The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-17
LEAGUE AS ISSUE
TO Be BANNED BY
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Leaders Opposed to Injecting
1t Into Fight Again Al
though Wilson May
Demand II
WASHINGTON BUREAU
THE AGE-HERALD
Washington, ID. c., Nov. 10.


The democratic party will not
make the League of Nations an is
sue two years hence. Every demo-
cratic senator. returning to Washing
ton after campaign tours. agrees.
Their opinion is based on what
they believe to be fact-that the
democratic party, with the league as
an Issue. cannot present united
front.
woodrow Wilson. former president,
will insist that the league be made
an issue. There is apparent fear on
the part Of democratic strategists
that the conflict between the man Of
Ideals and the men of political prac-
ticality will initiate against demo
cratic success
Two Possible Developments
Campaign orators, after their
touch" of the people, declare that
it would be fatal to make the league
an Issue unless within the next two
years, Ireland. exercising autonomy
and Germany become members of the
league: and unless within that time,
II be demonstrated to the satisfaction
OF American business men. desiring
recovered Europe as a trade territory,
that Europe cannot be pat upon It's
feet unless the United States becomes
a member of the league,
Democrats do not anticipate that
the above conditions will be met, AS
long as Germany and Ireland are
nonm members of the league, 1t Is said
here, ii would be Impossible for the
democratic ticket. sponsoring the en-
trance of the United states into the
league, to weather the opposition of
the German and Irish votes.
Plans of Wilson
While these reasons no doubt have
their appeal to Mr.. Wilson, the former
president has demonstrated his inten-
ton to exert all his power to the end
that the party again offer itself as
the the way for the entrance OF this
country into the league. TO Senator
Caraway of Arkansas, he wrote: we
must lift up our minds and purge our
souls" To those who visited him on
Armistiee Day, he declared in effect
that it would be better for the party,
with principle at stake, 10 go down
Elm defes1 than win on a platform OF
expediency.
The democrats, however. desire to
win. Politicians here admit that there
will be q chance of victory two years
hence. In private. they say frank
~ that Mr.. Wilson should suffer
them to prepare the platform rather
than intrude with his great power
and inordnate appeal to the imagi-
nation OF his democratic following.
Mr.. Wilson s condition two years
hence will tell the story, 1t is IN
Dictated Today. he Is very feeble IN
body-but not more so than he has
been for long while. In mind
however, he liz as powerful as he
was when he directed the destiny OF
the world In heart, he Is as cour-
ageous and apparently anxious TO
meet his enemies in the open
Mr.. Wilson feels, furthermore that
the people are with him When he
appears In public, he is greeted with
storms of affectIonate applause. Peo-
pie are apparently glad Of opportuni-
ties to make pilgrimages TO his house.
But to the practical democratic poll
tician in Washington all that doesn't
mean that the party could win on
platform advocating an entrance on
the part of this country into the
League of Nations.