Arizona republican., 1920-05-10
WILSON URGES DEMOCRATS TO
 SUPPORT PACT
Asks Party to Go into the Election Campaign Pledg- ed in Favor of Versailles Treaty and Against Lodge Reservations to League
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 WASHINGTON, May 9.-A call to the democratic party to go into the campaign standing four square in fa- Vor of the treaty of Versailles and against the senate's reservations was issued today by President Wilson in a telegram to Oregon democratic leaders, made public at the white house.
 Declaring that the party had the honor of the nation.'' in it's hands. the president said that the Lodge resefva- tions were utterly inconsistent" with that honor as well as destructive of the role of world leadership which the United States must assume.
 Says Reservations Violate Promises
 The only true Americanism, the president said, was .'that which puts America at the front of free nations and redeems the great promises which we made to the world. It would be a violation of such promises, he said, to attach reservations to the treaty which ~whittle it down or weaken it as the republican leaders of the senate have proposedp to do.'
 The telegram was in response to the following message from, C.. E. Ham, aker of Portland, Ore, chairman of the Multomah county democratic central committee:
 Primary election May 21.
 Please wire whether you consider it important to nominate candidates pledged to ratify Versailles treaty without Lodge reservations"
 The Presidents Reply
 The reply of the president follows:
 II think it imperative that the party should at once proclaim itself the un- compromising champion of the na- rion's honor and the advocate of every thing that the United States can do in the service Of humanity; that it should therefore endorse and support the Yer sailles treaty and condemn the Lodge reservations as utterly inconsistent with the nations honor and destruc- tive of the world leadership which it had established and which all the free peoples of the world, including the great powers themselves. had shown themselves ready to welconl.
 Tt is time that the party should proudly avow that ct means to try, without flinching or turning at any time away from the path for reasons of eXpediency, to apply moral and Chris ton principles to the problems of the world It is trying to accomplish so- cial. political and international re- forms and is not daunted by any of the difficulties it has to Contend with. Let us prove 10 our late dSSocldJeS lu the war that any rate the great majority party of the nation, the party which expresses he true hopes and purposes of the people of the country intends to keep faith with them in peace as well as in war. They gave their treasure. their best blood and everything that they valued in order not merely to beat Germany but to effect settlement and bring about arrang of peace which they have no tried to formulate in the treaty of Versailles They are entitled to our support in this settle ment and in the arrangements for which they have striven.
 Says League Hope Of World
 The league of nations is the hope Of the world. As a basis for the ar mistice. I was authorized by all the great fighting nations to say to the enemy that it was our object in pro- posing peace to establish general as- sociation of nations under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political inde- pendence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike, and the covenant of the league of nations is the deliberate embodiment of that pur pose in the treaty of peace.
 The chief motives which led us to enter the war will be defeated unless that covenant is ratified and acted upon with yigor. We cannot in honor whittle 1t down or weaken 1t as the republican leaders of the senate have proposed to do. If we are to exercise the kind of leadership to which the founders of the republic looked for ward and which they depended upon their successors to establish, we must do this thing with courage and unal- terable determination. They expected the United States always to be the leader in defense of liberty and ordered 1 peace throughout the world. and we afs. successors unless we fulfill the great purpose they entertained and pro- claimed.
 Tho true Americanism, the only l true Americanism. is that which puts | Aferica to the front of free nations | and redeems the great promises which l we made the world when we entered | the war which was fought, not for the | advantage Of any single nation or | group of nations, but for the salvation | of all. It is in this way we shall re- deem the sacred blood that was shed | and make America the force she should ! be in the counsels of mankind. She | cannot afford to sink into the place | that nations have usually occupied and | become merely one of those who scramble and look about for selfish ad- vantage.
 s.The democratic party. has now a great opportunity to which it must measure up. The honor of the nation is in it's hands.
 WOODROW WILSON,
 Lodqe Pleased at Stand
 Senator Lodge, republican leader in the senate, issued a brief statement after having heard President Wilson's message to the Oregon democrats
 T cannot undertake to discuss it in aetail,n he said "but politically speak ing I am very glad he has taken the position he has. II fully justifies all the opposition of the republican party in the senate and those who joined with the republicans. II