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SUPPORT PRESIDENT
PARAMOUNT ISSUE
Democratic Keynote Sounded by
Temporary Chairman Glynn.
DEFENDS NEUTRALITY POLICY
Advocate* DefeVtse Preparedness and
Flouts Militarism Bugaboo—Dis¬
cusses Domestic Policies and
Eulogizes Mr. Wilson.
St. Louis, Mo., June 14.—Following
la & condensed version of the address
delivered at the opening of the Demo¬
cratic national convention today by
Temporary Chairman Martin H.
Glynn, former governor of New York.
Gentlemen of the Convention: The
Democratic party, in this convention
assembled, meets to perforin a duty,
not to Itself but to the nation.
We have entered this hall aa Demo¬
crats; we shall deliberate and act here
ns Americans.
If in this great crisis that now con¬
fronts the nation, the American people
falter, their apostasy will be visited
upon the descendants of their chil¬
dren's children.
Disregarding the divisions that make
one man a Tory and another a Whig,
one man a Republican and another a
Democrat, Americans will cast aside
the tinsel of party emblems.
From the great, pulsing heart of the
nation will come a patriot command
to crush partisanship and rebuke what¬
ever is mean or blind.
And when, a century from now,
America’s children come to read our
history, we pray God that the history
we are about to make may prove an
Inspiration to their loyalty.
In the attainment of this hope, the
utterance of this prayer we who gather
here today have a responsibility that
toberB our emotions as it strengthens
our resolutions.
For two years the world has been
afire. That fire still burns, but thus
far the United States has held the
flame at bay.
Must Support Principles.
What the people of the United
States must determine through their
suffrage is whether the principles that
have been asserted as our national pol¬
icy shall be Indorsed or withdrawn.
This is the paramount issue.
For 200 years neutrality was a the¬
ory; America made it a fact. To win
this priceless right of neutrality this
nation,had to undergo a long and pain¬
ful struggle.
Where is the American hardy enough
to challenge a policy so firmly fixed
In the nation's traditions?
The president of the United States
stands today where stood the men who
made America and who saved Amer¬
ica and made American neutrality a
national creed.
i If Washington was right, if Jeffer¬
son was right, if Hamilton was right,
if Lincoln was right, then the presi¬
dent of the United States is right
today; if the Republican leaders are
right then Linooln was wrong and
Jefferson was wrong and Hamilton
was wrong and Washington was
wrong.
In all the history of the world
there is no other national policy that
has Justified itself so completely and
entirely as the American policy of
neutrality and isolation from the quar¬
rels of European powers.
Neutral Rights Asserted.
No American who knows the facts
can honestly oppose or criticise the
policy of neutrality which the present
Democratic administration has pur¬
sued.
America's doctrine of neutrality
never meant that this nation must
rush headlong into war at the first
Invasion of its neutral rights. This
does not mean that America will not
resort to war when all other means
of protecting its neutral rights have
failed, but it does mean that America
will exhaust every peaceful means of
protecting those rights before it takes
the step from which there is no ap¬
peal.
The issue, raised by our opponents,
of the vigor with which our neutral¬
ity has been enforced is a compara¬
tive issue which can be decided only
by comparative results.
When Grant was president, during
the war between Spain and the Span¬
ish West Indies, a Spanish gunboat
seized the vessel Virginius flying the
American flag and a Spanish com¬
mandant in cold blood shot the cap¬
tain of the Virginius. 36 of the crew
and 16 of the passengers.
But we didn't go to war. Grant
settled our troubles by negotiation.
When Benjamin Harrison was
president the people of Chili con¬
ceived a violent, dislike to the United
States. One junior officer from the
United States warship Baltimore was
killed outright in the streets of Val¬
paraiso and 16 of our sailors wound¬
ed.
But we didn’t go to war. Harrison
settled our troubles by negotiation.
More Historical Facts.
When Lincoln was president this
country's rights were violated on ev¬
ery side. England. Russia. France
and Spain were guilty of flagrant vio¬
lations.
But we didn’t go to war. Lincoln
settled our troubles by negotiation.
When Pierce was president the
British minister in this country and
three of his consuls violated our neu¬
trality during the Crimean war. We
gave these represenetativea of Groat
Britain their passports and sent them
home.
But we didn't go to war. Pierce
settled crnr troubles by negotiation.
When Van Buren was • president a
detachment of Canadian militia, dur¬
ing the internal troubles In Canada,
boarded the U. S. ship Carolina in
the American waters of Niagara river,
killed an American member of the
crew, fired the ship and sent her
adrift over Niagara Falls.
But we didn't go to war. Van
Buren settled our troubles by nego¬
tiation.
When Jefferson was president Eng¬
land seized hundreds of our ships and
Napoleon hundreds more.
