New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-21
WILD CHEERS FOR FORTY
MINUTES WHEN WILSON
is NAMED.
KERN SETS RECORD WHEN HE
NOMINATES MITCHELL IN
FIVE WORDS.


Democratic delegates at the St. Louis
convention demonstrated that the
G. O. P. hasn't corner on the noise
and other convention fireworks when
they broke loose and cheered their chief
for solid three quarters of an hour
last Thursday at the night session in
which he was nominated with but one
dissenting vote. Robert Emmett Burke
with the combined stubbornness of
the two Irish patriots whose names
\ he bears used his Irish prerogative to
be "agin" anything and everything
and theoretically at least, kept the
Wilson nomination from being un-
animous. But 1901 votes to 1 ought
to be sufficient proof that the Demo-
cratic party is solid for Wilson.
Senator Kern put himself in line for
the Iron Cross and Star and Garter
Decoration when he kindly forgot his
long nominating speech for Vice Presi-
dent Marshall and simply declared:
II nominate Thomas Riley Marshall
for vice president" Verify, after
), the hip-hip-hurral of the. Wilson de-
monstration it was the biggest inspira-
ton Senator Kern has had in many
long day. All opposition to Marshall
that seemed prevalent in the early
stages of the convention passed away
and Marshall was nominated by &C
clamation.
The platform was not yet ready
for the Thursday night session and
was introduced Friday morning. The
only disturbing factor that entered
Ito the otherwise harmonious adoption
the committee report was the spirit
ed fight over the adoption of the minority
report on woman suffrage. This was
soon squelched, however, and the re-
port went sailing through as planned.
The platform as adopted is, in brief,
as follows: ~
The Democratic party, in national
convention assembled, adopts the fol-
lowing declaration to the end that the
people of the United States may both
realize the achievements wrought by
four years of Democratic administra-
ton and be apprised of the policies to
which the party is committed for the
further conduct Of national affairs.
Administration Endorsed
We indorse the administration of
Woodrow Wilson. It speaks for itself.
1t is the best exposition of sound Dem
ocratic policy at home and abroad.
We challenge comparison of our rec
ord, our keeping of pledges and our
constructive legislation, with those of
: any party of any time.
We found our country hampered by
special privileges, a vicious tariff, OBJ
solete banking laws and an inelastic
currency. Our foreign affairs we're
dominated by commercial interest for
their selfish ends. The Republican
party, despite repeated pledges, was
impotent to correct abuses which it
had fostered.
abuses are Corrected"
Under our Administration, under a
leadership which has never faltered,
these abuses have been corrected, and
our people have been freed therefrom.
Our archaic banking and currency
system, prolific of panic and disaster
under Republican administrations
long the refuge of the money trust
has been supplanted by the federal re-
serve act, true democracy of credit
under government control, already
proved a financial bulwark in world
crisis, mobilizing our resources, plac-
ing abundant credit at the disposal of
legitimate industry and making a cur
rency panic impossible.
''Fair Competition Assured
We have created federal trade
commission to accommodate the per-
picking questions arising under the
antitrust laws so that MONOPOLY may
be strangled at it's birth and legitimate
industry encouraged. Fair. competi
ton IN business is now assured.
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