The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-02
GLyNN'S SPEECH LAUDS
WILSON AND PLATFORM
Quotes Arabian Nights in His
Shafts Of Wit Directed at
Roosevelt.
MIR. TAFT AND THE TRUSTS
Says Joker of the Pack and
Right Bower Were Nomi.
mated at Saratoga.

SYRACUSE, Oct. 1.-Followins Is the
speech, in part. Of Martin II. Glynn as
temporary chairman Of the Democratic
State Convention:
| Gentlemen Of the Convention:
We are assembled here TO set the stamp
Of approval upon the Baltimore platform,
| and 20 ratify the nomination Of the next
| President Of the United States---the Hon
Woodrow Wilson We acclaim him p
| standard bearer worthy Of the best ira.
ditions OF Thomas Jefferson and proclaim
! the platform upon which he stands q
canonical book Of political ethics. political
Justice and political progress!veness.
We are assembled here as the repre-.
sentatives of the Democracy Of the State
TO write a platform ana TO nominate q
ticket for the approaching campaign. II
We display the same wisdom and inde.
pendencc, the same loyalty and devotion
to the will of the people as we're dis
played al Baltimore in June II We write
a platform IN consonance with tho pro-
gressive principles Of the Baltimore dec
laration II we nominate candidates In
sympathy with the sentiments and record
OF Woodrow Wilson our majority in this
State on election night will help ring the
knel W Rourhonism in this nation and
herald tho advent OF a wider and wiser
humanity in our political sphere.
TIL. principal issues of this campaign
are the high cost Of living and the rule
Of the people.
The high cost Of living will cease 70 be
n political issue after the 4th Of next
March. Presiden. Wilson and a Demo-
cratic Congress will attend to that.
The rule of the people was exemplihed
az never before in the Baltimore conven.
ton. What happened at Baltimore must
and shall h" repeated here in this con.
venton for. my friends. the Democratic
party was bern progressive. reared pro-
Gressive and when II ceases to be progress
sive IL has no further reason for ex.
istence.
At Saratoga the Republicans selected
tho Joker OF their pack for Governor. and
for Lieutenant Governor named the right
bower Of the machine. In bringing forth
the Saratoga platform 'hc mountains la
bored and inuG5c was born. This plat
form s;raddles direct primaries. II de-
clares for primary law that is practical
and satisfactory-practic for Barnes
and satisfactory for Root. II opposes the
popular election Of United States Senators
and compromises the woikmens compen-
sGtion measure. II wants to hurry up thu
next constitutional convention for fear
that the demand for popular rule Will hs
invincible IN 1915. But whether the next
constitutional convention be held two
years from move or four years from
now. Mr.. Barnes and Mr.. Root Will have
little to say In it. The old order which
they represent is passing away: and the
dawn of better things is AT hand.
In this campaign. my friends. William
| Howard Taft is the candidate Of the
trusts. Theodore Roosevelt the candidate
Of himself, and Woodrow Wilson the can.
didate OF the people.
In this campaign Theodore Roosevelt,
rules the dominion of atsurdity. No
Longer Is he the mighty hunter. no longer
the conquering warrior, no longer the dis
covcrer OF the Ten Comma andments. Now
he IL a crusader
with FIRE in each eye and papers In each
hand
lie raves recites and maddens round tn.
land
Now this spendthrift Of tongue SAYS he
is standing at Armageddon battling for
IN" Lord How strange must he this an
gelic task for the man who d!ckered with
Tom Plat FOR the Goyelnorship and
bought the Presidency with Harrimans
money.
The Arabian Nights tell Of a Basdad
merchant who slept in a caliphs bed one
night and ever after dreamed he was a
caliph. This is the trouble with Theodore
Roosevelt. He is the victim Of a dream.
He dreams he bears an enchanted lance
which overthrows whatever it may touch.
He dreams he wields Orlandos sword
which clsaves mountains with a blow.
He dreams he blows magic horn that
routes armies with a blast, He dreams
all the world follows him to listen
to his Tyre. He dreams he can cure
our political ills with the sweet smoke II
his rhetoric. lie dreams he can panscea
the world with bottle Of moonshlne. and
lead mankind 10 the silver coated isle Of
Nowhere. lie is the chameleon OF the
political world and some day will blow NJ,
matching MS colors to contradictory hues