Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-28
WILSON ADDRESSES DELEGATION
 OF PRO-LEAGUE REPUBLICANS

Washington, Oct. 27.-President Wilson in his first speech since he was taken ill more than a year ago called on his 'fel- low countrymen" today to endorse the league of nations mad summoned them to the concert of peace and the completion of the great moral achievement on their part which he said the world war repre- sented.
 Speaking from his wheel chair to a delegation of prologue republicans and independents who called at the White House, the president declared that the great moral influence" of the United States would be absolutely thrown away" if the nation did mot complete the task which our soldiers and sailors so seriously undertook to execute"
 The American people, MT. Wilson said, should no tbe deceived into supposing that imperialistic schemes ended with the defeat of Germany. He declared there were other nations which were likely to be powerfully moved or were already moved "by commercial jealousy, by the desire to dominate and to have their own way in politics and in enterprise,' and that it was necessary to apprise them that the world would be united against them as it was against Germany if they attempted any similar thing" "The whole occasion was ineXpressibly solemn and tender" said the statement, adding that the deputation felt that it was nothing less than tragic that the | president had been brought ito such stricken physical condition as the result of his interchangeable labors for his coun- 1 try and for humanity"
 They felt" concluded the statement, 1 that this might be the presidents final i appeal to the conscience of his country men in the supreme moral decision that i they are called upon to make" Mir Wilson received his visitors, fifteen i in all, including two women, in a small 1 room off his study near the entrance to 1 the White House. He remained in his wheel chair throughout the reception, which lasted forty minutes. Afterwards Hear Admiral Grayson, his physician, in dicated that he had shown no physical ill l effects, saying he had come through in l exceptionally fine form
 After the delegation was greeted by i the president, Dr. Hamilton Holt of New 1 York, it's spokesman, delivered brief ad- dress declaring that the league of na- l tions transcended party politics and was | the greatest moral issue that has con- l fronted the American people in this gem eration' He added that the delegation | represented "a vast number of other re- publicans throughout the United States l who are reday to put patriotism above party in the present critical hour" to the end that 'our boys whose blood hallows
 the fields of France will not have died 1T
 vain"
 In his reply the president appealed te
 the editors and publishers of the country
 to publish the full text of the covenant o
 the league of nations so that the peopl,
 might better inform themselves of tn,
 issue involved.
 Discussing Article x, the president tool
 occasion to say that "tale so-called, Amer
 icanisf which we hear so much pratins
 about now is spurious and invented fo
 party purposes only" The true, the req Americanism,' he declared, is ito see jus
 iice done and humanity protected ant yndicated.'