Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-30
DEMOCRATS MUST WIN"
Chairman Cummings Speech a
Remarkable Document, Says
independent Newspaper.
Prom Yesterday New York Times.

lrpm Yesterday new Nork
The Republicans will lose their tempers
over the address with which Chairman
Cummings opened the Democratic Con-
vention at San Francisco; they will lose the
election If the Democrats name a candi-
date big enough and courageous enough
a. make the fight in the spirit of that
speech. From this moment there can be no
doubt about the dominant issue of the
campaign. 1t is the League OF Nations
On that issue the Democratic Chairman
sounds challenge that will arouse the
enemy IN their encampment. Mr.. Cum
mIngs wastes no soft words upon the
Republicans they deserve none. OF the
wIccking of the Treaty and the League
Covenant he says that mo blacker crime
against civilization has ever soiled the
pages of our histroy," and he proves the
charge.
II is a terrific drubbing that he admin
isters To the party responsible for the
. rejection of the Treaty. The Repu blicans
may deny. they may evade and squirm,
they will certainly rage, but they will not
have time enough TO between now and
Election Day. or between now and Dooms-
day, To exculpatc themselves from the
specifications of his indictment. He tells
OF the Committee on Foreign Relations
carefully packed against the Treaty; of
the misrepresentation of its purport and
effect Of the falsehoods about the Presi-
dent refusal to permit the dotting of an
Il or the crossing of ''t; of the incor-
poration IN the instrument by the Presi-
dent Of amendments suggested by MI.
Taft. MIR Root and Mr.. Hughes: OF the
attitude of the irrcconcilahles like Borah,
who used a bludgeon TO kill the Treaty,
while Lodge used poison: he points out
that II took the Senate nearly three times
a long 20 kill the Treaty as it did the rep
rescntatlves OF the Allied Governments TO
make it.
Mr.. Cummings sums up with telling
effect the evidence To show that "Ameri-
can honor is bound up in this contest
and that good faith requires that we
should enter the League of Nations"
The establishment of an agreement among
nations 70 make peace secure was the
purpose we propclaimed before we entered
the war when we entered the war, while
we were fighting 90 win the war "The
Senate itself, he says, 'on August rs,
1916, hy unanimous vote passed measure
requesting the President to take TIE lead
m such a world movement He did take
the lead, he gave to the United States,
the moral leadership Of the world he
brought back the Treaty and the Cove
nant which all the nations of the world
except revolutionary Mexico. Bolshevist
Russia, unspeakable Turkey and the
United States Of America, have found
good enough for their acceptance. And
AZ Chicago the very men who slew the
Treaty. the men who. in seeking parti-
san advantage proclaimed q policy that
would build a Chinese wall around this
nation, caused themselves TO be com
mended for this fearful rum they had
wrought Of our national honor and repu-
tation. of the worlds hope
Chairman Cummings docs not devote
all his attention 10 the opposition party
He reserved the achievements of the two
Democratic Administrations and he has
no apologies To make There is no need of