Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-06-16
GLYNN'S ADDRESS
Greeted BY TumuTtuOus APP
plause in Democratic National
Convention at ST. Louis

st. Louis, Mo-, June l4.-The De-
mocratic National Convention, at its
ilrst session today heard the keynote of
Americanism and peace, preparedness
and prosperity, sounded by former
Governor Glynn, of New York, as
temporary chairman, and with y high
pitch OF enthusiasm, emphatically
registered by demonstration, it's ap-
proval Of President Wilson's peaceful
conduct of foreign affairs
The convention which had gotten
under way with such perfunctory de
monstrations as mark every national
gathering of the kind soon stirred
into roaring cheers as Chairman Glynn
cited historic parallels to show that
other presidents, including Republi-
cans, had adjusted threatening for
eign situations without resort to war.
Policy is American
"The policy of the administration" :"
he declared, ''has been just as Ameri-
can as the American flag ITSELF
AS he went down the list of prssi-
dents, rccounting their action to avoid
war, the delegates caught the spirit OF
his argument and as he referred to
each particular president some dele
gate would call:
"What did lie do 2"
"tlc settled the trouble by ncgotia-
tion," was the reply which Glynn in
varably returned and the convention
would roar its approval.
William j. Bryan, as Il newspaper
correspondent in the press stand, wept
with emotion as Glynn pictured the
victories of peace, but ne laughed with
the crowd when Texas delegate in
tcrrupting Glynn lcaped to his chair
and cried:
"And don't forget that policy also
is satisfactory to William Jennings
Bryan"
Aside from sixteen-minute demon
stration, which began when Chairman
Glynn presented President Wilson's
reelection, Glynn's speech was sprink-
led with demonstrations which he
found it difficult to stem so he could
go it. 1t was plain that the telling
points on the delegates were the re-
cital of President Wilson's effort to
keep the country ut peace.
This policy" he said "may not
satisfy the fire eater and swash buck
Ter, but it does satisfy the mothers of
the land ut whose heart and firesidc
lingolstic war has placed an empty
chair. 1t does satisfy the daught-
ers Of this land from whom buster
and brag have sent the loving brother
To the dissolution of the grave. Ii
does satisfy the fathers of this land
and the sons of this land who will
fight for our flag and die for our flag
when reason primes the rife; when
honor draws the sword and when ius-
tice breathes Il blessing on the stand
ard they uphold"
The last of the words were drowned
out in a roar of applause that swept
the Coliseum
Repeat it," cried the delegates.
repeat it."
"All right, be quiet and III repeat
it," responded Glynn and he did, to
applause and cheering
NO other president since the civil
war, Glynn told the convention. had
faced such crucial problems. none had
displayed a grasp of statesmanshin
more profound.
"Whethe the course the country
has pursued during this crucial period
is to be continued and whether tho
principles that have been asserted as
our national policy shall be endorsed
or withdrawn" Glynn told the con-
vention, was the paramount question
for the voters to decide.
mo lesser issue must cloud II
sand he. no unrelated problems must
confuse it,"