The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
FROM WHEEL CHAIR PRESIDENT PLEADS
 FOR HE LEAGUE
Voice Chokes As He Speaks ProfoundeSt Emotions of Heart to Pro-League
 Republican Delegation
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Washington. October 27.-Presideni Wilson, in his first speech since he was ksken i'll more than a year ago, called cn hIs fellow countrymen" today to ndorse the League of Nations and Summoned them to "the concert oi teace and the completion of the great moral achievement" on their part which he said, the world war repre- 1Anted.
 Speaking from his wheel chair
 te . delegation of Pro-Leasue
 League Republicans and Indepen-
 denta, who called at the White
 House. the President declared that
 ~the great moral influence' of the
 United States would he stabsolutely
 thrown aways if the nation did 4not
 complete the task which our soI-
 diers and sailors 20 seriously un-
 aertoek to eaecute.e
 The American people, Mir. Wilson Ssid. should not be deceived into sup posing the imperialistic schemes ended with the defeat of Germany. He de- egared there were other nations which were likely to be powerfully moved or were already moved ~by commercial jealousy, by the desire to dominate and have their own way in politics and en- terprise," and that it was necessary fc appraise them that the world would se united against them as 1t was against S;ainst Germany if they attempted any aimiiar thing"
 VOICE CHOKED WITH EMOTION
 The Presidcnt read his address
 from manuscript. His visitors
 declared in formal stntcmnt after
 fn he fp>~.% kf
 evident he was s@voicing the pro-
 fsundest emotions of his hearf."
 mere than once, ahls voice choked,"
 especially when he referred to .the
 soldier boys and the mothers of
 those who had fallen in battle.c
 1The whole occasion wns inex-
 pressfbly solemn and tender" said
 the statement, adding that the
 deputatiOn felt that 1t was "nothing
 Iess than trasic- that the President
 had been brought Ato such q strfck-
 en physical condition as the result
 of his indesatfgnble labors for hts
 country and for humanity.o They felt" concluded the statement That this might be the Presidents final f Dpeal to the conscience of his country en in the supreme moral decison that
 ey are called upon to make
 Mir. Wilson received his visitors, fif- teen III all, lnCiDulnE TWO women, Tn a small room off his study near the en- trance to the White House, He re- ruained in his wheel chair throughout the I .es,st ion, witch i3sted forty painutes Afterwards Rear Admiral Grayson, hYs physician indicated that he had shown no physical i'll effects, saying he had come through in Exceptionally fine form"
 After the delegation was greeted by the President, Dr. Hamilton Holt of New York, it's spokesman. delivered a brief address, declaring that the League 0 Nations; transcended party politics and was 'sthe greatest moral issue that has generation" He added that the delega- tion represented "a vast number of other republicans throughout the United stares who arc ready to put patriotism above party in the present critical hour" to the end that "our boys whose blood hallows the fields of France win not have died in vain"
 WANTS TEXT PUBLISHED
 Tn his reply, the President appealed 70 the editors and publishers of the country to publish the full text of the covenant se the League of Nations so that the people might better inform themselves of the issue involved
 Discussing Article x, the President took occasion to say that the so-called Americanism which we hear so much prating about now is spurious and in- vented for party purposes only" The true, the real Americanism, he declared, lis to see justice done and humanity protected and vindicated." stating that this was the purpose of Article K
 Describing Article x as the "specinc redemption of the pledge which the free governments 6f the world gave to their people when they entered the war, the people declared. i've have now to choose whether we will make good or quit. We have joined issue.'' he continued. and the issue is between the spirit and the purpose of the United States and the spirit and purpose of imperialism
 This choice is the supreme choice or the present campaign. suggest that the candidacy of every candidate, for what ever office. be tested by this quest'en; Shall we or shall we not redeem the great moral obligation of the United States?'"
 The delegation, which arrived at the White House at Il o'clock, included Hamilton Holt, editor of The Indepen- dent, who acted spokesman for The delegation; Theodore Marburg Of BAlti- more, Edwin r. Gay, president of the New York Evening Post John F. Moore chair man of the League of Nations Club of Massachusetts; Mrs. John F. Moore, treasurer of the Pro-League Republican Quotas; Mrs Schuyler N. Warren of New York. director of the League for Polit- ical Education; F. N. Warren. Jr., Mrs Malcolm Forbes. president of the Women voters' Association of Massachusetts; Joseph M Price, chairman of the board of trustees of the New York City Club; Dr. John Bates Clark. professor of eco rcmics, Columbia University, pr. Jonn Spencer Bassett professor of history, smith college: D. H. Bowser, New York Col. Samuel P. Weatherrill, head Of the Prologue Republican Club movement Brown. New York honorary vice presi- dent of the League to Enforce Peace. and