Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-20
FIRM STAND FOR
VERSAILLES PACT !!
KNITTED BY LODGE:
Massachusetts, Senator Is
Branded With Infamy
by His Own Pen. /
PLATFORM STRONG FOR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Thrilling Speeches by State
Leaders, Recounting Great
Work of the Party.
HOWL DOWN WET RESOLUTION
Senator Glass Rc-Elccted National
Committeeman and Rorer James
Is Again State Chairman.
PLATFORM STRONG FOR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
HOWL DOWN WET RESOLUTION
Senator Glass Rc-Elccted National
Committeeman and Rorer James
Is Again State Chairman.
(By Stan Correspondent,

f.oaNohE, VA, May 19.-Senator
carter Glass, referred to by Harry
st. George Tucker as the Little
Giant OF Lynchburg." was the choice
today OF Virginia Democrats as the
standard-bearer OF the party in the
presidential fight this fall
The twenty-four votes from this
state Will be cast for him as long
as his name remains before the con,
vention at San Francisco.
Instruction for tho Junior Senator.
together with the adoption OF n plat-
form, which strongly indorses the
wilson administration and calls for
prompt ratification of the treaty OF
Versailles without reservations which
would impair It's essential integrity.
and the defeat OF an amendment de-
claring for light wines and beer.
were the outstanding features OF the
State Democratic Convention which
came to close hero today at
o'clock
Knox Quoted Against Himself.
In condemning the Knox peaca
resolution, the platform reads: &
by every accredited standard OF
international morality the President
Is JUSTIFIED In asserting that tho hon
or or tho country Is involved In this
nusincss; and we point to the accus-
Ing fact that before 1t was do
termlned to initiate political an
tasonism to tho treaty the new Re-
publican chairman of tho Senate For
eign Relations Committee himself
puollcly proclaimed that any PROPOSE
ton Tor separate peace with Ger
many. such as he and his party as
sociates recently reported to the
senate would make us guilty OF the
oiackest crime On Saturday, May
ID. this Knox substitute for the
versailles treaty was passed by the
Republican Senate, and this conyen-
ton can contrive no more fitting
characterization Of its infamy than
that made In the Forum Magazine
| or December. 1913, by Henry Cabot
Lodge. when he said: II we sent
our armies and young men abroad to
DO killed and wounded in Northern
France and Flanders with no result
out this. our entrance into war with
| such an intention was n crime which
nothing can justify. The intent OF
Congress and the intent OF the Presi-
dent was that there could be no
peace until we could create a situn-
| ton where no such war as this could
recur. We cannot make peace ex-
cept in company with our allies. 1t
would brand us with everlasting dis
honor and bring ruin to US also IL we
undertook to make separate
peace"
Unanimous Vote for Glass.
The resolution committing the yir-
ginia delegation at San Francisco to
Senator Glass was offered by Repre-
sentative r. walton Moore, Of the
Eighth District. and was adopted
unanimously by the convention. 1t
was seconded by Representative Hal
Il. Flood.
The conspicuous service Senator
Glass has rendered the nation as
member of Congress and father of
the Federal reserve system OF bank
ing and the farm loan act, as Secre-
tary OF the Treasury and as the
junior Senator of Virginia were re-
called in speeches made earlier I'm tho
afternoon by Governor westmoreland
| Davis. Harry st. George Tucker and
| State Senator l.. Lee Trinkle, all of
whom declared he would make an ad-
mirable President.
The resolution OF Endorsement
reads:
The Democrats of Virginia pre-
sent to the Democratic party of the
country. as their candidate for Pres
ident. the Honorable. Carter Glass.
His public service as a member OF
Congress. in contributing most ma
terially to the establishment of a
banking system that released the
business OF the people from the bond
age in which 1t had been held; "a
Secretary of the Treasury. In guid-
ing the financial policy and transact
tions OF the government through
period of unprecedented danger and
stress: and as a trusted counsellor OF
the President, under whose masterful
leadership the party has made rec-
ord without parallel In our political
history, clearly demonstrate his ft-
ness for the highest Office OF tho ma
ton. To that great, office he would
bring extraordinary qualifications
BY him It's duties would surely DO
performed with tho wisdom and