The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-06-23

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setting. He was master of himself
and at ease with the audience. He
knew his subject; he knew his hearers
and he spoke from his heart to their
hearts. His first reference to the presi-
dent was the signal for demOnstra-
ton and applause greeted point after
point as he presented them with tell
ing force.
His greatest climax came at the
conclusion of his defense of neutrality
as maintained by the president. He
led his audience step by step up to
the summit and then he flashed upon
them an impassiOned picture Of peace
that thrilled the multitude of eager
listeners. He interpreted the dominant
thought in the Democratic party as it
is gathed here in it's chosen represen-
tatives-the dominant thought of the
country. The words will live, for they
give to great truth the luster Of the
stars and the odor of the flowers. This
is the paragraph:
"This policy may not satisfy those
who revel in destruction and find
pleasure in despair. It may not sat
isfy the fire carter or the swashbuck-
Ter. But it does satisfy those who
worship at the altar of the God Of
peace. 1t does satisfy the mothers
of the land at whose heart and fire.
side no jingoistic war has placed an
empty chair. 1t does satisfy the daugh-
tiers of this land from whom buster
and brag has sent no loving brother
to the dissolution of the grave. 1t
does satisfy the fathers of this land
who will fight for our flag, and die for
our flag when reason primes the rifle,
when honor draws the sword, when
Justice breathes a blessing on the
standards they uphold
James Arouses Enthusiasm.
The second day was equal to the
first. The delegates, instead of being
exhausted by the demonstrations Of
Wednesday, seemed to be warmed up
for the entire convention. The an
nouncement that Senator Jones OF
Kentucky would make a speech in as
Stunning the position of permanent
| chairman aroused great expectations,
and the expectations were not disap-
| pointed He was at his best.
His style is his own; his sentences
| abound in pithy statement, in antithe-
| sis and in humOr. The speech was not
| long, but it was full of meat. The
| challenges he flung out to the enemy
| stirred the delegates to round after
| round of applause. He called atten-
| ton to the various remedial measures
| which this administration has written
| into law-firSt, tariff law with an in
| come tax embodied in it, lifting zone
| hundred and twenty millions per an
mum off the tables and backs of the
DOOR," He justified the income tax
| on the ground that "it is tax that
! forecloses no tgages-forces no
sales 1t is collected only where riches
| abound and prosperity smiles"
| Republican prophecies have failed.
| They told us that Democratic tariff
would produce panic even In time OF
peace it has failed to produce a panic
even when the world is at war.
Defends Currency Law.
His defense Of the currency law
was even more forceful than his de-
tense of tariff reform. Here, too. he
contrasted- the old system with the
new. Under Republican currency
law "a few men could create such q
panic as the whole nation witnessed
| in 1907" The new law preserves pros
perity and protects our financial insti-
buttons with all the nations struggling
to secure gold. He emphasized the
fact that the Republican convention
lacked both the candor to indorse the
currency law and the courage to de-
nounce it.
He brought the convention to it's
feet in his eloquent justification of the
presidents Mexican policy. The fol-
lowing passage from his speech will
be widely used during the campaign,
combining, as it does, citation from a
Lincoln precedent with powerful
word picture of the condition that
would have followed Intervention. 1t
| reads:
when the Republican platform at
Chicago denounced the Mexican pol
lev of Woodrow Wilson, it denounced.
| at the same time the similar Mexican
policy of Abraham Lincoln-the one
they have heretofore called the pa
iron saint of the Republican party.
Mexico Yves in Turmoil.
when the Lincoln administration
came into power Mexico had been in