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EADERS OF UNION
CALL OFF Slit
NationaKCommittee After AH
" Day Meeting DecidesTo
Proceed No Further
DENIAL OF ALL RIGHTS
ANNOUNCEMENT CLAIMS
Strike Headquarters" In Pitts-
" burgh Will Be Closed Up
Shortly ; Secretary William
. Z. Poster Resigns ; Steel
rOompany-Offlcialt -Say They
Are Not Surprised
Pittsburg, Ps., Jan. 8. The strike in
the ateel mill and furnaces ealled Sep
tember 22, and which at ita inception
involved 367,000 men, was officially coll
ed off here tonight by the national eom
mince after an all-day meeting.
Announcement that the national com
mittee had decided to proceed no fur
ther was contained In a telegram tent
to headquarter of the American Fed
oration of Labor in Washington, to the
heads of all international Unions inter
ested and to .the organizers and Held
men in all strike districts.
, Claim Denied Right.
"The Steel Corporation," the tele
gram said, "with the active assistance
of thep ress, the courts, the Federal
troops, BUte police and many public
officials, have denied steel worken their
rights of free speech, free assemblage
and the right to organize and by this
arbitrary and ruthless misuse of power,
have brought about a condition which
hashas compelled the National commit
tee for organising iron and ateel work
ers to vote today that the aetiva strike
phase of the steel campaign is now at
an end. A vigorous campaign of edu
cation and reorganization will be im
mediately begun and will not cease
until industrial justice in the steel in
dustry has been achieved. All- steel
workers are now at liberty to return to
work, pending preparation for the next
- Tha - Ukigias -was signsd kr John
Fitzpatrick, chairman ; I). J. Davis, vice
president of the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers;
Kdward S, Evans. International Union
of Electrical Workers; Wm. Hannon,
International Union of Machinists, and
William Z. Foster, secretary of the com
mittee. Foster Resigns as Secretary.
The offices of tha eommittes here will
be maintained for about a month, while
the businesa.of the strike is being wound
up, and the tommissnry department will
continue to look after needy former
strikers and their families until the men
have obtained employment. Steel com
pany executivea said they were not sur
prised that the strike had been' railed
off, as the strikers have been drifitng
back to work for several months. Many
mills, it was added, had long ago been
able to operate full time with full
forces. . .
William Z. Foster later announced his
resignation as secretary-treasurer of the
strike committee and said he would be
succeeded by J. G. Brown, of Everett,
Wash, former president of the Timber
Workers International Union, and one
of his chief assistants during the steel
strike.' Brown is to assume office .Feb
ruary 1,. ,
ATLANTIC FLEET GOES TO
SOUTHERN DRILL GROUNDS
Six Super-Dreadnaughts Blase
Sea-Trail Southward From
Virginia. Capea
Norfolk, Vs., Jan. 8. The Atlantic
fleet, which has been rendezvousing for
the last three days'" on the Southern
drill grounds off the Virginia Capes,
sailed this afternoon at 2 o clock for
Guantanamo, Cuba, for winter maneuv
ers and target practice. Six snpe'r
dreadnaughts headed by the flagship
Pennsylvania blazeu the sea trail south
ward, with four squadrqns of destroyers,
several submarines, supply ships, ten
ders and tugs, following in their wake.
The other super-Creadnanghts with the
fleet are: The Arizona. Nevada, Okla
homa, Utah and Delaware. The North
Dakota is expected to Join the 'armada
en route south. The South Carolina, un
dergoing repairs at the local Navy Yard,
will follow later. "
Rear Admiral fi. B. Wilson,' fleet
commander, in announcing the depar
ture of the .fleet,' gave out ths informa
tion that the pre-arranged schedule of
steaming trials and battle formation
drills at tea, provided for the arrival
f the fleet at tha Guantanamo naval
base next Tuesday. A stay of three
months in the tropics is ths schedule,
during which time a trip across the
Gulf to the Panama Canal has been
planned. One thousand recruits from
the naval base training station accom
panied the fleer-for their first sea ex
perience. '
WOMEN TO MAKE IDEALS '
, . COUNT POLITICALLY
Washington, Jan. 8. Mrs. Peter 01
aeon, sf Cloquet,&Iinn., associate mem
ber of the Democratic .National Com
mittee from that State, speaking to
night at -ths Jackson Day dinner here,
said that as the, home baa been blessed
"by "the Ideals o'f women, ths world is
now to feel their influence politically."
