The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-06-16

can TO stand NJ ANA assert his Amerl
canism. We must make the issue 81
clear that every ballot box in the lant
may become a monument to the loyalty
of American manhood.
"The citizens of this country mus
stand behind their president because
his policies are right They will stant
behind him because his policies are the
policies which have brought the nation
century of prosperous and honoret
peace. They will stand behind hin
because they want these policies con
tinued, that prosperity prolonged, that
peace assured"
Party Pledges Redeemed.
He pointed out that the promise
made four years ago that Democrat
ic administration would liberate the
nation from the chains of Industrial
tyranny has been carried out. He Ell.
logized the federal reserve act and
declared that the "scholar-statesman,
whose rod has struck the golden rock
of Americas resources to set free the
wealth imprisoned for half century,
Is Moses who has led Americas in
dustries from the wilderness of doubt
and despair to the promised land of
prosperity and hope"
The laws restraining big business
from sitting competition, the trades
commission act, the movement to fos-
ter expansion Of American trade, the
close union of economic, commercial
and financial interests between the
United States and the nations of South
America are shown to be legislation
of the widest benefit. The Underwood
tariff Mr.. Glynn characterized as the
fairest and the best of all we have
enacted. Under the present admins
a wonderful era of good business and
good times.
American Ideals !;ostered.
The Americans ideals and his as
pirations served as the basis for the
speakers opening discussion.
I'VE who stand today on the fertile
soil of America. who live under the
smiling skies of a free and fruitful
land, must prove worthy Of the trust
that American sacrifice has imposed
on every American.
"Disregarding the divisions that
make one man a Tory and another a
Whig, one man Republican and an
other a Democrat, Americans will cast
acida tbn tinsal of no rtv oboIo and tho
mummery of party emblems,
"From the great pulsing heart of the
nation will come patriot command
to crush partisanship and rebuke what
ever is mean or blind.
"The command will be heard by the
plowman in his field and by the labor
er at his bench. 1t will reach the mer.
chant in his Office and the lawyer at
his desk. We would be false to our
selves and recreant to those who send
us here If we permitted any thought of
partisan profit, any consideration of
political advantage to obscure our vi
sion of the tremendous issues now be-
fore the people of the United States
We must cast aside all that is selfish:
we must hold ourselves worthy of
nations confidence by offering only the
best of our intelligence, the flower of
our patriotism toward the solution of
what all men perceive to be crisis in
the nations affairs
The Paramount Issue.
In asking for an Endorsement of the
nraQinnnt'G n
said
For two years the world has been
afire. The civilization that we know
has been torn by the mightiest strug-
gle In Its history. Sparks from Eu.
ropes cont1agration have blazed In our
own skies, echoes OF her strife have
sounded at our very doors That fire
still burns, that struggle still contin-
ues, but thus far the United States has
held the flame at bay, thus far 1t has
saved its people from participation in
the conflict.
What the people OF the United
States must determine through their
suffrage is whether the course the
country has pursued through this cru.
cial period Is to be continued, whether
the principles that have been asserted
as our national policy shall be indorsed
or withdrawn.
This Is the paramount issue No
lesser issue must cloud II, no unrelated
problems must confuse It,"
In declaring that the policy OF neu.
trality is as American as the American
flag Mr.. Glynn asserted that.
THE first president OF the United
States was the first man to pronounce
neutrality rule of international con.
duct.
"In April, 1893, Washington declar.
ed the doctrine, and within a month
John Jay, chief Justice OF the supreme
court OF the United States, In an epoch
making decision from the bench whose
realization would insure universal and
perpetual peace, wrote the principle
into the law of this land The Dec.
laration of Independence had foretold
II by declaring the rest OF mankind
enemies in war, In peace friends The
constitution recognized Il, but the first
president OF the United States by
proclamation, the first chief justice by
Interpretation, gave 1t vitality and
power.
Stands With Washington.