Wilson and Marshall Both Nominated.
Democrats Decide on Candidates.
Acclamation.
fense.
Both Nominated by
Platform for Americanism and De-
Wilson’s Record Praised.
NOMINATIONS HAILED WITH VOCIFEROUS CHEERS.
Speeches by Judge Wescott,
Nominating Wilson; Temporary
Chairman Martin H. Glynn,
Permanent Chairman Ollie M.
James and William J. Bryan.
Statements of the Nominees.
St. Louis, June 15.—Rarely in the po-
litical history of the United States have
there been national conventions con-
cerning which public attention has been
centered not on the men to be nomi-
nated, but on the declaration of princi-
Ples—the platform to be adopted. Yet
such was the case of the Democratic
mational convention which adjourned
here after nominating Woodrow Wil-
son of New Jersey for the presidency
and Thomas Riley Marshall of Indiana
for the vice presidency.
Long before the convention met it
was known that President Wilson
would be renominated. Concerning :
Vice President Marshall there was
some doubt, owing to the announced
ambitions of a few prominent Demo-
crats to take his place. But the differ-
ences were smoothed out when it be
came known that the president desired
to have Mr. Marshall for his running
mate again. So Mr. Marshall was re-
nominated by acclamation as wel] as
Mr. Wilson.
The “Americanism” Plank.
The platform was in doubt almost to
the hour of its adoption. The plank that
seemed to have the most splinters was
the woman suffrage declaration, which
after a hot fight was adopted. It leaves
the matter to the states. The speech of
WOODROW WILSON.
President Wilson in Washington, June
14, in which he accused a disloyal mi-
nority of working underground and at-
tempting to levy a kind of political
blackmail on those who did not meet
their views, influenced greatly the
making of planks in the Democratic
platform. The other planks in the
platform, which was drawn with the
knowledge of President Wilson as to
its main provisions, relate to the tariff,
Mexico, the merchant marine, ete. The
“Americanism” plank condemns any
“whoever by arousing prejudices of a
racial, religious or other nature cre
ates discord and strife among our peo-
ple.”
Chairman Glynn's Address.
The opening address of Temporary
Chairman Martin H., Glynn, former
governor of New York, dealt with
many questions of domestic and for-
eign policy, but the part which aroused
the convention most was that in which
lhe asserted that in averting war the
president had followed the precedent
‘of many men famed in American his.
[tory. Mr. Glynn cited the names of
‘many prominent Republicans w4o ®ad
‘acted when in office as Mr, Wilson has
Jdone in his administration, he said,
jand challenged the Republican party
ito repudiate the deeds of its former
‘leaders. .
. The resolutions committee, which
framed the platform, was headed by
/Senator William J. Stone of Missouri
It included some of the most promi-
nent Democrats of the United States,
senators, governors, representatives in
congress and others.
The certainty as to the presidential
nominee naturally detracted from the
excitement that is usually Ynanifested
at national conventions and was so
much in evidence at Chicago when
the Republicans and Progressives met
there for the contest which ended in
the nomination of Charles E. Hughes
for president and Charles Warren Fair.
banks for vice president by the Repub-
licans, the nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt by the Progressives and the
subsequent declination of the last
named man to run.
Bryan ‘Makes a Speech.
For the first time in many years,
also, William Jennings Bryan of Ne-
bragks has been neither a delegate no=
an alternate to the convention, acting
in St. Louis as he did in Chicago, mere- |
ly as a newspaper reporter. But with.
al he was one of the conspicuous fig-
ures in the convention, every one know-
THOMAS RILEY MARSHALL.
ing and bearing in mind the large fig-
ure he has made in Democratic history
since his first nomination for the presi.
dency in Chicago twenty years ago.
Mr. Bryan was called upon by en-
thusiastic delegates to address the con.
vention. A resolution to that effect
was carried, and he was cheered fran-
tically when he reviewed the achieve-
ments of the Democratic party since
Woodrow Wilson took office. He prais-
ed the president without stint, refer-
ring to his “activities in the interest
of peace.”
