The sun., 1919-08-12
.'INDICTS' WILSON 1S
TIMES In SENATE
Poindexter Shows Wherein He
Has Departed From Con-
stitutiOnal Rights. y
'ADMIRER OF BOLSHEvIKI'
Presidents Own Words Quoted
to Refute Denial by New
York Newspaper.
Special Despato TO TIE Sun.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.--More OF Wood
row Wilson's words rose up to mock him
in the Senate to-day. Senator Poindexter
(wash.) In q speech dug up from official
utterances by the President to show that
Mr.. Wilson at one time thought that the
Bolshevik regime In Russia challenged
the admiration Of the world" He also
demonstrated that when the Brest-Lit-
ovsk peace conference was in progress,
aiming at bringing the nations together
under a peace without victory" agree
ment, the President was in hearty SYM
pathy with that course, and even told
Congress so.
The Washington Senator recalled for
mer utterances Of the President, when
in the light of later events appeared
strange and startling. His speech to-
day was inspired by an editorial in a
New York newspaper declaring that MI
Poindexter owed an apology to the
President for charging that Mr.. Wilson
had referred to the Lenine-Trotsky
fiasco as worthy the worlds admiration.
Had 1 misquoted the President" Mr..
Poindexter said, II would willingly apol-
ogize Being prepared to show that my
quotation OF him was from pubic uocu-
ment containing an address OF the fresi-
dent to Congress, the apology Is unneces-
| sary. 1t Is peculiar, however, tnat IN an
editorial preaching the desirability OF ac-
curacy. the Times should be incorrect IN
| its two chief statements of fact. II says
| he never made such a statement, ana IL
says I ascribed as my authority Tor II
4 BoisheTik pamphlet. 1t was in error ai
| to both statements.
Naturally a devoted supporter OF the
President would resent the statement
that he had said such a thing about the
Bolsheyik regime. But 1t Is strange ,na'
such a supporter would not be famiiai
with his positions on public questions
| HI. reference to Russia.
| 'The Kerensky Government OF Russia
which was loyal to Russia's allies, was
overthrown on November q lSl'' py % she
Botsheyiki, who seized power. on Le-
cember 4. 1917, a month afterward, the
| President. in an address to Congress
used this language in referring 10 the
4 then administration of Russia.
| .'Nhile the Brest- -Litovsk peace con
ference was in progress the Presldeh'
expressed his approval OF Its plan lot y
peace without victory for erher siue
Let me read the evidence from his ad'
| dresses.
"F,rst, on January %. 1917, the Pres
ident In an address said that the states,
men on both sides in the war proiesseo
that they had no intention to crush tneii
enemies. implying that they favored tn'
ideal of peace without victory. anu inui
eating his own Endorsement OF that pro
eramme. Then later, in December. 1917
4 after we had been several months In th'
| war he referred TO this January al
dress. saving: Our entrance into th'
war has not altered our attitude toware
the settlement that must come when
u over Thus he reiterated after W.
were in the war his previous commit
ment to the policy OF peace without VIC
tory"
Mr.. Poindexter then proceeded to pre-
sent a mass of documentary tnformatlon
chiefly press dispatches and news art
Giles, to show that the Presidents lean
ing toward the Bolsheviki had givei
great announcement to that propaganda
In this country. He produced Bolshe
vik pamphlet on the first page of whicl
was quoted with approval the President
speech declaring that this Russian re
eime challenged the admiration of man
kind He declared that the President In
terfered in the Mooney case in Calitornii
not to prevent the execution OF an un
Just verdict but to allay internationa
feeling and placate the Bolshevlki, VIII
were clamoring TO save Mooney
Indictment Is General.
Then Mr.. Poindexter launched into
general Indictment of the President
| course in office. The Senator frs
pointed out that the Presidents oatl
of office bound him TO preserve, pro
tect and defend the Constitution OF tn
United States" and then made a lonl
list of specific charges of failing I
live up to this. These actions of tn
President are contrary to the provision
OF the Constitution. Senator Poindexte
held.
l. Entering into n compact with for
eign nations whereby supervision O
American trade In munitions of wa
shall be vested in a League OF Nation,
2. The President has declared 1
, favor Of "the removal so far as possibl
/, ! OF all economic barriers and has slgne
an agreement seeking to bind tn
United States. ito make provision
secure and maintain freedom of trans
for the commerce OF all membe
states In the proposed league.
g. The President has negotiated
/, covenant whereby the status OF tn
army and navy shall be fixed by pre-
ceedings under the league instead OF
: Congress and has agreed to term
: whereby this league may coerce AmeI
: lea In case OF its refusal to abide
this agreement.
The President has signed N cor