The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-22
Calls For It's Ratification
Without Reservations
Imparing Covenant s
NO WET PLANK WILL
BE INTRODUCED
Committee On Resolutions Said to Be
Dry-May Garry Fight to Floor of
Convention, But Vets Are Not Ex-
pected to Win-No Irish Plank.

10y Ahoy Vail IiSA1 W iool VI
Convention, But VETS Are Not Ex-
pected to Win-No Irish Plank.
CHICAGO, June 22-tIhited States
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, fresh
from a forty-minut conference with
President Wilson on Saturday after
noon, is bearing the Wilson platform
to San Francisco.
Senator Glass, who is slated for
chairman of the resolutions committee.
received from the President his draft
Of the league of nations. and other
blanks the Democratic national con
vention viii be asked to incorporate in
he platform. With the President IS
parting instructions as to the posi- |
ton Mr.. Wilson desires all friends of |
The administration to take on party is
sues, Senator Glass goes to the conven-
ton as spokesman for the White house |
| On all platform questions, at least.
The Wilson platform presents the |
peace treaty as the paramount issue of |
the presidential election and contains |
| league of nations plank of the Pres |
ident's authorship denouncing "res-
| arvations which would IMPAIR the
essential integrity of the. cove
nant. The President 3 platform con
| tains no sswet' plank, no irish in
dependence plank and no plank favor
| ng a soldier bonus.
The league plank declares that the
covenant is the only practicable means
IF maintaining the peace of the world
md ending forever the maintaining of
vast armies and naval strength. It
lsserts that this was the supreme aim
If the United States in turning its back
npon the tradition of isolation and
| going to war to "crush a colossal
scheme of conquest"
| The plank praises the President for
vigorous prosecution of the war and
he successful contamination of Ameri-
an ideals in the negotiation of
he league of nations covenant at Paris.
/ The plank goes on to commend the
| President for standing steadfastlv for
he covenant without essential modifi-
-ation in the senate and attacks the
! Republicans, charging them with in
| terposing partisan envy and personal
hatred of Mr.. Wilson in the path of
peace and restoration of world pros
4
TO procure peace by means of the Joint
resolution vetoed by the President is
denounced.
The Democratic senators are COM
nended for standing with the Presi-
lent TO prevent emaseulation of the
treaty by the Lodge reservations and
against a separate peace which, the
blank AYERS, would have disgraced the
nation in the eyes of the world. Only
by prompt ratification of the treaty
without reservations (which impair its
| essential integrity can the United
d States retrieve its reputation among the
powers and recover the world leader
: | ship established by President Wilfon,
adds the plank.
Senator Glass, who served a wear as
secretary of the treasury and before
that was chairman of the house com
mittee on banking and currency, and
4 | as such was one of the principal au-
thors of the federal reserve act, said
that in addition to adopting a strong
league of nations plank the conven.
tion, in his opinion, would asSail with
great vigor the record of the Republi.
can congress on taxation and other eco.
nomic issues
Senator Glass does not believe that
a 'fwet' plank will be incorporated
Al in the platform. It is a forgone con
| clrsion, in the opinion of most leaders
that the resolutions committee will b,
I dry " and will report no ''wet" plank
/ The vets are determined, however, t.
I carry the fight to the floor of tn,
convention where administration lead
ers believe they will meet with defeat
"There is a much eimore Favorable
| prospect of an Irish plank being in
| corporated in the PLATFORM said an
other senator who viii be a membe
of the resolutions committee. 81 un
derstand that the, President has no
included an Irish plank in his recon
mendations, but I think it safe to as
/ sumo that the resolutions committe
will approve plank expressing sym
pathy for the cause of Irish indepen
dence.''
If the President confided his att
tude toward the nomination Mr.. Glas
the senator is keeping it secret. II
admitted tonight that he had discusse
u issues, particularly that of the leagu
Z of nations, with Mr.. Wilson, but dc
MED they had touched on the questio
Of candidates. and professed to be. q
much at sea as any one eoncernin