The speech of Ollie M. James, sena-
tor from Kentucky and permanent
chairman of the convention, was short-
er than that of Temporary Chairman
Glynn and reviewed the record of the
present administration. It also roused
the convention to enthusiasm, especial-
ly when Senator James lauded Presi-
dent Wilson's stand in regard to the
war in Europe.
The convention finished its work in
three days instead of four, nominating
Wilson and Marshall near midnight of
June 15 instead of June 16 or 17, as
had been expected.
Oem
so
Mr. Bryan’s Tribute
“I join the people in thank-
ing God that we have a presi-
dent who does not want the
nation to fight. As a Demo-
crat I want my party to have
the honor of bringing the
peace about, and I want the
country to give Woodrow Wil-
A son a chance to bring it about.”
en >
GLYNN STRIKES KEYNOTE.
Democratic Temporary Chairman
Calls Americanism, Peace,
Preparedness, Prosper-
ity, the Issues.
In his keynote speech before the
Democratic national convention the
temporary chairman, ex-Governor Mar-
tin H. Glynn of New York, acclaimed
Woodrow Wilson as among the great-
est patriots and presidents America
has produced and warmly eulogized his
course in keeping the country out of
the European war. No president since
the civil war, he said, has had as cru-
emi problems to solve, and no president
has displayed a grasp more sure, a
statesmanship more profound. Declar-
ing that Americanism and peace, pre-
paredness and prosperity are the issues
upon which the Democratic party
stands, he predicted the re-election of
President Wilson.
By the records of history Mr. Glynn
maintained that if Washington and |
Lincoln were right President Wilson
was right. The neutrality that Presi-
dent Wilson stands for today was ad-
vocated by Washington, by Hamilton,
by Jefferson and by Lincoln. By citing
precedents in which, he said, the Unit-
ed States had cause for declaring war
and still kept the peace Mr. Glynn jus-
tified and defended the course of the
president in the Lusitania sinking and
elmilar incidents. Mr. Glynn said:
In the-face of this record do Republic-
ans realize that when they arraign the
policy of the president of the United
States today they arraign the policy of
Harrison, of Blaine, of Lincoln and of
Grant? For the pleasure of criticising a
Democratic president are they willing
to read out of the Republican party the
greatest men the Republican party ever
had? Are they willing to say that the
Republican party of today condemns what
What President
Wilson Said
“I am very grateful to my
generous friends.”
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Hamilton did in Revolutionary days, what
. Lincoln did in civil war days and what
| Grant and Blaine and Harrison did but
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| today the president of the United States
' follows the example set him by the great-
! est presidents which the Democratic par-
! ty and the greatest presidents the Repub-
lican party ever gave this nation.
| Mr. Glynn asserted that it was the
| business of this convention “represent-
ing every section of the United States,
speaking for every racial strain in
America, to send forth a message to
| all the world that will leave no room
i for doubt.” He continued:
We must enable every real American to
stand up and assert his Americanism. We
must make the issue so clear that every
ballot box in the land may become a mon-
ument to the loyalty of American man-
hood. The citizens of this country must
| stand behind their president because his
policies are right.
| Mr. Glynn pointed out that the prom-
, Ise made four years ago that a Demo-
“ ratic administration would liberate the
nation from the chains of industrial
tyranny has been carried out. He eulo-
gized the federal reserve act, the laws
' restraining big businéss from stifling
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' ; competition, the trade commission act,
the movement to foster expansion of !
American trade and the close union of
economic, commercial and financial in-
terests between the United States and
the nations of South America. The
Underwood tariff Mr. Glynn charac-
terized as the fairest and the best we
have enacted.
KEPT NATION AT PEACE.
Wescott, Nominating Wilson,
Calls Administration Best
of Recent Times.
8t. Louis, June 17.—Judge John W.