"It is safe to conjecture that the lib
eral parties of all nations will favor
with these newly enfranchised citizens,"
she said. . "Women do not scoff at
ideals: they believe in putting ideal
into action.
OF STEEL WORKERS
LODGE "FEARS" MESSAGE
PREVENTS RATIFICATION
Washington, Jan. - ft. Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, tha Be
publican leader, declared is a state
ment tonight that ha feared Pres
ident Wilson's Jackson day mes
." sage bad made impossible the hope
"that in the Senate we might have
coma together and ratified the treaty
protected by the principles set forth
in the fourteen reservations."
"The President has made his ,
position very plain," said the Sen
ator. "He rejects absolutely the
reservation adopted by s decisive
majority of tha Senate. He saya we
must . take the treaty without any
change which afters its meaning, or
leave it. He will permit interpre
tations, whatever that may' mean.
I- .expressing ita undoubted meaning,'
wiibb mere is nnruij m nam si ii
which has not been questioned and
given many meanings. This per
mission is valueless, He stands as
ha baa always stood, for the treaty
just as it is. ,
"The issue is clearly drawn, The...
reservations intended solely to pro
tect the United States in ita sover-aignty-
and . independence are dis
carded by tha President. The Pres
ident places himself squarely in
behalf of internationalism against
Americanism.
"I had hoped that in the Senate
we might have come together and
ratified the treaty, protected by the
principles set forth In tha fourteen
reservations. The President, I fear,
haa made this hops impossible. If
it is impossible, then we must bear
the delay inseparable from the Pres
ident's attitude and appeal to the
pcoplr, whiclrl, for one, shall most
cordially welcome."
OF PARTY PRAISED
Cummings Proposes Health of
President "Stricken in Ser
, vice To Humanity"
PALMER CONDEMNS MEN
WHO BLAST WORLD'S HOPE
If Republicans Want To Throw
Down Gauntlet For Finish
Tight, Democrats are Beady,
Says Hitchcock; ' Champ
Clark peaKi-oLt , Party!
Achievements vH---
Washington, Jan. S.-flignineant ut
terances by prominent Democrats at the
Jscksoa Day banquet follow: '
Homer 8. Cummings, chairman of the
Democratic National eommittes:
"Our cause is sacred and ths contest
is but the measuring of our own spirits.
For the present, we are enduring, with
what .patience we may, an interlude of
Republican incapacity. The American
people have paid, and are still paying,
a staggering penalty for the election of
a Republican House and Senate la NO'
vember, 1018. Since that time all the
processes of government have been im
paired, the work of reconstruction has
been delayed, the development and ex
tension or American business baa been
prevented, and the peace of the world
has been postponed.
In proposing the health of President
Wilson, 'stricken by his service to nu
manity," Mr. Cummings made brief
reference to the treaty of Versailles
and the League of Nations.
'I am glad," he said, '"that during
all this critical period the great historic
party to which ws belong, in all matters
relating to the permanent preservation
of ths pesce of. ths world, had Instinct
ivcly turned its face to the light. As I
reflect upon the period, one hundred
and forty-four years ago, when Thomas
Jefferson drafted ths immortal docu
ment that made America free, I am glad
also to think that in our own., time,
under ths providence of God, another
great Democrat touched as wss Jefferson
by the divins Are, has participated as
one of the master figures, in ths prepa
ration ox document destined to set
the whole world free.
World's Hopes Blasted. -
Attorney General Palmer: I,
"The great war is still a living fact.
Ths hops of ths world for peace has
been Masted by the jealousies -of men
who hold their political fortunes above
the world's need. Ths war will not be
over in fact, even if in name, until the
issues which it has raised, are ' passed
upon by the Great Court of appeals in
America and the judgment of ths people
is entered. , ", . .- .
. "The record which has led to ths issue
of the- war wss written, by tha Demo
cratic party. Upon that record ws ahall
stand. Ths part which- ths. Republican
leaders havs chosen to play has been
merely to criticise our methods, belittle
our achievements, investigate oar vic
tories and rob America and tha world
of their fruits. They laid at our dodr
America's alleged anpreparedneas. - It
may bs trus that in ths narrow mili
tary, sensa we were not ready. But ths
war was fought not by armies, but b
nations,
"When the call ' to arms rams the
young men went across the seaa while
behind them there were mobilized the
great supporting forces from eapital,
from labor, from ths soil. These were
ready because their country had pre
pared, while the Democratic party was
in power, by ths new system sf taxa
tion, the new system sf finance, ths
new conditions for lalmr and ths new
support to the farmer." -
Ready Far Flats right.
