Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-01-16
CONVENTION GOES
To SAN FRANCISCO
Big Offer From Coast Metropolis
Wins Democratic Meet.
TREATY MADE 1920 ISSUE
Stand by Wilson Is Praised by the Ma
tionaI Committee-Attacks "Un-
patriotic" Senators Who Have
Delayed Ratification.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The Democratic
national committee awarded the party's
1920 national convention, at which a
candidate for president will be chosen,
to San Francisco.
After 81 votes had been cast, Kan
sas City and Chicago withdrew and the
vote for San Francisco was unanimous.
Monday, June %, was fixed as the con-
vention date.
Isadore B. Dockweiler of California,
nominating San Francisco, made a
proffer of a guaranteed sum of $685.
600 for expenses, the free use Of the
municipal auditorium, seating from
1900 to $4,000, and of additional
funds for entertainment purposes.
Committee Endorses Treaty.
Resolutions indorsing the treaty of
Versailles and denOuncing as unpatri-
Otic the attitude of senator's who would
defeat it directly or by multiplying res
ervations were unanimously adopted
by the national Democratic commit
tee.
The arrogant" Republican leader
ship of the senate was denounced as
having earned the contempt of the
world" by throttling the treaty for sew
en- months, and the senate was called
upon to quit playing politics. with
the question of ratification.
Reviewing the legislative record Of
the two Wilson administrations and
the manner in which the war was won,
the resolutions also expressed gratifi-
cation that the president was regain
ing health after breakdown "due
largely to his efforts for world peace"
Concerning the peace treaty the res
OlutiOns said:
I'VE affirm our approval of the
treaty of Versailles, and we condemn
as unWise and unpatriotic the attitude
Ot those senators who would defeat
it's ratification, either directly or by
overwhelming it with reservations that
sre intended to and will have the eff
feet of multiplying it,
1.-THE failure of the senate Repub-
sican leaders to offer or to permit con-
sideratiOn of interpretative resolutions
that would preserve the general pur-
pose of the treaty and so to permit
its ratification condemns them to the
criticism of the nation and to the
contempt of the world"
Tells of Depression in 1918.
The resolutions said that when the
Democrats came into power in 1913
they found "the nation in a condition
of comparative industrial and COM
mercial depression" and with "the
banking system in the hands of a few
men at whose will panics periodical
ly occurred" 1t was added that
''theSe and other ills had existed for 16
years under Republican rule without
any relief"
ITO remedy this condition." the res
olutiOns continued "the Democratic
administration entered Immediately
upon a vigorous constructive pro-
gram" adding that establishment of
the federal banking system entities
the party to the everlasting gratitude
of the country, while the farm loan
banking system gave to our agricul
tural interests the relief long demand
ed by Them"
The resolutions then referred to en-
actment of the law giving "the peo-
pie the right to elect their United
States senator's by popular vote" ard
said the party had "enfranchised the
women and for the first time gave la
Dor the fair showing TO which it was
entitled"
Referring. TO the avowed objects of
the country's participation in the war.
the resolutions continued;
"a treaty TO this end was negotiated.
and for sdven months it has been
throttled bN the misused Republican,
leadership oAthe senate, that is so ar
-osant that even refuses to let the
senator's 81 IT'S own party who desire
to have e treaty ratified with GER
tain reset Nations that seem reasonable
to thens<te vote accordingly, and thus
10 make ut least start toward world
vale beace..s
Az result, the resolutions said,
conditions are unsettled. definite
proc kmation of the end of the war is
DELAYED" 1t declares that had the
treaty. been ratified with reasonable
profnhtpess the world would now be
engaged in the fruitful work of recon-
struetion"
.sWe Join" said the resolutions, "the
demand of the pulpits of the country
and of It's agricultural interests, of
labor and of the great business, indus
trial and commercial organizations of
America that the senate quit playing
nolitics with this sacred question and
giveito the world the word that Amer
fca is ready to at least make a trial
Cor universal peace"