Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-11
President { SIS Out Sten.
Ographic ties of Peace
League Speech.
LANGUAGE NOT
SAME AS QUOTED
Does Not Give Assurance to Serbia
and Roumania That America Viii
Send Troops to Their Aid But Ad-
nnits They Would Expect Such Aid
--Long Delayed Denial to CHARGES
Made Months Ago.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
washington. Oct, 1.-THE White
House made public today what was
described as an Official version" OF
resident WILSON'S address at the
eight plenary Session of the Paris
peace conference. The exact word
ing OF this address, directed to the
representatives Of Roumania, Serbia
ana Czecho-Slovakia, have been the
subject of a controversy between the
PRESIDENT and Senator Spencer. re-
publican, of Missouri. The Senator
mas declared in political speech
that the president had promised Rom
mania and Serbia that if any nation
ever invaded their territory, he would
send, the American ARMY across the
seas to defend their boundary lines. :,
Mr.. Wilsop, in a telegram to the
senator on Oct. s, said that this
state was false"
4 In reply Senator Spencer called for
the official record, saying that the
statement to which he referred was
In the "stenographic notes" of the
eighth plenary session, in which the
president was reported to have said;
YOU must not forget that it is
force that is the final guarantee of
the peace of the world. II the world
is agaie troubled. the United States
will send to this side of the ocean
their army and their fleet"
President Gives Official Version.
The presidents words as given In
the official version follows: - :.
How can a power like the United
States, for example, can speak for
no other-after signing this treaty,
II it contains elements which they do
not believe will be permanent, go
5000 miles away across the sea and
report to it's people that 1t has made
a settlement of the peace Of the
world. 1t can not do so, and yet there
underlies all Of these stransactions
the expectation on the part, for ex-
ample, of Roumania and Czecho-
Sloval<ia and of Serbia that if any
covenants Of this settlement are not
observed the, United States will send
her armies and her navy to see that
they ,are Observed
The official version of the full text
of the presidents address was fur
nished to the White House last week
by Fred A. Carlson, of Chicago, who
was an of fficial stengropher with the
American peace delegation and who
wrote that he would be glad to
swear to the accuracy Of the tran
script"
Carlson Comes to Wilson's Aid.
Mr.. Carlson's letter was dated Oct
26 and was addressed to Charles l..
Swemrn, stengropher to the presi-
dent He explained that he had
read Senator Spencer's reply to the
president in the Chicago newspapers;
that he had just gone over his notes
and that he could find no such
statement as that attributed to Mr..
Wilson by the senator" He added
that it was barely possible that the
quotation was "from a translation
into English of M. Mantou's transla-
ton into French of the presidents
remarks. and, as you know, the
TRANSACTIONS sometimes mixed things
up q Bit
things up a bit.''
Il wish were in a position to
make public what the president said :"
wrote Mr.. Carlson. "For T feel that
the president is sadly misquoted, but
of course, as the meeting was a Sc
cret one, I can say nothing"
Mr.. Carlson's letter was made p,,b-
lie by Secretary Tumulty with this
comment:
H"This letter speaks for itself"
Denial Comes Late.
Senator Spencer, in his reply to
President Wilson's telegram of Oct.
5, said the statement which he had
attributed to the president twas
made upon the floor of the senate
on Feb. 2, 1920, by Senator Reed and.
so far as I have learned, hos never
been denied until now"
In his speech of Feb. 2 Senator
Reed quoted from copyrighted
syndicated article by Frank Fl. ST.
monds which purported to give the
text of the presidents address at the
eighth plenary session and which
Senator Johnston, republican of Cali.
fornia, caused to be inserted into the
Congregressional Record on Dec. 4
1919.
Along with Mr.. Carlson's tran
script the White House issued in
parallel columns "for comparison
the version Of the Presidents speech
as given in Mr.. Simonds' article as
it appears in the Congressional Rec
ord. :
On the opposite column from the
official version of Jthe presidents
words, as previously quoted, appears
the following:
"How could the government of the
United States go before the congress
and the people Of United States ant
pretend that it had insistedAin in.
suring the peace of the world if i
believed that the settlement agreed
upon here contained unstable or dan
gerous allignments. II the worlt