The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-14
WHAT MIR. GLYNN FORGOT.

WHAT MIR. GLYNN FORGOT.
| Except in one particular, and it ap-
pears to be an essentially important
one, the address delivered at st. Louis
today by Martin H. Glynn, former
governor of New York. in his capacity
as temporary chairman of the Demo-
| cratic national convention, is clever
| ly forceful defense of the record. ac-
! complishments and policies of Presi-
dent Wilson and the Democratic ad-
ministration: about as good one as
anybody could make, considering the
material at hand.
| But so far as Mr.. Glynn is concern
ed, there is no such place on the map
as Mexico, and no such question on
the political horizon as the Mexican
situation and the attitude of the
United States towards it.
| At any rate, Mr.. Glynn ignored
Mexico and the Mexican question as
completely as though they did not
exist.
And as the temporary chairman of
national convention is generally
recognized as the campaign keynoter
of the party holding the convention,
| it would seem no more than fair to
|
by the Democratic party during the
coming presidential campaign to treat
the big Mexican question as a sub
sidiary incident in the affairs of this
nation: and not for what it is-one of
the most vital facts that has con-
fronted the United States in the whole
gamut of its history.
This, however, is no more than a
most polite attitude for the leaders of
Democracy to assume, because the
cleverest among them, and Mr.. Glynn
| is one of these, would find it difficult
to present any adequate defense of the
manner in which President Wilson and
his assistants have handled the Next
can matter.
The silence of Mr. Glynn on this
large subject is the most conspicuous
feature of his otherwise most vigor-
lious address. And it is little short of
a confession that the Democrats are
neither very proud, as they surely
have no reason to be, of the record
they have established in respect to the
Mexican situation, nor can they see
their way clear to defend it in any
very satisfactory manner
Regardless, though of the evident
desire Of the Democratic party to
shunt the Mexican question off to one
side. it is going to be one of the big
issues of the campaign: whether &C
tual Intervention in Mexico on the
part of the United States comes, as
now seems likely. before the votes in
the presid Dental. election are counted
next November, or whether the Mexi-
can situation continues as it has for
so many months and until the people
place the reins of their government
in other and firmer hands.
Mr.. Glynn's address as well as the
one that was delivered Tuesday by
President Wilson to the graduating
class at West Point also gives evidence
that the Democratic leaders have been
quick to recognize the potency with
the people of "Americanism' because
they both sound the tocsin for it. But
they must needs, it would seem, get
together on just what the American
ISM they would exhort as simon pure
Democratic doctrine means.
To Mr.. Glynn it appears to mean
one thing and to Mr.. Wilson it seems
to mean another.
But to neither, of course, is it the
real doctrine of "Americanism'' that
has been developed during the past
few weeks by Theodore Roosevelt and
exploited so successfully by him that
lit has been adopted by the Republi-
can party for it's campaign creed for
the critical presidential contest that
is about to get under way at full steam
ahead; and has also been embraced
most emphatically by Charles Evans
Hughes, the Republican presidential
nominee.
Nor is this the only point on which
the Spokesman of the Democratic
party do not appear to be in complete
harmony.
Mr.. G1ynn, the party's keynote
, sounder, declares that the United
States is in need of preparedness and
that the Democratic party advocates
and seeks preparedness merely for the
defense of this nation.
President Wilson told the West
Point cadets that the United States
needed to be prepared not only for the
proper defense of its life, but also that
! America, or the Americanism, which
our life, as nation, comprises, means
something which is bigger than the
: United states, land that we stand here
with the glorious power of this coun-
try ready to swing it out into the field
of action whenever liberty and indie
pendence and political integrity are
threatened anywhere in the western
hemisphere.
And we are ready" President Will
> son enthusiastically has author
: lied me to say this but I am sure OF
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