Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-16
Permanent Chairman of the Democratic Convention
 Reviews Achievements.
GREAT RECORD FOR
 PROGRESSIVE LAWS
In Three Years Democrats Have Ac- complished More Than Did Repub- Iicans in 40 YeRrs-COndittOn
 Better Than Ever in History.

St. Louis, June 14.-The achieve ments of the Wilson administration in enacting beneficial legislation and in keeping the country at peace without sacrifice of the national honor were pronounced epoch making in Ameri- can history by Senator Ollie M. James of Kentucky, in his address today as permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention.
 "During three years of it's nationa control" said Senator James, "democ- racy has enacted into law more pro- gressive legislation than the nation has ever had written upon it's statute books since it's birth. In former na- tional contests in the last two decades our party came as prophet. Today we come with deeds, not words, with performance, not promises. The Dem ocratic party has kept its word with the American people. We have made good"
 The chairman reviewed at length the legislative record of the adminis- tration and eulogized the president for his direction of foreign affairs. "The Democrats" he said. "had en- acted tariff law under which monor- olies were curbed and unexampled prosperity 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 import ance."
 Neither Bully Nor Coward.
 He declared President Wilson's Mex ican policy and his course in protecting American rights against tho en- croachments of European belligerents had shown all the world that the pres ident neither bullies. the weak nor fears the strong"
 In concluding appeal for the tri- umph of patriotism above politics, Senator James said "The renomina- tion of such president in partisan convention 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 adminis- tration the constitution had been amended for the first time since the civil war, when "we 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 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 distress would reign everywhere; but we rejoice today to point to an unexampled prosperity in the nation with labor more generally employed, at higher rates, shorter hours, and bet ter conditions than ever before. Our Republican friends tell us that after the war is over poor, stricken, pros trate, 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 false issue, for we shall pass bill creating tariff board to gather the facts created by new war conditions"
 Democratic Currency Law |.
 Averted Panic.
 Turning to the federal reserve law, Senator James declared that it alone averted a panic at the outbreak of the European war.
 "What would have been the result if the old Republican system had been in effect?" he asked. "The stock ex- changes in every city in the world were closed. Europe poured it's vast holdings in plethargic streams upon our shores. Who thinks that the old Republican system of finance under the guidance of those patriotic guardi- ans would have been able to with stand this mighty cataclysm? But what was the result? Not a bank closed it's doors; not a laborer was thrown out of employment; not bus mess was forced into bankruptcy; but there stood strong, serving the masses of the Democratic party. As the master achievement of Wood row Wilson, to my mind, next to keep ing hundred million people at peace with the world, the historian will record the federal reserve law.'
 Declaring that "self defense and for it is as necessary now IS ever before," the speaker pointed to the administrations preparedness pro gram as proof that the party believ- d in preparedness without militia ism"
 'sIn 1906," he continued, q attended he great peace conference held in London. I thought that the millennium # peace had come and such 9 thing is the worlds war was impossible; but hat day when the Christian heart hall rule the world is not in sight. We must not mistake dishonor for 'eace. as we cannot mistake oppres- ion for peace. Woodrow Wilson and