Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-01-20
FRISCO PICKED
BY DEMOCRATS
liberal Offer of the Metropolis of
Pacific Coast Wins Con-
vention.
LEADERS RAP TREATY DELAY
National Committee Praises Stand of
Wilson and Declares Republican
Leadership in Senate Has "Con-
tempt of the World"

Washington, Jan. 10.-The Demo
cratic national committee awarded the
party's 1920 national convention, al
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
convention date.
ISadOre B. DOckweiler Of California
nominating San Francisco, made a
prOffer Of a guaranteed fund of $125,
600 for expenses, the free use of the
municipal auditorium, seating from
1900 to 1900, and of additional
funds for entertainment purposes.
Resolutions indorsing the treaty OF
Versailles and denouncing as unpatri.
otto the attitude of senator's who would
defeat 1T directly or by multiplying res
ervations were unanimously adopted
by the national committee.
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 q 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
of those senators who would defeat
its ratification, either directly or by
overwhelming 1t with reservations that
are intended to and will have the eff
feet of multiplying it.
'The failure of the senate Repub-
lican leaders to offer or 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"
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 1e
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"
Referring to the avowed objects of
the country's participation iuIthe war,
the resolutions continued:
"a treaty to this end was negotiated
and for seven months it has been
throttled by the misused Republican
leadership OF the senate, that is so ar
rogant that 1t even refuses TO let the
senators of its own party who desire
TO have the treaty ratified with GER
tain reservations that seem reasonable
to them to vote accordingly, and thus
TO make at least a start toward world
wide peace"