Senator Hitehcsck, of Nebraka,rad
ministration, leader In the .treaty fight
in the Senate: ?
"If ths Republican leaders want to
throng dons the gauntlet for a finish
fight en the League of Nations before
the American people the Democrats are
ready ts take It up.
If the test comes la this campaign
SPLENDID RECORD
(Contlnned sa Page Eleven.)
SECRETARY
e V
LEAGUE
Joscphus Daniels Praises Will
' iam Jennings Bryan at Jack
son Day Dinner
NAVY HEAD'S STATEMENT
CREATES MUCH INTEREST
Declaration . of Independence
and CoVenant of League of
Nation- Living Light of lib
erty and Peace, He Declare! ;
Koqnent-TribntejToWood.-row
Wilson In Address
(By'jThe Associted Press.)
Washington, Jan. 8. William Jen
nings Bryan was given credit by Secre
tary Daniels, speaking at the Jackson
Day banquet here tonight, for laying
the foundations of the League of ra
tione covenant through the arbitration
treaties negotiated by him aa Secre
tary of Bute.
In view of published reports that the
three times nominee of the Democrats
for the presidency again aspires to lesd
ths party in a campaign, Mr. Daniels
statement created sns of ths most in'
terssting moments of ths dinnsr. Ths
naval Secretary s address had proceed
ed without special incident with ap
plause for recital of Democratic
achievements and ripples of amusement
at tbs vigorous sallies at the opposi
tion, until he began to discuss tha war
and its results. .
-The declaration (of independence)
and the covenant (of ths League of
Nations) the Secretary said, "are the
two living light fountains of liberty
and peace. It is ths glory of ' the
Democratic- party that through Jeffer
son and Wilson ws have given. Jhese
safe charts for all time for ssfs navi
gation upon all seas.
Bryaa Paved the Wsy.
v "Just as surely as Jefferson's deelara-
tioa and Lincoln a emancipation glorify
American statesmanship, the covenant
will yet bring fees nations into such
accord that reason and not fores will
rule among nation as among individ
uals. A long step toward thin, ideal
was reached jalbs celebrated and
beneficent Bryan treaties, which tier
many, alons of European nations, re
fused sad forecasted ita action in 1914
in precipitating the war. Ths princi
ples and spirit of ths Bryan treaties
expanded and enlarged are embodied
in ths treaty of peace.1
Asserting that no man appreciative
of ths changing conditions believes the
-coming presidential election predestines
for any party,: Secretary Daniels told
ths banqueters that ths record of the
laat seven years entitles the Democratic
party to a renewed lease of power
"But the Democrats assembled here,",
hs continued, "must bear in-mind that
virtue is sometimes its only as well at
its own reward. A ahetl shocked world,
with unrest and the " spirit of change,
admonish ns that more will bs required
than a good reeoan of performance. Ths
people are looking not so much to what
has been done, as to how tha prob
lems of the future are to be solved."
Tribate ts Wllsoa.
Recalling the strenuous antagonism
encountered by Presidents Jefferson and
Jackson, the speaker continued:
In this hour the asms malevolence
of those who think themselves born
booted and apurred to ride on the
backs of others it aimed at tha world
leader in tbs Whits House. Those Re
publicans who think they inherited ths
right to exclusive and perpetual rule
at Washington like the admiral at "the
Washington navy yard, who, many years
ago, bequeathed the residence at th
navy yard to his descendants, may for-
five Wood row Wilson everything else,
(Ceatlaaed an Page" Eleven.)
HALF HUNDRED TAR HEELS
ATTEND JACKSON DINNER
Delighted With Selection of
San Francisco For Next
,. . Democratic Convention
The' News snd Observer Bureau,
.6(13 District National Bank Bldg.
