Show I Ii I Not to Be Sidetracked I OUT for the determination of President L r BUT Wilson and the Democrats in congress the whole program of peace might have been leen disposed sed of before the forthcoming mi g gI I election It was President Wilson and his I w who o projected the league of nations natt na na- na- na tt ns n into the campaign because ause it if was was vas they who insisted it was the paramount para para- At mount it issue demanding the v vote te of the people They fought for months against reservations reserva reserva- tons which were but the repetition of the principles laid down in the constitution of the he United States They were unyielding and nd uncompromising and determined to carry the iss issue e to the people or give them the Wilson covenant without change In view of these facts fads it itis is amusing to find certain leaders of of the Democratic ic party frying ying to discount the league issue V From the outset many Democrats have b been en as much oppose opposed i to the Wilson Vilson leagues league s were the most ardent Republicans The fueling feling is still abroad in the ranks of the party as as' is evidenced by letters' letters which are arenow rw now being received by the Democratic presidential nominee But the damage seems t ta have been done since President Wilson Vilson made his stand in the San Francisco conventi conven- conven ti n on the sa same e basis that he made it in Paris He placed the league of nations above all 1111 else eIse and succeeded In saddling his program onto the Democratic platform I J. J Governor Cox who was later made rhade then the I n nominee minee we know was not in sympathy with kith this program having certain American i reservation ideas of his own No one knows J just st how he will interpret the platform in inis is respect but certain it is th that t both the Wilson Vilson and the Cox ideas cannot prevail ne ne or the other must be be abandoned in political battle now shaping f a No doubt some Democratic leaders belve be- be lve it would be better for the party if this i ibue u ue could be pushed into the background with ith this idea in mind it is easy to under- under inti nd why the importance of the league i. i issue is ow now being discounted in Democratic Demo Demo- cratic circles But this is not to be easily accomplished f c The Republicans are united on sound o reservations which will protect the future of America In addition President President dent Wilson has insisted from the outset that l fiS is was was- wasand s and is the most important issue nt net t on only y before America but before the theL L 1 wor d. d It will be interesting to watch deI de d i I t as the Democrats undertake to r nl te a definite sh stand d on ont on t th the league league eague of X n l I I. I 1 i j i t |