Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — INDIANA BACKS WILSON [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BACKS WILSON

VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL MAKES KEYNOTE SPEECH. Equal Rights and Exact Justice for All, Jail for the Profiteers, His Platform. * __ Indianapolis, May 21. —“Equal and exact justice to all men” as a remedy for unrest was prescribed by Vice President Marshall in his keynote address before the state Democratic convention. He also urged jail sentences for profiteers and increased production to relieve the high cost of Hying. A boom started for Marshall for the presidential nomination at San Francisco was nipped in the bud by the vice president. He said he did not seek the presidential nomination. “I hold that the Democratic doctrine of equal and exact justice to all men and of special privileges to none will meet all the angry and irreconciled views of today,” said Mr. Marshall. The vice president also expressed the hope that President Wilson and the senate would reconcile their differences over the peace treaty and that it would be ratified; but said no man should be read out of the Democratic party because of his opinion on the League of Nations. “This was, as I understand it,” the vice president said, “an American war. The peace should be an American peace. The war could not have been fought successfully as either a Democratic or Republican war. The peace cannot bring that real peace which the American people want if it is made either as a Democratic or a Republican peace. “I still hope that the president and the senate will reach ait accord upon such terms as will enable the treaty to be ratified and a de jure peace be made with the government of - Germany, but as I grant to no man the right to read me out of the Democratic party not to say to me that I cannot stand upon its platform, advocate the election of its candidates and vote for them, I. myself, will not say to any man that his views upon the League of Nations inevitably place him without the Democratic fold. A lifelong advocate of a resort to courts and not to force, I gave my unqualified Indorsement to the altruistic views of the in the defense of which views he has broken his body.” Resolutions were adopted indorsing the administration of President Wilson, declaring he “fulfilled the pledges of the platform on which he was elected.”