The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1920-01-05
DR.. WISE ASSA|LS
FOES Of PRESIDENT
As CONSP|RAT0
Refers to Liberals as s'lnso-
lent Creatures" Personal
Hostility" Inspires Senators.


United States Senate and asserting tnat
during the peace conference word was
spread insidiously in Paris that the Ike
publican Senate and not President wilson
represented America, Raopl stephen o.
Wise yesterday morning before the Free
Synagogue said il President wilson mao
led the country TO ignominious oeieat m
stead of a glorious victory IN Inc "orlo
war, he could not be condemned more I'M
justly than he is at present
| After the armistice, said DR.. wise, VINO
was in Paris while the peace dehoerauons
were in progress, the people OF france ana
England, and more particularly their lead
ers, were made to believe by means OF
anti-American leadership that 1t was the
Republican party and not President wilson
who was their friend.
! 1.-The edge OF the Presidents mind was
not duled," said DR.. Wise, referring to an
article in the New Republic, In which
President Wilson was called dull-m1nded
man by a person characterized by Dr..
Wise as ga British scribbler. who might
ALMOST be called an official English coun-
tterpart Of our American Bullitt." THE
edge Of his great influence had been
lblunted. however. because the impression
was constantly conveyed to the mind OF
Europe that this man had ceased to repre-
Isent America: that while he remained de
ljure President Of the United States, the
real leadership OF the American people
and it's mind rested with the leaders Of
the Republican party, who could be de-
pended upon to overturn his work and to
support those at the peace conference who
stood firmly and inflexibly against him"
AssniIed In "Gutter Sheets"
Time and again during the peace ne.
gotiations," said DR.. Wise. "the Allies were
told, and told in the most fragrant and
scandalous way, particularly in the gutter
sheets OF Paris subsidized, believe, by
American money. that the President alone
represented his frayed and shopworn'
idealism; that while he had formulated
the position OF America with q certain de-
gree OF power during the war, that power
had waned and he had become merely
vocal of 4 waning minority party unable
to deal with vision and authority with
world problems"
mot only was it made impossible for
the President to carry to Europe the con-
viction that he represented the mind Of all
America" continued DR.. Wise, but upon
his return and even before his return what
he said and did was asailed, not because
1t was right or wrong, true or false, just
or evil, but because II was his work and
therefore must be assa,led and denied. The
truth is that the President never ceased to
represent America. He did not represent
the Bowery-he did not represent the
God-nor purport to speak in its behalf
he did not represent the professional war
makers, nor tho swollen munition prof
iteers-but lie represented, and continues
! represent the moral genius. the iiealis1n
and the noblest aspirations OF America"
Wis said that the attitude OF the
Senate had not been that Of impartial con-
sideration of the treaty and the league
but of barely disguised personal hostility
to the President. DR.. Wise asserted that
there is no opposition at all TO the treaty
because the Republican party believes IL to
be the creation OF European statesmen.
while all the opposition is centred against
the league on the Republican belief that 1t
Is the creation OF the President.
Inspired by One Purpose.
Though it requires no proof" said he,
my diagnosis is confirmed by the cir
cumstances that against the President
there have been arrayed in common the
Lodges and the Lippnnans. the Johnsons
and the Steffenses, the Borahs and the
Bullitts, groups Of men inspired by one
purpose and that purpose to undo the
President. Variously moved. these men,
whether Lodge, Borah and Johnson OF
the rest OF their kind, did their best to
destroy the President, who threatened to
win for his party crown of massive and
enduring achievement, the President who
represented a party which the Republi-
cans had insisted for two generations was
| incapable Of a great thought. noble ideal,
world purpose.
1.-THE President must be destroyed In any
event. whether he represented or misrep-
resented America, the President who had
committed the crime OF leading America
| for six years with high wisdom and rare
idealism. who had formulated the purposes
and principles OF his country with such
power as no man has attained in American
history save Lincoln, President who now
must be destroyed unless America was
again to be scourged by the continuance
OF his party in power
1.-THE Lippmans and the Bullitts and the
Steffenses." continued DIT. Wise, whom
the President and some of his associates
had alas lifted for moment from incon-
spicuousness and obscurity to places OF
unmerited Importance and conspicuous
ness-these insolent creatures opposed the
President on another ground. He dared
to refuse to accept their ready made pro-
gramme Of liberalism.
THE President who would not translate
the columns of The New Republic into
the terms OF the peace treaty" Or. Wise
went on, must be denied. must be blasted.
must be destroyed. Then and there a foul
and hideous conspiracy against the Presi-
dent began. n conspiracy never formally
made nor formally sealed. but a con-
spiracy none the less between the arch
priests of reaction within the Republican
party and those megaiomaniacs within the
so-called precincts OF liberalism to whom
unhappily the President and his asso-
ciates had committed the blunder of Civ
ing opportunities for neutrality-suspicious.
ties of which these had availed themselves
to a maximum"