By B. E. POWELL, r
Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. The half-
hundred Tar Heels hers tonight for the
Jackson Day dinner, which, tonight, it
binding together Democrats from North,
East, West and South in a militant
spirit unsurpassed ia the history ,ef
ths party, wars delighted with the se
lect 10 a of San Francisco as the plare
for ths next Democratic National Con
vention. Among those here from the Stats for
ths graad pow-wow tonight are ' men
who havs never attended a National
convention, but declare they are
"'Prises bound" new.. The data selected
by. the eommittes for ths convention it
Juns 28, nearly three weeks after tbs
Repubhcana hold their convention ia
Chicago. '
National Committeeman A. W. Mc
Lean, of Lumberton, has all along fa
vored San Francisco and the prediction
waa made in this correspondence weeks
ago that San Francisco, bidding for the
convention wil linearly a, quarter of a
million dollars totpene; on. -entertainment
of delegates, wssid be the ;win-
ner. Yesterday, though tbs Kansas
City delegation were putting up a gams
fight ts carry ths Democrats to the
Missouri town.
Oas thing that' argued against the
selection of Kansas City, although- it
wasn't- disrnssed in open session, wss
that ths Democrats didn't want to go to
tha home 8tsts of Senator Reed, espec
ially in view of the fact that thevr en
dorsed the" treaty of peace and ths
League of Nations without, nullifying
reservations. -
IIMII I MM-1
KUYAN KM
Villi 111 WILL
STARTING
LEAGUE COVENANT SHALL
I NEXT ELECTION TOPS
I
LEAGUE AS ISSUE
"The Clear and Single Way"
To Determine Will of Amer-
- ican People, He Says
LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS
GUARANTEE AGAINST WAR
United States Enjoyed Spirit
ual Leadership of World Un
til Senate railed To Ratify
Treaty, Wilson Declares In
Message To Jackson Day
Diners
Washington, Jan. 8. President Wil
son in his message to ths Jackson Osy
dinars hers tonight said, Ths elesr
and singls way" to determine ths will
of the American people on the League
of Nations was to make it aa issue at
tbs next sleetion.
The President's messaga said nothing
whatever about a third term for him
self aad neither did it say svea by
implication or intimation that hs would
not bs candidate as had been wjdely
forecast. Most ail of tbs President's
message was devoted to so expression
of his argument of why hs considered
it thr duty of theUnited .Btste teJoia
ia ths League of Nations covenant and
why he. considered ths war not really
won until it did. Another attempt to
crush tha new nations of Kurope would
be made, the President said, - if ths
United States held aloof.
No Objection to Interpretations.
Ths President again expressed his at
titude toward reservations, much hs
did at his conference wltji the Senate
Foreiim Brtt;swmtM--ta TVs
language; . - .--- - t -
. Ut ths Senat wlsnef 1 eay what ths
undoubted meaning of ths treaty is, I
shall havs no objection. There can be
no reasonable objection to interpreta
tions accompanying ths act of ratifi
cation itself. But when ths treaty is
acted Upon I must know whether it
means thst we -have ratified or rejected
it. We cannot rewrite this treaty. We
must take it without ehangea which alter
ita meaning or leave it and then, after
the rest of the world has signed it, we
must face the unthinkable task of mak
ing snother and separate kind of treaty
with Germany."
The President's Message.
The full text of the President's mes
sage. follows: . f - - -
"It is with keenest regret that I find
that I am to bs deprived of ths pleasure
and privilege of joining you and the
other loyal Democrats who are to as-
sembls tonight to celebrate Jackson
Day and renew their vows of fidelity '
to the great principles of our party,
tns principles which must now fulfill the
hopes not only of our own people but
or ins world.
America Cannot Withdraw.
"""The United States enioved tha snlrit
ual leadership of the world until the
Senate of the United States failed to
ratify ths treaty by which the bellisrer.
ent nations sought to effect the-settle
ments .forNi which they had roue-lit
throughout the war. It is inconceivable
that at this supreme crisis and final
turning point ia the international rela
tions of the whole world, when the re
sults of the great war are by no menns
determined and are still questionable
and dependent' i pon events which no
inn. can foresee or count npon, the
United States should withdraw from the
eoneert of progressive -end enlightened
nations by which Germany was defeated
and all similar governments (if the
world be so unhappy as to contain anv)
warned of the certain consequences of
any attempt' of a-tike iniquity, and yet
that is the effect of the course the
Senate of the United States has taken
with regard to the Treaty of Versailles.
