently the Constitution is far more concerned with humiliating
Senator Smith before the people of Georgia than it is with preserving the
party integrity and chance of success.
The Constitution’s course is the quintessence of inconsistency and in
sincerity, it seems to us; it is wholly unworthy a great newspaper.
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Some rodents in his belfry had;
The former boss of Tammany,
With his accustomed strategy,
Employed some psychopathic docs
Who said: “He’s looney—like a fox.”
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i Who once monopolized page one?
Well, he broke into print again
In old familiar fashion when
They doped his grub with arsenic
And made the ex-dictator sick.
France grabbed some cities on the
Rhine
Whereat Berlin began to whine;
The English lion snarled a bit
And Rome commenced to throw a fit,
While other nations in the league
Resumed their habits of intrigue.
it AS I claim to wear the Roosevelt mantle, it is not amiss to state
** That a mantel is a fixture made to ornament the grate.
Am 1 not great, who figured in the “Winning of the West?”
For which 1 wear a medal on my Sunday coat and vest?
Am I not great who fought the Don and would have fought the Hun?
Was I not, too, prevented by the Spite of Washington?
So, who else could wear that mantel? Well, it may be others could,
But would anybody fit it half as snug as
Leonard would?
“Let me admit some friends of mine are free and easy spenders,
But how should I know what they do, or who are the prime offenders?
I've heard it said that money has an utterance that’s audible,
But if it talks in my behalf, I say its speech is laudable,
For I’m a prime investment for the patriotic resident,
And naught may pay him better than nominate me president,
So if you’d spend your money for your country’s future good
Who else will pay you quid pro quo as much as
Leonard would?
“You’ll all agree the country’s ill and needs a good physician,
Far more than any theorist or paltry politician;
You’ll all admit it needs a man of skill in diagnosis,
Who knows when Senates suffer from a cerebral ostoris,
Or, when a Congress labors long with unborn legislation,
Will boldly bring it forth by some Caesarian operation.
Now who would take a case like that and do the patient good?
O, hark! 0, hear! from far and near the cry comes
‘Leonard would!’ ”
(Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.)
SPRING
*<W7AKE up,” calls Spring to the violets.
*» “The sunny mornings are here.
“The birds are chirping loudly,
“And there is nothing for you to fear.
“The clouds are sailing slowly across the deep blue sky;
“And the bluebird is calling to you as he lazily flys by.”
“We are coming,” call the Violets.
“You will see us up tomorrow,
“And we’ll dance and sing, and
“For us there’ll be no sorrow.”
So Spring saw them lift their heads
From the dark brown earth and flower beds.
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Americus, Ga. Age 9 Years Old.
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