Wescott, attorney general of the state
of New Jersey, who nominated Wilson
for president four years ago, again
placed his name in nomination at the
Democratic convention here. He said:
The nation is at work. The nation is at
peace. The nation is accomplishing the
destiny of Democracy. Four years ago
the nation was not at work. With re-
Sources boundless, with a hundred mil-
lion people eager to achieve and do, com-
merce languished, industries halted, men
were idle. The country struggled in the
Credit was at the mercy of piracy. The
small business man was bound hand and
foot. Panic hung like a storm cloud over
the business world.
Now bursting granaries, teeming facto-
ries, crowded railways and overladen
ships distribute wealth and comfort to un-
counted millions the world over. Produe-
tion outruns the means of distribution.
not found in industrial history; nor is it
causeless. When the European cataclysm
struck the world moratoria fell like a
blight upon many of the neutral nations,
but not upon the United States.
There stands the astounding phenome-
non of American prosperity. What is its
explanation? The Euclid of financial the-
ory worked to a demonstration measures
for the country’s relief. He promptly put
into effect the legislative expression of a
great program. He did not talk. He did
things. He dynamited the monetary dams
and, let credit flow to the remotest corners
of the land, its spray dashing even upon
foreign shores. He released the nation’s
resources and set the energies of all men
free to exploit them. He destroyed com-
mercial slavery. He struck off its shackles.
The prosperity of the nation is the prod-
uct of statesmanship and financial genius.
The schoolmaster is statesman, the states-
man is financier, the financier is emanci-
pator.
| From the vantage ground of imperish-
able Americanism the matchless craft of
a real pacifist has not only avoided all
war, but is leading the world into the
ways of peace. What is peace but the
assertion nf moral progress? What is the
assertion of moral progress but the inde-
structible civilization of Europe and
America? From the smoldering ruins of
a thousand cities, over the graves of mil-
lions of brave men, out of the blackness
of the battle smoke, arising from the ob-
scurities of national passions, already the
Peoples of the earth recognize the dim
outlines, growing ever more distinct, of
the composite soul of America in the pa-
tient and humane wisdom of the world's
real pacificator. Of what avail all the
wealth of our beloved land if it had been
consumed in the destructiveness of war?
‘What avail the travail of human progress
for ten thousand years had not the school-
master and statesman been pacificator?
His achievement is so vast that ambitious
men are blind to its reality. But the plain
millions, of all creeds and nationalities,
recognize in it the imperishable glories of
a Christian civilization.
Therefore, my fellow countrymen, not
I, but his deeds and achievements;
but the spirit and purposes of America;
not I, but the prayers of just men;
not 1, but civilization self, nominates to
succeed himself to the presidency of the
United States, to the presidency of a hun-
dred million free people, bound in impreg-
nable union, the scholar, the statesman,
financier, the emancipator, the pacifi-
ator, the moral leader of democracy,
‘Woodrow Wilson.
ViceP resident
Marshall’s Statement
“All I can say is to express
my gratitude to my Indiana
and other friends for their
great loyalty and to the con-
vention for the high compli-
ment of a renomination with
my chieftain. I believe in the
1. certainty of his re-election.
: My only purpose is to serve his
gguse, which I believe to be
- that of our party and our
country, whole heartedly.”
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tolls of an inadequate financial system. :
The parallel of American prosperity is
PLATFORM OF
THE DEMOCRATS
Treats of Preparedness, Mexico,
Tariff and Other Points of
Importance to Nation.
ton
The platform adopted by the Demo-
cratic convention reads as follows:
The Democratic party, in national con-
vention assembled, adopts the following
declaration to the end that the people of
the United States may both realize the
achievements wrought by four years of
Democratic administration and be appris-
ed of the policies to which the party is
committed for the further conduct of na-
tional affairs.
Record of Achievement.
We indorse the administration of Wood-
row Wilson. It speaks for itself. It is
the best exposition of sound Democratic
policy at home and abroad.
We challenge comparison of our record,
our keeping of pledges and our construc-
tive legislation with those of any party of
any time.
We found our country hampered by spe-
clal privilege, a vicious tariff, obsolete
banking laws and an inelastic currency.
Our foreign affairs were dominated by
commercial interests for their selfish ends.