But we didn’t go to war. Jefferson
settled our troubles by negotiation.
When Adams was president France
preyed upon our commerce until she
had piled up in our state department
charges of over 2,300 violations of
neutrality’s law.
But we didn't go to war. Adams
settled our troubles by negotiation.
When Washington was president
and, “neutrality” first declared, war
convulsed Europe. England and
France seized 400 of our ships and
confiscated miiiions of dollars’ worth
of our property.
But we didn’t go to war. Wash¬
ington settled our troubles by nego¬
tiation.
In his policy of peaceful negotia¬
tions today the president of the Unit¬
ed States follows the example set him
by the greatest presidents the Demo¬
cratic party and the greatest presi¬
dents the Republican party ever gave
this nation.
Policy of Negotiation,
"To maintain our national honor by
peace if we can, by war if we must,”
is the motto of the president of the
United States.
But before submitting to the chance
and misery of war, true statesman
that he is, he proposes to put the rea¬
son and justice of negotiation to the
test.
But, say our critics, this policy sat¬
isfies no~one.
They mean it does not satisfy those
who would map out a new and un¬
tried course for this nation to pursue,
Temporary Chairman Glynn.
but they forget it does satisfy those
who believe the United States should
live up to the principles it has pro¬
fessed for a century and more.
National Honor.
In desperation for a slogan our op¬
ponents try to create an issue out of
national honor.
Now national honor Is not the whim
of an individual mind.
National honor is the composite sen¬
timent, the composite reason of a
whole people feeling the emotion# of
nature and following the dictates of
God.
And it is for this reason that “the
power" to declare war Is conferred
by the Constitution of the United
States, not on the individual wiil of
president, but on the composite rea¬
son, the representative decision of
"the congress of the.United States."
Some Preparedness Ideas.
The genius of this country is for
peace. There is no danger of mili¬
tarism.
We have built our greatness on the
resources of nature and the peace¬
ful toil of our people.
With us war has never been a
choice, it has always been a fate.
Like the old Mohawk chief who
loved peace, we would like to throw
the tomahawk of war so high in the
sky that no man’s hand could ever
pull it down. But when some other
tribe among the races of men sends
us a bundle of arrows wrapped in
the skin of a rattlesnake, we want to
be in a position to send that rattle¬
snake's skin back stuffed with powder
and with ball.
We deprecate the compulsion but
we recognize the need of the police¬
man on the beat, the safe in the
bank and the watchdog on the farm.
The war across the seas has
brought home to us the fear that so
long as men are men and nations na¬
tions, wars will continue.
For Ehese reasons this administra¬
tion has done more for our army and
our navy than any administration in
our history.
The Democratic party advocates and
seeks preparedness, but it is prepared¬
ness for defense, not preparedness
for aggression.
Our National Soul.
These, then, are the principles that
have been asserted and followed by
the president of the United States
during the past two years—that the
United States shall not embroil it¬
self in European strife, that the Unit¬
ed States shall endeavor to maintain
friendly and cordial relations with ev¬
ery other nation and that the United -
tain States and shall be firmly prepared assert to assert and main¬ and | !
THE CLEVELAND COURIER. CLEVELAND. GEORGIA.
maintain its neutral rights against
every belligerent.
This convention must make it plain
that all divisions among the Ameri¬
can people stop at the ocean’s edge.
Over and above every other reason,
that the nation may have for uphold¬
ing its president, is the necessity of
proving to the world that we are a
united people.
So long as the other nations of the
earth realize that the millions under
America’s flag think as one, believe as
one and act as one in the face of for¬
eign war, we shall be free from for¬
eign intrigue, and all that it entails.
High above every other issue that
this convention offers to the Ameri¬
can people we must therefore write
a vindication of American loyalty.
Our Domestic Policies.
Four years ago the people of this
country entrusted their government
to a man and to a party who prom¬
ised that they would liberate the na¬
tion from the chains of industrial
tyranny, who pledged themselves to
break down the barriers behind which
special privilege sat entrenched; who
engaged themselves to emancipate
business, to throw wide the gate of
lawful enterprise, to restore to the
men and women of America the paths
of progress which had been choked
and blocked by long years of invisible
government.
That promise has been kept; that
pledge has been redeemed. We must
content ourselves here with a brief
consideration of the great landmarks
which chart the change from govern¬
ment for the fortunate few to an even
handed government in the interest
of all.
The first of these is the federal
reserve act which freed the business
man and the farmer from the financial
domination of the money changers and
lifted the menace of panic from our
industrial life.
In the same spirit and with the
same motive that inspired the fed¬
eral reserve act this administration
has devoted itself to the stimulation
of American industry, agriculture and
trade through all the agencies of gov¬
ernment.
New Meaning to Laws.
It has given a new meaning and
a new force to the laws restraining
big business from strifling competi¬
tion.
