The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-15
ACHIEVEMENTS" OF
WILSON ARE LAUDED

ST. LOUIS. June l5.-The achieve
rnentB OF the Wilson administration In
enacting beneficial legislation and in
keeping the country at peace without
sacrifice OF the national honor were
pronounced epodh-making in Ameri-
can history by Senator ollie N. James,
Of Kentucky. in his address today as
permanent chairman Of the Democratic
national convention.
During three years OF It's national
CONTROL" sid Senator James, "Democ-
rRcy has enacted into law more pro-
EresBive remedial legislation than tho
nation has ever had written upon its
statute books since its birth. In for
mer national contests in tho last two
decades our party came as n prophet.
Today we come with deeds. not words;
With performance, not promise. The
Democratic party has kept its word
with the American people. We have
made good"
The chairman reviewed at length
the legislative record OF the admins
tration and eulogized the president for
his direction Of foreign AFFAIRS. The
Democrats, he said, had enacted n
tariff law under which monopolies
were curbed and une1ampled prosper
lily attained; n banking law taking the
money control out OF the hands Of an
oligarchy and making panies no longer
possible; and many reform measures
OF lesser Importance.
Docs Not Bully.
He declared President Wilson'S Mex
lean policy and his course in protect
ing American rights against the en-
oroachments OF European belligerents
had shown all the world that the presl-
dent neither bullies the weak NOR
fears the strong"
In concluding appeal for the
triumph OF patriotism above politics,
Senator James Baid the denomination
of such president In partisan con-
vention ought not TO be necessary. and
that TO dIscredit him might palsy tho
hand that could write the peace treaty
OF the world.
Al the outset the senator referred
against lobbying in Congress and
pointed out that under this administra-
ton the constitution has been amended
for the first time since the Civil war
when 1--WE freed the Senate from the
control OF the great interests by max
ing Il elective by the people at the
polls" He then etlogiEed the Under
woodSSlmmons tariff act az one OF
which the party was Justly proud.
Monopoly Not Fostered.
Not a schedule In its fosters a mo-
nopoly,' he said. Our Republican
friends told US Il would close the fac
tories, all the streets with IDLE men,
produce q panic, create soup houses
but we rejoice today TO point to an
inexampled prosperity In the nation
with labor more generally employed, At
higher rates, shorter hours. and better
conditions than ever before. Our Re-
publican friends tell us that after the
war is over poor, stricken, PROSTATE,
torn. bleeding Europe will take our
home market from Us. have no such
fear. America is going to take the
markets OF the world. But we shall
cut from them the last hope Of having
even false issue, for we shall pass
bill creating q tariff board 10 gather
the facts created by new war eondi-
tons"
Turning TO the federal reserve law,
Senator James declared that It alone
averted a panic at the outbreak Of the
European war.
what would have been the result II
the old Republican system had been in
effect" he asked. 1.-THE stock exchanges
in every city in the world were closed.
Europe poured its vast holdings In