The Nevada County picayune., 1916-06-29

to enforce OFueI. ANOt oliiS AA"e- ~ can property been destroyed, but American lives had been lost and member of the American legation had been murdered.
 Tt is a perfectly easy thing for the president of the United States to nlunge his country into war if he is politician before he is patriot. lie would seek his own reelection as ne came upon horseback up the blo"dy highwoy of contending armies. The American people have never yet re- pudiatpd war president and never will We are naturally d rcd-blooded, fighting race Of course our army could invade Mexico and march Ill triumph to it's capital, but after the war was over other armies would march-an army of widows and or phans. an army of cripples and men broken in health, an army of pen sioners and an army of tax collectors gathering up the earnings of the peo- pie to pay the great war debt. All America wants peace-peace with hon or"
 The audience responded to the peace note as 1t did when Temporary Chair man GIynn piled up the precedents iustffying settlement by negotiation instead of by war.
 ExpIains G. o. p. Stand.
 The audience roared when Chair man James explained why the Repub- Hcan convention condemned as in- effective the proposed rural credits system which the senate had tndorsed by vote of 5T to and the house by n vote of 295 to 10, the explanation be- ing that Senators Lodge, Oliver and Wadsworth, three of the senators who voted no. were members of the sub committee which prepared the Repub- ltcan platform. They secured a plat form vindication of their own votes by conforming the Republicans in both house and senate who voted with the Democrats for the rural credits sys- lem.
 The greatest applause, however, was called forth by the following sen tence:
 "Without orphaning a single child, without Widowing q single American mother, without firing single gun, without the shedding of Il single drop of blood, he wrung from the most mili- tant spirit that ever brooded above battlefield an acknowledgment of American rights and an agreement to American demands"
 It Is evident that the speaker had not counted on the sentence producing the effect that it did because 1t was buried in a paragraph, being preceded l hy five sentences and followed by one. i The sentence which followed read: "He truly demonstrated that prin- ciple Is mightler than force that di- plomacy hath its victories no less re nowned than war"
 Great Campaign Team.
 But the audience did not walt for the concluding sentence of t-~a para graph They again registered their approval of the He has kept us out of war" sentiment-the one Overshad- l owing sentiment of the convention The demonstration which followed lasted several minutes, and was parti- cipated in by most of the states, the delegations carrying their standards around the hall.
 Senator James, even before this speech, had won place among the oratorical luminaries of the country. This speech adds to his fame, and vnol,aS hic p1opa moro Cac,Ira
 What a campaign team these two chairmen will make. If the Repubii- cans have any match for either he is still in the dark horse" class; he was not entered at Chicago.
 False Rumors Spread.
 The air was filled with the usua. number of rumOrS as to what was go ing to happen What would a conven- ton he without Its prophets of evil the patriots who scent danger from afar and heroically announce their de. termination to die in the last ditch be. fore they will permit some unthought. of thing to happen?
 One of the fears that rushed through the hotel corridors. wild-cyed and with streaming hair, was that an effort would be made to insert prohibition plank in the platform. Men who could not secure mention in any other way seized upon this pretext for getting their names into the papers, and the country now knows how stubbornly they would resist the adoption of any plank which contained even a casual reflection upon the business of the be- ncv0lent brewer, the phllanthropic dis filler and the liberal-handed vendor of intoxicating liquors.
 IL was q false alarm. Careful search failed to reveal anyone with such evil designs upon the harmony of the con vcntion.
 Suffrage Meetings Interesting.
 Aside from the main attraction, the convention. there were collateral gath erInCS and entertainments for the del egateS. The most interesting outside IOantibpS XVara tho puaS 1nnAuotnh