Iron County register., 1916-06-22


TO enforce order. Not only had Ameri-
can property been destroyed. but
American lives had been lost and
member Of the American legation had
been murdered.
at is a perfectly easy thing for the
president Of the United States to
plunge his country into war If he is
a politician before he is a patriot. He
would seek his own reelection as he
came upon horseback up the bloody
highway Of contending armies. The
American people have never yet re-
pudiated a war president and never
will. We are naturally red-blooded.
fighting race. OF course our army
could invade Mexico and march in
triumph to its 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
sloners 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 it did when Temporary Chair
man Glynn piled up the precedents
justifying settlement by negotiation
instead of by war.
Explains c. o. p. Stand.
The audience roared when Chair
man James explained why the Repub-
lican convention condemned as in
effective the proposed rural credits
system which the senate had indorsed
by vote of 81 to and the house by
vote Of 295 to TO- 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-
lican platform. They secured plat
form vindication Of their own votes
by condemning the Republicans in both
house and senate who voted with the
Democrats for the rural credits sys-
TEN.
The greatest applause, however, was
called forth by the following SEN
tence:
without orphaning single child,
without widowing a single American
mother. without firing single gun,
without the shedding of single drop
of blood, he wrung from the most mill
tant spirit that ever brooded above
battlefield an acknowledgment of
American rights and an agreement to
American demands"
1t is evident that the speaker had
not counted on the sentence producing
the effect that it did because it was
buried in a paragraph, being preceded
by five sentences and followed by one.
The sentence which followed read:
"He truly demonstrated that prin-
ciple is mightier than force, that d.
plomacy hath its victories no less re-
nowned than war"
Great Campaign Team.
But the audience did not wait for
the concluding sentence of tie para
graph. They again registered their
approval Of the "He has kept us out
of war" sentiment-the one overshad-
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 q place among the
oratorical luminaries of the country.
This speech adds to his fame, and
makes his place more secure.
What campaign team these two
chairmen will make. If the Republi-
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 usual
number of rumors as to what was go
ing to happen. What would a conven-
ton be 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-eyed 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-
nevolent brewer, the philanthropic dis
tiller and the liberal-handed vendor of
intoxicating liquors.
It was false alarm. Careful search
failed to reveal anyone with such evil
designs upon the harmony of the con-
vention.
Suffrage Meetings Interesting.
Aside from the main attraction, the
convention, there were collateral gath
erings and entertainments for the del
egates. The most interesting outside
meetings were the ones conducted by
the women In charge of the equal suf-
frage cause. They had hall where
audiences assembled twice a day to
listen to speeches in favor Of votes for
women.
DR.. Anna Shaw was the chief speak
er on Wednesday. She is a woman of
great ability, profoundly interested in
the movement and happy in the hope
Of seeing an early victory for the prin-
ciples for which she so long and elo-
quently contended.
With all three parties committed to
the doctrine that suffrage should be
extended to women, the end of the
contest is In sight; victory Is at hand.