The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-07
ATTACKS WILSON IN IA CHARGES:
 WRECKED PARTY
Homer Cummings Is Sent Letter Signed By Lead
 ing Boston Democrat

Boston. Aug. 7.-Matching Presi- dent Wilson's famous fourteen points with fourteen others in which they charge that the President has held the Democratic party up to ridfci1le. Francis T. F'inneran, president of the Democratic Club of Massa chusetts, has sent to Homer Cummings, chair man of the Democratic National Com lnittec, a letter signed by himself and seventeen Massachusetts legislators demanding that the national com mittee repudiate the action Of Presi- dent Wilson. The letter charges Presi- don't Wilson with having wrecked the party after 1t had lifted him from ob- scurity.
 The letter enumerates the fourteen points of the charges against Mir. VII son as follows:
 "FIrst-By appointing Incompetent men to positions of responsibility, the most glaring examples of which are Postmaster-Cseneral Burleson, Secre- tary of War Baker and Fuel Admins trator Garfield.
 'Second-By leaving the country at 8 time when the great problems of reconstruction and the high cost of living confronted Congress, camou- flagins through Europe and causing us to lose the friendship of Italy and other countries by his actions.
 ''Third-By attempting to force an English covenant called the League of Nations upon the American people Ut tho cost Of the destruction of the Declaration of Independence, of toger- ating the larceny of Shantung from China by Japan and the robbery of India and Egypt by Great Britain.
 t.-ft, !, L. To {s-r,. Washington's tomb when he declared he would demand the independence of small nations, and by refusing to take up tho question at the peace table of the liberty of Egypt, India, Ireland and South Africa, and recognizing Eng1and's right to govern Egypt.
 "Fifth-By his advocating interna- tlonallsnl, which means the loss of the national spirit of patriotism and the birth of socialism.
 sixth - By placing American troops in Russia, 0 country against which Congress has not declared war and his attempt to kill the spirit of America for only Americans.
 "Seventh-By his policy in Mexico. his recognition or Carranza, an anar- Chist and anti-Anerlcan, and the toll erat!5n of the murder of over three hundreds Am ericanS in Mexico with out q declaration of war.
 "EiEhth-By his refusing the re- quest of both branches of Congress that he take up the Irish question at the peace table.
 'Ninth-3y his partisanship toward the South at the cost of the rest of the country.
 ''Tenth-Ry his signing of the war time prohibition act after the armi- stice was signed.
 "Eleventh-By his policy of rehab- ilitation of bankrupt European na tions at the expense of the impover- ishment of the American Govern ment
 'TweIfth-By his disregard of the Baltimore platform, which pledged him to aid the passage of the Panama Canal free tolls.
 ''Thirteenth - By his disregard of the hundreds of thousa nds of negroes in the South.
 "Fourtecnth-By his policy of ship ping vast amounts of foods to Europe and spending s100.000,00o for food at the expense of America, thus causing the present. high cost of living which confronts tho American public.