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Wood,314 1-2 Lowden, 289 Johnson, 141 1-2 Sproul, 109 1-2 Harding, 51 1-2 Coolidge, 25 LaFollette, 22 Poindexter, 15 Butler, 20 Hoover, 5 Knox, 4 Watson, 4 Sutherland, 3 Dupont, 2 Borah...
...Coliseant. Scarcely had the delegates been called to order by Senator Lodge when word came that the platform subcommittee, headed by Medill McCormick, had reached an agreement. Save for a slight ripple of applause which swept over the assembly, the debate in the main committee was uninterrupted. Johnson and Borah, excited and talkative, were still holding their irreconcilable position. So heated, indeed, was the debate that a fight on the floor seemed likely at any time. Johnson, backed by Borah, held a threat of a bolt over the members, who in response sat defiant, waiting it seemed for the storm...
...party split at Chicago over the problem of adopting a suitable plank on the peace treaty seems to have been safely avoided. The sub-committee, acting with praiseworthy adroitness has succeeded in agreeing upon a resolution sufficiently non-committal to be acceptable to all parties. Senators Johnson and Borah may decide not to "bolt," Senator Lodge rests upon his laurels with a sense of gratification at having overridden his opponents' objections, and even the mildest reservationists seem to have fallen in line...
...Borah Resolution for the investigation of campaign expenditures may serve the purpose of curbing somewhat any gentlemen seeking the Presidency who fail to profit by the lesson administered to Senator Newberry--that America is a democracy, not a plutocracy. The danger in a Presidential election that votes will actually be purchased is practically a negligible one; still it is only just that the actual truth about campaign funds should receive as "pitiless publicity" as charges and counter-charges, rumors and denials, have now for some time commanded...
...this country, who stand for our ideals. We have need of a number of things that we ought to dispose of, and the first is the League of Nations. We want action on it. My own views you are all familiar with, as expressed in my letter to Senator Borah, who has begun to take a touching interest in all my affairs. I told him that I believed we should accept the League of Nations with the reservations known as the Senate reservations. In dealing with this, we must not look at America from the European standpoint. We should look...