Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-18
WILSON CALLS COP. PLATFORM
 PRUSS|AN VIEW
Welcomes Acceptance of In. vitation tO Make League
 Issue
LOOK FOR DEMOCRATS
 TO REPEAT DEFIANCE
Hopes Convention Will Say Just What 1t Means on Every Issue and Not Resort to
 Ambiguity

New York, June President Will. son, in d special interview given to the New York World to be published to- morrow morning said he was "ex- tremely confident that the democratic convention at San Francisco will wei. come the acceptance of the republican party to my invitation to make the league of nations the issue on this campaign.
 "l am even more confident" the president said, "that such referendum will confirm my faith that the Ameri- can people desire it above anything else that a political party now may provide, and that they will condemn the republican policy of denying them the consummation of their hopes. No one will recomend referendum on that issue more than l."
 "I suppose l should feel flattered," he said, lover being made the issue of the presidential campaign by the re- publican party, but even the effort of the platform makers at Chicago to confer the distinction of being not only burning but living issue by camouflaging an dobscuring the real issues will not deceive the people.
 "The processes by which the Chi. cago platform was accomplished seem to me to have been essentially and scientifically Prussian in inspiration and method. Instead of quoting Wash- ington, the republican platform should have quoted Bismarck and Bernhardi, because the republican attitude re- garding the supreme issue that cannot be abandoned or disregarded strongly suggests the arbitrary influences that dictated the doctrines of those two eminent persons.
 Every change directed againIt me and my administration is obviously < designed to becloud and negative the paramount issue confronting the peo. pie of America, to befog their sense of responsibility and make violation of the obligation they have assumed to be of small consequence. I sim cerely believe that the attempt of the republican party to win the sanction of the American people for it's att tempted evasion of these obligations will be decisively rebuked With one thing am fully satisfied is that the republican party in it's platform has joined me in the suggestion ! made in my letter to the guests at the Jackson day dinner in Washing ton in January last In that letter ! expressed the hope that sincere at tempt would be made to determine the attitude of the American people on the league of nations by the resort to the genuinely democratic process of the referendum.
 Let People Decide. | "Of course, have no way of antict- pating the probable trend of senti- ment that will be expressed in the democratic national convention at San Francisco or forecasting the ultimate conclusions of that body. But l have every confidence that the delegates who will sit in that convention will repeat the challenge 1 issued to tho republican party and express their readiness to permit the people to de- eide between the vague and ambigucus declaration by the republicans and a positive and definite expression o3 opinion by the democratic party. Whatever else the democratic party may do, hope that it's convention at San Francisco will say just what t means on every issue and that it will not resort either to ambiguity or eva-s sions in doing so.
 "This thing (the league of nations) lies too deep to permit of any political sculduggery, any attempt to evade moral and humanitarian responsibil- ity. much too solemn to treat so light- ly or ignore.
 q should prefer at this time to dis cuss partisan politics or to ventura any prediction as to the probable at- titude that the democratic convention will take on any subject.
 q sincerely believe, however, that the vast majority of gentlemen who will sit in the San Francisco conveIA- tion will appreciate the necessity and , permanent value of keeping the word that America has given to the rest Of the world.
 "The thinly yelled rejection of the principal of the league of nations by the Chicago convention will not fooi anyone. The attitude of Senator Lodge and that of Senator Johnson differ only in degree. Both are re- ally opposed to it in any form. One of these genetlemen is disingenops and evasive and the other candidly lL.aslIl .a11.