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ff?K SHATTER W?TCH34AN, ?stab Consolidated Aus:. 2,3 THE CLEAR AND SIMPLE WAV fhe Paramount Issue Before the People in the Approaching Election WOODROW WILSON URG ES PEACE TREATY ISSUE Senate Cannot Rewrite Pacu Without Making New One Necessary Washington. Jan. 8.?President Wilson in his message to the Jackson day diners here today said: "The clear. and single way" to determine , the win of the American people on the league of nations was to make it an issue at the next election. The president's message said noth ing whatever about a third term for h.mself; neither did it say even by implication or intimation that he would be a candidate, as had been widely forecast. Most all of the presi dent's message was devoted to an ex pression of his argument of why' he considered it the duty of the United Slices to Join in the league of nations covenant and why he considered the war not really won until it did. An other attempt to crush the new na tions of Europe would be made, the president said if the United States held aloof. The president again expressed his attitude towards reservations much .as he did at his conference with the sen ate foreign relations committee in this language: "If the senate wishes to say what the undoubted meaning of the treaty is T shall have no objection. There can be no reasonable objection to in terpretations accompanying the act of ratification itself. But when the treaty is acted upon I must kr.ow whether it means that we have ratified or reject ed it. We can not rewrite this treaty. We must take it without changes which alter its meaning or leave it and then, after the rest of the world j has signed it, we must face the un-1 thinkable task of making another and I separate kind of treaty with Gcr-1 many. The full text of the president's j message follows: ' -% -is^h^Tteer^ "T| find that I art to be deprived of the pleasure and privilege of joining you ? and the other loyal Democrats who! are to assemble tonight to celebrate 1 Jackson day and renew their vows of; fidelity to the great principles of our; Party, the principles which must now: fulfill the hopes not only of our own people but of the world. "The United States enjoyed the spiritual leadership of the world un- j til the senate of the United States failed to ratify the treaty by which the belligerent nations sought to ef fect the settlements for which they had fought throughout the war. It is inconceivable that at this -supreme crisis and final turning points in the international relations of the whole world, when the results of the great war are by no means determined und are still questionable and dependent upon events which no man can fore see or count upon, the United States should withdraw from the concert of progressive and enlightened nations by which Germany was defeated and iv?i similar governments (if the world be so unhappy as to contain any) Warned of the certain consequences of any attempt of *a like iniquity; and yet that is the effect of the course the svnate of the United States has taken with regard to the treaty of Versail Iess. Germany is beaten, but we are still at war with her and the stage is reset for a repetition of the old plot. It is now ready for the resumption of the old offensive and defensive al liances which made settled peace im possible. It is now open again to every sort of intrigues. The old spies are free to resume former abominable activities: They are again at liberty to make it impossible for governments to.be sure what mischief is being jarorked among their own people, what internal disorders are being fomented. Without the covenant of the league of nations, there may be as many secret treaties as ever to destroy the confi dence of governments in each other, and their validity can not be ques tioned. None of 'he objects we pro fessed to be fighting for has been se cured <>r can be made certain of with out this nation's ratification of the treaty and its entry into the cove nant. This nation entered the grea war to vindicate its own rights and to protect und preserve free govern ment. It went into the war to see i* through to the end. and the end has not yet come. It went into the war to make an end of mi'itarism. to fur nish guarantees to weak nations, and to make a just and lasting peace. I* entered it with noble enthusiasm!;. Five of the leading belligerents have accepted the treaty and formal ratifi cations will soon be exchanged. The question is whether this country -ill enter and enter wholeheartedly, ti V does not do so the United States and Germany will play a lone hand in th^ world. Th<* maintenance r,f the peac Of the world and the effective execu tion of the treaty depend upon the jtbolehearted participation of tlv United States. I am nor stating it a" a. matter of power. The point i : that the United States is the only na tion which has sufficient moral fn-rp with the re^t of the world to guar ?Aed April, 18*0. "**? L881. 8?: SHIP SCUTTLING I Officers of Navy Plan More Dirty Work With Warships Not Yet Delivered -|p BERLIN SOCIALISTS REPORT THE PLOT ! Another Scapa Flow Conspiracy I in Violation of the Treaty is j Brewing I Copenhagen, Jan.