The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-11
WILSON ISSUES
RECORD OF HIS
WAR PROMISES
Secretary Tumulty Says it's Suf.
ficient Answer to Re.
&c., publican Charge
COUNT STANDS TO q MADE AT PEACE MEETING
Senator Spencer Had Charged
Wilson Agreed to Send Arm
les to Help Balkans
(ByAssOciated Press).

(ByAssociated Press).
Washington, Oct. 1.-THE White
House made public today what was
described as an Official version" OF
President Wilson's address at tn:
eighth plenary session of the Paris
peace conference. The exacting word
ing OF this address directed to the
representatives of Roumania, Serbia
and Czecho-Slovallia has been the
subject of controversy between th!
president and Senator Spencer Repub.
lican of Missouri. . A.
The senator has declared In pol
ltical speech that the president had
promised ROumania and Serbia that
IF any nation invaded their terri
tory lie would send the American
army across the seas to defend their
boundary lines /
MrI Wilson, in a telegram to the
senator on Oct. 5 said that this state
ment was false" In reply Senator
Spencer called for the official record
stating that the statement referred
to 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 If the world
is again troubled the United States
will send to this side of the ocean
their army and their fleet"
The presidents words as given in
the official version follows:
"How can a power like the Urstetl
States for example-and l can speak
for no others-after signing this trea-
ty, if it contains elements which they
do not believe will be permanent, 60
5000 miles away across the seas and
report to it's people that it has made
a settlement of the peace Of the world? ?
1t cannot do so, and yet their under
lies all these transactions the expec-
tation on the part, for example, Of
Roumania and of cho-SlOvakia and
OF Serbia that ii any covenants Of
this settlements are not observed the
United States will send her armies and
her navies to see that they are OBJ
served" .,t a.. -
Furnished by StenOgrapIer
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 official stenographer with the
American peace delegation and who
wrote that he would be glad to
swear to the accuracy Of the tran
script.
Mr.. Carlsons letter was dated Oct
6 and was addressed l.. Sven, sten6-
grapher to the president. He explain
cd that he had read Senator Spen-
GERS 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
to Mr.. Wilson by the sena-
tor. He added that it was barely
possibly that the quotation was from
a translation into English by a
French translation and added, "as you
know the translations sometimes get
mixed up"
IL, wish were in, position to
make public what the president said
wrote Mr., Carlson, for feel that the
president is sadly misquoted but of
course as the meeting was a secret
one l can say nothing"
Mr.. Carlson's letter was made pub
lie by Secretary Tumulty with this
comment: "This letter speaks for it.
self"
Spencer's Reply
Senator Spencer in reply to Presi-
dent Wilson's telegram of Oct. 5 said
the statement which he had attributed
to the President was made on the
floor of the senate on Feb. 2, 1920.
by Senator Reed and 80 far as |
have learned has never been denied
until now
In his speech of February 2, Sena-
,or Reed quoted from the copywright-
ed, syndicated article by Frank Fl.
5imonds, which purported to give the
ext of the presidents address at the
eighth plenary session and which
Senator Johnson,Sof California, caused
20 be inserted in the congressional
record on Dec 4, 1919.
Along with Mr.. Carlson's transcript
he White House issued in parallel
columns "for comparisons the yer.
sion of the presidents speech as CIV
sn in Mr.. Simond's article as it ap-
1ears in the congressional record.