(jermanv is beaten, but we-are still at
war with her, and the old stage is reset
for a repetition of the old plot. .It, is
now ready for the resumption of the
old offensive and defensive alliances
which made settled peace impossible. It
is now open again to every sort of in
trigue. The old spies are free to resnme
their former abominable activities. They
are again at liberty to make it im
possible for. governments to be sure
wnat mischief is being worked among
their .own people, what internal dis
orders ire being fomented. Without
ths covenant of the League sf Nations,
there may be as many secret treaties
as ever, to destroy ths eonfiedeaes) sf
governments in each other and their
validity eaanot bs questioned. Nona of
the objects ws profess to be fighting for
ha slice n secured, or fan bs made certain
of without this Nation's ratification of
ths treaty and ita entry into ths cove
nant. This Nation entered ths' gresl
war to vindicate its ova rights and to
protect and preserve free government!
it went into the war to see it through
to th end, snd the snd has not yet
come. It went into the war to make aa
end of militarism, to furnish guarantees
-td' weak nations, and to make a just
and lasting peace. It entered it with
noble enthusiasm. Five of the leadipg
belligerents have accepted . the treaty
and formal ratifications will soon be
exchanged. The question is whether this
country . will enter and enter whole
heartedly. If it does not do so ths
United gtstes ad jUermany will play
a Ions hand "in ths world. The msin-
tenanee of the peaee of ths world and
the effective execution of ths treaty de-
PRESIDEN
(Continued sa Pais Twelve.)
San Francisco the Place and June 28
,The Time for Democratic Convention
Washington Jan. 8. San Francisco is the place and
MbiidayrJune 28 at noon, r.Ts the time for the l)em6cratic
National Convention. v
The selections wer3 made here today by the Democratic
National Committee at. its quadrennial meeting. The- com
mittee at the same time unanimously adopted resolutions
endorsing1 the treaty f Versail lea and denouncing th 'arro
gant' Republican leadership
the ''contempt-of the - world"- by throttling the treaty - for
seven months. -'"
After the committee went into executive session to select
the convention city, A. F. Mullen, National committeeman
from Nebraska, submitted a resolution proposing that the
rule requiring a two-thirds vote of the convention for the
nomination of a Presidential candidate be abolished, but it
was tabled after some discussion.
Kansas City and Chicago, were active candidates as the
convention cities, but after the former had received seven
teen votes and the latter seven, against 27 for San Francisco,
Robert S. Hudspeth, National committeeman from New Jer
sey, changed the vote of his State from Kansas City to San
Francisco and a stampede in favor of the Pacific coast city
resulted, the vote finally being made unanimous.
BRYAN S 1
LEAGUE
Former Secretary of - State
Says Democrats Cannot Go
Before Country On Issue
URGES ACCEPTANCE OF
SOME COMPROMISES NOW
, . - " -., - j
Pays Tribute To Great Work
TiTof iPVs i sideilWilson, Who
4 FoughtlSingla Handed"
Against The Selfish Interests
of The World; To Go Before
People Means Long Delay
Washington, Jan. S. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Willism J. Bryan split
open'? with" President Wilson at the
Jsekson dinner here tonight on the
question of whether the Democratic
party should make the League of
Nations an issue at the next election.
Ths former Secretary of State, three
times a candidate for ths presidency
and power in his party, declared the
Democrats could not go before the coun
try on the issue and that they must
aeeept such compromises as may be
possible.
President Wilson, in his message' to
the diners, had declared that "the clear
and aingle way out" was to submit the
issue.
Conceding the right' of the Republi
can majority to dictate the Senate's
course, Mr. Bryan declared:
Pisa Haa Been Rejected.
"Our plan haa been, rejected and we
must face ths situation as "it is. Wc
must either secure compromises aa may
be possible or present tho issue to the
country.' The latter coarse would mean
a delay of at least fourteen months and
then success only in case of our securing
a two-thirds majority of the Senate. . J
"Wi cannot afford, either as citixens,
or as members of the party, to share
with the Republican party responsibility
for further delay; we cannot go before
th "Country on the issue that such an
appeal would present. . Majority
of Congress can declare war. Win 1 1 we
make it mors difficult to conclude
treaty than to enter a warf"
Bryan Presents Program.
"7 Beviewing the past and aurveying
program for ths future, Mr. Bryaa ssid
he ventured to suggest three new
Droooaitions." They were:
A national system of roads, extending
in every Btnte, to be known as i
national peace way," both as a utlli
to rinn project for binding the states to
gether in commerce and intercourse and
a a memorial to the soldier dead.
