Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-01-15
DEMOCRATS MEET
IN CONFERENCE
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY DEM.
ocRATIc COMMITTEE SUP
PORT TREATY
SAN FRANCISCO SELECTED
Wilson Avonds Mention OF Third
Term And Bryan Says He Asks
Absolutely Nothing

Washington-Res endors-
ing the treaty of Versailles and de-
nouncing as unpatriotic the attitude OF
senators who would defeat it direct
ly or by multiplying reservations, were
unanimously adopted by the Demo
cratic national committee in session.
The arrogant" Republican leader
ship of the senate was denounced as
| having earned the contempt of the
world" by throttling the treaty for
| seven months, and the senate was
called upon to quit playing politics
with the question of ratification. Re-
viewing the legislative record of the
two Wilson administrations and the
manner in which the war was won,
the resolutions also expressed gratifi-
cation that the President was regain
ing health after breakdown due
largely to his efforts for world peace"
Wilson And Bryan Disagree =
Washington. - A split between
President Wilson and William j. Bry-
an over whether the league of nations
should be made an issue at the COM
ing election topped off the Jackson
day deliberations of the Democratic
party chiefs.
1t came at the Jackson dinner, as
the climax of a day in which San
Francisco had been chosen as the
meeting place of the Democratic ma
tional convention on June %, and lit
charged the air with political electric
ity.
President Wilson, in his message
read to the diners assembled in two
separate halls, declared that the clear
and single way out" was to submit
the question to the voters as "a great |
and solemn referendum.
Mr.. Bryan, showing all the old-time
vigor with which he led the fight for
the presidents nomination at Balti-
more in 1912, declared that the DEM
ocratic party could not go before the
country on the issue, because it in
volved a delay of fourteen months,
and meant success only if the DenA
Gratis captured a two-thirds majoIA q
of the senate. The party, Mr.. Bry;4 ~ =.
declared, must secure such COM Ia
misses asmay be possible" Es4 e
The disagreement between the preN
ident and his former secretary of states
the first in public view since Mr.. Bry-
an left the cabinet because he did
not agree with the presidents course
in the diplomatic negotiations with
Germany, was thus disclosed as
fact, although it has been rumored
and reported in the underground cur
rents of national politics. In the opin-
ion of the political leaders it crystal
lized an issue.
President Wilson, in his message,
said nothing whatever about third
term for himself, and neither did he
make any formal announcement OF
his intended retirement to private life,
as some had forecast he would.
Colonel Bryan said nothin gbearing
on any ambitions toward fourth
nomination, but, before
reading his manuscripts, he said he
had nothing to ask and that, there
fore, the diners would not listen to
him with the thought that they were
listening to a candidate.
There were a dozen or more other
speakers at the dinners and their .
views on whether the league should =,
be made campaign issue were either ,
divided in favor of the presidents
stan dor Mr.. Bryans, or else they did Z
lot touch on the subject at all.