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Show PRESIDENT WILSON ADVISES DEMOCRATS TO TURN DEAF EAR TO LODGE AND FOLLOWERS WASHINGTON, I). CjMoy 0. Ch 11 to tho democratic party to go into the campaign standing four-square in fnvor of the treaty of Versailles nnd ngninst tho senate reservations wns issued tonight by President Wilson in n tele ff.nm to Oregon democratic lenders made public nt the White House. Declaring Declar-ing that tho party had "the honor of the nation" In its hands, the president snid tlint tho Lodge reservations were "utterly inconsistent" with that honor, ns well ns destructive of tho role of world leadership which tho United States must nssume. Tho only true Americanism, tho president snid, was "that which puts Amcricn nt the front of frco nations nnd redeems tho great promises prom-ises which wo made to tho world." It would be ft violation of such promises, he said, to nttach reservations to tho treaty which "whlttlo it down or weaken It ns the republican lenders of the sennle hac proposed to do." President Wilson today received this telegram: t'OllTLAND. Ore . May 6. J8J0 l'rlmnrj election Ma Slst 1'leiuo wire whether )ou consider It Important to nominate candidates pledged to ratify eraalHes treat) without IjOdge reservations a K. ltamaker. Chairman Multnomah County Democratic Central Committee IMIKSIDKNT WILSON ASHWKItH OHKtiONIA.V. WIIITB ItofflK . WAHIttNaTON. I) C May lion O K llamnker, Chairman Multnomah County Democratic Central Committee. .Vortlnml. tOre.i I think It Imperative that the party should nt once proclaim Itself the uncompromising- chnmplnn of the nntlon's honor nnd the advocate of ever) thin that the United mates can do In the service of humault), that It should, therefore, endorse and support tho Versailles treat) and condemn the Ixidice reservations as utterly Inconsistent with the. national honor nnd destructive of tho world leadership which It had established nnd which nil tho free peoples of the world. Including tho ureal powers themselves, had shown themselves ready lo welcome It Is time that the part) should proud!) avow that It means to try. without flinching or turning nl nnv time nwnv from tho path for reasons of expedlcnc). to apply moral nnd Christian principles to the problems of the world It Is trylnu to accomplish amlal. political nnd International reforms nmt Is not daunted ly nny of the difficulties It has to contend with Let us prove to our late nssoclale In the war that at an rate tho irreat nvajorll) ariv of tho nation the imrt) whhh express iho true hopes and purposes of the copto of the coiimid Intends to keep faith with them In pence ns well as In war They nave their treasure, their heel blood nml even thing that the valued In order, not merely to best (lermanv. but to effel n settlement settle-ment and Prlng about arrangement or peore which the) havo now tried lo formulate In the treat) of Versailles. The) are entitled to our support In this ixtttlemenl ami In the arrangement for which the) have striven The lanue I of nation Is the hope of the world A n Iwsls ror the arrhtsllco, I w vs author Isotl b) all the Rresl flt-hllm nation lo sa) lo the enetm that It wit our nlijert In proHtlng peace to establish a Rpiieral association of nation under specific covenant fur tho purpos of affording mutiMl KUarantee of political Independents Inde-pendents and territorial IntcKrlty to great and small state alike, and tho covenant of the lea true or nations Is the deliberate cmlodlment of that pur-piwc pur-piwc in the treaty of peaie The chief motive vvhlrh led us to enter the war will bo defeated utiles that covenant Is ratified and aited upon with vlioir We cannot In honor whittle ll down or weaken It a the republican teajler of the senate have pro-IMHied pro-IMHied to do If we are lo exercise tho kind of leadership to which the founder found-er of Iho republic looked forward and which the) dopoiidel upon their sue. ccwHir t establish, wn must do this thing with couruKe and unalternblo determination. The) expect the I'lilted Ktnles to bo nlway the leader In the defense of liberty and ordered peate throuRhout tho world and wo are unworthy un-worthy lo caH ourstlvp their successor utiles we fulfill tho Krcit purpiwo the) entertained hnd provlalmel The into Amerleoulsm, the mil) true Americanism, I that u libit put America at the front of free nations and redeems tho ureal promise which wo made the world when we entered the war which wa foimlit. not for the advantage of nny slnaio nation or KTOiip of nations, but for the salvation of nil. It Is In this way wn shall redeem the smrcd blood Hint wa shed nnd make America Iho force she should be in tho counsels of mankind, Hlie cannot afford In sink In'o the pin thnLnntluaj) have Usually (incupleil and heaume merely onu of those Vho schlhtlilo oimToiKc about for selfish advantage The democratic part) linn now n Krent opportunity to which It must measure up The honor of the nation Is In It hands, U'tiuDltOW WII.HON MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR MAKES REPLY. Senator llcnrv Cnlsit Ixlge of Massathusctts, author of the "Lodge reservations" to (lie peace treat.v in the senate, had this to say regarding tliti president's statement: "The president'. statement has just been rend lo me over the telephone. I ennnot undertake to discuss it in detail, hut olitienlry speaking, I nm vcrv glad that he has taken the xitlnu he has. It fully justl-lit-t nil tho opMHiitiou of tho repuhllonn pttrtj and of those who joined with the republicans in the sennle." DEMOCRATS GENERALLY WILL APPROVE. Senator Hitchcock, ranking minority member of the foreign affairs committee com-mittee nml former dumocrnlitt louder of the senate, discussing the president's telegram, sold: "Tliu president's recommendation will meet with the approval ap-proval ofdemocrnts generally, and I think that the national convention nt Sun Francisco will adopt thatlmoof procedure. It will foice the icpublicHiis to accept tho issue nnd opMiso tho president's ositiou." |