A national bulletin, not a newspaper,
Mr. Bryan declared to present Na
tional Issues under bi-partisan control.
. Tbs initiative and referendum which
he declared the Democratic party might
well adnbt as its next great platform.
Mr. Bryan's speech in part follows:
'"A Democratic- President 'was1 the
spokesman of the United States ia hold
iug out to a war-worn world she- hope
of universal peace, and be brought back
from Paris tha covenant of a League
of Nations that providct means for set
tling international disputes without - a
resort to force. He did the Best ' he
could, snd succeeded better than ws had
any right to expect, when w remember
that he fought single-handed against
the selfish' interests of tbs world. .
Repabllcaas Fiddled. ,
"Tha Bepublieaa party in control of
ths Senate, instead of ratifying at once
or promptly proposing ehangea that it
deemed necessary, bat Addled while civ
ilisation hat been threatened with con
flagration, It could havs adopted its
reservations as Well are months ago as
later, but it permitted endless debate
while suffering humanity waited.
The Democratic Senator stood with
ths President for, ratification -without
reservation, and ijatood with them, be
lieving thst it was better ts secure
within the. league, after it was estab
lished, any accessary changes, than to
WILSON ON
(Cenllaaed Psga, Five.)
BE HADE CAMPAIGN ISSUE
OFF JACKSON DAY DINNER
of the Senate as travinsr earned
OF
William G. McAdoo In Tele
gram Condemns Republican
Congress For Failure
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
. THIS YEAR INEVITABLE
Via Months of 0. 0. P. Lead
ership Discloses Con
- a tractive Leadership, ' De
Glares Former Secretary In
Message To Jackson Day
Banquet'
Washington, Jan. 8. In a telegra
from Wichita Falls, Texas, read tonight
at tha Jackson Day banquet, William
G. McAdoo assailed the work of ''the
Republican Congress as a "sorry record
of dismnl failure," and declared the
success of democracy in the presidentia
election this year was inevitable
leadership wss wise, vision nadistorted
ana sympathy with the masses pre
served.
Startling Incapacity.
"Republican leadership has demon
strated startling incapacity to deal wit
the great problems confronting America
and the world," Mr. McAdoo's message
read. Mas months of Bepublieaa
leadership discloses no constructive ha
manitsrian or statesmanlike act.
"Peace defeated, war prolonged and
hundreds of thousands of needless
deaths inflicted upon helpless children
women and men in Europe a ghastly
toll to exact for partisan political ends.
r,"The railroad problem bungled and
no promise of real or permanent solu
tion through bills bow in conference
The public interest- is not protected
while' 'increased ratesinefficient trans
portation and a general disappointment
will result.
.."War taxes have not been reduced as
they should havs been if Bepublieaa
leadership 'bad proven equal to the
task.
"The. great problema sf international
finance have not been grasped. I
consequence serious peril to our foreign
trade and to our domestic prosperity
is rapidly approaching. -
The important questions of social
justicewhich cry aloud for attention
find no spokesman or champion among
I lie jieputiiiran leaders.
Mast Keen In Tight.
"We must keep up Jh fight for the
prompt restoration of peace throughout
ths world. Ws must stand for ths re-
lief of human suffering everywhere, in
the lands of our allies, aa well aa ia
the lands of our late eaemies. Demo
cratic leadership must seek to bring
shout reduction or war taxes, effective
treatment ef pressing r international I
aanriat 'tad economic questions sym
pathetic and vigorous consideration .of
the problema of social justice, construe
tive effort to improve relations betweea
labor and eapitaL. -
-'We must strive earnestly to promote
the welfare of oar soldiers and sailors
whose valor and patriotism saved ths
nation and ws must not stop until equal
civil and political rights are secured for
American women in every state.
'- Mast Protect rrrdasn ' . A
"Democracy mint permit infringe
ment of ths Constitutional fight of free
dom of speech and freedom of ths press
in-line or peace. When these disam
pear, democratic institutions die. "Ad-.
voeaey of doctrines or reforms through
the bullet instead sf the ballot is not
freedom of speech it ia crime. '' Such
crime mustcbe prosecuted remorseless
ly, nnd every criminal punished. Supre
macy -of law and1 order must ns.iaflex-sl
ililr maintained. Advocacy of doetriaes
or reforms through the .-ballot is Consti
tutional freedom t speech and must be
jealously preserved.
