New Britain herald., 1916-06-14
AMERICANISM AND
 WILSON THE SAME
Ex~GoV. Glynn Delivers Inspiring
 Convention Keynote Address
TURNS BLADE ON G. Q. P.
Shows That Republicans Read Out of the Party Their Greatest Men When They Criticize Course Taken by President Today.

They Criticize Course Taken by President Today.
 St. Louis. June 14.-With the asser- ton that no president since the CIVIL War has had as crucial problems to i solve; and no president has displayed I a grasp more sure, Statemanshlp more profound as President Wilson, 1 Hon. Martin H. Glynn, former goVef- nor of New York, opened the demo- | cratic national convention here today. Declaring that "Americanism and 1 peace, preparedness and prosperity 1 are the issues upon which the demo- cratic party stands, and the heart or democracy swells with pride that IS more than a pride of party, as It halls l the man, who has asserted this Amer i icanism, assured this peace, adVocat- ed this preparedness and produced this prosperity" he predicted the re- election of President Wilson.
 Taking up our foreign relations that has been called into emphatic proml- hence by the worldwide war the sneaker declared that We have en- l tered this hall as dem ocrats; we shall 1 deliberate as Americans. - The policy of neutrality, he argued, IS | as truly American as the American l flag For two hundred years neutral ity was a theory; America made It fact Tt took Washington and hlS 1 successors eighty years ot endless he- | gotiation to win recognition Of Amer | ican neutrality Ana tnlS elShCS
 years of struggle wove the doctrine of neutrality so closely into the warp
 and wool of our national life that to
 tear it out now would unravel the 1 very threads of our existence" By | The records of history MT. Glynn
 maintained that if Washington and Lincoln were right, President Wilson
 is right. The neutrality that Presi- dent Wilson stands for today was ad- vocated by Washington, by Hamilton,
 by Jefferson and by Lincoln.
 Justifies Lusitania Stand.
 By citing precedents Mr Glynn justified and defended the course of the president in the Lusitania and similar incidents. Tn the face of this record" he asked: "Do Republicans
 realize that when they arraign the policy of the president of the United
 States today they arraign the policy
 of Harrison, of Blaine, of Lincoln and of Grant? For the pleasure of crit icising a democratic president, are l they willing to read out of the re- publican party the greatest men the republican party ever had? Are they | willing to say that the republican party did in revolutionary days, what l Lincoln did in Civil war days and what Grant and Blaine and Harrison did but yesterday.
 'In his policy of peaceful negotia- tions today the president or the United States follows the example set him by the greatest presidents which the democratic party and the greatest presidents the republican party ever gave this nation
 MT Glynn impressed on his hearers l that it was the business of this con- vention representing every section of the United States, speaking to send forth a message to all the world that l will leave no room for doubt.
 we must enable every real Amer | ican to stand up and assert his Americanism. We must make the is sue so clear that very ballot box in the land may become monument to the loyalty of American manhood
 '"The citizens of this country must stand behind their president because his policies are right. They will stand behind him because his poli- i cies are the policies which have brought the nation a century of prosperous and honored peace. They will stand behind him because they want these policies continued, that l prosperity prolonged, that peace as- l sured."
 Release From Industrial ShackIeS. He pointed out that the promise made four years ago that a democratic administration would liberate the na- tion from the chains of industrial tyranny has been carried out. He eulo- gized the Federal Reserve act and de- cared that the Scholar statesman, whose rod has struck the golden rock of Americas resources, to set free the wealth imprisoned for half a cen tury, is a Moses who has led Amer icas industries from the wilderness of doubt and despair to the promised land of prosperity and hope"
 The laws restraining big busi- ness from sti1ing competition, the trades commission act, the movement to foster expansion of American trade, the close union of economic. commercial and financial interests be- | tween the United States and the na- | tions of South America are shown to | be Iegislation of the widest benefit The Underwood tariff. MT. Glynn char 1 acterized as the fairest and the best > | of all we have enacted. Under the
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