South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-10
WILSON ASKS
DEMOCRATS TO
ENDORSE PACT
President in Message to Ore
gOn Leaders Says Party Has
Chance to Measure Up.
BY Associated Press

By Associated Press:
WASHINGTON. May "a call TO
the democratic party 70 go into the
campaign standing four square in
favor of the treaty of Versailles and
against the serate's reservations was
issued Sunday night by Pr~s't Will
son in a telegram to oregon demo-
cratic leaders made public at the
white house.
Declaring that the party had the
honor of the nation" in its hands,
the president said the Lodge reser-
vations were utterly inconsistent
with that honor as well as restruc-
tive OF the role OF world leadership
which the United States must as
sumo.
Violation OF Promises.
The only true AmericaniSn, the
president said, was that which puts
American at the front OF free ne
tions and redeems the great prom
ises which we made TO the world. e"
1t would be a violation OF such
promises, he said, to attach reser-
vations 10 the treaty which whit
tied" il down and weaken it as the
republican leaders OF the senate
have proposed 10 do.
The telegram was in response to
the following message from g. J..
Hamaker, of Portland, ore, chair
man of the MultOnomah county
democratic central committee.
Primary election. May 2lst
Please wire whether you consider j
important to nominate candidate
pledged 10 ratify Versailles treaty
without Lodge reservations.
Wilson's Reply.
The reply of the president folio VS.:
"I think II imperative that the
party should at once proclaim itself
the uncomprOmising champion Of
the nations honor and the advocate
of everything that the United States
can do in the service of humanity.
That IL should therefore endorse the
support of the Versailles treaty and
condemn the Lodge reservations as
utterly inconsistent with the nations
honor and destructive of the world
leadership which IL had established,
and which all the free peoples OF
the world. including the great pow
ers themselves, had shown them
selves ready TO welcome.
Apply Principles.
1T is time that the party should
without fiinching or turning st any
time away from the path for rea-
sons OF expediency. to apply moral
and christian principles 10 the prob
lens of the world. il is trying TO
accomplish social, political and in
ternatiOnal reforms and is not daunt-
ed by any of the difficulties it has
to contend with. Let us prove TO
our late associates in the war that
at any rate the great majority party
Of the nation, the party which ex
presses the true hopes and purposes
OF the people Of the country. intends
10 keep faith with them in peace
as we'll SIS in war. They gave their
treasure. their best blood and every
thing they valued in order, not
merely 10 beat Germany, but TO ef-
feet a settlement and bring about
arrangements Of peace which they
have now tried TO formulate in the
treaty of Versailles They are en-
titled 10 our support in this settle
ment and in the arrangements for
which they have striven.
Hope of World.
"The League of. Nations is the
hope OF the world. AS a basis for
the armistice, I was authorized by
all the great fighting nations TO say
to the enemy that il was our object
in proposing peace 10 establish a
general association of nations under
specific covenants for the purpose
of affOrding mutual guarantees Of
political independence and territorial
integrity TO great and small states
alike, and the covenant of the Lea
que OF Nations is the deliberate en-
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