The first of many erroneous mistakes made by Wilson in his attempts to have the Treaty of Versailles ratified by Congress. Desperate for retention of a Democratic majority in legislation in preparation for the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson went against the popular notion that “politics stops at the water’s edge” in 1918 when he called out the Republican party in speech in an effort to win votes for the Democratic party in the upcoming midterm election. Wilson distastefully blamed the Republicans in Congress for obstructing his administration’s war efforts, “at almost every turn, since we entered the war, they have sought to take the choice of policy and conduct the war out of my hands and put it under the control of instrumentalities of their
