Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-16
Demonstration Following Nam
inc Of Wilson Lasts Forty
five MinuteSi Women Are
Among PafaderS,
WESC0TT PRAISES
PRESENT INCUMBENT
Recital of Policy Toward Mex
leo and Americas Main
tenance Of International
Law Vigorously AppIanded'
tsy MORNING JounnAL SPECIAL lgssHn WHEEL
-. Il.

| lay MORNING JouNsAL SPECIAL LgssHo wisel
| Coliseum. ST. Louis, june H.
President Wilson and Vice President
Marshall were renominated by acela-
nation tonight The convention re-
cossed at l2:3l n. m. until II a. III.
! today.
Nominations for president began al
| 10.l4 p. IN.
Alabama yielded to New Jersey and
John W. Westcott nominated Wood
row Wilson.
Former Governor Judson Harmon
of Ohio. seconded the enomination.
Governor stuart of Virginia also made
a secondinE speech
Eager for Nomination.
Applause was given to Judge Wes-
colts remarks on the policy toward
Mexico. The crowd was attentive ana
quiet 1t voiced approval of Ameri-
cas- maintenance of international law.
Some of the crowd, however were
eager for the nomination.
! Name him, name him." came cries
from the galleries.
AS judge Westcott closed with a
mention of the name Woodrow VIII
SON" the crowd broke into II great
demonstration which lasted forty-lVe
minutes,
Great Demonstration.
Moving picture flashlights blaZed
and flags were paraded in front of
the stand The band played 'The
! Star Spangled Banner while a huge
banner bearing the presidents Ike
ness was unfurled from the roof oil
the hell
The delegates began a parade bear
/ rho nrpkNH
the floor and balconies rose To It's
feet. Many delegates stood on their
chairs
Dixie" and Other melodies by the
band evoked fresh bursts of cheering.
Women Among Paraders.
Women delegates were among the
paraders in the aisles. Senators ana
REPRESENTATIVES helped carry banners.
Mcstcott's Speech.
Prophecy IL fulfilled. The etei nal
lverltics of righteousness have pre-
vailed. Undsmayed by the caamitles
of war. unmoved by Wtuperation ana
vain defamation, holding to the pure
altar Of truth, the schoolmaster Is
Statesman, the statesman financler,
tho financier emancipator, the eman-
cipator paciflcator, the paciflcator the
moral leader OF democracy.
/ The nation is at work. The nation
is al peace. The nation Is accom-
plishing the destiny Of democracy.
-Four years ago the nation was not at
work. With resources boundless, with
hundred million people eager tt
achieve and do, commerce langushed.
industries halted men were idle. The
country struggled in the tolls OF an
Inadequate financial system. tredit
was AT the mercy of piracy. The small
business sman was bound hand and
foot. Panic hung like storm cloud
over the business world.
Picture of Prosperity.
Now bursting granaries. teemlng
factories, crowded railways and over
laden ships, distribute wealth ana
comfort to uncounted millions the
world over. Production outrnns the
means of distribution The parallel
! of American prosperity is not found i'll
industrial history nor Is it causeless
| II did not descend, like a mercitul &C
cdent, direct from heaven 1T IS not
due TO the devastations Of revised
tariff. IT is not the result of destrue-
tive legislation. 1t cannot be at
,tributed to the manufacture Of war
materials constituting IL bare ) per
iness. war Is destruction, not pro-
duction. War curtails international
TRADE. war depresses industrial en-
lergy. When the European eatacysm
istruck the world moratoria fell like a
blight upon many OF the neutral ma
tons but not upon the United States.
| Exclamation of Phenomenon.
There stands the astounding phe-
romenon of American prosperity
I What is It's explanation? The Euclid
OF financial theory worked to a DEM
onstration, measures for the country $
relef He put promptly into effect
the legislative expression of great
program He did not talk. He did
things. He dynamited the monetary
dams and let credit flow to the re-
Imotest corners of the land, its spray
dashing even upon foreign shores. lie
released the nations resources and
set the energies of all men free to
exploit them. lie destroyed CONNER
| cial slavery He struck off its
shackle. The prosperity of the ma
| ton is the product Of statesmanship
and financial genius American cred
lit is now limited only by its own hon
esty and capacity The cause being
undisturbed, the effects must re-
main. The schoOlmaster is states
man, the statesman is financier, the
the financier is emancipator With
Lincoln, the emancipator OF the chat
tel slave. he will live forever as the
Iemancipator of the commercial slave.
\ Nation at Peace.
The nation Is at peace In world
! at war America is confronted with
appalling realities. II is not the part
Of wisdom to play with phantoms, deal
in riddles, or seer to entertain the ma
tional Imagination with the ledgerde-
main Of language TO huild words
mountain high as the throne of vanity
and ambition should not be an Amer
lean pastime. An attempt to catch
1.-THE presidency by phrases Is the idle
work OF folly. The function of q