The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-06-15
SUPPORT II PRESIDENT
PARAMOUNT !|| NJ ISSUE.
Democratic Keynote Sounded by
Temporary Chairman GIynn.
FEHDs NEUTRALITY POLICY
&tlvooates Defense Preparedness and
|fouts Miiitarlsm Bugaboo-Dla.
eusses Domestic Policies and
Euloalxee MIR. Wilson.


Euloelxee Mr.. Wilson.
3t. Louis, Mo-, June 14.-FoIlowing
5s \ condensed version Of the address
Aollvered ut the opening of the Demo.
G'Rttc national convention today by
temporary Chairman Martin H.
E!ynn, former governor Of New York.
Gentlemen of the Conventions: The
No'nocratic party, in this convention
mbled, meets to perform a duty,
ntf> to itself but to the nation.
We have. entered this hall as Demo.
,f@ss; we shall deliberate and act here
as Americans.
D In this great crisis that now con-
'rnlits the nation, the American people
ta!teE. their apostasy will be visited
4p1n the descendants Of their chill.
afon's children
'isregarding the divisions that make
sue man q Tory and another a Whig,
u e man Republican and another q
anocrat Americans will cast aside
'he tinsel Of party emblems.
rom the great, pulsing heart of the
au'ion will como d patriot command
10 crush partisanship and rebuke what
over is mean or blind.
nd when, q century from now,
Aln ericas caildren come to read our
St'story. 20 pray God that the history
50 arc about to make may prove an
'nG.hration to their loyalty.
IL the attainment of this hope the
torrance of this prayer we who gather
ia today have responsibility that
ers our emotions as 1t strengthens
QY resolutions.
or two years the world has been
'.N. That fire still burns, but thus
Wv he United States has held the
ie at bay.
Must, Support Principles.
hat the people of the United
.uies must determine through their
'dnrage is whether the principles that
ave been asserted as our national pol.
10y shall be Endorsed or withdrawn.
his is the paramount issue.
or 200 years neutrality was the
25H; America made 1t fact. To win
Hi" priceless right of neutrality this
aa ion had to undergo long and pain.
81 struggle.
Where is the American hardy enough
s. challenge policy so firmly fixed
IN :he nations traditions?
he president Of the United States
1iands today where stood the men who
Naie Amr-'c, and who saved Amer
Ai'a wnao hmeu@en roltrality a
~no' "reod
WN%hImsa yas 1gh ii Jeffer-
was r'b0t @'nNsu vas right,
-Gc.!. 49, --e--. .5sr the presi-
denG of the United States is right
f"dfy; II the Republican leaders are
r!Sht then Lincoln was wrong and
IL erson was wrong and Hamilton
"os wrong and Washington was
wrung.
IN all the history of the world
thte is no other national policy that
has justified itself so completely and
cntrely as the American policy of
Noutrality and isolation from the quar-
rels Of European powers
Neutral Rights Asserted.
80 American who knows the facts
can honestly oppose or criticise the
polcy Of neutrality which the present
democratic administration has pur.
huel.E
a nerica's doctrine Of neutrality
nevor meant that this nation must
ins.l headlong into war at the first
'trirasion Of its neutral rights. This
does not mean that America will not
resort to war when all other means
OF protecting it's neutral rights have
iaiicd, but 1t does mean that America
@ili exhaust every peaceful means OF
Getting those rights before 1t takes
The step from which there is no ap.
peal.
ne issue, raised by our opponents,
OF the vigor, with which our neutral.
jtS has been enforced Is compare
tiyo issue which can be decided only
5y comparative results.
When Grant was president, during
fha war between Spain and the Span
ssh West Indies, Spanish gunboat
seized the vessel Virginius flying the
american flag and Spanish com.
n,aldant in cold blood shot the can.
tainof the Virginius, SO OF the crew
ana 18 Of the passengers
i'ut we didn't 60 to war. Grant
settled our troubles by negotiation.
When Benjamin Harrison was
} president the people Of Chill con-.
oeiyed$:a violent dislike to the United
I States. One junior officer from the
United States warship Baltimore was
killed outright in the streets of VAL.
paraiso and 16 Of our sailors wound.
sed
tut we didn't go to war. Harrison
h settled our troubles nv neootiatIon