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■TN Hi WCUMMINGS MAKE*LEAGUE OF NATION!THE ISSUE FOR 1921Declares Republican OppositioGives Congress and Presidency to DemPorats.DENOUNCES REACTIONARYPoints to Men Who Opposed thiWar Who Will Control theNew CongressPRAISES TAFT’S ATTITUDESecretary Daniels Say* World Mun_ *Take League of Nations orWolves of Bolshevism.| Homer S. Cummings.■ man of the DemocraticDaniels. Secretaryof the Navy, vigorously defended thLeaaue of Nations, and assailedopposedDemocraticifth Avenue, where a receptionIven by the club to the National cman.*11x0 300 Democrats present applauded every reference to President Wilson, and particularly expressed their satisfaction when Secretary Daniels, who is to sail this morn ins on the Leviathan for Europe, made this reference, attacking the Republicans:They have presented us with the Presidency and Congress two years from today.”Mr. Cummings was introduced byPresident John M. Ulfhlf nt th#» rinh »■»n who is to steer the Democrats ess in lf»20. The Democratic Na-Chairrnan accused his Republicannta of narrow partisanship in ob-ng President Wilson’s plans, and idled the Democratic National A.l-ion as having performed miracle of governmental ireas.” He was vigorously applaudedwhen he declared that it hardly be-hooved the party which conducted the Spanish-American War to criticise the aocornplishinent of the Democrats in Uie recent War. The whole World, lit declared, accepts the leadership oi President Wilson In the peace negotiations, while only in America have voices been raised In nrotest.Mr. Cummings said he was proud that st this critical moment the Democratic Party had instinctively* turned its face toward the light, while the Republicans, through narrow leadership, had played petty partisan politics. He denounced the Republican Senators for their filibuster and for their opposition to Presl-lent Wilson generally. He said their moderate triumph of electing a Congress a»t November had gone to their heads ind that the mere prospect of control md already thrown them into confusion.” Ever since the war began in Europe n JU14,” said Mr. Cummings. our»r* have been vexed by the wild criest the opposition proclaiming a superior a ami of patriotism and now, at the ,ery first sign of a return to partial au-hority, the leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate have placed themselves In opposition to a League of Na-lons and the leaders in the Housetonreaentativea have selected for flceader Congressman Mondcll of Wyoming, who voted ugainst tabling of tht dtDemure resolution and opposed tht elective draft law.
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New York Times
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Sat, Mar 15, 1919
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