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...special article in another column of today's CRIMSON, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, presents with clearness and force the reasons for the workingman's desire that the Versailles treaty be ratified. The ridiculous assertion of Senator Borah and the other Irreconcilables that only the "international bankers" would be benefited by a world league of nations has never been more unanswerably refuted than by Mr. Gompers's sane arguments...
...Senator Borah's Attack...
General Wood says Senator Borah's recent attack on his campaign methods "is for the purpose of influencing adversely the primary vote in Michigan to be taken Monday, April 5." Senator Borah is the chief supporter f Senator Johnson's Presidential aspirations and both he and Johnson are "squealing" loudly because the California senator is being badly worsted by Genera Wood. Borah recently made a savage attack upon the General Wood campaign on the floor of the United States Senate, securing the ammunition for his outburst, first from the New York World, a Democratic newspaper and second, from...
...action of the Senate a victory for anybody it is a victory for Senator Borah and the irreconcilable Republican Senators who have followed his leadership. They have held the balance of power in both parties. It was their votes that enabled Senator Lodge to retain the reservations that the Administration Democrats rejected and it was their votes that finally prevented the ratification of the treaty that they had assisted in mangling...
Compromise between the Lodge and Democratic reservations of the Peace Treaty obtained a slight plurality over ratification without reservation or amendment in the final returns of the Intercollegiate Treaty Referendum. Senator Borah drew but a very slight following, and those favoring the Lodge reservations were a poor third in the voting...