Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-05
PLAN WHIRL WIND FIGHT
WITH LEAGUE As ISSUE
Wilson Men Hold Conference and
Cabinet Members Prepare
to Take Field.

Washington. Oct. 5.@-Among he cheer.
ing things To Democrats at the capital
was the Presidents reply TO the charges
that Article X was calculated to make us
20 to war whether we wanted war or not.
Next was the schism of Borah, who made
things awkward for Senator Harding
in his speech in Brandegee's bailiwick
and finally the tidings that money was
beginning to flow into the Democratic
Campaign Committees watch-basin In
appreciahe volume.
Homer Cummings, former Democratic
National Chairman, now National Com
mitteeman from Connecticut; Bruce kra
mer, Vice Chairman of the San Fran
cisco Convention, Isador Dockwciler,
National Committeeman from California.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
Raymond L. Baker, Director of the Mint
and Secretary Tumulty conferred here and
the net outcome of the associated Dem
ocratic wisdom was that the League OF
Nations was the issue on which the election
could be won aud that the time had come
To make whirlwind fight for t.
Cummings and Kramer start inn
mediately for the West 10 make speeches
for Cox and the League. Secretary OF
State Colby goes TO Cleveland next
Thursday and will speak steadily from
then on 80 Election Day. swinging through
a wide Western orbit in the process. Secre-
tary Baker goes TO Ohio a week from now
and Secretary Daniels is already on the
road Apparently the theory is that as
Ohio goes so goes the election, and the
plan is to make Ohio 90 right.
Cummings says that 1t is the voters
and not the politicians who have made the
4 Al Ia,r
spoken they have found the crowds rising
only TO this one thing, wherefore, likewise
politicians they have gwen It IN larger
and larger doses.
"The President has restatcd the po-
sition Of the United States in his ap-
peal" said the ex-Chairman 'It is
our responsibility TO keep the faith, and
in my opiuion the American people viii
show that they mean that this country
should fulfil it's faith pledged TO Europe. .
He said he considered the league TO be
the chief issue from the start.
at was not always treated so, he said
''but in this campaign, as always happens
in campaigns, the issue develops after 3
few weeks
Attorney-General Palmer echoed thii
view. 1T is not too late 10 carry the ap
peal To the people, he said "The people
want a League Of Nations, and what th'
American people want they general!
get"
Senator Hitchcock. Democrat. who lee
the losing fight in the Senate for the leapu
and Senator Fall. Republican, who tough
against it, both expressed themselves oi
the Presidents appeal. Both are member
of the Senate foreign relations committee
Senator Borah may be correct when h
states that the President is very sicl
man" said Hitchcock, ''but the Presiden
is evidently not too SICK To denounce Re
publican falschood and Republican mis-
! representation on the League of Nations
President Wilson's statement, thougl
moderate, is unqualified Republican
leaders and Republican newspapers hav
/ said that Article Y of the covenant make
| it possible for other nations or for tn
| League Of Nations to decide whether W
shall 20 to war or not. This lie has beel
uttered time and time again, and the gis
Of the Presidents statement is that ii is
lie Coming from such high source
/ may induce some people TO read Article
who have not done so.
Before the campaign ends a grea
many thousand people who have beel
misled by the false statement that tn
United States could be ordered to 60 4
war or outyoted in the League on the sub
ject of going TO war will discover tina
President Wilson is correct when he say
| 'thisis absolutely false