The Republican party, despite repeated
pledges, was impotent to correct abuses
which it had fostered. Under our admin-
istration, under a leadership which has
never faltered, these abuses have been
corrected, and our people have been freed
therefrom.
Our archaic banking and currency sys-
tem, prolific of panic and disaster under
Republican administration—long the refuge
of the money trust—has been supplanted
by the federal reserve act, a true democ-
racy of credit, under government control,
already proved a financial bulwark in a
world crisis, mobilizing our resources,
placing abundant credit at the disposal of
legitimate industry and making a currency
panic impossible.
Federal Trade Commission.
We have created a federal trade com-
mission to accommodate the perplexing
questions arising under the anti-trust laws
80 that monopoly may be strangled at its
birth and legitimate industry encouraged
. Fair competition in business is now as.
sured.
We have «ected an adjustment of the
tariff, adequate for revenue under peace '
conditions and fair to the consumer and '
to the producer. We have adjusted the
burdens of taxation so that swollen in-
comes bear their equitable shares. Our
revenues have been sufficient in times of
world stress and will largely exceed the
expenditures for the current fiscal year.
We have lifted human labor from the
category of commodities and have secured
to the workingman the right of volun-
tary association for his protection and
welfare. We have protected the rights of
the laborer against the unwarranted issu-
ance of writs of injunction and have
guaranteed to him the right of trial by
Jury in cases of alleged contempt commit-
ted outside of the presence of the court.
We have advanced the parcel post to
genuine efficiency, enlarged the postal
savings system, added 10,000 rural delivery
routes and extensions, thus reaching 2.500.-
000 additional people; improved the postal
service in every branch and for the first
time in our history placed the postoffice
system on a self supporting basis, with
actual surplus in 1913, 1914 and 1915.
Economic Freedom.
The reforms which were most obviously
needed to clear away special privilege,
prevent unfair discrimination and release
the energies of men of all ranks and ad-
vantages have been effected by recent
legislation. We must now remove, so far
as possible, every remaining element of
unrest and uncertainty from the path of
the business men of America and secure
for them a continued period of quiet, as-
sured and confident prosperity
Tariff.
We reaffirm our belief in the doctrine ot
a tariff for the purpose of providing suffi-
cient revenue for the operation of the gov-
ernment economically administered and
unreservedly indorse the Underwood tariff
law as truly exemplifying that doctrine.
We recognize that tariff rates are nec-
essarily subject to change to meet chang-
ing conditions in the world’s production
ahd trade. The events of the last two
years have brought about many momen-
tous changes. In some respects their ef-
fects are yet conjectural and wait to be
disclosed, particularly in regard to our
foreign trade. Two years of a war which
has directly involved most of the chief in-
dustrial nations of the world and which
has indirectly affe: ted the life and indus-
try of all nations are bringing about eco-
nomic changes more varied and farreach-
ing than the world has ever before expe-
rienced.
In order to ascertain just what those
changes may be the Democratic congress
is providing for a nonpartisan tariff com-
mission to make impartial and thorough
study of every economic fact that may
throw light either upon our past or upon
our future fiscal policy with regard to the
imposition of taxes on imports or with
regard to the changed and changing con-
ditions under which our trade is car-
ried on.
‘We cordially indorse this timely propo-
sal and declare ourselves in sympathy
with the principle and purpose of shaping
legislation within that field in accordance
with clearly established facts rather than
in accordance with the demands of selfish
interests or upon information provided
largely, if not exclusively, by them.
Americanism.
The part the United States will play in
the new day of international relationships
which is now upon us will' depend upon
our preparation and our character. The
ocratic party, therefore, recognizes
the assertion and triumphant demonstra-
tion of the indivisibility and coherent
strength of the nation as the supreme
issue of this day, in which the whole
world faces the crisis of manifold change.
It summons all men, of whatever origin
or creed, who would count themselves
Americans to join in making clear to all
the world the unity and consequent pow-
er of America. This is an issue of pa-
triotism. To taint it with partisanship
would be to defile it. In this day of test
America must show itself uot a na-
tion of partisans, but a nation of patriots.
