The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-06-15
President Is Urged to Appear
Before Convention and Ad-
dress Party Meeting.
BRYAN AND GLYNN
IN KEYNOTE TALKS
Nebraskan Urges Party to Flirt
With MOose-New Yorker
Lauds President.
Especial to The Tribune I

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st. Louis, June 1.-two keynote
speeches were the principal features
of the first session of the Democratic
National Convention here today. The
first, delivered by former Governor
Glynn of New York, paid a tribute to
the President for keeping the country
out of war, and the second, by William
Jennings Bryan, urged the Democrats
''to go out and catch the Bull Moose. -
President Wilson has been asked to
come to st. Louis Friday afternoon
and accept the nomination. His man
ayers say he will probably accept the
invitation, but his official decision will
be made early today. A record demon
stratiOn will mark his visit here. At
the mention of the Presidents name
today the convention cheered Justify.
| As the day wore on 1t became more
apparent that Vice-President Marshall
sons running mate. An effort is being
made to induce Governor Major Of
! Missouri and Roger Sullivan of Hi
nois to withdraw in favor of Mr.. Mar
shall. But whether they do or do not,
the Indianan will be nominated with
out MUCH opposition, according to the
leaders. President Wilson has e.
pressed desire to have his running
mate of four years ago again placed
on the ticket and his wishes will be
granted.
The final draft of the platform will
not be completed before tomorrow af;-
ernoon, and possibly later. The per-
manent organization will be effected
when the convention reassembles at l.
o'clock in the morning. United States
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, who
was the permanent chairman of the
convention at Baltimore four years
ago, will be chosen to preside at the
meeting here. 1t was announced Off
cially tonight that the Kentuckian had
been selected for permanent chairman.
In the early part of his keynote
address Chairman Glynn defined in
the order of their Importance the chief
steps in our foreign policy, which he
believes to be the more important
issue of the presidential campaign. He
said:
"What the people of the United
States must determine through their
suffrage is whether the course the
country has pursued through this
crucial period is to be continued;
whether the principles that have beer
asserted as our national policy shall
be indorsed or withdrawn.
"This is the paramount issue. No
lesser issue must cloud it, no unrelated
problems must confuse 1t.
'Tn the submission of this issue to
the electorate, we, of this convention,
hold these truths to be self-evident to
every student of Americas history, to
every friend of Americas Institutions:
"1. That the United States is con-
strained by the traditions of its past,
by the logic of its present and by the
promise of its future to hold itself
apart from the European warfare, to
save it's citizens from participation in
the conflict that now devastates the
nations across the sea.
"2. That the United States in its
relations with tine European belliger-
ents must continue the policy that it
has pursued since the beginning of the
war, the policy of strict neutrality in
relation to every warning nation, the
policy which Thomas Jefferson defined
as rendering to all the services and
courtesies of friendship and praying
for the establishment of peace and
rightp
"3. That save where the liberties,
the territory or the substantial rights
of the United States are invaded and
assaulted, it is the duty of this nation
to avoid war by every honorable
means.