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Show Camouflaging Will Not Obscure Ob-scure Real Issues or Deceive the People. HOPES DEMOCRATS , SAY WHAT THEY MEAN Chicago Platform Vague and Ambiguous; Hopes Demo-j Demo-j crats Will Define Issues. NEW YORK. June 17. President I Wilson, in a special interview given to the' Now York World, to be pub-, linhed tomorrow morning, said he was "extremely confldont that tho Democratic Demo-cratic convention -at San. Francisco will welcome the acceptance by thej Republican parly of my invitation toj make tho io.igue of nations the issue i in this campaign. " "I am even more confident," thci president said, "that such referendum' will conllrm my tuith that tho American Amer-ican people desire it abovo anything else that a political party now may provide, and that they will .condemn the Republican policy of denying them tho consummation of their hopes. No one will recommend, rcrerondum on that issue more than I. "I suppose I should teol flattered," he said, "over being made the Issue of the presidential campaign by the Republican Re-publican party. But oven the effort ! of the platform makers at Chicago to ' conler the distinction of being not only a burning, but a living issue, by I cainouilaging and obscuring tho real I issues will not deceive tho people: Tho Supremo Issue. I "The processes by which tho Chicago Chi-cago platform was accomplished seemed to me to havo boon essentially and scientifically Prussian in insplra-' insplra-' tion and method, lnstoad of quoting I Washington and Lincoln, tho Repub-I Repub-I lican platform should have quoted , Bismarck and Bernhardt, bceauso the Republican attitude regarding tho supreme su-preme iusue tnat cannot be abandoned or disregarded strongly suggests the arbitrary influences tnat dictated the doctrines of those two eminent persons. per-sons. "Every charge directed against me and my administration Is obviously designed to becloud and nogativo the paramount issue confronting tho I American people, to befog their sense of responsibility and make violation of the obligations they have assumed j to be ol small consequence. I sincerely sin-cerely believe that the attempt of the Republican party to win the sanction of the American people for its attempted at-tempted evasion or these obligations! will be decisively rebuked. With one tnmg i am rully satisfied that is that tho Republican pai ty in its platform has. joined nie in the suggestion 1 made in my letter to the guests at the Jackson duy dinner in Washington in January Inst. In that letter I expressed ex-pressed the hope that a sincere attempt at-tempt would he mado to determine tho1 attitude of tho American people on the league of nations by the resort to the genuinely democratic process of tho referendum. -, c, I "Of course, 1 have 710 way' of anticipating an-ticipating tho probable trend of senfi- mont that will be expressed in the Democratic national convention at San Francisco, or forecasting the ultimate j conclusions of that body. But 1 have every confidence that the delegates who will sit in that convention will I repeat the challenge I issued to the I Republican party and express their 1 readiness to permit tnc people to de-! de-! cule between tiie vague anu ambiguous ambigu-ous declaration by the rcepuulicana 1 and a positive anu deilnite expression ! of opinion uy the Democratic party. Whatever else tr.e Democratic party 1 may do, I hope that its convention at 1 San Francisco will say just what It ! means In every issue, and that it will j not resort either to ambiguity or eva-! eva-! sions in doing so." j ihis thing uhe league of nations) lies too deep to permit of any political ; skulduggery, any attempt to sidestep j or ovade moral and humanitarian ro-1 ro-1 sponsibillty much too solemn to treat so lightly or ignore. Lodge and Johnson. ; "The thiniy veiled rejection of the ; principle of the league of nations by the Chicago convention will not- fool any one. The attitude of Senator ; Lodge and that of Senator Johnson : difter only In degree. Both arc really ( opposed to it in any form. One of , im-se gentlemen is disingenuous and , evasive and tho other candidly hos-! hos-! tile." |