Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-23
Letter From President
Read to Kansas Democrats

i. WICHITA, Kan, April 23-Women
had large part in the state demo-
cratic convention here yesterday.
Not only were woman delegate and
Ia woman alternate elected on the
big four" delegates at large, but two
gates elected by the districts and con-
hrmed by the convention. and three
We're among the alternates.
i resolution adopted made special
reference to the democratic policy of
a bonus for service men; commended
the amendment Of the Constitution
to prohibit liquors; condemned COM
pulsory military training; condemned
legislation abrogating the right Of
labor to bargain collectively: con-
Henry NJ. Allen as being "self-ad-
vertising": instructed the delegates
to the national convention to vote as
| a unit in all material questions, and
commended the league of nations
Delegates to the national conven-
ton go uninstructed as to presiden
tial candidates. it was decided. The
name of William G. McAdoo was sew
eral times cheered, and that of Bryan
once.
Letter From President.
A letter from President wilson to
Jouett Shouse. elected as delegate
at large, setting forth the league OF
nations as campaign issue. was
! read to the convention. The President
| wrote:
II cannot help thinking that the
party is to be congratulated on the
| fact that it has come to year OF
exceptional opportunity and duty.
| The issue. which it is our duty to
raise with the voters OF the country,
involves nothing less than the honor
of the United States and the redemp-
ton of its most solemn obligations:
its obligations to its associates in
| the great war and to mankind to
| whom it gave the most explicit
pledge that it went to war. not mere
| ly to win a victory in arms, but also
! to follow up that victory with inc
establishment OF such concert OF
Enations as would guarantee the per-
manence of a peace based on JUS
tice."
Col. Sam Amidon of Wichita was
elected national committeeman oy
reclamation.
The delegates :. at large are Mrs.
Caroline brennan, Arkansas CITY;
Jouett Shouse, Kinsley; former Gov.
George H. Hodges. Clathe. and Rob-
| ert w. Blair, Topeka
Ex-senator Lewis Speaks.
The country must be prepared to
see the democratic convention at san
Francisco nominate President wilson
| for a. third term, J. Hamilton Lewis.
former senator from Illinois. told the
convention in an address tonight
.'The country must be ready. he
said. ito see Wilson as it's candidate
| before the nation az a protest agains.
the treaty Of peace being tortured
Ii into a pact of revenge on nations. As
license of murder of men. and COM
mand for raids and invastons upon
oppressed and suffering peoples.
THE political issue OF 1920 ID to be
peace or war. the league for world
peace or open license for World world w whc
The candidates must be those VINO
stand square on the issue
Borah Speaks for johnson.
NEWARK, N. J., April Ex-senator
William E. .Borah of Idaho. address
| ing A large audience here last night
lin behalf Of Senator Hiram W. John
sons candidacy for the republican
presidential nomination, declared that
the Californian is the one man he
knows who has the courage to go
forward and destroy bureaucracy
They say Johnson is radical:
that he is a destructionist." Senator
Borah said. He has never destroyed
| anything worth saving. He destroyeo
the machine in California, and there
| is not a man in California who VIII
| tell you that Johnson did not carry
| out his pledges"
DR.. Butler I'm Milwaukee.
| MILWAUKEE,. Wis. April %
| Every foreseeing man expects that
| armies will continue to exist Tor ma
J tional defense and as factors IN ma
tional development. but hopes that
armies will be less and less called
| upon to wage war, DR.. Nicholas Mur-
| ray Butler. president OF CoiumpiA
| University and candidate TOT ING rs
| publican presidential nomination. lou
! the City Club last night.
| DR.. Butler advocated that the name
| Of the war Department be changed
to Army department. to be analogous
| to the Navy Department He char-
| aoteriz>d the Department Of the In
terror as waste basket" where
wholly unrelated tasks were dumped
under a system of haphazard assign
| The Treasury Department Is the
| only governmental branch at wash
ington adequately organized thanks
TO the genius of Alexander Hamilton
he said.