Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15

III tnc fNepupIcatls Icluse W ae'tuiPtseu
| prevent corruption and fraud ut elections
he said, "by all means let the Democrats
| do all in their power to do so
eff there ever WAS peoples conven-
! ton" he said. ut is this one. 1t is n cti-
| zens' convention, who came here to use
| their own judgment and are dong So
| Mr. lsaacs next presented former Con-
gresham l.. Irving Handy of Smyrna as
temporary chairman.
HANDY TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
| MIR. Handy said he counted it particu-
| lar honor to preside over the first conven-
ton in Delaware in which women sat as
| delegates. He said it hadn't been quite
| democratic when women paid taxes and
had to be subservient to law when they
had no part in the making of the laws.
| The present status of women, however,
makes for a real democracy.
i MIR. Handy, speaking of the war, said
the country didn't want the war. 1t
wanted peace and industry and good
| fellowship with all the world. However,
it was forced upon us. We went in it as
valiantly and as unanimously as any
people who ever went to war. He did not
| claim that the victory was Democratic
victory. However the Democratic party,
which was in power, had the manhood to
| lay aside politics. He spoke of the men
/ selected to do big things in the war,
noting General Pershing and Herbert
| Hoover, both of whom were Republicans
/ The President called the whole country
| to his side in the matter. He made an
army out OF civilians. When the war was
| over we had in Congress a swarm OF com
mittees and commissioners to investigate
what had been done-whether there had
| been wasted or thievery. As a result we
came out with clean bill of health. 1t
was the first war that was not followed by
scandal.
| Mr.. Handy next referred to the effort to
make treaty that would guarantee peace
not only for over our country, but for the
whole world. We wanted no mans ter
/ ritory, but just that peace throughout the
world should reign forever. MIR. Handy re-
| ferred to the Presidents mission at the
peace table, where the others had so
many axes to grind. He was the one man
/ to whom the whole world looked. He
| brought back with him a treaty which,
among other things, provided for a league
of nations The Republicans, for political
motives, because it was a treaty made by
| Mr.. Wilson, would have none of it. For
that reason, and in the hope of breaking
/ him down, and in the hope of robbing his
| brow of the wreath of immortality, they
/ turned against the treaty, and we are
/ technically at war with Germany. Now
/ it comes UP to the people in a referendum
as to whether we are to continue the war
with Germany or have peace. In his
effort to carry this message to the people
Mr.. Wilson has broken his health, but
still the Republicans sing song of hate
against him. "Mr. Wilson is not now a
candidate. but we have very good candi-
date in Governor James NJ. Coz" he said,
The mention of Governor Cox's name
brought deafening applause. As far as
MIR. Wilson is concerned, he said, his pub
lie career is ended; we give him into his
tory. His name viii grow as the leader of
/ mankind and champion of peace. as time
goes on, as has been the case with Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The men who made enormous sums out
of the war he said, are now giving some of
that profit to the Republican party in an
effort to buy the electorate.
might as we'll say William d. Denney,
| the Republican nominee, would carry on
the John G.. Townsend administration, If
elected, as to say that MIR. Cox would
continue the Wilson administration Mr..
Handy said would it be fair to me to
say Mr.. Denney would be Townsend
special session-governor?" Mr.. Handy
spoke OF Governor Townsend's principal
achievement as the School Code, and said
| the schools of Delaware are no better
under the code than they were before.
| He protested against the closing of small
schools in the country This, he said,
| sis the splendor Of the Townsend ad-
/ ministration. | hope the people will pass
! laws to get the schools back into their
own hands. Get rid of 'Spaid' and get a
hoe" Speaking of Governor Townsend
calling a special session of the Legislature,
at an expense, he supposed, of $50, ,000 the
purpose he understood, was to enfranchise
women. but 1T wasn't done" he said.
Women were enfranchised by good old
Southern Stste-Tennessee Mr. Handy
paid high tribute TO President Wilson, who
he considered one of the greatest men of the
age.
John G. Gray of Wilmington. who fol-
lowed Mrs. Ridgely, praised the women for
their work In matters of government and
their high aims. Like Mr. Handy, Mr.
GRAY drew lessons from the war, detailing
the achievements of the Democratic
party and ridiculing the efforts of the Re
pubhcans TO defeat the results of the
American victory
SENATOR woICoTT MAKES KEYNOTE
SPEECH.
United States Senator J. O. Wolcott
discussed national issues. He was glad the
Republicans had admitted that the League
of Nations comprised the paramount
issue of the campaign and that the Dem
cratic party is on the right side of the
argument. He said he would be ashamed
not to march forward with the civilized
nations of the world for this great cause.
"We are for this League of Nations" he
said, because it is the only relief for
suffering humanity" Anybody who has
a doubt about the League of Nations,
he continued, should read it carefully
and see just what it means. The covenant,
he said, makes only for good and any
body who denies this either does not
understand it or deliberately misrepresents
facts. 1t cannot send any Of our boys to
fight the battles of any other nation
without the consent of Congress The
statement that England has six votes
and can outvote us is false. The league
cannot make us do anything without our
consent. In reply to a question from the
audience, Mr.. Wolcott said that while
England has six votes in the Assembly,
it has only one in the Council, the same
as the United States The Assembly can
take no action-it can only discuss.
The action is taken in the Council, where
the United States has the same vote as
England or any other nation In the AS
seTnbly Great Britain has one representa-
tive, Canada one, South Africa one,
India one, New Zealand one and Austria