* 12.?A plan to ^cuttle the German warships not yet i delivered to the allies is being consid j ered by officers of the German navy, according to information received by majority socialist leaders in Berlin. The message quotes a Berlin newspa per as declaring that a high German officer had so informed the leaders. DEMAND MADE FOR WILHELM i j Paris, Jan. 12.?The- surrender ofi j William Hohenzollcrn will be request ? ed of Holland shortly, acording to !the Matin. On this point the allied ! premiers are in compiete agreement, j the newspaper adds.' j -!?~ i antee the substitution of discussion j for. war. If we keep out of this j agreement, if we do not give our guar ! antecs. then another attempt will be j made to crush the new nations of I Europe. ' *T do not believe that this is what; the people of this country wish or! will be satisfied with. Personally J do not accept the action of the sen ate of the United States as the decis-! ion of the nation. I have asserted from the first that the overwhelming; majority of the people of this coun try desire the ratification of the treaty and my impression to that effect has recently been confirmed by the un- j mistakable evidences of public opin- j ion given during my visit to 17 of the . States. I have endeavored to make i*. j plain that if the senate wishes to say, what the undoubted meaning of the league is, I shall have no objection, ; There can be no reasonable objection | to interpretations accompanying the j 'act of ratification itself. But when | the treaty is acted upon, I must know whether it means that we have ratified for rejected it. We can not, rewrite this treaty. We must take it without changes, which alter its meaning, or leave it and then, after the rest of the world has signed it. wc must face the unthinkable task of making another and separate kind of treaty with Germany. But no mere assertions with regard to the wish and opinion of the Country are cred ited. If there is J doubt as to what the people of the' country think on this vital matter, the clear and single way out is to submit it for rat ification at the next election to the voters of th<- nation to give the next election the form of a gnat and sol emn referendum, a referendum as to the part the United States is to play in completing the settlements of the ? war and in the prevention in the fu-; 'ture of such outrages as Germany at tempted to perpetrate. Wc have no more moral right to refuse now to take part in the execution and ad-; ministration of these settUimcnts than : we had to refuse to take part in the fighting of the last few weeks of the : war which brought victory and made it possible to dictate to' Germany j what the settlements 'should be. Our: fidelity to our associates in the war, is in question and the whole future of j mankind. It will be heartening to the whole world to know the attitude and purpose of the people of the United i States. "I spoke just now the spiritual lead-! ership of the United States thinking of international affairs. But there is; other .spiritual leadership which is open to use and which we can assume. The world has been made safe for democracy but democracy has no: been finally vindicated. Ml sorts of crimes are being committed in its name, all sorts of preposterous per versions of its doctrines and practices*: are being attempted. This, in my judgment, is to be the great privilege. of the democracy of the United States. ?to show that it can lead the way in the solution of the great social and industrial problems of our time, and lead the way to a happy settled order' of life as well as to political liberty. The program for this achievement we [must attempt to formulate, and in carrying it out we shall do more than |can be done in any Other way to sweep out of existence the tyrannous and arbitrary forms of power which are now masquerading under the name of popular government. Whenever we look back to Andrew Jackson we should draw fresh in spirations froici his character and ex ! ample. His mind grasped with such :j splendid definiteness and firmness the principles of national authority and national action. He was so indom itable in his purpose to give reality to thm principles of the government that this is a very fortunate tim<> to recall his career and to renew our 'vows of faithfulness to the principle-; end the practices of democracy. I re joice to join yon [n this renewal of f:>'th and purpose. I hone that (he whole evening ?nay be of the hap i piesi rcsubs as regards the fortunes of our party a::d the nation." 