Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-09
UNDERWOOD SAYS
HE IS NOT RUNNING
FOR PRESIDENCY
Senators Fighting Pact Are
Called 'Unpatriotic San
Francisco Claims Lead in
Race for Convention

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WASHINGTON, Jan. Resoius
lions indorsing the treaty of yer-
sailles and denouncing as sunpatriotfc
! the attitude of senators who would
defeat il directly or by multiplying
reservations We're unanimously adopt
ed today by the Democratic hational
committee in session.
The arrogant" Republican Leaders
ship OF the senate was denounced as
having earned the contempt of the
world by throttling the treaty for
seven months. and the senate Wa,
| called upon to quit playing relif
with the question OF ratificatioli.
Senator Underwood, of Ala banla,
4 statement today announced N
would not be a candidate for tild
| Democratic presidential ronliaa zion,
My friends have conplineateh
me-" the senator said, ''by suggest
| Ing that l be a candidate for tho
Democratic presidential nomination.,
| but | am in no sense a candiclate. 1
! have announced q candidacy for rthe
/ seratorship for Alabama and | hope
and expect to represent thatpstgEe
in the senate for another six yeass.ss
Reviewing the legislative record
of the two Wilson administrations
| and the manner in which the war
was won, the resolutions also ex-
pressed qualification that the pres
dent w2s regaining health after, a
breakdown due largely to his efforts
for world poGce."
The resolutions were adopted at
the committees quadrennial meeting
to select a time and place for the
1920 convention. The choice will be
made late today with the race be-
tween Kansas City and San Francis
co and with the supporters of the
latter claiming they have enough
votes pledged to insure beyond dis
cus3ion the selection Of their city,.
TGesolrtion On Treaty
Concerning tho peace treaty tie
resolutions said:
I'VE affirm our approval of the
treaty Of Versailles and we condemn
as unwise and unpatrotio the atti-
tude of those senator's who would
defeat its ratification, either directly,
or by Overwhelming it with reser-
vations that are intended to, and Will
have the effect Of multiplying it.
''The failure Of the senate Repub-
lican leaders to offer or to permit
consideration Of interpretattve reso-
Iutions that would preserve the gen-
eral TuEpose. sof the treaty and to so
permit it's ratification condemns
them To- t9e criticism OF the natielt
ana to Sthe contempt OF the world"
Y The resolutions said that when the
Democrats came into power in 1878
they found the nation in cond1-
ton Of comparative industrial and
commercial depression and with "the
banking system in the hands Of
Of trrnh xvi nj q
riodicaliy occurred y..s.c..1...s..
1t was added that "these ana ot.9-
err ills had existed for sixteen years
under Republican rule without any
relief
ITO remedy this condition. the
resolutions continued, 'the Deno-
cratic administration entered imnie-
diately upon a vigorous constructive
program" adding that the establish-
ment Of the federal reserve banking
system entities the party to the
everlasting gratitude of the country.
while the farm loan banking system
gave to our agricultural interests
the relief long demanded by them. "
The resolutions then referred to
the enactment of the law giving the
people the right to elect their United
States senators by popular vote" and
said the party had 'enfranchised the
women and for the first time gave
labor the fair showing to which IL
was entitled" @
Referring to the avowed objects
OF the country's participation in the
war, the resolution continued:
"A treaty to this end WAS nego-
tiated and for seven months IT has
been thrCttled by the misusHn Re-
publican leadership of the senate that !
is so arrogant that it eVon refuses
to let the senators Of its own party,
who desire to have the treaty rati-
fled with certain reservations chat
seem reasonable to them, to vote ac-
cordingly and thus to make at Lease
a start toward worldly wide peace -
e1nand for Pcaee
AS a result the resolutions said,
conditions are. unsettled a definite
proclamation Of the end of the war
is delayed" 1t declares that had the
treaty been ratified with reasonable
promptness, the world would now be
engaged in the fruitful work of re-
construction"
I'VE join" said the resolutiorps.
"the demand of the Duipits Of the
country and of it's agricultural IN
terests, of labor and of the greas
business industrial and cOmnleTcial
organizations of America that tlas
senate quit playing politics WITH this
sacred question and give to- tiIe-world
the word that America. is ready to at
least make a trial for universal
peace. We repudiate the inferential
suggestion that having Joined our as
sociates in a war that is now leading
tt INTO chaos we are to Withdraw
and leave them to merciless fate
in order that we might maintain q
so-called traditional state of 'isoIa-
ton that we surrendered when we
went to the defense Of our rights and
to the aid of struggling humanity,
IF this is to be our attitude, then
the $4,000 Americans who now Sleep
in France gave up their lives in vain
and the 100000 more who willing
ly offered their lives for tEse cause
that called us there, have a right to
ask for what were they summoned
to the colors."
The delegation working for San
Francisco went into the meeting de-
ciaring they were absolutely assured
that the Pacific coast city would
win. Supporters of Kansas City were
not so optimistic, but said they still
lad a chance. A
Clark Howell Of Georgia was ap
pointed chairman of the RESOLUTIONS
committee with A. r. Tit1ow, WasM
ngton; John Gary Evans, South
Carolina; Senator Salisbury, DeJa-
ware, and Patrick H. Quinn, Rhode
Island, as committee members.
There were number Of absentees
10th in the ranks of the committee
men and the women's associate com
mittee when the gathering was cal
ed together by Chairman Homer s.
Cummings.
A committee was appointed to hea.
request regarding the holding 81