It has created a trade commission
to afford to business generally a more
direct and prompt administration of
the laws relating to business
It has established government rep¬
resentatives throughout the world,
whose sole duty is to foster the ex¬
pansion of American trad©.
It has created a closer union of
economic, commercial and financial
interests between the United States
and the nations of South America.
It lvas declared in language that
no court and no employer can compel
his men to work for him against their
will.
It has freed the farmer from the
chains of a financial system which
was devised for business and not for
farming.
I cannot close this review of what
the present administration has accom¬
plished without adverting to its cour¬
ageous and statesmanlike solution of
the nation's tariff problem.
Of ail the tariffs we ever enacted i
this is the fairest and the best
By the Underwood law this admin¬
istration has taken the tariff out of
politics; by the new tariff commis¬
sion it proposes to take politics out
of the tariff.
Under the present administration
the United States has enjoyed a won¬
derful era of good business and good
times.
Floodtlde of Prosperity.
The, flood-tide of our prosperity has
risen to such an unprecedented height
that the only limit to trade is our
ability to make and transport the com¬
modities demanded at home and
abroad.
The purchasing power of our peo¬
ple is greater than that of any other
people on the globe. Never was there
a® much money in our vaults as today.
Nowhere else on earth Is there a
more equitable distribution of what
the energy of labor hammers into ex¬
istence out of the material which capi¬
tal places in its hand.
Measured by every possible stand¬
ard—by the volume of exports and
imports, by the expansion of domes¬
tic trade, by the condition of labor,
by the rate of wages, by the size of
bank deposits and clearinghouse re¬
turns, by the balance of trade or by
the amount of gold in the country, by
any and all of these standards, this
country today Is enjoying prosperity
such as no other country has ever en¬
joyed before.
Wilson the Man.
Americanism and peace, prepared¬
ness and prosperity—these are the
issues upon which the Democratic
party stands, and the heart of Dem¬
ocracy swells with pride that is more
than a pride of party, as it hails the
man, who has asserted this Ameri¬
canism. assured this peace, advocated
this preparedness and produced this
prosperity.
The man who is president of the
United States today has measured up
to the best traditions of a great office.
And when the history of these days
comes to he written, and the >chil
dren of tomorrow read their nation’s
story, when time shall have dispelled
all misconception, and the years shall
have rendered their impartial verdict,
on.e name will shine in golden splen¬
dor upon the page that is blackened
with the tale of Europe's war, one
name will represent the triumph of
American principles oyer the hosts
of darkness and of deatn.
That name will b-s the name ot
Woodrow Wilson, president and presi
dent to be.
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JO HER BED
Almost All the Time for Two or
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Thomasville, N. C.—Mrs. J. W. Veach,
of R. F. D. 1, of this place, writes:
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had lost my flesh, weighing only 94
pounds. I was getting weaker all the
time and felt I would die if I didn’t
get something to help me.
“I sent for one bottle of Cardui, and
after its use I was improving. I then
bought six bottles for 35.00, for I had
seen it was helping me. The pain was
relieved. I could sleep at night. My
nerves got better... I got several
more bottles and had regained my
health, strength, and flesh, and weigh
my usual weight... My housework
is a pleasure now. I have as good
health as anybody. I consider Cardui
saved my life."
Such letters as these leave no doubt
as to the benefleial medicinal action of
Cardui.
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Civic Rivalry.
“I hear you had a cyclone out this
way last week.”
“It was nothing to speak of,” an¬
swered the Kansas man. “Just blew
away a few hencoops.”
"But I heard that the county court¬
house at Galesburg was blown away,”
“Well, sir, we citizens of the enter¬
prising city of Gadsvilie, the logical
place in the county for that court¬
house, always refer to Gadsville’s
makeshift affair as a hencoop.”
Envying the Engineer.
“It must be great to be a railroad
engineer?"
“Still clingingto your small-boy am¬
bitions, oh?"
“Oh, it isn’t that. I was just think¬
ing what a Joy it must be to be able
to drive and not have to liBten to the
advice of the passengers."—Detroit
Press.
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She Couldn’t Understand.
Mamie—Why did you leave your
last place?
Katie—The master and missus was
forever quarreling behind locked
doors.
"But wasn’t there a keyhole?"
"Yes, but they always quarreled In
French."
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WILSON STANDS
FOR AMERICANISM
President Advocates Preparedness in An
Address To The Graduates Of
West Point
MILITARISM IS DISCUSSED
President Says United States Won’t
Tolerate a Divided
Allegiance
•West Point, N. Y.—President Wil¬
son attended the graduation exercises
at the military academy. When the
naval yacht Mayflower carrying the
president and Mrs. Wilson anchored
in the Hudson off the academy
grounds a national salute of twenty
one guns was fired and answered from
the yacht. A troop of cavalrymen es
corted Mr. and Mrs. Wilson to the
parade grounds.
