The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
WILSON QUOTES
COL. ROOSEVELT
Attempts to Show That
Ex-President Approved
League Idea.
CITES A SPEECH OF 1914
Also Tells 40, 900 in San Diego
That Senator Lodge Has
Changed View.
CITES A SPEECH OF 1914
By stsr Correspondent. O., rHr Sun.


SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 1s.-In the
extremity of his right to impose his
will upon the Senate President Wilson
now calls to his support the voice OF
a man no longer able to speak for
himself. In this city to-day, before
an audience of 10000, he deftly inter-
jected into his plea for an unqualified
league a statement by Theodore Roose-
velt In October, 1914, so deftiy and
subtly as to give the impression that
Col. Roosevelt favored when alive
OF Nations as he (Mr. Wilson) would
compel.
He insinuated a statement made by
Col Roosevelt, almost five years ago
a general recommendation for world
peace. to support his private and par
ticular demand. 1t was left for the
immense gathering in the San Diego
Stadium to assume that the powerful
influence OF Col. Roosevelt would be
found to-day in support of the Wilson
League Of Nations rather than in sup
port of the Senate fight for a league
with reservations to protect America.
"The one potent move to obtain peace. ''
he quoted Colonel Roosevelt as saying In
October. 1914. 'is by an agreement
among the great Powers. and to Npledg ,
themselves to abide by their decision.
to exert their forces for peace and
Righteousness" And he added. with
something of an air of triumph:
"A very worthy utterance; am glad
to align myself with such utterances."
His Audience Ama.ed.
For the first time since he set out
to stir public opinion to club the Senate
into unqualified acceptance OF the
league, the President ventured to sum
mon to his aid the principles OF the
man who consistently spoke for Amer
lcanism and against any form OF use
less International ENHANCEMENT, and the
quotation with what II was designed by
skilful orator to imply was heard by
many persons in utter amazment
Just before he recalled the voice OF
Col Roosevelt. he sought to quote
Senator Lodge (Mass.) against his
(Lodge's) present position, asserting
that In 1915, this Senator, at a banquet
at which I myself was present. gave
the view that George Washington did
not mean to say that the United States
should refuse to Join with the other
nations Of the world In securing peace
He utilized the distant voices of the
quick and the dead to bolster his par
tieular and special cause, and with such
art and insinuation as could not fall
to make some impression upon his audi
ence.
II was an audience largely composed
Of women and children, vast assem-
blage crowded into one OF the greatest
open air theatres in the world, the
stadium of this sunny city OF southern
most California, an audience very EVIL
IDENTIFY summoned by the eager interest
OF the people In the unparalleled spec
tacle OF the appearance OF the President
of the United States.
MeHaDhOnes Garry Voice.
To visualize for Eastern readers the
Presidents audience to-day It will be
necessary to recall the lively and colorful
picture Of the Yale Bowl or the Har-
ward Stadium. crowded for a football
game, people rising tier on tier. the
furthest removed 80 distant. indeed, that
their features could be discerned only
through field glasses. Had not the
President taken. advantage of sound
transmission device which received,
magnlfied and conveyed his voice to
every part of the immense stadium.
il would have been impossible for him
to have made himself heard by more
than a few thousand standing In a small
glass enclosed pavilion at the northern
end OF the stadium He lifted his voice
into a pair OF meeaphones attached to
electric wires. the sound was transmit
ted TO another pair of mesaphones
placed upon the roof of the pavilion and
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