Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-16
FRISCO PICKED
BY DEMOCRATS
Liberal Offer of the Metropolis of
Pacific Coast Wins Con-
vention.
LEADERS RAP TREATY DELAY
National Committee Praises Stand Of
Wilson and Declares Republican
Leadership in Senate Has "Con-
tempt of the World"

Washington, jar 10.-The Demo
cratic national committee awarded the
party's 1920 national convention, at
which a candidate for president will be
chosen, to San Francisco.
After q votes had been cast, Kan
sas City and Chicago withdrew and the
vote for San Francisco was unanimous.
Monday, June %, was fixed as the con-
ventiOn date.
Isadore B. Dockweler of California,
nominating San Francisco, made
proffer of q guaranteed sum of $l25,-
600 for expenses, the free use of the
municipal auditorium, seating from
$4,000 to $4,000, and of additional
funds for entertainment purposes.
Resolutions indorsing the treaty OF
Versailles and denouncing as unpairl
otlc the attitude of senators who Wouid
defeat it directly or by multiplying res
ervations were unanimously adopteu
by the national committee.
The arrogant" Republican le1der-
ship Of the senate was denounced as
having earned the contempt or the
world by throttling the treaty for sew
en- months. and the senate was caiied
upon to quit playing politics Win
the question of ratification.
Reviewing the legislative record OF
the two Wilson administrations and
the manner in which the war was VOL
the resolutions also expressed grat'h-
cation that the president was regain
ing health after breakdown due
largely to his efforts for world peace.
Concerning the peace treaty the res
OIutiOns said:
1--WE affirm our approval OF the
treaty of Versailles, and we condemn
as unwise and unpatriotic the attltude
of those senator's who would defeat
its ratification, either directly or by
overwhelming it with reservations that
are intended TO and will have the eI-
feet of multiplying it.
'"The failure of the senate ReT,ub-
liean leaders TO offer or to permit con-
sideration of interpretative resolutions
that would preserve the general pur-
pose of the treaty and so to permit
its ratification condemns them to the
criticism of the nation and to the
contempt of the world
The resolutions said that when the
Democrats came into power in 1918
they found "the nation in condition
of comparative industrial and com
mercial depression and with tine
banking system in the hands of few
men at whose will panics periodical
" occurred" It was added that
'these and other ills had existed for IT.
wears under Republican rule without
any relief"
"To remedy this condition" the res
olutions continued, "the Democratic
administration entered immediately
upon a vigorous constructive pro-
gram" adding that establishment OF
the federal banking system entities
the party to the everlasting gratitude
of the country. while the farm loan
banking system gave to our agricul-
tural interests the relief long demand
ed by them"
Referring to the avowed objects of
the country's participation in the war.
the resolutions continued:
"a treaty to this end was negotiated.
and for seven months it has been
throttIed by the msused Republican
leadership of the senate, that is 50 ar
rogant that it even refuses to let the
senators of its own party who desire
to have the treaty ratified with GER
tain reservations that seem reasonable
to them to vote accordingly and thus
to make at least start toward world
wide peace.