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Wilson to Push League Plan.

New York, June 19.-PreSident Viii
sons nine months Of illness have
neither daunted his spirit nor impair
ed in the slightest degree his splendid
intellect" according to the New York
| World
Within the last two months. the cor
respondent says, the president has
gained more than twenty pounds and
his ultimate complete recovery is as
sured
During the three-hOur interview at
the White House, says the correspond
ent. in the long discussion of current
topics and issues, the president "eX-
! pressed himself with characteristic
Wilsonian vigor."
The president told the correspond
emf. in discussing the campaign, the
league of nations was the dominant
| issue and he expects the Democrats
| at San Francisco to repeat his chal-
lenge for a referendum on the league.
| The issue is "tOO deep for political
scnldurgery," Mr.. Wilson is quoted
as saying.
| The president was particularly Wig
! orOus in attacking the Republican
platform. according TO he correspond.
pnr. THE Republican conventlon'
said the president. was c0htr"l!eN by
i,terpSts essentially and Sr'entlncaiIE
TrlSSfan in inSp;rat;o" and me'n"o.
He said he did not see how Progress
siyes could support the Republican
platform.
The president asserted he had not
aided any candidate for the nominal
ton at San Francisco.
The president said he was extreme
1v confident that the Democratic con-
yention at San Francisco WIFI wei
come the acceptance by the kepunh-
can Marty 20 make the league OF ma
t,ons the issue in this campaign.
81 am even more confident that Such
referendum will confirm my faith that
the American people desire it above
ANYTHING else that Il political party
now may provide. and that they will
condemn the Republican policy of
denying them the contamination of
their hopes No one will recommend
a referendum on that issue more than
I.
81 suppose I should feel tiattered
over being made the issue of the preSiJ
dental campaign by the Republican,
party, but even the effort of the plat
form makers at Chicago to confer the
disctinctiOn of being not only a burn
ing but living issue by camOut1aging
and ObScuring the real issues will not
deceive the people.
'The processes by which the Chica-
go platform was accomplished seemed
to me to have been essentially and
scientifically Prussian in inspiration
and method. Instead of quoting Wash.
ingtOn and Lincoln, the Republican
platform has quoted Bismarck and
Bernhard, because the Republican at.
tttude toward the supreme issue that
cannot be abandoned or diSregarded
strongly suggests the arbitrary intiu-
enceS that dictated the doctrines of
hose two eminent persons.
Every charge directed against me
and my administration is obviously
designed to beclOud and negative the
paramount issue confronting the PEG
pie of America, to befog their sense of
responsibility and make violation OF
the obligations they have assumed to
be of mall consequence. l sincerely
believe that the attempt of the Repub-
lican party to win the sanction of the
American people for its attempted
evasion of these obligations will be
decisively rebuked. With one thing
1 am fully satistied-this is that the
Republican party and its platform has
joined me in the suggestion l made in
nv letter to the guests at the Jackson
Day dinner in Washington in January
last"