The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-18
WILSON SCORES
 C. o. P. TACTICS
(Continued from Page One) punished for expressing his Opin- ion.
 ATFMENTS ITNTRITE


 T have read charges to the con- trary but in each instance 1 have had the matter thoroughly looked into and am in a position to contest the ac- euracy of any statement that the rights of a single citizen have been unjustly invaded.
 "The United States Senate has for eleven months had in it's hands the power to end conditions that are un- mistakably irksome to great many of our citizens because with the rati- fication of the peace treaty the opera tion of laws that were enacted to safeguard the interests of the coun- try in the war would automatically cease.
 "As long these laws are
 the statute books they must be en-
 forced. They have been and are
 being enforced with little fn-
 Jury to the welfare of the country
 and rights of individuals as pos
 sibIe. don't know that I would
 even care to defend any policy
 that I have deemed essential to
 the fullest protection of the na-
 tiOnaI interest That would be too
 much like offering an apology
 where one is not needed. I do not
 believe that my course calls for
 mn apology of any kind.
 'The republican and not the demo- cratic policy has been responsible for any bad effects that have resulted from the failure of the republican Senate to ratify the Versailles treaty and the covenant of the League of Nations. The republican policy of negation has .aen persisted in for the sole purpose of advancing repub- lican chances for winning the coming presidential election, and has never re- flected a sincere desire to ameiorate the effect of measures adopted for protect ing the country in time of war. The republican policy has been rather to ex- aggerate the effect of these measures
 NO CANDIDATE DISCUSSED
 The President declined to discuss can didates for the democratic presidential nomination.
 q have the greatest faith" he said, in the intelligent appreciation by the delegates who will assemble at San Fran1 cis 70 two weeks hence to write the plat form and nominate the standard bearers of our party. They will have before them the republican platform and will havs estimated the effect of it on the people They will have from whom to select candidates for the presidential and vice presidential nominations number of excellent men. I should not want to ex- press any preference or opinion regarding either individuals or platform express sions which might influence the minds of the men whose votes will ultimately de- eide both.
 q hope and believe that the platform to be adopted at San Francisco will be more progressive and clearer in under standing than that enunciated by the re- publicans at Chicago The character ot the men who will sit as delegates in the San Francisco convention should be suffi- cient guarantee that the issues upon wh, ,h the campaign is to be fought will be met with definite and concrete state ments. and not cloudy and ambiguous terms, as was the case in the Chicago 
 "I have not raised my hand or voice. the President continued" to aid in the promotion of any ambition for the demo- cratic presidential nomination and I shall not do so. I think that the leaders of the party and delegates who will sit in the San Francisco convention will ear nestly try to provide platform and can didates that will attract greater suppoN than those put forward by the Chicago convention. am also confident that the leaders and delegates will hold the fullest appreciation of their obliga- tions to the party and to the people.
 Tt is unthinl<able that any
 democrats should for m instant
 be influenced by the selfish and
 sinister motives that lie back of
 the republican plan to stultify and
 discredit the United States in the
 eyes of the world.
 "I do not believe that they will per init themselves to be led astray in or der to gratify the vanity or promote the uncharitable or selfish impulses O. any individual
 PRINCIPLES. SACRIFICED
 "The republican convention, ha added, "was the apothesis of reaction. It was the direct antithesis of what I hope the democratic convention at San Francisco will turn out to be.