Arizona republican., 1920-06-18
WILSON IS GLAD |. O.P. TAkESUP
 LEAGUE DISPUTE
Confident Democrats Will Accept Invitation to Make Issue Burning Question of Campaign - Hopes for Definite and We'll De- fined Platform
IRepubIican A. p. Leased wireJ

Wilson, in a special interview given to the New York World to be published tomorrow morning, said "he was eN- tromcly confident that the Demcerati@ convention at San Francisco will well come the acceptance by the Republican party of my invitation to make the league of nations the issue in this campaign
 T am even more confident" the president said. that such referendum will confirm my faith that the Amcri- can people desire it above anything else that a political party now may provide and that they will condemn the Republican policy for denying them the consummation of their hopes. No one will recommend a referendum on that issue more than L.
 T suppose I should feel flattCred," hc said, lover being made the issue ot tho presidential campaign by the Republican party. But even the effort Of the platform makers at Chicago to confer the distinction of being not only q burning but living issue by caniou- slaSing and obscuring the real issues will not deceive the people,.
 Claims Effort To Becloud Issues
 The processes by which the Chicago platform was accomplished seemed to me to have been essentially and scien- tifically Prussian in inspiration and method. Instead Of quoting Washing
 
 form should have quoted Bismarck and Bernhardi because the Republican at titude regarding the supreme issue shat cannot be abandoned or disregard cd strongly suggests the arbitrary in- fluences that dictated the doctrines of those two eminent persons.
 Every charge directed against me and my administration is obviously de- signed to becloud and negative the paramount issue confronting tho Amer ican people to befog their sense of re- sponsibility and make violation or tho obligations they have assumed to be of small consequence. 1 sincerely be- licvc that the attempt of the Repul,li- can party to win the sanction of the American people for it's attempted eva sion of these obligations will be de- cisively rebuked. With one thing I am fully satisfied-this is that the Repub- liean party in it's platform has joined mo in the suggestion I made in my letter to the guests at the Jackson day dinner in Washington in January last. Tn that letter I expressed tho hope that a sincere attempt would he made to determine the attitude of the Apcrlcan people on the league Of Tn- tons by the resort to the genuinely democratic process of the referendum.
 Hopes for Clean Gut Platform
 +Of course, I have no way of antici- pating the probable trend of sentiment -udl VIII OC 1APIGSSeu III IHc OeInO- cratic national convention at San Francisco or forecacting the ultimate conclusions of that body. But I have every confidence that the delegates who will sit in that convention will repeat the challenge I issued to the Re- publican party and express their readi- ness to permit the people to decide be- tween the vague and ambiguous dec laration by the Republicans and posi- tive and definite expression by the Democratic party. Whatever else the Democratic party may do, I hope that it's convention at San Francisco will say just what it means on every issue and that it will not resort either to am- biguity or evasions in doing So
 This thing (the league of nationS) lies too deep to permit of any political sculduggery, any attempt to- side-steE or evade moral and humanitarian re- responsibilities much too solemn to treai so lightly or ignore.
 T should prefer at this time not tc discuss partisan politics or to venture any prediction as to the probable at titude that the Democratic convention will take on any subject sincerely believe. however, that the vast ma. Jority of gentlemen who will sit in the San Francisco convention will appre- ciate the necessity and permanen value of keeping the word that Amer ica has given to the rest of the world
 The thinly yelled rejection of tn, principle of the league of nations b, the Chicago convention will not foo any one. The attitude of Senate Lodge and that of Senator Johnson differ only in degree. Both are reall, opposed to it in any form. One of thes gentlemen is disinSenious and evasiv and the other candidly hostile"
 Confident Nation Favors League
 ''It must be a trifle disconcerting t some Republicans" he added. Ito hay their party propose now to repudiat that which was approved d few year ago by some of their most importan leaders. 1 am as confident today a l was when I returned from Pari finally in July last that the people 0 not only America, but of the entir world, are in favor of the league O nations; that they would feel ereate sense of security if it's benefit should be guaranteed: that they woul not approve, with their votes. Of tn policy of the Republican party which wholly political in intent and purpos. 10 deny them the protection that tn league of nations assures.
 "The Republican congressional pol icy," he added, was more significar for evasion of joint responsibility i grappling with the problems that con I front the country than for any nor; appreciation of the responsi0ili il self. Republican leaders in congres cried aloud for the repeal of some the measures which they we'll kne' protected the people from more seriou evils than they would have the coun try know.
 The Lever food control act Ina proved to be one of the most effet tive agencies in preventing depreda ton at the expense of the people tha almost any other measure now operation. Time for repeating is n' yet.
 Says Public Fully Protected
 "RCpublicaHs chorused ponderoJ note Of protest against the administrs tion enforcement of the espionage a' and some other measures that wel uf vital necessity during the war Y defy tho Republicans to prove tn; ,hc power given the government dun ing the war has ever been unjust Used 2gaiUst the people; that a sing citizen has been unwarrantly punishC