There is gathered here in America the
best of the blood, the industry and the
genius of the whole world, the elements of
A great race and a magnificent soclety to
be melted into a mighty and splendid na-
tion. Whoever, actuated by the purpose
to promote the interest of a foreign pow-
er In disregard of our own country’s wel-
fare or to injure this government in ite
foreign relations or cripple or destroy its
industries at home and whoever by arous-
ing prejudices of a racial, religious or oth-
er nature creates discord and strife among
our people, so as to obstruct the whole-
some process of unification, is faithless to
the trust which the privileges of citizen-
ship repose in him and disloyal to his
country. i
We therefore condemn as subversive of
nation's unity and integrity and as
destructive of its welfare the activities
and designs of every group or organiza.
tion, political or otherwise, that has for
its object the advancement of the interest
of a foreign power, whether such object
is promoted by intimidating the govern-
ment, a political party or representatives
of the people or which is calculated and
tends to éivide our people into antag-
onistic groups and thus to destroy that
complete agreement 2nd solidarity of the
petuity of the nation and its free institu-
tions.
Condemn Alliances.
We condemn all alliances and combina-
tions of individuals in this country, of
whatever nationality or descent, who
agree and conspire together for the pur-
pose of embarrassing or weakening our
government or of improperly influencing
or coercing our public representatives in
dealing or negotiating with any foreign
power. We charge that such conspiracies
among a limited number exist and have
been instigated for the purpose of advane-
ing the interests of foreign countries to
the prejudice and detriment of our own
country. We condemn any political party
which, in view of the activity of such
conspirators, surrenders its integrity &p
modifies its policy.
Preparedness.
Along with the proof of our character
as a nation must go the proof of our
power to play the part that legitimately
belongs to us. The people of the United
States love peace. They respect the
rights and covet the friendship of all
other nations. They desire neither any
additional territory nor any advantage
which cannot be peacefully gained by
their skill, their industry or their enter-
prise, but they insist upon having abso-
lute freedom of national life and policy
and feel that they owe it to themselves
and to the role of spirited independence
which it is their sole ambition to play
that they should render themselves se-
cure against the hazard of interference
from any quarter and should be able to
protect their rights pon the seas or in
any part of thé world.
We therefore favor the maintenance of
han army fully adequate to the require-
ments of order, of safety and of the pro-
tection of the nation’s rights, the fullest
development of modern methods of sea-
coast defense, and the maintenance of an
adequate reserve of citizens trained to
arms and prepared to safeguard the peo-
ple and territory of the United States
which may unexpectedly arise, and a
fixed policy for the continuous develop-
ment of a navy worthy to support the
great naval traditions of the United
tasks which the United States hopes and
expects to take a part in performing.
The plans and enactments of the present
congress afford substantial proof of our
purpose in this exigent matter.
[The platform here asserts that the Wil-
i son administration has observed strict
neutrality and has consistently sought to
secure the peace of the world, with re-
spect for the rights of smaller nations and
the complete security of the highway of
the seas, for the use of all nations.]
Mexican Policy.
The Monroe doctrine is reasserted as a
principle of ‘Democratic faith. That doc-
trine guarantees the independent repub-
lics of the two Americas against aggres-
sion from another continent. It implies
‘as well the most scrupulous regard upon
them. The want of a stable, respon-
sible government in Mexico capable of
repressing and punishing the marauders
and bandit bands who have -not only
taken the lives and seized and destroyed
country, but have insolently invaded our
: soil, made war upon and murdered our
people thereon, has rendered it necessary
a portion of the territory of that friendly
state where, until by the restoration of
law and order therein a repetition of such
| incursions is improbable, the necessity for
their remaining will continue. Interven-
tion, implying as it does military sub-
jugation, is revolting to the people of the
United States, notwithstanding the provo-
cation to that course has been great and
should be resorted to, if at all, only as a
last resort. The stubborn resistance of
the president and his advisers to every
demand and suggestion to enter upon it is
creditable alike to them and to the people
in whose name he speaks.
