The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-10-28

WHICH OlSlCI VIII DG represented.
|, President Wilson got into the presi-
Dental campaign at the beginning OF
the week with long letter addressed
to his fellow citizens, urging them to
place the seal of their approval of the
League of Nations covenant by their
votes at the polls in November. He
said: 1.-THE chief question that is put
to you is, of course, this: Do you want
your country's honor vindicated and
the treaty of Versailles ratified? Do
you in particular approve Of the
League of Nations as organized and
empowered in that treaty? And do
you wish to see the United. States play
it's responsible part in it,"
He said the opponents of PIE league
had mislead the voters and had dis
played gross ignorance and impudent
audacity in their "attempt to invent an
sAmericanism' of their own, which has
no foundation whatever in any of the
authentic traditions of the govern
ment."
Following this lead, Governor Cox
and Franklin Roosevelt in their cam
paign speeches are now making the
League of Nations the great issue and
are devoting to it most of their argu-
ments. Homer S. Cummings, former
Democratic national chairman, also
has been called on and will speak for
the league in Ohio, Kansas, Indiana,
Kentucky, New Mexico and California.
Senator Harding abandoned his
porch again for quick speaking tour
through part of the Middle West and
in his address at Des Moines he ac-
copied the direct issue of ratifying or
rejecting the League of Nations COW
enant. He declared fatty he would
favor staying out Of the league as
formed at Versailles; he said be want
ed no acceptance of the league with
or without reservations to clarity
Americas obligations, and that he
thought the proper thing to do was to
reject the covenant altogether. AS for
what he does favor doing in the way
of an association of nations, he said:
81 shall not risk embarrassing the
final solution of a problem so mo-
mentous by undertaking to lay down
in advance specific details or plans. AS
soon as possible after my election /
shall advise with the best minds in the
United States and especially | shall
consult in advance with the senate,
with whom, by the terms of the Con-
stitution, I shall indeed be bound to
counsel and without whose consent no
such international association can be
formed. / shall do this to the end
that we shall have an association of
nations for the promotion of interna-
tional peace, but one which shall def
nitely safeguard our sovereignty and
recognize our ultimate and unmort-
gagged freedom of action"
: An acrimonious controversy has
arisen between President Wilson and
Senator Spencer of Missouri. The lat
ter, in campaign speeches, asserted
that the President during the peace
conference promised Roumania and
Serbia that If needed the American
army and navy would be sent TO their
aid. This charge Mr.. Wilson branded
as absolutely false. The senator re-
torted that the alleged promise was to
be found in the stenographic report of
the eighth plenary session Of the con-
ference, in which Mr.. Wilson was re-
ported to have said to Premier Bra
tianu of Roumania "You must not
forget that it is force that is the final
guaranty of the public peace. If the
world is again troubled the United
States will send to this side Of the
ocean their army and their feet"
Spencer asked the President to pro-
duce the report, but Secretary Tumulty
said on Thursday the President had no
stenographic report of the eighth pIen-
airy session and, so far as the Presi-
this country.
Unless the Supreme court of the
United States says no. "Big Bill" Hay
wood and the SO other I. w. w. mem
bers who were tried some time ago be-
fore Judge Lands will have to go to
the penitentiary. Their conviction on
charges of conspiracy to violate the
selective draft and espiSnage acts has
been affirmed by the United States Cir
cult Court of appeals.