The president, making his first ad¬
dress since the presidential campaign
began, discussed preparedness, mili¬
tarism, Americanism, the causes ot
the war in Europe, peace, the Monroe
doctrine, divided allegiance and the
ideals of America.
He declared it is the present imper¬
ative duty of the United States to be
prepared, adding, “Mankind is going
to know that when America speaks
she means what she says.”
The president said the United
States should not be a blustering na¬
tion, a nation with “a chip on its
shoulder," but a calm nation which
will withhold its hand as long as
possible and strike only for victory.
The president's address ran through
the almost entire list of subjects dis¬
cussed by former Justice Hughes in
his telegram accepting the Republican
nomination and he declared that the
United States is ready to join with
other nations to see that the kind of
justice it believes in is given.
Shaking his finger emphatically, the
president told the graduates of the
military academy and a large audience
that nobody who does not put Amer¬
ica first can be tolerated. He added,
however, that true Americans should
set a good example.
The president declared the present
war did not come by accident, but
that it had to come. The United States
wants nothing from Europe, he said,
and there is nothing she wants that
she must get by war. He sounded a
warning that, no man can tell what
the next day will bring forth in the
world’s events.
The word “.vfeericanism'’ was used
by the president for the first time
in recent addresses. He constantly
referred to the West Point graduates
to whom he was speaking, but refer¬
red more to national and international
problems.
He warned the graduates against
militarism. The president’s speech
was frequently interrupted by ap¬
plause, and he was chared as he con¬
cluded.
CARRANZA SEEKS FOR
INTERVENTION BY U. S.
Officials In Washington Believe That
“First Chief Is Trying To Pro¬
voke Drastic Action
Washington.—Unies the increasing
seriousness of conditions in Mexico
forces ac :mm, the reply to General Car¬
ranza’s demand for withdrawal of
American troops probably will be de¬
layed until after the St. Louis con¬
vention because the administration de¬
sires to avoid any drastic step at a
time when it might appear to be
prompted by political influences.
The motives behind the anti-Amert
can propaganda and the precise atti¬
tude of General Carranza toward the
agitation both are subjects of specu¬
lation. Many officials are convinced
that the de facto government is totter¬
ing and think General Carranza may
have sent his belligerent note with the
deliberate purpose of provoking the
Washington administration to inter¬
vention. The control of the first chief
over the various elements of his army
and of his civil government is mani
festly weakening, according to official
reports. Instances have been report¬
ed where tax collectors sent by the
Carranza governments have been driv¬
en out by state authorities and peo¬
ple.
Diplomatic Officers Feel Living Cost
Washington.—Secretary Lansing has
asked congress for 375,000 for special
allowances to diplomatic officers at
foreign capitals, explaining that one
European ambassador had reported
the cost of living at his post had in¬
creased 200 to 300 per cent over nor¬
mal times. “Most of the diplomatic
officers at these capitals," said the
secretary, “are able to live at pres¬
ent only by drawing substantially on
their private means, and in many in¬
stances secretaries of embassies will
be forced to resign.”
Cotton Consumption Figures Increase
■Washington.—Cotton used during
May amounted to 574.S67 running
bales, the census bureau announces.
That compares with 493.79S bales used
in May a year ago. Cotton used for
the ten months ending May 31 was
5,335,573 runing bales, compared with
4.585,861 a year ago. ' Cotton on hand
May 31 in consuming establishments
was 1.973,094 bales, compared with
1.799,309 a year ago, and in public
storage and at compresses 2,150,lSt
bales, compared with 2,439,708 a yea:
ago.
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Safety First.
“You say you don't care to argue
about the war?”
“No—at least, not this morning.”
“Why not?"
“The plumbing is out of order at my
house and that has used up my stock:
of patience so -completely that I would
be sure to lose my temper.”
By Compulsion.
“Do you think you will go away for
the summer?”
“Yes," replied the meek-looking
man. “I expect to be perfectly miser¬
able and spend a great deal more
money than I can afford to spebd, but
I happen to have two marriageable
daughters and a strong-minded wife,
so I think I will go away for the sum¬
mer.”
New Absorbent in Surgery.
One medical outcome of the war i»
the discovery- that sphagnum moss and
fine sawdust are excellent substitutes
for absorbent cotton as dressings for
wounds. The moss is the long-flbered
kind commonly found in swampy
places in this country that florists and
nurserymen use for protecting the
roots of plants during shipment. It
takes up moisture better than absorb¬
ent cotton and does not grow sodden
so quickly. Of course both the moss
and tha sawdust are sterilized before
they are used for dressings.—Youth’s
Companion.
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“There’s a Reason”
