OCR Text |
Show Was Former Chairman of; Democratic National Com- j mittee; Wilson Maneger. j i ATTACKS ATTITUDE j OF THE PRESIDENT j Denounces League of Nations! and Acts of Wilson in Negotiating Ne-gotiating Treaty. ! CHICAGO. June 21. William F. McUombs, chairman of tho Democratic Demo-cratic national committee from 1 Olio Ol-io 1016 and manager oC President , Wilson's 131 U campaign, in a statement state-ment made tonight botore leaving for I San Francisco, attacked what he char actorlzcd as the president's "aulo-; "aulo-; crane" assumption of authority. President Wilson, he Raid, has no i more riant to call himself leader of ' the Democratic party, "a conception heretofore never entertained by any American," tnan has "Chief Justice . hue, former Speaker Chump Clnrk ji- lea President Marshall. Mr. McCombs announced arrange- mcntB had been niaciu to obtain ivY , I him a neat in the Now York dolega- tlon, if ho decides to uiko the floor at San Francisco. The Now York dole-gallon, dole-gallon, he predicted, will throw Its support to Governor Cox of Ohio, after casting- a complimentary vote for Governor Gov-ernor Smith. Ho added that ho believed be-lieved a westerner, possibly from the Pacific coast, will be nominated lor vlco president McCombs Makes Statement. His Ktatoment said: "They tell me America has pledged Its word to Europe, and that this word must be redeemed in the process of a national campaign. In my boliof, America has pedged Itself to nothing.! One Individual, speaking as such, per-! mined Europe to believe that he spoke for America. Bui he had no authority to speak for a nation, for In the last anaiy.sis ho was nothing more than a self-appointed emissary. Nevertheless Neverthe-less America, is askeu to validate his signature affixed aDroad, a signature which apparently was accepted in good laith by all tne European peoples as absolute. "The president negotiated a troaty, but the senate may or' may not concur by a two-thirds majority. In thi3 particular par-ticular instance tnere haa "been no concurrence. Against League of Nations. "Other nations may want a league of nations, and it may be that we do. L!ut we do not want to commit our-I our-I selves to the league of nations a5 it waa brought back from Paris. It is an1 international issue, but it is a highly, debatable question as to what import-j ance it should have in a national cain-i paign. Ultimately it is a question for, the president and the senate to suttle.''! The statement declares for recon-l structlon at home, rehabilitation of j railway and Internal waterway trans-1 portatlon and for solution of the high rrQf ol" Ifvlnp" "wVinllv ronrt frnm 'nu international affiliations." f Scores the President. It contin'ues: "When the war broke out in 1914 naturally America was more or less dazed, and was willing to accept any kind of leadership which might draw1 it through a possible difficulty. Ini this moment the chief executive again! repeated he was tne leader of his par-1 ty. a conception hereloiore never en-J tertalned by any American. As well! might tho chief justice ot the United btaces. Mi White, a Democrat, havej made tho same proclamation. So might, tlte speaker of tno nouse of represent-J atlves, Champ Clark. So might the ; vice president, Mr. Marshall, oonstitu-l tionai president of the senate. But' I America was concerned witn great 13-1 ' sties and paid no attention to what ap- ; ! peared to bo a detail, ; "It was In such manner that for the' first time in tho history of this coun- try autocracy came into being. It was' an autocracy which was questioned. I but which was accepted by virtue of' J necessity. But this unhappy hour has, ? passed, and at San Francisco we again. '? return to true Democracy regardless of place holders and pot nunters. We ' have finished with tne fine phrase. I i This country Is determined to act in; accordance with its unfailing sense of. justice. The indignities of autocracy ' will never again bo nccepted by this, ; nation. This is fundamental, and no confusion will be brought about by diplomatic or financial machinations." |