Merchant Marine.
, Immediate provision should be made for
| the development of the carrying trade of
the United States. * ®* * We heartily
indorse the purposes and policy of the
pending shipping bill
Conservation.
For the safeguarding and quickening of
the life of our own people, we favor the
conservation and development of the na-
tural resources of the country by means
of a policy which shall be positive rather
than negative.
The Administration and the Farmer.
We favor the vigorous prosecution of in-
vestigations and plans to render agricul-
ture more profitable and country life more
healthful and comfortable and attractive,
and we believe this should be a dominant
aim of the nation as well as of the states.
Much has been accomplished in this field
under the present administration—far
more than under any previous administra-
tion. In the federal reserve act of the last
congress and rural credits act of the pres-
ent congress the machinery has been cre-
ated which will make credit available to
the farmer constantly and readily, and
he has at last been put on a footing of
equality with the merchant and manufac-
turer in securing the capital necessary to
carry on his enterprises
Good Roads.
The happiness, comforts and prosperity
or rural life and the development of the
city are alike conserved by the construc-
tion of public highways. We therefore
favor national aid in the construction of
post roads and roads for military pur-
poses.
Government Employment.
We hold that the life, health and
strength of the men, women and children
of the nation are its greatest asset and
that in the conservation of these the fed-
eral government, wherever it acts as the
employer of labor, should both on its own
account and as an example put into ef-
fect the following principles of just em-
ployment:
First.—A living wage for all employees
Second.—A working day not to exceed
eight hours, with one day of rest in
seven.
Third.—The adoption of safety appli-
ances and the establishment of thorough-
ly sanitary conditions of labor.
Fourth.—Adequate compensation for in-
dustrial accidents.
Fifth.—The standards of the ‘‘uniform
child labor law” wherever minors are em-
ployed.
Sixth.—Such provisions for decency, com-
fort and health in the employment of wo-
men as should be accorded the mothers
of the race.
Seventh,—An equitable retirement law
providing for the retirement of superanu-
ated and disabled employees of the civil
ice to the end that a higher standard
of efficiency may be maintained.
‘We believe also that the adoption ot
similar principles should be urged and ap-
plied in the legislation of the states with
regard to labor within their borders, and
that by every possible agency the life and
health of the people of the nation should
be conserved.
: Labor.
‘We declare our faith in the Seaman's
act, passed by the Democratic congress,
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our part for the sovereignty of each of '
the property of American citizens in that |
people gnd that unity of sentiment and
national purpcse so essential to the per- |
against any danger of hostile action :
States and fully equal to the international '
temporarily to occupy by our armed forces }
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and we promise our earnest continuance
of its enforcement.
We favor the speedy enactment of sn
effective Jedera) child labor law and the
regulation of the shipment of prison made
800ds in interstate commerce.
We favor the creation of a federal bu-
reau of safety in the department of la-
bor to gather facts concerning industrial
hazards and recommend legislation to pre-
vent the maiming and killing of human
beings.
We favor the extension of the powers
and functions of the federal bureau of
mines.
We favor the development upon a sys-
tematic scale of the means, already be-
8un under the present administration, to
assist laborers throughout the nation to
seek and obtain employment and the ex-
tension by the federal government of the
Same assistance and encouragement as is
now given to agricultural training. We
heartily commend our newly established
department of labor for its excellent rec-
ord in settling industrial strikes by per-
sonal advices and through conciliating
agents.
Public Health.
We favor a thorough reconsideration of
the means and methods by which the fed-
eral government handles questions of pub-
lic health to the end that human life may
be conserved by the elimination of loath-
some diseases, the improvement of sani-
tation and the diffusion of a knowledge of
disease prevention.
We favor the establishment by the fed-
eral government of tuberculosis sanitari-
ums for needy tubercular patients.
Woman Suffrage, Etec.
