Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1920 — FRISCO PICKED BY DEMOCRATS [ARTICLE]

FRISCO PICKED BY DEMOCRATS

Liberal Oiler of the Metropolis ot Pacific Coast Wins Convention. LEADERS RAP TREATY DELAY National Committee Praises Stand ot Wilson and lk*clares Republican Leadership in Senate Has “Contempt of the World.” Washington, Jan. 9.—The Democratic national committee awarded the party’s 19*20 national convention, at which a candidate for president will be chosen, to San Francisco. After 27 votes had been cast, Kansas City and Chicago withdrew and the vote for San Francisco was unanimous. Monday, June *2B, was fixed as the convention date. Isadore B. Dockweller of California, nominating San Francisco, made n proffer of a guaranteed sum of $125,000 for expenses, the free use of the municipal auditorium, seating from 15,000 to 18,000, and of additional funds for entertainment purposes, t Committee Indorses Treaty. Resolutions indorsing the treaty ot Versailles and denouncing as unpatriotic the attitude of senators who would defeat it directly or by nullifying reservations were unanimously adopted by the national Democratic committee. The “arrogant". Republican leadership of the senate was denounced aa having earned the “contempt of the world” by throttling the treaty for seven months, mid the senate was called upon to “quit playing politics" with the question of ratification. Reviewing the legislative record of the two Wilson administrations and the manner in which the war was won, resolutions also expressed gratification that the president was regaining health after a breakdown “due largely to his efforts for world peace.” Concerning the peace treaty the resolutions said: "We affirm our approval of the treaty of Versailles, and we condemn as unwise and unpatriotic the attitude of those senators who would defeat Its ratification, either directly or by overwhelming It with reservations that are Intended to and will have Yhe effect of nullifying It. “The failure of the senate Reubllcan leaders to offer or to permit consideration of Interpretative resolutions that would preserve the general purpose of the treaty and so to permit its ratification condemns them to the criticism of the nation and to the contempt of the world.” Tells of Depression In 1913. The resolutions said that when the Democrats came into power in 1918 they found “the nation In a condition of comparative industrial and commercial depression" and with “the hanking system in the hands of a few men at whose will panics periodically occurred." It was added that "these and other-Alls had existed for 16 years under Republican rule without any relief.” “To remedy this condition,” the resolutions continued, “the Democratic administration entered immediately’ upop a vigorous constructive program,” adding that establishment of the federal banking system "entitles the party to the everlasting gratitude of the country, while the farm loan banking system gave to our agricultural interests the relief long demanded by them.” The resolutions then referred to enactment of the law giving “the people the right to elect their United States senators by popular vote” and said the party had “enfranchised the women an<J for the first time gave labor the fair showing to which it was entitled.” Referring to the avowed objects of the country’s participation in the war, the resolutions continued: “A treaty to this end was negotiated, and rar seven months it has been throttled by the misused Republican leadership of the senate, that is so arrogant that it even refuses to let the senators of its own party who desire to have the treaty ratified with certain reservations that seem reasonable to them to vote accordingly, and thus to make at least a start toward worldwide peace.” As a result, the resolutions said, “conditions are unsettled, a definite proclamation of the end of the war is delayed.” It declares that had the treaty been ratified “with reasonable promptness the world *would now be engaged in the fruitful work of reconstruction.” Wants Senate to Quit Policy. “We join,” said the resolutions, “the demand of the pulpits of the country and of its agricultural Interests, of

labor and of the great business, industrial and commercial organizations of America that the senate quit playing politics with this sacred question and give to the world the word that America Is ready to at least make a trial for universal peace.”