POLICY OF NEGATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 5

POLICY OF NEGATION.

REPUBLICANS ANO ftilE LEAGUE

MR WILSON'S CHANGES. By Eleotrio NEW YORK, June 17

The New York World's Washington correspondent interviewed President Wilson, who said: —'.'The .'gentlemen selected by tho Republicans for President and vie* - President harmonise admirably with the pluti'oiin processes by which the Republican platform is evolved and which are isscntially Prussian. Tho.Republicans shonn haio quoted,' Bismarck and. Beinhardi instead of Washington and'l'Lb'jkolu. Even charge directed against my administration was obviously designed to becloud the paramount 'ssues confronti:i<r the people of tin United States, and ro make the violation of the obligations assumed by America of small coiibequence. I have no way of anticipating the probable trend of sentim nt at the coming Democratic' Convention, or of forecasting the ultimate conclusions of that body, but I am confident that the delegate's will express their readiness to permit the people to decide between the vague and ambiguous declarations of the Republicans and the positive and definite expressions of the Democrats. The League ol Nations lie* too deep to permit political trickery to evade our moral and humanitarian responsibilities. The Republican Convention's thinly veiled rejection of the principle of the League of Nations will not 100 l anyone. I defy the Republican Party /'to prove that the power vgiyprt, to the Government during the war-was ever unjustly used against tho peoplet'or-that* anyone was ever unjustly punished- for. Expressing en opinion. 1 do not believe my course calls for an apology ot any kifkl.' "Tho Republican, riot ' the' Democratic Party, was responsible for any bad effects which resulted from the failure of the Senate to ratify the Treaty and the League. The Republican policy of negation has been continued for the sole purpose, of winning tho coming Presidential election The Democratic Convention will have-a number of excellent men from .whom to select a President, and vice-Presid nt. Ido not want to express an opinion regarding either the individuals or the platform which might influence the minds of tho -delegates, whoso votes will ultimately decide the selection." —(A. und N.Z. cable). ■;,