Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-16
James Tells Convention PreSi-
dents Bloodless Victories
Raise Him to Level of
Washington and Lincoln,
DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE
MUCH FOR PREPAREDNESS
Senator Ayers Party Has Ac-
compliShed More for De-
Tense in Three Years Than
Republicans in Forty,

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Coliseum. st. Louis. June i5.---The
democratic national convention today
changed its program of procedure and
agreed to make nominations for pres
ident and vice president tonight in
stead of tomorrow
The rules were amended and the
convention adjourned at 1929 p. m. to
8 o'clock tonight and remain In con-
tinuous session until nominations are
made.
1t was 1i;4e when Temporary
Chairman Glynn called the convention
to order. Archbishop John ]. Glen
non of st. Louis then offered prayer.
senator James Chairman
Reports of the committees on cre-
dentials and permanent organization
were adopted and Senator James, es-
corted to the chair. began his address.
lie departed from the printed text Of
his speech. but gave its substance.
The delegates forced him to repeat
n portion of his prepared speech In
which he said:
Woodrow Wilson without orphan
ing "A single child, without widowing
single American mother, without fir
ing single gun, with the shedding
OF a single drop of blood, wrung from
the most military spirit that ever
brooded above a battlefield agree
ment TO American demands and con-
cession of American rights"
Applause Of Eighteen Minutes.
The applause had listed eighteen
minutes when Ny Jafaes was able TO
proceed. When Mr.. James finished
there We're more cheers and applause
and calls for Bryan"
Senator James appealed to the con-
vention to quiet down and hear the
rules committees report, but his ef-
forts we're futile until he announced
that Mr., Bryan had left the building
and would speak in the Coliseum
later. That satisfied the crowd and
they heard the rules report
James Speech.
The achievements of the Wilson
administration in enactlng beneficial
legislation and in keeping the coun-
try at peace without sacrifice of the
national honor, were pronounced
epoch making in American history by
Senator James
During three years Of its national
control" said Senator James,
democracy has enacted into law
more progressive remedial legislation
that the nation has ever written upon
It's statute books since Its birth. In
former national contests in 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 it's word with the American peo-
OIa We haysa p1aIa pont ["
Reviews Record.
The chairman reviewed at length
the legislative record OF the admnis-
tration and euiogized the president
for his direction of fofeign affairs.
The democrats. he said. had enacted
n tariff law under which monopolies
were curbed, and unexampled pros
perity attained; 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
Mexican policy and his course IN pro-
tecting American rights against the
enernaehments Of European holliger-
ents had shawn all the world that the
president neither bullies the weak nor
fears the strong.
At the outset, the senator referred
briefly to President Wilson'S cam
paign against lobbying in congress.
and pointed out that under this adj
the constitution had been
for the first time since the
civil war, when we freed the sem
ate from the control of the great in
terests by making il elective by tho
people at the polls"
Eulogizcs Tariff Act.
He then eulogized the Underwood
Simmons tariff act as one of which
the party was justly pround,
Not a schedule in il fosters n mo-
nopoly," he said. "Our republican
friends told us it would close the fac.
tories, fill the streets with idle men,
produce panic create soup-houses,
and that distress would reign every
where, but we rejoice today to point
to an unexampled prosperity in the
nation, with labor more generally em-
ployed at higher rates, shorter hours
and better conditions than ever be-
fore. our republican friends tell US
that after the war is over, poor,
PROSTATE, torn, bleeding Eu-
rope will take our home market from
MS. | have no such fear. America Is
going 10 take the markets of the
world. But We shall cut from the last
hope of having even a false issue,
for we shall pass a bill creating
ariff board TO gather the facts created
by new war conditions
Praises Reserve Law.
Turning to the federal reserve law.
Senator James declared that 1t alone
averted a panic at the outbreak of the
European war.
What would have been the result
if the old republican system had heen
in effect?1 he asked The stock
exchanges in every city in the world
We're closed. Europe poured its vas.
holdings in piethargic streams upon
our shores. who thinks that the old
republican system of finance under
the guidance of those patriotic guar