Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-16
mr.. JAMES SOUNDS
SECOND KEYNOTE
Kentucky Senator, Who is Per
manent Chairman, Reviews
Work Of Administration.
DEMOCRATS HAVE MADE GOOD

st. Louis, June l5.-The achieve
rnents Of the Wilson administration
in enacting beneficial legislation and
in keeping the country at peace with
mt sacrifice Of the national honor
were pronounced epoch-making in
American history by Senator Ollie NJ.
James OF Kentucky in his address to-
day as permanent chairman Of the
democratic national convention.
During three years of its 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
former national contests i'm the last
two decades our party came as a
prophet. Today we come with deeds,
not words; with performance, not
promise. The democratic party has
kept its word with the American peo-
pie. We have made good"
The chairman reviewed at length
the legislative record OF the admins
tfation and eulogized the president
for his direction OF foreign affairs.
The democrats, he said, had enacted
q tariff law under which monopolies
were curbed and unexainpied prosper
ity attained; banking law taking the
money control out Of the hands OF an
oligarchy and making panics no long
er possible, and many reform meas
/. ures of lesser importance.
Mexican Policy Approved
He declared President Wilson's
Mexican policy and his course in pro-
tecting American rights against the
embellishments OF European bellig-
erents had shown all the world that
the president neither bullies the weak
nor fears the strong"
In . concluding appeal for the tri-
umph OF patriotism above politics,
Senator James said the denomination
Of such q president in partisan con-
vention ought not to be necessary,
and that to discredit him might palsy
the hand that could write the peace
treaty Of the world.
At the outset the senator referred
briefly to President Wilson's cam
paign against lobbying in congress
and pointed out that under this ad-
rninistration 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 at
the polls" He then eulogized the
Underwood-Simmons tariff act as one
Of which the party was Justly proud.
Not schedule in it fosters a
monopoly" he said. Our republican
friends told US it would close the fac
tories, fill the streets with idle men,,
produce a panic, create soup houses
and distress would reign everywhere;
bat we rejoice today to point to an
,inexampled prosperity IN the nation
with labor more generally employed,
at higher rates, shorter hours and bet
ter conditions than eyer before. Our
republican friends tell us that after
the war is oyer poor, stricken, pros
tsate, 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 q, false issue, for We shall
pass bill creating tariff board to
gather the facts created by new war
conditions"
Federal Resource Law Good.
Turning to the federal reserve law.
Senator James declared that 1t alone
averted panic at the outbreak OF the
aWhat wn,,ld have hee, tbe resnt,
il The old republican system Ia had been
i, s@.c.s. ssLsd mTLa TIL a.s, nau posn
rhsrss. II Il - s.srn ESQ., IL, -. i, j, $500 as,d II
were Glazed. Furone no,:r.d IL o..
hoid;rrs Il ci.shsrss;ct tstrss strss,.,s - ,, ass
~, shor.s Wha .S;,t.s ~. H. III ~
~ s,.lS:.a. @ ao tn''Ms .Aae shs olu
~ a,.;J.as = "a sss ~ ..:a.; .a.Is ui.uss
-. IN 500 ..,s.,iS 49, = 1Sss S pauus NJ kua.l
s..aa 800. 49, 49, ..,;as... M ...u aus ~ WIN.
,..sas sL ,.,.s .,s ~ hs lse1S.ys nut
.,na M " NJ " lesllI Tot Z pank
eloscu - uuoIsi n.y. 2 iaDoler was
.oWn wv =. sn'ploy,licnt hot 2 pus-
.ulas Mss io1Scu Alto Dsnkuptey' put
sncse st9ou ssions, serving tne masses
g Msnklnu' tnis great legislative
acnievement q tne democratic party.
~ inc master achicvement OF Wood
row wilson, g my mind, next to
Keeping Z hundred milllon people at
peace with the world. the historian
w lsco!o lns iedsrai reserve law.
.,s Dse.aIns Inal sen aetense and
p.spss suoI ~. y e NECESSARY now
e st J:I ps.v.s We SPEAKER po,nteo
y rs so..'.n,s.1stlons naat preparedness
losIa:l ~ pIooi tnat tne party Pc
s.eo y preparedness without mill
@srs; ~ nav j,
- asvo' ns eon.'nuea, ! attsnded
xne great peace conference held IN