Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
NOMINEE WILLING
To co To PEOPLE
y ON TREAT \ ISSUE
President Takes Offensive in
Interview DenounCing G,
@. P, Platform - Favors
No Candidate at Frisco

WASHINGTON, June 1S.-Presi-
dent Wilson's challenge to submit
the peace treaty to a referendum of
the American people was accepted
today by Senator Harding, the Re-
publican presidential candidate.
81 am sure" said Senator Hard
! ing, "the Republican party will glad
| 1y welcome a referendum on the
| question of the foreign relationship
of this republic and the Republican
! attitude of preserved nationality
will be overwhelmingly indorsed"
Senator Harding's statement was
| in reply to the interview with Pres
ident Wilson, published today. in
which the president discussed the
League of Nations issue and the Re-
| publican platform.
Herbert Hoover. whose name was
| voted on to the last at the Republi-
can convention, had breakfast today
with Senator Harding, at the sena-
tors invitation.
Another visitor today was George
Clark, of Canton, o., chairman Of
the Ohio state Republican advisory
committee, who came to Washington
| to lay before Senator Harding plans
for the Ohio c3mpaign.l Republicans
in that state, he declared, were ready
| to go ahead as soon as the Repub-
lican nominee had indorsed the plans.
Wilson Takes Offensive
President Wilson has taken the Of
fensive for his policies at the start OF
| the presidential campaign, cabiner
officers mad administration senators
| said here today.
In Mr.. Wilson's interview with the
New York World they said he has
! not only pointed out the course he
| believes the Democrats should fol-
/ low in the presidential campaign
| but he has thrown down the gage to
his opponents inlhis own party.
! Should this gage be taken up
| should the Democrats at San Fran
cisco "pussyfoot" on the league-the
president has left hanging over them
the possibility of his candidacy for
a third term. Democrats as we'll as
Republicans here noted that the
president had not repudiated such
possibility! Republicans were ready
to comment on it. Democrats werO
not.
The gage to the presidents dem.
ocratic opponents, his supporters
said. was contained in the utterance
that he was as confident today as
L was when 1 returned from Paris
finally in July last that the people
| Of not only America but of the en-.
tire world are in favor of the League
of Nations" and also when he de-
clared that the American people want
a referendum On the league issue
"above anything else political party
now may provide"
| In Mr.. Wilson's official family
| these utterances were interpreted as
meaning that he believes the Repub-
lican party cannot escape the league
! issue and that the Democratic party
will have failed the country if it
does not take a positive stand for
the league.
When he declared the processes
by which the Chicago platform was
accomplished seemed to me to have
been essentially Prussian in inspir-
alton and method" and later refuS-
ed to comment on the Republican
candidates, he outlined the Demo
| cratic campaign, according to ad-
ministration views. This course is
an action on the Republican platform
with the incidental statement that
! the nominees fit the platform.
There was also rejoicing among
| Democrats that Mr.. Wilson had re-
| Trained from indicating a choice for
any Democratic presidential aspir-
ant. Secretary Daniels was the first
cabinet officer to follow the presi--
dents interview with statement of
the same trend.
Comment on Interview
"I think the senate's failure to
ratify the treaty is the tragedy OF
the century" Secretary Daniels said.
1.-The unrest throughout the world is
chiefly due to that failure. The
ing majority showed that they wish
ed the treaty ratified"
Representative Mondell, Republi-
can leader of. the house, declared the
was thinking of a third term.
THE interview simply illustrates
that the president still adheres to
his IDOLS" Mr.. Mondell said. This
would convey the impression that he
would be a candidate for a third
term. He says he's the issue. IT
mes, the issue he ought to be the
candidate"
Mr.. Mondell called attention to the
presidents support Of the Lever act
and said no one had attempted to re-
peal it or suggested its repeal.
said President Wilson's interview
points the way vf~y clearly" for
the action of the Democrats at San
Francisco.
"The Republican platform inevita-
bly, made the issue when it decided
against any League of Nations" Sem
ator King said. The platform was
a negation of moral fodrces which
must operate among civilized ma
tions. 1t was likewise reactionary
as to Democratic policy. President
Wilson recognized this and with re-
markable precision placed his finger
on the issues that made.
The American people do believe in
a concert of leading nations of the
Nations and they believe in this
league with some reservations which
will not destroy its effectiveness.
President Wilson, I know is leaving
the door open for reservations He
approves Hitchcock's and the Taft
reservations. His interview points
the way very clearly for action of
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