Other planks of the platform demand
economy in government expenditures, in-
dorse the bill promoting self government
in the Philippines and assert that the sa-
cred rights of American citizenship, irre-
spective of race, creed or previous nation-
ality, must be preserved at home and
abroad. Generous pensions for soldiers
are favored. “We recommend the exten-
sion of the franchise to the women of the
country by the states upon the same
terms as to men.” The “splendid diplomat-
ic victories” of the administration are
praised, and the conclusion of the plat-
form refers to its ‘great constructive
achievement in following out a consistent
policy for our domestic and internal de-
velopment.” Also the record of the ad-
ministration in foreign affairs is lauded.
SENATOR JAMES' SPEECH
The Convention Chairman’s Eu-
logy of President Wilson.
Chicago, June 16.—Senator Ollie M.
James in his address as permanent
chairman of the Democratic national
convention praised the present admin-
istration for its “matchless record of
promises kept” and for freeing the
senate from the control of the great in-
terests by making it elective by the
people at the polls and for driving in-
visible government, the lobby, out of
‘Washington.
Referring to the tariff question, Mr.
James said the present law was an
achievement to be proud of. declared
that “not a schedule in it fosters a
monopoly: not a rate in it protects a
trust,” and said that new trade condi-
tions after the war would be met by
appropriate legislation. Then he touch-
ed on the federal reserve law and de-
clared that it abolished panics and
that it had saved this country from a
financial upheaval when the present
war broke out.
Referring to the Mexican situation,
Mr. James said President Wilson has
handled it ably and that “his policy has
been the.same as that of Abraham Lin-
coln under like conditions more than
half a century ago. When the Repub-
Hcan platform at Chicago denounced
the Mexican policy of Woodrow Wilson
it denounced at the same time the simi-
lar Mexican policy of Abraham Lin-
coln—the one they have heretofore
called the ‘patron saint’ of the Repub-
lican party.”
Mr. James, discussing Americanism,
said that of those who came here as
well as those who were born here,
“all we ask is that the song you shall
hold dearest to your heart is the ‘Star
Spangled Banner.’ ” i
Mr. James defended the preparedness
policy of the administration and de-
livered a powerful and glowing eulogy
of President Wilson's achievements in
the cause of peace. He said:
Some of the president’s opponents tel}
us that the president’s foreign policy has
been evil and vacillating. Tonight 20,000,~
000 American fathers will gather around
an unbroken family fireside with their
wives at their sides and their children
around their knees and contrast that with
the old world, the world of broken fire-
sides and gloom and mourning upon every
hand. If that is evil and vacillating, may
God prosper it and teach it to the rulers
of the old world.
‘Without orphaning a single American
child, without widowing a single Ameri-
can mother, without firing a single gun or
shedding a drop of blood, he wrung from
the most militant spirit that ever brooded’
above a battlefield the concession of
American demands and American rights.
He has struggled for peace. His fond-
&st hope, his most fervent prayer is for
the peace, not only of his own beloved:
country, but of all the world. When the-
last great day shall come, and before the-
court of God the nations of this earth.
shall march in judgment review, who is:
it that would have our president exchange-
places with the blood bespattered mon-
archs of the old world? I can see him:
with the white light streaming upon his:
head and hear the Master say, ‘‘Blessed:
are the peacemakers, for they shall be.
called the children of God.”
In the bloodiest crucible of all history:
he has kept the stainless banner of the:
republic flying above 100,000.000 of people:
in peace and in honor.
He elevates himself to that lofty but:
lonely eminence occupied by George Wash-
ington, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrows«
‘Wilsop, the three worst abused but best:
beloved Americans tne republic ever:
knew.
America cannot afford to change leader~
ship during this great cataclysm that
shakes the nations of the earth, for to.
Woodrow Wilson more than any other
citizen in all the world the Christian peo-
ple, wherever the rain falls or: the sun
ghines this world around, look anxiously,
hopefully and prayerfully that he will
bring peace to the struggling armies of
Europe. What party is it now.that would.
dare undertake to discredit this master
diplomat, this unconquerable leader, this:
great American, for by that you may
palsy the hand that may write. the peace:
treaty of the world!
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