Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-18
NATION s CHIEF
I" ".[|NC To LEI
VOTERS Of ]. s.
DECIDE QUARREL!
Is Confident the Convention
At San Francisco viii AC.
Cept G, 0, P, Challenge
On Versailles Treaty,
REFERENDUM WELCOME
SAYS IN STATEMENT
CritiCizes Chicago Platform.
Its inspiration Was Is
SentiaIIy and ScientificaI-
Iy PruSSian, He Says.

frf soss'aa Jouss.l SPECIAL LEASED w,ssi
New York, June 17.-President
Wilson, in special interview
given to the New York World to
be published tomorrow morning,
said he was extremely confident
GVt the democratic convention
at san Francisco will welcome the
acceptance by the republican party
of my invitation to make the league
of nations the issue in this cam
|paign,"
81 am even more confident" the
president said, that such refer
endum will confirm my faith that
the American people desire 1T
above anything else that a political
party now may provide. and that
they will condemn the republican
policy of denying them the con-
summation of their hopes. No one
will recommend referendum on
that issue more than l."
81 suppose | should feel flatter-
ed" he said, cover being made the
issue of the presidential campaign
by the republican party. But even
the effort of the platform makers
at Chicago to confer the distinction
of being not only a burning but
living issue by camouf aging and
obscuring the real issues will not
deceive the people"
THE processes by which the
Chicago platform was accomplish
ed seem to me to have been es-
sontially and scientifically Prussian
! in inspiration aud method In
s,s Ne IA it,s a
Lincoln. the republican platform
lshould have quoted Bismarck and
Rernhardi because the republican
attitude regarding the supreme is
sue that cannot he abandoned or
disregarded strongly suggests the
arbitrary influences that dictated
the doctrines of those two emil
nent persons.
Trying to BcSloud the Issue.
Every charge directed against
me and my administration is OBJ
viously designed to becloud and
negative the paramount issue con-
fronting the American people, to
befog their sense of responsibility
and make violation of the obliga-
tiops they have assumed to be of
small consequence, l sincerely be-
lieve that the attempt of the re-
publican party to win the sanction
of the American people for its at
tempted evasion of these obliga-
tions will be decisively rebuked.
With one thing | am fully satisfied
this is that the republican party
In Its platform in its platform has
joined me In the suggestion l made
in my letter to the guests at the
Jackson day dinner in Washington
in January last. In that letter
expressed the hope that a sincere
attempt would be made to deter
mine the attitude OF the American
people on the league of nations by
the resort to the genuinely demo-
cratic process OF the referendum.
"Of course, | have no way OF an
tiCipatng the probable rend Of
sentiment that will be expressed in
the democratic national convention
at San Francisco or forecasting the
ultimate conclusions of that body.
But ! have every confidence that
the delegates who will sit in that
convention will repeat the chat
lenge | issued to the republ'ca
partly and express their readiness
to permit the people TO dec de be-
tween the vague and amb guouS
declaration by the republicans and
a positive and definite expression
of opinion by the democratic party.
Whatever else the democratic par
ty may do. | hope that its conven-
tion at San Francisco will say just
what it means on every issue and
that it will not resort either to am
biGuity or evasions in doing so.
No Political Sculduggery.
This thing (the league of ma
tions) lies too deep to permit OF
any political sculduggery. any at
tempt to sidestep or evade moral
and humanitarian responsibilities
much too solemn to treat so lightly
or ignore.
Il should prefer at this time not
to discuss partisan politics or u
venture any prediction as TO the
probable attitude that the demo-
cratic convention will take on any
subject | sincerely believe, how
ever, that the vast majority of gen.
tlemen who will sit in the SAN
Francisco convention will appreci-
ate the necessity and permanent
value of Keeping the word that
America has given the rest of the
world.
= THE thinly veiled rejection of the
principle of the league of nations by
the Chicago convention will not
fool any one. The attitude of Sem
ator Lodge and that, of Senator
Johnson differ only in degree. Both
are really opposed to 1t in any
form. one of these gentlemen is
disingenious and evasive and the
other candidly hostile
Has Confidence In People.
ct must be a trifle disconcert-
ing to some republicans" he added.
ITO have their party propose now
to repudiate that which was APP
proved few years ago by some of
their most important leaders. am
as confident today as was when
l returned from Paris finally in
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