Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-09
Says Party Must Ac- cept Compromise
 at Once
CONCEDES RIGHT
 OF THE MAJORITY
Our Plan Rejected and We Must Face Situation,
 He Says
WARNS AGAINST ANY
 FURTHER DELAYS
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-<tDEdShdH Washington, Jan. s.-William J. bryan split openly with President ] Wilson at the Jackson Day dinner here tonight, on the question of whether the democratic party should make the league of nations an is sue at the next election. ! The former secretary of state i three times candidate for theI presidency and power in his party | declared the democrats could not goI before the country on the issue and that they must accept such com promises as may be possible. President Wilson, in his messageI to the diners, had declared that "the clear and single way out" was to \ submit the issue.
 Conceding the right of the repub- lican majority to dictate the senate's course, MT. Bryan declared: "Our plan has been rejected and we must face the situation as it is. We must either secure such con- promises as may be possibly or pres B ent the issue to the country. The latter course would mean delay { of at least fourteen months and then success only in case of our securing "a two-thirds majority of the senate. eve cannot afford, either as citi-i < Zcns or as members of the party, toI share with the republican party re- srcnsibility for further delay; weI Scannot go before the country on the sissue that such an appeal would pre- sent. + + + + A majority of con- gress can declare war Shall we ] make it more difficult to conclude sa treaty than to enter war;" Reviewing the past and surveying Ia program for the future, MT. Bry- san said he ventured to suggest "three %new propositions" They were: q Also for I and R.
 A national system of roads, eX- &tending in every state, to be known @as "A National Peace Way" as a Mutilitarian project for binding the &states together in commerce and in %tercourse. but as q memorial as we'll Mto the soldier dead.
 N A national bulletin-not newspa @per, Mir. Bryan declared-to present #national issues under bipartisan gcontrol
 M The initiative and referendum, |which, he declared, the democratic Eparty might we'll adopt as it's "next Egreat reform"
 & Text of Speech
 MT. Bryan's speech follows:
 "Seldom has such an opportunity or great service come to any party Is now presents itself to our party. But opportunity brings responsibil- ty. Much is required of those to .cr c p oldier until his day of opportunity r coward. So with the party, ing stones to success; opportuni- he party's neck.
 "The opportunities now offered are Is large as the nation and as wide Is the world. In this hour we take Ouncil together for the coming hmpaign. It is the duty of each pember of the party, as take it, to resent the situation as he sees it, Fithout stopping to inquire whether is views are shared by others he cannot call meeting to deter line way to think. The theory of emocracy is that all think and ,give kpression to their thought and the pnclusions are reached by compari- pn of views.
 Permit me, therefore, to present e more important of these oppor- mites as I see them. The nations fe entering upon new era; old stems are passing away; demo acy is dawning everywhere. Our
 tion is the only great nation in a sition to furnish the moral lead ship required. The nations of Flu be are busy with their own prob ns; our people are the only ones Finterested enough to be trusted by
 and the democratic party is the fty whose ideas best fit 1t for
 task of leadership in suchs a
 rk.
 "A democratic president was the
 kesman of the United States in
 ding out to a war-worn world the
 be of universal peace, and he
 nght back from Paris the cove
 It of league of nations that pro
 &s means for settling internatlon'
 &isputes without resort to force x Adid the best he could, and sue 7 led better than we had any right
 xpect, when we remember that
 ought single handed agalnst
 selfish interests of the world.
 Praises Senators.
 he republican party in control
 be senate, instead of ratifying
 pnce or promptly proposing
 les that it deemed necessary
 fiddled while civilization has
 h threatened with ration. It could
 adopted it's reservations as well
 nonths ago as later, but 1t per
 endless debate while suffer
 pmanity waited.
 democratic senators stooa
 their president for ratification,
 ht reservation, and l stood
 them, believing that it was