The Dermott news., 1916-06-15
Democratic Keynote Sounded by Temporary Chairman GIynn.
DEFENDS NEUTRALITY POLICY
Advocates Defense Preparedness and FIouts Miltarism Bugaboo-Dis- cusses Domestic Policies and
 EuIogzes MT Wilson.

cratic national convention today by Temporary Chairman Martin II. Glynn. former governor of New York
 Gentlemen of the Convention The Democratic party, in this convention assembled. meets to perform duty. not to itself but to the nation.
 We havo entered this hall as Demo crats, We shall deliberate and act here as Americans.
 If in this great crisis that now con fronts the nation, the American people ialter. their apostasy will be visited upon the descendants of their chil- dren's children.
 Disreeardug the divisions that make one man Tory and another Whig, one man Republican and another Democrat. Americans will cast aside the tinsel of party cmblems.
 From the great pulsing heart Of the nation will come a patriot command to crush partisanship and rebuke what ever is mean or blind
 And when. century from now, Americas children come to read our history. we pray God that the history we are about to make may prove an Inspiration to their loyalty
 In the attainment Of this hope the utteranee ef this prayer we who gather here today have a responsibility that sobers our emotions aS it strengthens Dur resolutions.
 For two years the world has been h,,t far the United States has held the flame at bay
 Must Support Principles.
 What the people of the United States must determine through their suffrage is whether the principles that hsve been asserted as our national pol tcy shall be iudorsed or withdrawn.
 This is the paramount issue
 For 900 years neutrality was q the ory America made il fact To VIII this priceless right Of neutrality this nation had to undergo a long and pain. ful struggle
 Where is the American hardy enough to challenge a policy so firmly fixed in the nations traditions?
 The president ot the United States stands today where stood the men who made America and who saved Amer lea and made American neutrality q national creed.
 If Washington was right if JeGer- son was right. f Hamilton was right if Lincoln was right, then tho presi dent of the United States is right today. If the Republican leaders are right then Lincoln was wrong and Jefferson was wrong and Hamilton was wrong and Washington was wrong
 In all the history of the world there is no other national policy that has justified itself so completely and entirely as the American policy of neutrality and isolation from the guar rels of European powers.
 Neutral Rights Asserted.
 No American who knows the facts can honestly oppose or criticise the policy of neutrality which the present Democratic administration has pur- sued
 Amerleas doctrine of neutrality never meant that this nation must rush headlone into war at the first invasion of it's neutral rights. This does not mean that America will not resort to war when all other means of protecting it's neutral rights have failed. but il does mean that America will exhaust every peaceful means of protecting those rights before it takes the step from which there is no ap- peal
 The issue. raised by our opponents. of the yigar with which our neutral ity has been enforced is compara- tive issue which can be decided only by comparative results
 When Grant was president. during the war between Spain and the Span fish West Indies. a Spanish eunhoat seized the vessel Nirgiuus flying the American nag and spanish com mandaut in cold blood shot the cap tain ot tho Virgiuius. 36 of the crew and l6 of the passengers
 But We didn't 70 to war Grant settled our troubles by negotiation
 When Benjamin Harrison was president the people of Chill con ceived a violent dislike 10 the United States One junior officer from the United States warship Baltimore was killed outright in the streets of Val. paraiso and Is of our sailors wound ed
 But We didn't go to war Harrison settled our troubles by negotiation
 Meg Historical Poets,
 When Lincoln was president this country's rights were violated on ey. cry side England. Russia France and Spain were guilty of fragrant vio- lations
 But we didn't go to war. Lincoln settled our troubl6s by negotiation
 When Pierce was president the British minister ip this country and three of his consuls violated our neu- trality during tx Crimean war We gave these reprdsenetatives of Great