Evening journal., 1920-01-12
"The Sun" Welcomes
III, Issue, Mr.. Wilson!
iTrom the New York sun.

The Sun does not hesitate TO say that
II regards President Wilson's letter &c
the Democratic diners on Jackson Day
as worthy, in some creditable respects
Of Old Hickory himself. There is nc
shrinking here from the logical conse-
quences OF a personal policy dellber-
ately adopted. There Is no weakening
in the least particular, in HIS persistent
demand that the interviewer treaty and
covenant shall be ratified, II ratified al
all, exactly as he caused IL 10 be writ
ten, on his own responsibility, at Paris
There Is no sign of wavering in his
professed belief, frequently reiterated
in the face OF much evidence TO the
contrary. that an overwhelming ma
jority OF his fellow citizens are with
him In demanding that the Senate shall
ratify an unchanged treaty.
This may be called pernicious OBJ
stinacy, IL may be styled obession. II
may be diagnosed as the fixed delu-
sion OF megalomania, IL may be de-
nOunced as the reckless preference OF
selfish opinion 20 manifest national in
terests, but 10 cannot be described as
irFes0lute, eyasive of crawflshy. There
is something Of Andrew Jackson in
Woodrow Wilson's refusal 10 accept
the action OF the Senate as the decision
Of the nation and in his proposal to
submit the treaty for determination
at the next election 10 the voters of
the nation, 20 give the next election the
form Of a great and solemn refereh-
dum"-a referendum, he means, as to
whether the principles Of nationalism
or the visions and voices Of interna-
tlonalism are 10 shape the Republics
destinies.
That OF course would be 20 make the
one overshadOwing issue of the next
Presidential election the treaty and the
covenant and the League Of Nations,
and President Wilson's personal rela-
tiOn 70 his self-determined attempt to
establish the United States in what he
calls, in not less than three places in
his Jackson Day manifesto, the spirit
ual leadership OF the world" For even
II Mr.. Wilson were right in believing
that an overwhelm ng majority Of the
American voters were with him in de-
string the ratification of the treaty
without the dotting of an II" or the
c. osslng OF a u that fact could never
be ascertained merely by the general
result Of an election in which other
and highly important questions of do
nestle policy were involved. The issue
OF the Wilsonian treaty, the Wilsonlan
covenant. the Wilsonian conduct Of ne
gotiations, the Wilsonian promises or
pledges TO the other Governments, will
have TO be segregated from all other
political considerations entering into
the campaign il we are 10 get the ref
erendum and the verdict which he so
courageously proposes and so definitely
insists upon in his letter.
That this is quite clear 10 the Prcsi-
dent himself Is evident from the cir
cumslanoe that he had no other issue
20 suggest TO the assembled partisans; /;
nothing except his treaty, exactly as
written, his dream Of international re
organization, his vision Of the spiritual
leadership Of the world. Every ind-
vidual among the other Democrats who
put in their bids in the name Of An
drew Jackson had devoted much
thought 20 details Of policy outside OF
the single, supreme question which tie
President presents to his party. The