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DEMOCRATS MEET
At FRISCO, JUNE %
National Committee Selects
Convention City.
ENDORSE WILSON POLICY
Resolutions Declare For Treaty OF
Versailles and Denounce as Unpa-
triotic Those Who Would "NuIIify"



trotic Those Who Would "NuIIify"
1t.
Washington, Jan. 9.-San Francisco
was selected by the Democratic ma
tional committee as The place for the
party's 1920 national convention.
After twenty-seven votes had been
cast Kansas City and other cities with
drew and the vote for San Francisco
was unanimous.
Monday, June IS, was fixed as the
convention date.
(The Republicans meet in Chicago
June 81
Resolutions endorsing the treaty Of
Versailles and denouncing as unpa-
+riotic the attitude of senators "who
would defeat it directly or by nullify-
ing" were unanimously adopted by
the committee.
The committees resolutions read:
eve affirm our approval of the
treaty of Versailles and we condemn
as unWise and unpatriotic the attitude
of those senators who would defeat its
ratification, either directly or by over
whelming it with reservations that are
intended to, and will have the effect
of multiplying it.
'The failure of the senate Republi-
can leaders to offer or to permit con-
sideratiOn of interpretative resolutions
that would preserve the general pur-
pose of the treaty and to SO permit
its ratification condemns them to the
criticism of the nation and to the con-
tempt of the world"
Referring to the avowed objects of
the country's participation in the war;.
the resolution continued:
ga treaty to this end was negotiated.
and for seven months it has been.
throttled by the misused Republican.
leadership of the senate that is SO
arrogant that it even refuses to let
the senators of its own party, who de-
sire to have the treaty ratified with
certain reservations that seem reason
able to them, to vote accordingly, and
thus to make a. least a start toward
world wide peace"
AS a result the resolutions said
conditions are unsettled, a definite
proclamation of the end of the war is
delayed" 1t declares had the treaty
been ratified with reasonable prompt
ness, the world would not be engaged
IN the fruitful work of reconstruc-
ton"
eve join," the resolution adds, "the
demand of the pulpits of the country
and of its agricultural interests, Of
labor, and of the great business, in
dustrial and commercial organization
Of America that the senate quit play
ing politics with this sacred question
and give to the world the word that
America is ready to at least make a
trial for universal peace.
"We repudiate the inferential sug-
gestion that having joined our associ-
ateS in war that is now leading them
to chaos we are to withdraw and leave
them to a merciless fate in order that
we might maintain a so-called tradi-
tional state of 'isONtion' that we sur
rendered when we went to the defense
Of our rights and to the aid of strug-
Cling humanity. .
IF this is to be our attitude then
the $4,000 Americans who now sleep
in France gave up their lives in vain
and the 100000 more who willingly
offered their lives for the cause that
called us here, have a right to ask
for what they were summoned to the
colorS."
Reviewing the legislative record of
the two Wilson administrations and
the manner in which the war was
won the committee resolutions ex-
pressed qualification the president was
regaining health after a breakdown
due largely 20 his efforts for world
peace"
When the Democrats came into pow
er in 1913 it is stated they found "the
nation in a condition of comparative
industrial and commercial depression"
with "the banking system" in the
hands of a few men at whose will
panics periodically occurred" 1t was
asserted these and other ills had ex-
listed for sixteen years under Repub-
Iican rule without any relief.
Establishment of the federal reserve
banking system is said to entitle the
party to the evegIaSCinga gratitude Of
the country, While lie farm loan bank
ing system gave - agricultural in
terests the relief long demanded.
The resolutions then referred to the
enactment of the law giving 1.-The PEG.
pie the right to elect their United
States senators by popular vote" and
said the party had "enfranchised the
women and for the frs time gave
labor the fair showing to which it was
entitled.
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