Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-15
CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL CON
vENTloN PRAISES RECORD AS
EPOCH MAKING HISTORY.
LEGISLATION HELD TO
HAVE BROUGHT GOOD
nancial Panic-Mexican Policy De-
Tended and European Policy De.
clared to Have Kept the United
States Out Of War.

St. Louis, June 1.-THE achieve
ments Of the Wilson administration in
enacting beneficial legislation and in
keeping the country at peace without
sacrifice of the national honor were
pronounced epoch making in Ameri-
can history by Senator Ollie NJ. James,
Of Kentucky, in his address today as
permanent chairman of the democratic
national convention.
During, three years of it's national
control" said Senator James, 'democ-
racy has enacted into law more pro-
gressive remedial legislation than the
nation has ever had written upon its
statute books since its birth. In for
mer national contests in the last two
decades our party came as 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 administration
and eulogized the president for his di-
rection of foreign affairs The demo-
Gratis. he said. had enacted tariff
law under which monopolies were
curbed and .unexampled prosperity at
tanned: a banking law taking the
money control out of the hands of an
oligarchy and making panics no longer
possible: and many reform measures
of lesser Importance.
He declared President Wilson's Mex
nn1ic1- nd h N, -
ing American rights against the en-
croachments of European belligerents
had shown all the world that the presi-
dent neither DULLES the weak nor
fears the strong"
In a concluding appeal for the tri-
umph of patriotism above politics.
Senator James said the denomination
of such a president in partisan con-
ventior ought not to be necessary. and
that to discredit him might palsy the
hand that could write the peace treaty
Of the world.
Campaign Against Lobbies.
At the outset the senator referred
briefly to President Wilson's campaign
against lobbying in congress and
pointed out that under this admins
tration the constitution had been
amended for the first time since the
civil war when I'VE freed the senate
| from the control of the great interests
! by making it elective by the people al
| the polls He then eulogized the I'm
| derwood- Simmons tariff act as one OF
which the party was justly proud
Not a schedule in 1t fosters q
! monopoly" he said Our republican
| friends told US 1t would close the fac
tories, fill the streets with idle men.
produce a panic, create soup houses
and distress would reign everywhere
but we rejoice today to point to an
unexampled prosperity in the nation
with labor more generally employed.
at higher rates, shorter hours. and bet
ter conditions than ever before Our
| republican friends tell US that after
the war is over poor. stricken, pros
| trate, torn. bleeding Europe will take
| our home market from US. I 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 a bill creating a tariff board to
| gather the facts created by new war
| conditions"
| Reserve Law and Pancs.
Turning to the federal reserve law,