The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-24
REPUBLICANS ARE
EXTREMELY BITTER
AT PRES. WILSON
Chief Executive Is Flayed
at Big Dinner In
New York
BULLIED THE ENGLISH
Charges that the President Still In
sists on a Peace Without Victory
in Europe
BULLIED THE ENGLISH

NEW YORK, Feb. 24-President
Wilson has been bitterly attacked by
James NJ. Beck, Senator Joseph /.
France, of Maryland; Representative
Nicholas Longvorth, of Ohio, and
other speakers at the thirty-third an
nual Lincoln dinner of the Republican
Club at the Waldorf-Astoria. The
Wilson policies before, during and
after the war were vigorously criti-
cized.
Mr.. Beck declared that the Presi-
dent had run contrary to the consti-
tuition in delegating to himself the
powers of making war and making
peace, and that he had constantly
trespassed upon the rights
of the people in determining without
"advice and counsel of the Senate
the foreign policy of the United
States.
He charged that President Wilson
still insisted upon "a peace without
victory" that he had never gotten
away from that idea, and in trying to
enforce it now at the peace confer
ence "by trying to bully France and
England was the Amost infamous
thing ever done by an American
President in Office"
"One of-tha~ a~fundanantals of our
constitution" said Nj. Beck, "is that
our foreign policy shall be declared
by the President by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate 1t
never intended to put such power III
the hands of one man. It is re-
qtiired of the President to maintain
the closest cooperation with the SEN
ate In formulating our foreign policy.
The leaders of the Senate did not
even know what the Presidents for
eign policy would be when he went
to Europe. =
Il make the statement as chal-
lenge that since Woodrow Wilson be-
came President he has taken all these
powers to himself and has involved
this country in serious moral obIiga-
tions, at least, without first announc-
ing his policies and taking the people
into his confidence. It has come to
pass that nation of one hundred
million people stands in a stupor at
the sight of one man, and one man
alone, using the peoples powers
merely to enforce his own will and
going on without restraint in the ex-
ercise of his one-man mandates.
Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy
since he took Office has been a black
stain upon the honor OF the American
people,"
Mr.. Beck quoted from some of the
Presidents utterances prio:. TO this
country's entrance into the wat, and
from the reports Il at James w. Ge-i
rard, then Ambassador to Germany,
made after confcrring win the Pres
ident at Long Branch, to show that
the President was obsessed with the
idea of "a peace without victory" He
declared that he never had abandoned
that idea, and was now UNANIMOUSLY"
trying to enforce such a peace upon
America and the Allies.
He said that President Wilson's re-
cent efforts at the Peace Conference
to prevent the complete subjugation
of Germany at the hand of the Allies
was signifsant. He ridiculed the
Presidents trip abroad and his pro-
posal for a League of Nations.
Referring to the republican VIC
tories in electing majority to Con-
gress last autumn, Mr.. Beck said that
before going to Europe the. President
had asked the American people for a.
."blank power of attorney" in demand
ing a democratic Congress, but that
they had Overwhelmingly refused his
request.
The first thing that the President
had done when he arrived at the
Peace Conference, Mr.. Beck So
to try to "bully England" by
threatening that if she did not reduce
her navy and leave herself unprotect-
ed the United States would build a
navy so powerful that this country
would ruin England in competition.
That was nnonstrous proposal to
make to England in the name of tn
American people," said Mr.. Beck.
"The President has told Secretary
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