The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
WILSON AND BRYAN.
DIFFER ON LEAGUE
Open Disagreement Climax to
Jackson Day Dinner
THIRD TERM IS IGNORED
Executive, In Message, Makes No Ref
erence To Own candidacy-Ne-
braskan Says He Has Nothing
To Ask OF Party.

Washington. split between Presi-
dent Wilson and William ]. Bryan
over whether the League of Nations
should be made an issue at the COM
ing election topped off the Jackson
Day deliberations of the Democratic
Party chiefs.
It came at the Jackson dinner, as
the climax of day in which San
Francisco had been chosen as the
meeting place of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention on June %, and it
charged the air with political cleo
tricity.
President Wilson, in his message
read to the diners assembled in two
separate halls, declared that the "clear
and single way out" was to submit
the question to the voters as "a great
and solemn referendum"
Mr.. Bryan, showing all the old-time
vigor with which he led the fight for
the Presidents nomination at Balti-
more in 1912, declared that the Demo-
cratic party could not go before the
country on the issue, because it in
volved delay of II months, and
meant success only if the Democrats
captured a two-thirds majority of the
Senate. The party, Mr.. Bryan de-
clared, must Secure such compro-
misses as may be possible"
The disagreement between the Pres
ident and his former Secretary of
State, the first in public view since
he did not agree with the Presidents
course in the disposition Of the nego-
tiations with Germany, was thus dis
closed as fact, although it has been
rumored and reported in the under
ground currents of national politics.
In the opinion of the political leaders.
it crystallized an issue.
President Wilson, in his message.
said nothing whatever about third
term for himself and neither did he
make any formal announcement of his
intended retirement to private life, as
some had forecast he would. Mr.
Bryan, in his prepared address, said
nothing bearing on any ambitions to-
ward fourth Presidential nomina-
ton, but before reading his manu-
script he said he had nothing to ask
and that therefore the diners would
not listen to him with the thought
that they were listening to candi-
date
nv
speakers at the dinners and their
views on whether the League should
be made campaign issue were either
divided in favor of the Presidents or
Mr.. Bryan's or else they did not touch
on the subject at all.
The host of Democrats on hand for
the dinner had swamped the available
accommodations of any one hotel in
town and the party was divided into
two dinners at two separate hotels
q block apart. National Chairman
Cummings presided at one and Vice
Chairman Kremer at the other. The
dining rooms were packed, tickets
were at premium and there were
many disappointed ones who had to
content themselves with straining
their ears at the doors.
Both dinners began with toasts
drunk to the health of President Will
son, the guests elevating goblets of
Potomac river water.
AT the dinner where Mr.. Cummings
presided Vice-President Marshall was
seated at the right and Secretary Ian
sing at the left. Two women, Mrs.
George Bass, Of Colorado, and Mrs.
Charles Tiffany, of New York, were at
the speakers table. At the dinner
over which Mr. Kremer presided Mrs.
Peter Olesen, of Minnesota, sat at the
speakers table.