4td >*ear uoi?.Let ?u Uie end* Titou ai/j MTES., S. WED ;v ESI iThe Jackson Day Banquet De velops Differences of Opinion BRYAN AND WILSON CO NOT AGREE j \ViIson For Straigfetout Fight ] For Peace Treaty?Bryan is i For Compromise i j Washington, Jan. S (By the Asso- j ciated Press).?A split between Pres-j I ident Wilson and William J. Bryan | ! over whether the league of nations ] j should be made an issue at the com- '? ing election topped off the Jackson j [ day deliberations of the Democratic i party. It came at the Jackson din- | ner as the cliinax of a day in which San Francisco had been chosen, as the j meeting place of the Democratic na- . jtional convention on June 28, and it ! charged the air with political electric ! ity. President Wilson in his message ? read to the diners, assembled in two i separate bodies, declared that the j j ' clear and single way out" was to [ submit the question to the voters as j "a great and solemn referendum." Mr. Bryan, showing all the old time vigor with v.iiich he led the'fight in the president's nomination at Balti- J I more in 1912, declared that the Dem-j ; ocratic party could not go before the i I country on the issue, because it in>J j volved a delay of 14 months and | I me-ant success only if the Democrats! : captured a two-thirds majority of the : senate. The party, Mr. Bryan declar ! ed, must "secure such compromises as may be possible." Th^ disagreement between the pres- i ident and his former secretary of; state, the first in public view since Mr. j Bryan left the cabinet because he. did not agree with the president's course I in diplomatic negotiations with Ger- ; many, was thus disclosed as a fact, although it has been rumored and re- j ported in the underground currents of! national politics, in the opinion of: the political leaders it crystalized an issue. j President Wilson in his message said nothing whatever about a third.; term for hin.jelf. and neither did he | make any formal announcement of his j intended retirement to private life, as j some had forecast he would. Mr. Bryan in his prepared address j said nothing bearing on any ambi tions towards a fourth presidential! nomination, but before reading hi<: manuscript ho said he had nothing i*oj ask and. therefore; the diners would not listen to him with the thought that they were listening to a candi date, j There were a dozen or more other speakers at the dinners and their, views on whether the league should bo I made a campaign issue were either j divided in favor of the president's; stand or Mr. Bryan's, or else they did : not touch on the subject at all. The list of their speeches might cas-! ily be epitomized ih this fashion: Senator Romorene: Ratify the treaty with or without reservations. { Former Secretary McAdoo: An ar-j raignment of Republican administra tion, but no expression about the league. Secretary Daniels: "Mr. Bryan is entitled to credit for the league of nations treaty because his peace in- j vestigation conventions were the j ground work for it." Senator** Hitchcock: "Honorable; compromise on the league question j or a finish fight." ; Senator Owen: "Immediate ratifica-j tion and proceed with reconstruction | legislation." Chairman Cummins: "Inevitable' impulses "are carrying the Democratic party each day nearer and nearer to victory." Covernor Cornwell of West Vir ginia: "American institutions are in danger of being overthrown by the un checked growth of a labor autocracy." ! Vice Chairman Kromer: "We accept the gauge of battle." Governor Cox of Ohio: "The old guard is in control of the party j (Republican) -^hich it well nigh 1 wrecked by its greed." I Attorney General Palmer: "The war will not be over in fact until the is sues which it has raised are passed upon by the great court of appeals in j America and the judgment of the people is entered." Former Ambassador Gerard: "The country 'demands that both sides get! together, that a compromise be made' and peace given the world." Former Speaker Clark: "Democratic accomplishments during the last six years entitle the party to a long! lea?e of power. The host of Democrats on hand for the dinner had swamped the avail aide accommodation of any one ho tel in town and the party was divid ed into two dinners at two separate hotels ,-i block apart. National Chairman Cummings presided at one and Vice Chairman Kremer at the other. The dining rooms were pack ed, tickets were at a premium and there were many disappointed ones who had to content themselves with straining their ears at the doors. Both dinners began with toasts drunk t ? the health of President Wil son, the guests elevating goblets of Potomac river water. At the dinner where Mr. Cummingi >AY, JANc ABY 14 19$ Supreme Council Fixes Date For First Meeting of i League i j PRESIDENT WILSON TO ISSUE THE CALL Meeting Will Be Presided Over By Leon Bourgeois and Earl Curzon Will Speak - Paris, Jan. 10.?The putting of the j League of Nations into being which j win be one of the immediate conse- j quences of the exchange of ratification of the Versailles treaty, will occur in Paris on January 16th at 10.30 a. m.,; the supreme council decided today. Ambassador Wallace cabled the de- ' cision to President Wilson so that the president might issue-the formal no-: tice ofvthe first meeting of the coun cil which will be preside over by Leon Bourgeois, the French represen- ? tative, who will deliver a brief ad-1 dress. Earl Curzon, the British for-1 eign secretary will also speak. WILL ISSUE i CALL AT ONCE Washington, Jan. 10.?President, Wilson is expected to sign the call fo'y; th > first meeting of the League of Na- I tio:is council immediately after re- j eeiving notice from Ambassador Wal-j lace. WATER FAMINE I IN NORFOLK Serious Situation Confronts Vir ginia City Norfolk. Jan. 12.?On account of the water shortage here residents to day were limited to five gallons of wa ter daily. City sprinklers, railway