The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-09
NO THIRD TERM DECLARATION FROM THE PRESIDENT IN HIS
 MESSAGE TO DEMOCRATS AT
 THE JACKSON DAY BANQUET

WASHlNGION, Jan. J.--Wnlle ue- caring that he had no objection to the Senate's defining more clearly what the League of Nations covenant means, President Wilson, in his letter to the Democrats assembled at the Jackson Day banquet, declared that the treaty should be accepted in such a way that it would not have to be rewritten or that a separate peace treaty would have to be negotiated with Germany. Otherwise, he said, "the clear and simple way out was to submit the question to the voters as great and solemn referendum"
 "If the Senate wishes" said the President, "to say what the undoubt- ed meaning of tha treaty is, have no objection But when the treaty is acted upon I must know whether it means it has been accepted or re- jected. We cannot rewrite it. We must take it without changes which alter it's meaning or leave it, and then, after the rest of the world has signed it, must face the unthinkable task of making another and sebarate kind of a treaty with Germany. Per sonallv, do not accept the action of the Senate as the decision of the Nation"
 He then added that the treaty must be submitted topthc people If it is not acted on favorably by the Sen ate.
 Bryan and Wilson Split
 A split between President Wilson and William J. Bryan over whether the League of Nations should be an issue in the next elections came at the climax of the Jackson Day ban quet. While President Wilson de- clared that the "clear and simple way out was to submit the question to the voters as a great and solemn referendum
 On the other hand, William Jen- nings Bryan, showing all the old time vigor, declared that the party could not go before the country on the issue because it involved four months of delay and meant success only if the Democrats captured two thirds of the Senate. He said the party must secure such compromises as possible.
 No Third Term Declaration
 President Wilson said nothing about third term in his letter, which was read to the assembled Democrats at the New Willard by Chairman Homer s. Cummings of the National Committee. nor did he make a formal announcement of his retire ment to private life as some had forecasted that he would.
 MT. Bryan said nothing regarding Presidential ambitions.
 McAdoo Denounces Republican Record
 and Predicts Success
 Former Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo sent a telegram to the banqueters from Wichita Falls, Texas. He declared the work of the Republican Congress was sorry record and a dismal failure" He predicted the success of the Demo- crats in the Presidential election If leadership in sympathy with the masses is preserved.
 Incapacity Disclosed
 Mir. McAdOo declared that "Repu5- lican leadership has demonstrated startling incapacity to deal with the problems confronting the American people" The last nine months,' he continued. disclose no constructive, humanitarian or statesmanlike act Peace has been defeated. Needless deaths have b sen inflicted on help less children and women of Europe, a ghastly toll exacted to serve political ends. War taxes have not been re- duced. Problems of international fin ance are not grasped. Important questions of social justice finds no Republican spokesman"
 Outlining the program for the Dem ocrats, MT McAdoo continued:
 We must keep up the fight for the prompt restoration of peace. continue constructive efforts to improve the relations between capital and labor, the strife to promote the welfare of the soldiers and sailors, to grant equal rights to American women, to reduce prohteering with the largest measure of governmental non-inter' ference and protecting the just rights of Americans in foreign lands"