The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-26
NEW YORK JURisT MAKES ARl E AND ELOQUENT PLEA FOR
 DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.
DlSCORD FORCED SUSPENSION
Temporary charman's Address Was Postponed Until the Night ses- sion--The Republican Con.
 vention is Scored.

Baltimore, June 25.-A rapid fire routine session tonight closed tht. first day of the Democratic conven ton, which began with the defeat of William J Bryan for temporary chair man this afternoon. Scenes Of dis older on the floor, which made fur ther proceedings impossible, forced to- nights session and compelled AIron B. Parker to suspend his keynote speech until the evening session
 Tonight the delegates on the floor gave earnest evidence of their desire to do something In hurry. Leaders Lad planned to adjourn the session tonight until o'clock tomorrow anu to have the committees which were appointed tonight. meet at 10 o'clock |. the morning. But the delegates would not hear of this plan, and dis orderly protests from the floor forced an adjournment until noon and aC- yanced the committee meetings ,a immediately after tonights session The delegates were very excited about hurrying things along. A voice from the floor during the discussion an- nouuced:
 .sWe have no Perkins to pay our hills."
 The completion of Judge Parker's speech and the naming of the conYen- tIon committees was all the conyea- ton did tonight. w J. Bryan did not appear in the convention hall during the evening. His failure to be on hand resulted in an almost immediate adjournment of the resolutions com mlGtee, which met after the session. II was practically certain Mr. Bryan would De elected chairman of tho committed The other committees got together immediately for organ .zation
 Ja55e Parkers Keynote Speech.
 At the evening session Judge Alton E Parker concluded his opening ad- dress
 Judge Parker said in part
 We meet while the hiIls yet echo to wild cries Of thief and traitor and furious walls of fraud. bribery, treachery and cor fuption; and our ears are weary with the din of articulate shFieking and passionate yilification of the most shameful brawl of our political history.
 Our candidates. however, are. without exception. men of such lofty mien that We meet immune from the distemper which seized the Chicago convention and nrltiiegel tn alscha rge solemn duty calmly deliberately.
 Tine cause of government by the peo- pie the world over has been materially checked by the disgraceful brawl which terminated in the bediam of Chicago. Every good citizen has been put to shame by the brutality and the abuse which characterized this wrangle between 6 president and an ex- pres ident Gratitude, Heb n md common decency were forgotten in the tussle
 .sThe assault upon the unwrtten prohi- bition against 6 third term made in the wild scramble for the republican nomi- nation warns us of the vital necessity Of Incorporating in our constitution a safe guard against repeated terms.
 In the very beginning of our Legislation making it was urged by delegates partic- pating that safety required a limitation Of the period of years one man might hold the office of president. History warned them of the coming of man hese insss. liable las. ef ;se=sss ~enld be as consuming as Caesars. towering high aboVe his love of country. The danger seemed, even to the pessimists, to have passed with the establishment of q prece- uent by Washington, Jefferson and then successors. Indeed where lives the man who has not either heard or said that an unwritten law forbids more than two terms and if anyone could be so foolhardy ds 10 seek further, he would be crushed o} the wrath of patriotic and intelligent public
 The man who split his party at chi- eago once recognized the third term uadition and acknowledged its plain situation. On the eve of It's triumph IT lse4 he said.
 The wise custom, which limits the president to two terms regards the sub stance and not the form and under nc circumstances will l be a candidate ol accept another nomination
 Wrong in this year of grace, he was ilght on that. Per adventure he was hoiisst with his soul and he may hav' confessed to II even president may bi tempted to resort to sordid devices ane snameless importunities to gain his am piilon If so, he was fin mental condition 70 realize the danger to the republic m soiyed in setting aside a custom eonsutu tlng the only bulwark against the assaults ~ men whose ambition chOkes their pat tlotism and whose selfish desire for per sonal victory and power rnrotrfes thos' moral scruples with which they once p' endowed
 Would the man who threw nis hat II the ring and sought to slug his opponeh over the ropes in his fight for a thiIs tsfm rest satisfied with it's aehieyenen. Slenrly his lust of power would nav prooked no such ilmitat ton. third tern would have but whctted his deslre to more and as the terms slipped awh' each renewal would discover greater in laiy 10 our constitution and government established under 1t. This is the mal @ho menaced us with an increase 2 Federal power by usurpation of states Tights and without authority of constiiu i,l .ional amendments the man who took sl' lsthmus of Panama and let congress ue oate about if afterwards; the man, VII ,i' not having enough money 70 senu ,e,a si' tx A. tIrn n sent it without sanction of congress, leaV ihg it to appropriate the money tor th' return when congress deemed that hee sssary, This is the man who adVocA'eN' < federal incorporation for the increase " power at Washington and the hsheeH'"'