The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-06-28
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN OF DEM.
ocRATlc CONVENTION AP-
PEALs FOR HARMONY.
REPUBLICANS SCORED
Old, Conservative Element in the G.
O. p. Excoriatsd for Failing to Carry
Out Its Pisdess-Roossveit Robbed
Of Nomination by Unssating Of Dele.
gates Honestly Elected.

Baltimore, June 27.-Mr. James al
dress as permanent chairman was as
follows:
II am deeply grateful to this great
convention of patriotic American dem
Ocrats for the high honor which you
have bestowed upon me In calling me
TO preside over the deliberations while
you select the next president of this
republic.
"Econgratulate the democrats of the
nation on the fortunate auspices I'M
der which we have assembled. Here
no charge of bribery hovers above this
hall. no cry of thief and robber Is
hurled by one fellow democrat at an
other. No soldiers stand in reserve
to keep us from one another's throats.
Our deliberations here shall be for
the country's good. tolerant of each
others views believing as l do that
when the nominees are named by this
convention. they will have back of
them every loyal democrat in the re-
public. as well as the hearty support
OF progressives everywhere.
Long, Hard Battle.
IuS uSNIoathto Phbt " Ia NSS'hA"'-
ly a party of the people because 1t Is
the people. II has fought long. hard
battle, when 1t seemed that night would
never end and that day would never
dawn; but the battle I'm the interest
OF the rights of the people We have
continued to make until we set the
common enemy. the once great repub-
lican party, divided, distracted and
torn asunder. while democracy Is
united. harmonious and militant.
"There are two records that will be
presented to the American people In
the coming campaign for their con-
sideration. One is the record of the
republican party with promises be-
trayed arrogantly, defiantly be-
trayed; and the other Is the record
OF the democratic party Of promises
faithfully and honestly kept. The re-
publican party itself, recognizing that
President Taft has been unfaithful
to the great mass OF Americans, re-
fused by an honest majority of the
convention to renomlnate him and IT
was only brought about by the most
wholesale and deliberate unseating OF
delegates honestly elected, that was
ever perpetrated In American poll
tics.
"The republican party, flushed with
many victories. imperious as tyrant.
unheeding the demands of the people.
took the reins of the government In
1908 under the solemn promise that
II would revise the tariff In the in
terests OF the consumer. Instead OF
keeping this promise as It should have
done because II was their bond of hon
or, It betrayed It, The republicans
raised the tariff higher than ever be-
fore until It reached Its maximum of
protection, but 40 per cent. The story
of this base betrayal Is known to all
men.
1.-THE democratic party appealed on
its record in the Eixty-first congress
on the Payne -Aldrich tariff bill to the
American people and received from
them verdict of guilty against the
republican party ana the bestowal OF
power upon ourselves
"How faithfully we have kept our
promises to them Is but a resume OF
our official action.
First. we reduced the tariff upon
woolen clothes 40 per cent. This was
the one schedule that President Taft
utUbeu UdO Sdiu WIS too IiBn. lu1b
bill went to the senate, and though
Il was controlled by the opposition
party we found sufficient assistance
from the ranks Of our opponents to
pass It up to the president. The pres
ident returned It to congress with shis
veto and assigned as his reason that
ne had no tariff board report and was
therefore uninformed upon the ques-
tion and for this reason returned It
with his disapproval.
I'VE undertook to pass this bill over
his veto. We lacked only II votes OF
having the necessary two-thirds to
pass II through the house of repre-
sentatives over the presidents veto.
And today the wool trust stands not
behind majority OF the lawmakers of
the republic. but behind the veto OF
the president and the eleven more
than One-third Of the representatives