The literary digest . a two-thirds vote of the Senatefor ratification. It ishard to escape the im-pression that PresidentWilson is riding for afall, remarks the Indian-apolis Star (Ind. Rep.),which sees him on hisreturn to the Peace Con-ference confronting themost colossal of all tragicfailures. And the Globe-Democrat, aRepublican paper that hassupported and still su])-ports the Presidents plan,deplores the fact that hehas done much to makeit a party question by theconspicuous, if not delib-•erate, offensiveness of hisattitude toward the Re-publican leaders in Con-gress, and, for that
The literary digest . a two-thirds vote of the Senatefor ratification. It ishard to escape the im-pression that PresidentWilson is riding for afall, remarks the Indian-apolis Star (Ind. Rep.),which sees him on hisreturn to the Peace Con-ference confronting themost colossal of all tragicfailures. And the Globe-Democrat, aRepublican paper that hassupported and still su])-ports the Presidents plan,deplores the fact that hehas done much to makeit a party question by theconspicuous, if not delib-•erate, offensiveness of hisattitude toward the Re-publican leaders in Con-gress, and, for that matter,toward Congress as awhole. The BaltimoreSu7i (Ind. Dem.), however,reminds us that the lead-ing Republican critics of the proposed constitution have not put themselves on recordas opposed to any League of Nations, but merely to the particularplan now before the Peace Conference; and a Washingtoncorrespondent of the New York Tribune (Rep.) reports thatSenator Hitchcock (Dem.), chairman of the Foreign Relations. CY>i»yrigliled l>y tlie New Voik Tribune Associatiuii. DISCUSSING THE LEAGU Committee, recently asked Senator Knox (Rep.) to ^\Tite outsuch amendments to the League constitution as would make itacceptable to the opposition. While the reported reply of thePennsylvania Senator was that he would have to rewrite theentire docurrient, nevertheless there are rumors from Wash-ington that the covenantwill be revised at Paris towin over some of the for-midable Senatorial oppo-sition. Many papers agreewith the Atlanta Constitu-tion (Dem.) that in someform the League ojfNations is coming as cer-tainly as daylight followsdarkness, and that whenit comes it will include th6United States. Some ideaof what form it will haveto take to run the gantletof the United States Sen-ate may be gathered froman examination of themore authoritative Re-publican criticisms. Thesecriticisms, according to aWashington correspondentof the New York World(Dem.), simmer down tothree real deman
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