The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-10
NATIONS HONOR IS IN PARTY'S HANDS,
 SAYS PRESIDENT
Treaty Necessary to Keep Faith With Those Who Gave Their Lives to
 Cause

call to the democratic party to go into the campaign standing four-square in favor of the treaty of Versailles and against the Senate's reservations was issued tonight by President Wilson in a telegram to Ore gon democratic leaders made public at the White House.
 The only true Americanism, the President said, was "that which puts America at the front of free nations and re- deems the great promises which we made to the world" It would be a violation of such promises, he said, to attach reservations to the treaty which "whittle it down or weaken it as the republican leaders of the Senate have pro- posed to do."
 Declaring that the party had "the honor of the nation in it's hands, the President said that the Lodge reserva-i tions were utterly inconsistent" with that honor as well as destructive on the role of world leadership which thet United States must assume.
 RESPONDS TO TELEGRAM
 The telegram was in response to the following message from G. F. Hal maker of Portland. Ore. chairman of the CuItinomah county democratic cen-l tral committee:
 Primary election May 21; please Wire whether you consider it impor- tant to nominate candidates pledged to ratify Versailles treaty without Lodge reseryations.
 The rebly s,f the President follows: tsfthinh ir is1apsra tive that the party should at once proclaim itself the un-' compromising champion of the nations honor and the advocate of everything that the United States can do in the service of humanity: that 1t should, therefore, indorse and support the, sailles treaty and coodemn the Lodge reservations as utterly inconsistent with the nations honor and destruc- tive of the world leadership which it had established and which all the free people of the world. including the great powers themselves. had shown them4 selves ready to welcome.
 "It is time that tWe party should proudly avOw that it means to try.
 without flinching CT turning at my time away from the path for |, reasons of expediency. to apply moral and Christian principles to
 the problems of the world. It is trying to accomplish social. pOliti-
 cial and international reforms and Is not daunted by any of the difff- cuIties it has to contend with. Let
 Us prove to our late associates In
 the war that at any rate the great
 majority of the party of the nation, the party which expresses the true
 hopes and purposes of the people
 of the country. intends to keep
 faith with them i'm Deace as well as in war. They gave their treasure. their best blood end everything
 that they valued in order, not
 nere1y to beat Germany. but to eff
 feet a settlement and bring about arrangements of peace which they
 have now tried to formulate in the treaty of Versailles. They are en-
 tiled to our support in this settle
 ment md in the arrangements for which they have strtven. ar,
 HOPE OF THE WORLD "Thel League of Nations is the hope of the world. As basis for the arfni- stice, I was authorizen by all the great fighting nations to say to the enemy that it was our object in proposing peace to establish a general dssocia-, tion of nations under specific cove nants for the purpose of affofding mu- tuai guarantees of political indepen depce and territorial integrity to great 1 and small states alike. and the cove | nant of the League af/Nations is the 1
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