The Washington times., 1920-05-30
LABELS PRESIDENT
KING Of AUT0CRATS
Methods Pursued BY Wilson
Would Shame Gar, Says
Senator France.

President Wilson's veto. OF the Knox
peace resolution WAS declared by Sen
ator Joseph France OF Maryland yes
terdsy to be a declaration for a con-
tinued statsJof war"
Speaking TO a full Senate ana
crowded galleries. Senator France
was outspoken In his denunciatiou OF
the Presidents veto OF the resold-
tion which passed both the senate
and House.
by denying the peace for which
the representatives OF the people
have declared, the President. In effect.
arrogates to himself. In violation OF
the Constitution. the power to declare
for war" said Senator France.
The action OF past Congresses In
yielding power to President Wilson,
Senator France said. had created AN
autocracy, 'and Il has become possible
for Woodrow Wilson. the First, to do
In 1920 what WtlliAn HeheazeIlern.
the second. aid In 1914" He added:
"We are confronted with a situa-
tion unparalleled In American history.
The President who was elected on a
slogan He kept us out OF war now
stubbornly and against the will OF the
overwhelming majority OF the elect
ed representatives Of the people per-
sists in keeping us out OF peace.
Builds Up Autocracy.
"The leader OF this country in d
war to make the world safe for de-
mocracy' has built up In America, by
means OF extraordinary war powers
granted to him by Congress. and
which he now, more than a year ana
half after the war has actually
ended. refuses to relinquish. the mGst
powerful autocrarcy in the entire
world.
Are the people of the United
States with President Wilson, the
commander-in-ch OF the army, IN
his desire and determination to con
tinue the war against the GernA T.
people?
"The author of the New Freedom
has sat uamOVed In the White House
while American citizens have been
hurled into iait for disagreelng with
the views OF the majority, while the
Postmnster General, renegade from
the principles OF Jenersonian drnsoc-
rncy, seized and censored the maiis
In his autocrntic clutch, while spses
and Secret Service agents from q de
partment which disgruces the very
name of justice have prOwled about
ns they did in the old days I'm Russia
seeking whom they might destroy.
"IntimidntiOn, search and seizure
without warrant, brutality, torture
perjury, prOvOcation to crime, the
holding of prisoners without SEN
tence, and the sentencing of prisoner,
without sense-thcse have been theii
methods.-
Treaty Stain On u. 8. Honor.
Senator France was particularly
bitter in his attack upon the Prcsi.
dents attitude in insisting upon tn.
United States joining the league oi
nations. He said:
"The author of the fourteen points
and Of the statement that I'VE had no
quarrel with the German people" and
that the only enduring peace would
be a peace without victory, connived
at and consented to the destructiv"
vindictive and wholly impossible
peace of Versailles, which IL was left
to this body to reject. and by such
rejection to save the escutcheon OF
the American people from a stain OF
everlasting dishonor.
This so-called league of nations
would attempt to chain the newly lib
rated spirit cf mankind to the inn
perial chariot of the old order, and
drag it in humiliation into slavery
md despair. In such a league Amer
lea could not participate, II she was
-. remain true to her great ideal Of
liberty and to her. still greater mis-
.inn of lihe ration