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LAUDED THE WILSON
RULING OF COUNTRY
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cratic national convention here today.
Declaring that "Americansm and
peace, preparedness and prosperity, are
the issues upon which the Democratic
party stands, and the heart of Democ-
racy swells with pride that is more
than a pride of party as it halls the
man who has asserted this American
ism. assured this peace, advocated this
preparedness and produced this pros
perity," he predicted the reelection of
President Wilson.
Taking up our foreign relations that
have been called into emphatic promi-
nence by the world wide war, the
speaker declared that 1--WE have enter
ed this hall as Democrats; we shall de-
liberate as Americans" = The
policy of neutrality, he argued, is as
truly American as the American flag.
For 200 years neutrality was theory;
America made it fact. 1T took
Washington and his successors eighty
years of endless negotiation to win rec
ognition of American neutrality. And
this eighty years of struggle wove the
doctrine of neutrality so closely into
the warp and wool of our national life
that to tear it out now would unravel
the very threads Of our existence" By
the records of history Mr.. Glynn main
tanned that if Washington and Lincoln
were right President Wilson is right.
The neutrality that President Wilson
stands for today was advocated by
Washington. by Hamilton, by Jeffer-
son and by Lincoln.
Followed Examples of Greatest Presi-
dents.
By citing precedents Mr.. Glynn justi-
fed and defended the course Of the
president in the Lusitania and similar
incidents. SIN the face of this rec
ord" he asked, do Republicans realize
that when they arraign the policy of
the president Of the United States to-
day they arraign the policy of Harri-
son, Of Blaine, of Lincoln and of
Grant? For the pleasure of criticising
q Democratic president, are they will
ing to read out of the Republican party
the greatest men the Republican party
ever had? Are they willing to say that
the Republican party of today con-
dennis what Hamilton did in revolu-
tionary days, what Lincoln did in civil
war days. and what Grant and Blaine
and Harrison did but yesterday?
I'm his policy of peaceful negotia
tons today the president Of the United
States follows the example set him by
the greatest presidents which the
Democratic party and the greatest
presidents the Republican party ever
gave this nation"
Mr. Glynn impressed on his hearers
that it was the business of this con-
vention, representing every section Of
the United States, speaking for every
racial strain in America. to send forth
message to all the world that will
leave no room for doubt.
"We must enable every real Ameri
can to stand up and assert his Ameri-
clear that every ballot box in the land
may become a monument to the loyalty
of American manhood.
1.-THE citizens of this country must
stand behind their president because
his policies are right. They will stand
behind him because his policies are the
policies which have brought the nation
a century Of prosperous and honored
peace. They will stand behind him
because they want these policies con-
tinued, that prosperity prolonged, that
peace assured"
Party Pledges Redeemed.
He pointed out that the promise
made four years ago that Democrat
ic administration would liberate the
nation from the chains of industrial
tyranny has been carried out. He eu-
logized the federal reserve act and
declared. that the "scholar-statesman
whose rod has struck the golden rock
Of Americas resources to set free the
wealth imprisoned for half q century,
Il is Moses who has led Americas in
dustries from the wilderness Of doubt
and despair to the promised land OF
prosperity and hope"
The laws restraining big business
from sitting competition, the trades
commission act, the movement to fos-
ter expansion of American trade, the
close union of economic, commercial
and financial interests between the
United States and the nations of South
America are shown to be legislation
Of the widest benefit. The Underwood
tariff Mr.. Glynn characterized as the
fairest and the best of all we have
enacted. Under the present admins
tration the United States has enjoyed
a wonderful era of good business and
good times.
American Ideals Fcstered.
The Americans ideals and his as
pirations served as the basis for the
speakers opening discussion.
1--WE who stand today on the fertile
soil of America, who live under the
smiling skies of free and fruitful
land, must prove worthy of the trust
that American sacrifice has imposed
on every American.
"Disregarding the divisions that
make one man a Tory and another q