tank cars and fire boats are being used to day to bring water from Newport News, Portsmouth and other nearby cities. Unless there is a heavy rain . within the next few days it is believed an acute water famine is in prospect. THREE PREMIERS IN CONFERENCE ????? Supreme Council Still Trying to Wind Up the War Paris. Jan. 12;?Premiers Clentcn ceau. Lloyd George and Xitti met this morning to consider the Adriatic ques tion. The supreme council did not meet today and the next session will oe held tomorrow. BRITISH AMBASSA DOR TO BERLIN England Sends Representative to Germany London. Jan. 12.?Lord Kilniarnock left London today to act as the Brit ish diplomatic representative in Ber- j [in. His departure marks an import mi step in tne reestablish men t of dip lomatic relations between Great Brit ain and Germany. London. Jan. 9.?Bokhara, in Cen tral Asia, less than two hundred miles : from the Afghanistan frontier has been entered by the Bolshcviki. ac- j cording to war office reports. The Bolsheviki propose an offensive , against the British in Persia and Af ghanistan. presided. Vice President Marshall was seated at the right and Secretary ; Lansing at/ the left. Two women, j Mrs. George Bass of Colorado and Mrs. Charles Tiffany, of New York, were at the speaking table. At the ' dinner over which Mr. Kremer pre sided Mrs. Peter Olsen of Minnesota ' sat at the speakers' table. The same set of speakers addressed both dinners, going from one to the other in various orders. At some time during the evening both parties nf diners were addressed by Senator Hitchcock, Governor Cornwell of West Virginia: Governor Cox. of Ohio; James W. Girard, Senator Un derwood, Secretary Daniels, Former Sneaker Champ Clark, Attorney Gen eral Palmer, Mrs. Olsen, Senator Pom '?rene. Senator Owen and Wvlliam J. Bryan. Former Secretary McAdoo's telegram and President Wilson's mes sage was read to each. Everybody at both places was buz- . zing with suppressed excitement to know what President Wilson and Mr. Bryan were going to say. There were rumors of a split in sentiment be tween the president and his former secretary of State over the peace treaty ciuestion and the air seemed to hi? full of electricity. When Chairman Cummings in hi: opening speech declared, "tonight we invoke the militant spirit of An drew Jacksim." there was a roar of ipplause and cheers, and another when he declared the Democrats looked forward with the utmost con fidence. Led by Representative Flrf !in of Alabama, the diners rose and cheered the chairman's reference to President Wilson's "wise leadership.*' na 'IT?**'?.' 10 WSTS THREAT OF WAR Followers of Mohamet Every where Object to Expul sion of Turks I _I THEY WOULD HOLD CON STANTINOPLE FOREVER Reports From India, Egypt and Elsewhere Creates Feeling of Uneasiness in Europe By The'Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 9.?Having aban doned hope that the United States would accept the mandate over Turk ey, the allied powers are searching for a solution of the problem of expelling the Turks from Europe v?*ho'ut caus ing such an uprising among the Mo hammedan peoples as would endanger the control of European nations over them. Reports from India, Egypt and other Mohammedan countries insist upon the retention of the head of their church in Constantinople under threats of boycotts of Christian busi ness and trade and (even actual war fare. BRYAN STANDS AS PARTY EMBLEM He Balks Stubbornly and'Op poses Making Treaty a Pary Issue ? - Washington, Jan. S (Ey the Asso ciated Press).?William J. Bryan split openly with President Wilson at the Jaskson dinner here tonight on the question of whether the Demo cratic party should make the league of nations an issue at the next elec tion. The former secretary of State, three times a candidate for the pres idency and a power in his party, de clared the Derne- -is could not go be fore the country ,n the issue and that they must accept such compromises as may be possible. President Wilson, in his message to the diners, had declared that "the clear and single way ouf' was to sub i mit the issue"?**" "" j Conceding the right of the Repub 1 lican majority to dictate the senate's course, Mr. Bryan declared: "Our plan has been rejected anc wc must face the situation as it is. We must either secure compromises as may be possible or present the is sue to the country. The latter course would mean a delay of at least 14 months and then success only in case of our securing a two-thirds major ity of the senate. We can not af ford either as citizens or as mernber: of the party to share with the Re publican party responsibility for fur ther delay, we can not go before the country on the issue that such an ap peal would present . . .A majority of congress can declare war. Shall we make it-more difficult to conclude a treaty than to enter a war? Reviewing the past and surveying a program for the future Mr. Bryan said he ventured to suggest, "three new propositions." They were: A nat ional system of roads, extending in every State t<~> be known as "a nation al peace way" both as a utilitarian project for binding the States togeth er in commerce and . uercourse, and as a memorial to the soldier dead. A national