The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-06
DANIELS PRAISES WILSON
Navy Secretary Was One Of
Principal Speakers at New
York National Club Dinner
SURE PARTY WILL WIN
Governors Smith and Edwards
Express Intention of Carrying
Prohibition to Convention

>.r York, Feb. 5.-Prohibition and
... S.as- Daniels controversy were in
...sl tonight into the testimonial
..r. given Chairman Cummings of
a.a..ret.ic national committee.
Governor Edwards, of New Jersey.
-..t ,c Intended to carry the prohi-
#.a fight into the San Francisco
...vaa5.0. Governor Smith, of New
y..s rr.yented by illness from at
.eaamz. ~ent a telegram saying the
.rr. ..-.nl of prohibition on the ma
.... v-aout the direct consent of the
u.#.. vas worse than the acts of
At-er Secretary Daniels gave Pres
..a- Wilson credit for suggesting the
ur- harrage across the North Sea,
aaa NJ Richie, toastmaster, said he
4t just received a memorandum
-.w.a@ that Admiral Sims was the
.as American officer who opposed
.... larrage. Mention of Sims name
u4+ the signal for considerable hiss
a4 and booing.
Pro-5dent Wilson was given credit
f.. secretary Daniels tonight for hav-
eE seen the necessity of shutting the
T.rnlau submarines off the seas as
-.e only effective method of COM
aatHg them, before the naval staffs
. the United States or allies moved to
that end. Daniels was speaking at
The Democratic Club dinner to Homer
$. Cummings, national chairman. He
said before the naval staffs reached
conclusion on armed conveys, the
PRESIDENT had suggested it. Daniels
.aeg declared the record of the re-
.auican majority in congress would
defeat the party this year.
You must shut up the hornets in
.r nest" the president was quot
7i by Daniels as saying in a quar-
.riscl speech to the officers of the
& acle~hip Pennsylvania early in the
sat- for You can never end subma-
-0v peril if you let them out and then
aaye TO devote yourselves to chasing
.len all over the ocean"
The 6arrage finally built across the
North Sea was the American navy's
.aswrr % the presidents counsel, -"
Daniels s,id.
we ar,. 90 have a league of nations
H..a America making as large a con-
1"u.ion as any other country in the
mobile force afIoat, or we are to have
navy iucomparably the most ade-
luat" i'm the world" the secretary said
n d.srus-jn ing naval building. He also
ala the rrpublcans neglected the
American merchant marine forty years
MT it was built up by President Will
SON first administration.
Democratic leadership in the senate
d+ stood for unqualified ratification
'1 t1" peace treaty, Homer S. Cum
a.HSs, chairman of the democratic
alonai committee, declared in an ad-
n trss tonight at a testimonial dinner
& wen him by the National Democrat
club. When that became impos-
t3.", he said, 1T has stood for such
sevations as would preserve the
brit of the document and make its
H--u3mission unnecessary
III INNINGS said the democrats in the
Fl elsiuc~s interests now suffering from
rIaNjng restoring peace, laboring men
"Ho don't want another war and also
Il IF Oh" women.
# AHuding to the committee of III ap-
n pointed to- recommend planks for the
NJ 'publlcan platform, Cummings said
Il the committee ever meets it will
III preserve order