"Through, the lawful exercise of the-
ballot ,tbe majority, under our-demo
cratic form of government, has ade
quate power and opportunity for peace
ful corrective methods. Tha ballot must
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Announcement of Difference. In
'Views Comes As Climax of
i rtu-kf-4ntopnef--
way vi mivtvoi
SAN FRANCISCO TO HAVE -CONVENTION
NEXT JUNE
"Clear and Single Way Out" To
- submit question To voters,
Wilson Declares; Party Must
"Secure Such Compromise
As May Be Possible," Says
Mr. Bryan In His Address
Washington, Jan. 8 (By
The Associated Press.) A
split between President Wil
son ' and William Jennings
Bryan over -whether the
League of Nations should - be
made an issue at the coming
election topped off the Jack-
sun uay ueuu:ra.i.iuiia u uiv
Democratic party chiefs. .
It came at the Jackson Din
ner as the climat of a day in
which San Francisco had been
chosen as the meeting place of
the Democratic National Con
vention on June 28, and it
charged the air with political
electricity. '
President Wilson, In his mes
sage read Co the diners, as
sembled in two separate halls,
declared that thrclear ind
single way out" was to submit
the question to the voters aa "a
great and solemn referendum'.
Mr. Bryan, showing all the
old time vigor with which he
led the fight for the President's
nomination at Baltimore in
1912r declared that the Demo
cratic party could not go be
fore the country on the issue,
because it involved a delay of
fourteen months, and meant
success only if the Democrats
captured a two-thirds majority
of the Senate.
The party, Mr. Bryan de
clared, must "secure such com
promises as may be possible."
Crystallses Aa I save.
The disagreement between ths Pres
ident and his former Secretary of State,
the nrst in public view sines Mr. Bryan
left the Cabinet because . hs did not
agree with ths President's course ia the
diplomatic negotiations with Germany,
was thus disclosed as a fact, although it
has been mmomd mnd retinrtjMl im 4h "
underground currents of national poli
tics, ia the opinion of the political
leaders if erystaliaed an issue.
' President Wilwin im him mmmsm.
nothing whatever about a 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. ' Mr. Bryan, in hia
prepared address, aaid nothing bearing
on any ambition toward a fourth presi
dential nomination, but before reading
his aiapaseript bs said hs had nothing
to ask, aad that, therefore, ths diners
would not listen to him with ths thought
that they were listening to a candidate.
There were a dozen or more - other ,
speakers at ths dinners and their views
on whether the league should be made
a campaign issue were either-divided
favor f "ths . President a stand sr
Mr. Bryan's sr else they did not touch ,
on the subject at alt.
. Cist r Speeches.
The gist ef their speeches micbt
uj uv Kpiiuinifvu in mis xasDioa,: .
Senator Pomercne: Ratify ths treaty '
with or without reservations.' i
Former Secretary McAdoo: An sr-
raigameut of ,K 'publican' administration,
but no expression about ths league. .
nee ret a ry Daaiels: Mr. Bryan is en
titled te credit for the League of Na
tions treaty because hia penes invent!-''
gstion conventions were the ground-
work for it.' '
Senator Hitchcock: Honorable com
promise en the league question: or a
finish fight.
y Senator Owen: Immediate ratification '
and proceed with reconstruction, lee-is- .
btion. . v
Chairman Cummins: -"Inevitable 1m-
nnlsM mrm Mrrvltiv tmm ' Ttmviti
party "each day nearer and nearer to
victory." - : -,v .-'- .. . ,-
Govemor'CornweH. of West Virginia :
American Institutions are in danger ef ;
being overthrown by'xhe unchecked
growth sf a "labor outoeraey." .
Viee-Cbairmaa Kremer: Ws accept
ths gauge sf cattle. ---J
Governor Cox. tf Ohios The Old
Guard ia ia control of tbs party (Be
publieaa) which it well nigh wrecked
by ita greed. . , ;- - ; ;
Attorney Geaeral Palmer: The war
will not ha over in fact until the iasuee
hieh it haa raised are passed nnom
by ths great court ef'eppeals ia Amer-.
fcs sad the judgmeut of ths people is
entered. . - - I
Former -Ambassador Gerard: - Th.il
country demands that both Sides get 1
WILSON AND BRYA
FEATURE BANQUET
(Continued Oa Tfr Tw.) .