bulletin?not a newspa per, Mr. Bryan declared?to present national issues wilder bi-partisan con trol. The initiative and referendum which he declared the Democratic party might well adopt as its "next great reform." NEW VOLCANO - FORMS IN MEXICO Cerizoba Breaks Out in a New i Place Mexico City, Jan. 9.?Further re ports indicate that the estimated 'loath list of approximately two thousand from the earthquake in Vera Cruze State last Saturday will probably be borne out. Intense ex citement and panic reigris in Cordoba and Orizaba in the Western part of Vera Cruze State on account of the opening of a new crater on the volca- ! no of Orizaba, fifteen miles north- ! ward. THE PEACE TREATY SIGNED SATURDAY | Protocol Provides For Repatri ation of Ships Sunk in Scapa Flow Paris. Jan. 10.?The treaty of Ver sailles, making peace betwone Ger fiany and the ratifying allied powers, was put into effect at 4.1 o'clock this afternoon by exchange of rat ideations. Baron von Lersner. head of the German mission, pre viously affixed his signature t<> h ? protocol providing reparation for the sinking of tin- German warships in Scapa Flow and to insure carrying out, the armistice terms. Vol. XLIX No. 44. FOOT THE BILL Supreme Council Ordfcrs That Germany Pay Expenses of Hhine Commission THE WAR IS NOT OVER FOR GERMANY Supreme. Council Also Consid ers Meeting of the League of Nations Paris, Jan. 9.?The supreme coun cil decided today that the expenses of the high commission in control of the Rhine region shall he borne by. Germany as well as the cost of the army of occupation. The council dis cussed the first meeting, of the exec-' utive council of the League of Na tions, which the treaty provides shall bo called by President Wilson. It was announced that the date for the meet-' 'ing will be fixed later at another se3 scion to be held tomorrow. LUNCHEON AT THE CAPITAL Senator Dial Entertains Ambasr sador and Governor Washington, Jan. 8.?Senator Dial today gave^ an elegant luncheon at the/ capital to Ambassador W. E. Gon zales and to Gov. Robert A. Cooper: Both the distinguished guests of hon or were here in attendance upon the Jackson day dinner. There were also one or two others present, including: james C. Derieux, secretary to Gov-^ c-rncr* Cooper. . - STEEL STRIKE NOW ENBEir - Workers Formally Given Per mission to Return Pittsburgh. Jan. 8.?The strike in ihe steel mills and furnaces, called September 22, and which at its incep | tkn jnvolved 367,000 men, -was ,of?^ . cially"called off here tonight by the. national committee afwer an all daj> meeting. Vvt Announcement that the national. I committee had decided to.proc.eed no i further was contained in a telegranc ! American Federation of Labor in. I Washington, to the heads of all* in I ternational unions interested and to ! the organizers and held men in all i strike' districts. i "The steel corporation." the tele. j gram said, "with active assistance o? : the press, the courts, the federal J troops, state police and many publ?c. j olncials have denied steel workers their rights of free speech, free as semblage and the right to organize, j nd by this arbitrary and ruthless misuse of the power have brought i about a condition which has compel!-, j ed the national committee for or ganized iron and steel workers to vote today that the active strike ,phase of the steel campaign is now at an en^r A vigorous campaign of education and reorganization will be immediately begun and will not cease until indus trial justice in the steei industry has been achieved. All steel workers now are at liberty to return to work, pending preparation for the next big organization movement." The telegram was signed by John Fitzpatrick, chairman; D. J. Davis, vice president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; Edward J. Evans. Interna tional Union of Electrical Work ers; Wiliiam Harmon, Interna tional Union of Machinists, and Wil? liam Z. Foster, secretary of the com mittee. The offices of th? committee here will be maintained for about a month while the business of the* strike is being wound up, and the commissary department will continue to look after needy former strikers, and their families until the men have - obtained employment. Steel company executives said they were not surprised that the strike had been called off, as the strikers have been drifting back to work for sev eral months. Many mills, it was add ed, have long ago been able to operate full time with full forces. W. Z. Foster later announced hi-? resignation as secretary-treasurer rf the strike committee and said he v.rouli be succeeded by J. G. Brown of Ev erett, former president of the Timber Workers' union. Brown is to assume office February 1. MEN'S CLOTHING , TO COST MORE New York. Jan. 10.?Further in creases in the prices of men's cloth ing, without much change in style, were predicted by delegates to the International Association of Clothing Designers' Convention. Labor con tributed ninety per cent of the cost of a suit. New York. Jan. 9.?The damage to ih^ American line steamship St. Lou's which burned at Hoboken last night is estimated at one million dollar-'. The interior of the ship was wrecked. The origin of the fire is still, undeterm ined.