The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-18
WILSON EXPECTS
DEMOCRATS WILL
INDORSE LEAGUE
Welcomes Attitude of RepubIi-
cans on Great Issue
is BEHIND NO CANDIDATE
President Charges Prussian Methods
Were Used in Framing G. o. p.
Platform In Chicago.

New York, June 17.-president VIII
son, in special interview given to
he New York World, % be pub
Iished tomorrow, said he was Tex
Lremely confident that the Democra
tic convention at San Francisco will
welcome the acceptance by the Repub
Iican par y of my invitation to make
the League of Nations the issue in
this campaign" The president is
quoted as saying.
am even more confident tha
such referendum will confirm my
faith tina he American .people
desire it above anything else that
political party now may pro-
vide. and tha: they will condemn
the Republican policy of denying
them the consummation of their
hopes. No one will recommend
referendum on that Issue more
than ].
suppose | should feel fiat
tered over being made the issue
OF the Presidential campaign by
the Republican party. Blu even
the effort Of the platform-makers
at Chicago TO confer the distinc
ton of being no only burning
bu. living issue by camouhag-
ing and obscuring he real issues
will not deceive the people.
The processes by which the
Chicago platform was accom-
plished seemed TO me to have
been essentially ard scientifically
Prussian in inspiration and
me hod. Instead of quoting
Washing on and Lincoln, the Re
publican platform should have
quoted Bismarck and Bernhard,
because the Republican attitude
regarding the supreme issue that
can no be abandoned or disre-
garded strongly suggests the ar
bi rary influences that dictated
the doctrines OF those two emi-
nent persons.
Every charge direc ed against
me and my administration is OBJ
viousiy designed o becloud and
negative the paramount issue
eonfron ing the people of Ameri-
ca, to befog their sense of re-
sponsibilitS and make violation OF
the obligations they have assum-
ed to be of small consequence.
sincerely believe that the at
tempt of the Republican party to
win the sanction of the American
people for its attempted evasion
OF hese obligations will be de.
cisively rebuked. With one thing
1 am fully satisfled-this is that
the Republican party In is plat
form has Joined men in the sug-
gestion | made in my letter to
the guests at the Jackson Day
dinner in Washington in January
las. In that letter expressed
| the hope hat a sincere attempt
| would be made to determire the
attitude of the American people
on the League of Nations by the
resort % the genuinely demo-
cratic process OF the referendum.
OF course, have no way of
anticipa ing the probable trend
OF sentiment that will be ex-
pressed in the Democra &c ma
tional convention a. San Fran
cisco or forecasting the ultimate
conclusions Of that body But l
have every confidence tina the
delega es who will sit in tha.
convention will repeat the chal-
lenge / issued to the Republican
party and express their readiness
10 permit the people to decide
between the vague and ambigu-
Gus declaration by the Repub-
licans and a positive and definite
expression of opinion by the
Democratic party, Whatever else
the Democra ic parry may do, |
hope that its convention a. San
Francisco will say just what it
means on every issue and that it
will no. resort eli her to am
biuuity or evasions in doing so.
This thing (the league of ma
tions) lies too deep to permit of
any political sculduggery, any
attemp. to sides ep or evade
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