The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-05-13
WILSON IN APPEAL.
FOR PEACE PACT
Asks Democrats of Nation to
Stand by League.
IN FORM OF A TELEGRAM
Wires Reply to Query From Chairman
of Oregon Central Committee
Says U. S. in Honor Bound to
Ratify Treaty.

Washington, May 10.-President
Wilson, in message made public
here, called upon Democrats through
out the United States to stand by the
peace treaty and against the Lodge
program of ratification with reserya-
lions.
Ills message was in the form of
telegram to G. Il. Hamaker chairman
of the Multnomah county Democratic
central committee, Portland ore.
The message is utterly silent on the
subject of candidates and contains no
word that might convey to the rank
and file of the party whom the presi-
dent might have in mind rs filling the
bill respecting his demands for unre.
served ratification Of the treaty.
Mr.. llamaker on May 9 tclegraphed
the president as follows:
primary election May p. Please
wire whether you consider it impor-
tant TO nominate candidates pledged
to ratify the Versailles treaty with
out Lodge reservations"
STANDS ny treaty
President Wilson has replied, in
part, as follows;
II think it imperative that the party
should at once proclaim itself the un.
compromising champion of the ma.
TONS honor and the advocate of every.
thing that the United States can do
in the service of the humanity; that
it should therefore indorse ana sup
port the Versailles treaty and con
denim the Lodge reservations as utter
Iy inconsistent with the nations honor
and destructive of the world leader
ship which it has established and
which all the free peoples Of the
world, including the great powers
themselves, had shown themselves
ready to welcome. 1t is time that the
party should proudly avoW that it
means to try without finching or turn
ing at any time away from the path
for reasons of eXpediency, To apply
moral and Christian principles TO the
problems of the world. II Is trying TO
national reforms and is not daunted
by any of the difficulties 1t has to con.
tend with. Let us prove to our late
associates in the war that mt any rate
the great majority party Of the nation,
the party which expresses the 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 arrangements of peace which
they have now tried to formulate in
the treaty of Versailles. They are en-.
titled to our support in this settle
ment and in the arrangements for
which they have strivcn.
Says Lead Hope of World.
"The League of Nations is the hope
of the world. As q basis for the
grmistice, | am authorized by all the
great fighting nations TO say to the
'hcihH tiat ~ was "ui 'UJ''' W PRIV
posing peace to establish general
association Of nations under specific
covenants for the purpose Of afford
ing mutual guarantees of political in.
dependence and territorial integrity ia
great and small states alike, ana the
covenant of the League Of Nations is
the deliberate embodiment of that
purpose in the treaty of peace. We
cannot in honor whittle II down OF
weaken If as the Republican leaders
of the senate have proposed to do Tho
Democratic party has now a great op.
portunity to which It must measure
up. The honor of the nation Is IN its
Iup1u