South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-16


early in the day. and when the cor
virtually every delegate seat was fill
Dist. Chairman ID. NJ. Bechtel called
the convention to order, and after d
few remarks, called 5. y. Stevens OF
Plymouth to the chair.
As temporary chairman. Stevens
threw the convention open to Judge
James F. Gallagher of Laporte. and
Hon Charles p Drummond, of South
Bend, rival candidates for the su
preme bench, for a few remarks.
Chairman Stevens himself is a can
didate for circuit Judge in his home
district.
L. G. Warm, county chairman OF
Kosciusko county, served the conven-
ton as secretary. The temporary or
ganiZation was later made permanent
There was a thunder of applause
when Congressman Barnhart was
escorted to the platform, TO accept
the nomination"
His thanks were expressed in
characteristic mOdesty. He did not
arrogate to himself any great honor,
but accepted it as a vote Of confidence
in the national democratic admins
tration. He told the delegates that
he wanted them to look at il in the
same light. He designated himself
their congressman TO serve. and not
to self-glOrify.
One Year of Democracy.
After urging the Indiana demo-
cracy To keep in line with Wilson
and Bryan at Washington. by adopt
ing a sure-enough progressive plat
form next Thursday, including pro-
vision for a statewide primary. he
reviewed national legislation, in part,
this way:
We have just closed one year of
democratic rule and no president in
the history Of the republic has ever
tuned his policy OF goodness and
greatness to a more popular key than
President Wilson.
Instead of proving to be the tech
nical and impractical schOolmaSter
president which his campaign oppOn-
ents predicted. he has handled every
question with a brOadness Of knOwl-
edge and a thorOughness Of diplom-
acy and determination which has
fixed his name high up on the scroll
of the worlds benefactOrs. And he
has not been alone. He has been
cheerfully and effectively supported
by both branches of a democratic
GOuSIGSSs anu 10 lOuI nOISe team IDS
ever been hitched TO the peoples
cause that pulled it so steadily 10
high ground and TO safe footing as
Champ Clark, Tom Marshall, Wood
row Wilson and William Jennings
Bryan"
What has been accomplished by
the democrats in their first year,
Congressman Barnhart then proceed
ed to enumerate in brief detail.
The entire business world is hap
PLY surprised to see what reform
legislation has been put through
without more than temporary halt
in business" he said. And any sen
sible man would have expected some
disturbance in business during the
passage of bills TO revise both the
tariff and the currency laws Of the
country Nobody could justly criti-
else business interests for going slow
until they saw what the changes
would be. Why. it is a law OF busi-
ness as we'll as OF nature that de-
struction or removal Of injurious I'm
pediments TO healthy conditions al
ways produces a shock 10 the vitality
OF the patient.
Tried TO Start Panic.
"Ohi but they said we were going
to have "a panic. didn't they2
The old stand-pat crowd laid a
panic bomb for explosion as soon as
the currency and tariff bills were
signed. And then Senator Root and
House Leader Mann touched off the
fuse.
Mr.. Root made a speech TO the
stand-pat national committee, gath
cred in Washington. in which he de-
clared a bEghting panic was coming.
His audience stood up and cheered.
"A week later Mr.. Mann made a
speech in congress in which. in
thunderous tones. he declared a ruin
ous panic was sweeping the country
like a hurricane.
The result was a fiZZle.
There was no explosion, no panic.
and the shameful effort OF the repub-
lican leaders TO spread disaster and
ruin by false cry OF calamity result
ed in further discreGit 20 them and
that was all.
Just TO satisfy myself about the
truth OF this matter OF prices OF farm
products 1 asked the 7. :. department
OF labor TO give authentic Chicago
prices for IA leading products OF the
farm for the first week I'm March Of
the last ten years From this report
compared and combined with the
quotations OF Chicago prices as pub
lished in the market reports OF the
newspapers. I made the discovery
that the cry OF slumping prices OF
farm products is pure bunk.
But you ask II farm produce has
rot been lowered in price whom and
how does the removal Of the tariff
from food necessities help? will