Omaha daily bee., 1920-05-03
Wilson Declared to Sanction
Statement Issued by Demo.
cratic Chairman Cummings.
Scoring Knox Resolution.
INSISTS TREATY ISSUE
IN COMING CAMPAIGN
indications That Administra-
tion Proposes to Prevent Ac-
tion Until After Fall EIec-
tions-veto Probable.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.

Chicago Tribune-Omahn Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, May 2.-President
Wilson has decreed that the Knox
peace resolution pending in the sem
ate must go with the Versailles
treaty into the vortex OF party
politics.
AS chieftan OF the democratic
party, the president is declared to
sanction statement issued today by
Homer S. Cummings, chairman of
the democratic national committee,
denouncing the peace resolution in
the bitterest language printable.
Following decclarations yesterday
from administration democrats in
the senate that they would filibuster
against the resolution to prevent Ats
passage-that being the only way
they could keep i. from adoption
and submission to the president for
approval or veto, the democratic
chairman makes the resolution a
uolitical issue.
Mr.. Cummings statement makes
It doubly certain that Mr.. Wilson
will insist upon the treaty as-thc
real issue Of the coming campaign.
All other issues are dwarfed in his
mind to this, and the latest pro-
nunciamento of Chairman Cum
mings says. in effect, that the issue
OF the Wilsonian wing of the demo-
cratic party shall be:
Ratification OF the sreaty of peace
with the league of nations covenant.
Condemnation of the peace reso-
luton.
Plan to Delay Action.
Chairman Cummings utterance
indicates that the administration
proposes to prevent action on the
Knox resolution, if possible, until
after the elections. Failing in that,
it is certain tirat the president will
veto the resolution, if adopted, and
it would then be necessary to pass
il over the veto by a two thirds ve.e
4n both houses. 1t is dcabtfJ !f
that could be accomplished before
the elections.
Chairman Cummings. tf=-a.vil;S
down the gage of battle osay, lid:
The so-called Knox peace reso-
luton. which has just been reported
by the senate committee on foreign
relations, is renewed evidence OF
the moral leprosy which is eating
cut the heart of the republican party.
In the name of peace it proposes
dlshonor.
"An analysis of the resolution dis
closes that, first, it recognizes the
defect in the recent house resolution.
which attempted to make a separate
treaty with Germany by act of con-
gress; second as an alternative prop
ositlon it requests the president to
commence negotiations for sepa-
rate peace with Germany: third, it
seeks to terminate, by a paper res
olutlon, state of war without pro-
tectlng American rights; fourth. it
attemps to take advantage of the
provisions of the treaty of Yer
sailles without becoming party to
that treaty, and fifth, it requests the
president to negotiate a separate
peace with Austria.
Outstanding Features.
These are the outstanding fea-
lures OF the resolution. If any group
OF leaders a year ago had dared to
suggest that we should abandon our
allies and negotiate a separate
treaty of peace they would have
found themselves isolated and dis
credited. Republican leaders have
lost their moral sense in their mad
lust for power.
There has not been one moment
since November, 1918, during which
America has not suffered in honor,
prestige and power as the result of
tie elections OF that year. Since
that time everything has been in
confusion and the frantic attempt of
republican leaders to find a legal
method in which to do the dis
honorable thing merely adds to the
confusion.
There is but one clear path of
duty. 1t is likewise the path OF
honor and OF peace and of perma-
pent security. The path lies stra.ssa,
before us and consists simply in
ratifying the treaty OF peace which
our companions in arms have al
ready ratified. The more the mat
ter is debated the more it will be-
come apparent that there are no
substitutes for the requirements OF
plain duty and American honor"