New-York tribune., 1920-10-12
Spencer Held
INDICATED by
Wilson Record
Frelinghuysen and Cravath
Declare Latest Version
of Paris Speech Amply
.Justifies His Charges
Autocratic Spirit Plain
President Shown to Believe
u. S. Government Crossed
Atlantic When He Did

Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, United
4 States Senator from New Jersey, and
Paul D. Cravath, who was connected
with the United States Treasury mis-
sion during the World War, yesterday
assailed the President in his contro-
versy with Senator Spencer, of Mis-
souri, with reference to the assurance
| by the President to Kumanla and
Serbia that an army would be sent
across the sea to help maintain their
rights.
Senator Frelinghuysen. through the
Republican Senatorial committee at ma
tional headquarters, issued a statement
last night in which he said:
'l have read the text of the speech
said to have been delivered bN the
President at the eighth plenary scs-
sion Of the peace conference. To me
it contains cogent proof of the charges
which have been made that the pres
ent Administration is inefficient, that
it has sought to entangle the United
States in political and military alli-
nee and that it has departed from
the doctrines of Jefferson and is no
longer a government by the people,
bnt a government by an autocrat.
''In the transacting Of business, es-
pecially OF q large business, nothing
is more important than its records.
Record of Vital Importance
ON the speech just issued to the pub
lie the President eloquently speaks Of
the league as a common partnership of
light. If we join in the league could
not our partners justly say that Mr..
Wilson explained its terms, that he was
the author Of Article X and they had
right under such circumstances to rely
upon the meaning which they fairly de-
duced from his language? In the event
OF any dispute would not any business
man see how important it would be to
have carefully preserved an exact state
ment of the Presidents language?
"Think of any business concern being
compelled to resort for record of the
most important negotiations in its his
cory to a former employee! Think of it
allowing such employee to keep what
should be in its strongest safe How
lcng would such a concern last? Next
week we may learn that part Of the
record is in San Francisco and the rest
IN Texas, and then we may learn that
man who has part OF it is dead or
has disappeared and the part intrusted
to him cannot be found. Is such an ad-
mini tration efficient or inefficient?
when | read the paragraph in the
speech which bears directly upon the
controversy between the President and
Senator Spencer, l thought that the
storCgrapher did not corrective report
Mr.. Wilson's language, AS q result,
rercad the paragraph time and time
again, and then it dawned upon me
that the stenographer no doub. had
correctly reported the speech. To those
VINO have not carefully read the para
"a
and note particularly the subject and
the predicate of the rst sentence. 1t
may be clearer if | bring the two to-
gether 1t would then read:
How can q power like the United
States .. go 5000 miles away
across the sea and report to its peo-
PIC that 1T has made a settlement of
the peace Of the world?'
Wilson the United States
1T never occurred to me on first
reading that the United States was on
the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
nave always thought that it was on
'hls SIDE of the Atlantic Ocean; hence.
Al hrst, was sure that the stenog-
rapher had made some mistake, but
wnen | remember the attitude Of the
President, especially durins the last ,'at
two years, | recall that he has acted
as Trough he was the United States,
ana hence | understand how the United
States had TO cross the ocean from
htrcpe to tell us here of the settle
ment which had been made on the
otE~r side.
Can any one point to an instance in
history where any one man entertained
tne OPINION that when he left the bor-
ders or hls own country the country it,
SELF departed with him, and that the
power Of the country was gone and did
not return until his person returned?
II that IS democracy, then | do not
Know the meaning of the word. To me
IT IS autocracy and clear evidence of
Wnat we nave time and again said
thaI Mr. W llson assumes and has acted
upon the assumption that all the mower
OF the United States is reposed in his
person, and that when he was in Eurone
the United States was in Europe and
only the people were left on this Side
OF the Atlantic. Is that what Mr.. Lin
coin would call government by the
people 2"
Holds Spencer Vindicated
MIR. Cravath said:
"lhe stenographic report Of presi-
dent Wilson's address before the eighth
plcnary peace session in Paris Nav 81
1919, supported Senator Spencer's side
or the controversy with the President
and Mr.. Tumulty. 1t does not differ in
practical effect from the copy of the