Arizona republican., 1916-06-16
CHAIRMAN OLLIE JAMES SOUNDS
KEYNOTE Of OUR DEMOCRACY

ST. LOUIS, June 15.-Tne committee
on permanent organization of the dem
ocratic national convention today
formally named Senator Ollie James of
Kentucky as permanent chairman, and
]. Bruce Kremer of Montana perma-
nent secretary, E f. Britton of North
Carolina, permanent associate secre-
tary J. |. Martin, st. Louis. permanent
sergeant at arms, and recommended
that all other temporary officers of
the convention be made permanent
1t was 11:40 when Temporary Chair
man Glynn called the convention to
order Archbishop Glennon of st. Louis
then offered prayer.
Reports of the committees on Gre
dentials and permanent organization
were adopted and Senator James, es
cOrted to the chair, began his address.
He departed from the printed text of
his speech but gave its substance. Sen
ator James said:
The achievements of the Wilson
administration in enactng beneficial
legislation and in keeping the country
at peace without sacrifice of the ma
tional honor We're pronounced epoch
making in American history by James.
During three years of its national
CONTROL said Senator James, de
mocracy has enacted into law more
progressive remedial legislation than
the nation has ever had written upon
its statute books since its birth. In
former national contests in the last
two decades our party came as a
prophet. Today we come with deeds,
not words; with performances, not
promise. The democratic party has
kept it's word with the American
people. We have made good
The chairman reviewed at length
the legislative record of the admin
istraton and eulogized the president
for his direction of foreign affairs.
The democrats, he said, had enacted
a tariff law under which monopolies
were curbed and unexampled pros
perity attained; a banking law TAX
ing the money control out of the
hands of an oligarchy and making
panics no longer possible; and many
reform measures of lesser import
ance
He declared President Wilson's
Mexican policy in protecting Ameri-
can rights against the encroachments
of European belligerents had shown
all the world that the president
neither DULLES the weak nor fears
the strong"
In concluding appeal for the tri-
umph of patriotism above politics.
Senator James said the denomination
vention ought not to be necessary
and that to discredit him might palsy
the hand that could write the peace
treaty of the world.
\ At the outset the senator referred
briefly to President Wilson's cam
paign against lobbying in congress and
| pointed out that under this admin
istration the constitution had beer
amended for the first time since the
Civil War when I'VE freed the SEN
ate from the control of the great in
terests by making it elective by the
people at the polls" He then eulo-
gized the Underwood Simmons tariff
act as one of which the party wa.
justly proud.
Not a schedule in its fosters /;
monopoly" he said. Our republican
friends told us it would close tn,
factories, fill the streets with idl,
men, produce a panic, create soul
houses and distress would reign ev
erywhere; but we rejoice today t,
point to an unexampled prospert,
in the nation with labor more gen
orally employed, at higher rates
shorter hours, and better condition
than ever before. Our republican
friends tell us that after the war /
over poor, stricken, PROSTATE, TORI
bleeding Europe will take our HON
market from us. ! have no such feal
America is going to take the market
of the world. But we shall cut fror
them the last hope OF having eve
false issue, for we shall pass a bill
creating a tariff board to gather tn
facts created by new war conditions.
Turning to the federal reserve law
Senator James declared that it alon
averted a panic at the outbreak @
the European war
What would have been the resul
il the old republican system ha
been in effect" he asked 1.-THE stoc
exchanges in every city in the worl
were closed. Europe poured its vas
holdings in plethargic streams upo
our shores. Who thinks that the oil