The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-06-22

can property been destroyed, but
American lives had been lost and a
member of the American legation had
been murdered.
at Is a perfectly easy thing for the
president Of the United States TO
plunge his country into war If he Is
a politician before he Is patriot. He
would seek his own reelection rs he
came upon horseback up the bloody
highway of contending armies. The
American people have never yet re-
pudiated war president and never
will. We are naturally a red-blooded,
fighting race. or course our army
could invade Mexico and march In
triumph to it's capital, but after the
war was over other armies would
MARKHAM army of widows and or
phans, an army of crippleS and men
broken in health, an army or pen
sioners and an army Of tax collectors
gathering up the earnings of the peo-
pie to pay the great war debt. All
America wants peace-peace with hon
or"
The audience responded to the peace
note as 1t did when Temporary Chair
man Glynn piled up the presidents
justifying settlement by negotiation
instead of by war.
Explains G. O. p. Stand.
The audience roared when Chair
man James explained why the Repup-
Hcan convention condemned as in
effective the proposed rural credits
system which the senate had indorsed
by n vote of 81 to 3 and the house by
n vote of 295 to 10, the explanation be-
Ing that Senators Lodge. oliver ana
WadswOrth, three of the senators who
voted no, were members of the sub
committee which prepared the Repub-
! lcan platform. They secured a plat
form vindlcation of their own votes
by condemning the Republicans In both
I house and senate who voted with the
| Democrats for the rural credits sys-
/ TEN.
The greatest applause however, was
called forth by the following SEN
tence:
"Without orphaning a single child
without widowing a single American
mother, without firing single gun,
without the shedding of single drop
| of blood, he wrung from the most mill
! tant spirit that ever brooded above
! battlefield an acknowledgment OF
American rights and an agreement to
American demands"
1t is evident that the speaker had
not counted on the sentence producing
the effect that 1t did because 1t was
buried in a paragraph, being preceded
/ by five sentences and followed by one.
/ The sentence which followed read:
"He truly demonstrated that prin-
/ ciple Is mightier than force, that d.
{ plomacy hath its victories no less re-
/ nowned than war"
/ Great Campaign Team.
( But the audience did not walt for
1 the concluding sentence of - para
graph. They again registered their
approval Of the HE has kept us out
Of war" sentiment-the one overshad-
owing sentiment of the convention.
The demonstration which followed
lasted several minutes, and was parti-
/ cipated in by most of the states. the
delegations carrying their standards
around the hall.
Senator James, even before this
speech, had won place among the
oratorical luminaries of the country
This speech adds to his fame, ana
makes his place more secure.
What campaign team these two
/ chairmen will make. If the Republi-
e., cans have any match for either he is
still In the dark horse" class; he was
not entered at Chicago.
False Rumors Spread.
The air was filed with the usual
number of rumorS as to what was go
ing to happen. What would 'conven
ton be without its prophets of evil
the patriots who scent danger from
afar and heroically announce their de
Termination to die in the last ditch be
fore they will permit some unthought
of thing to happen?
One of the fears that rushed through
the hotel corridors. wild-eyed and witt
streaming hair. was that an effor1
would be made to insert a prohibition
plank in the platform. Men who coult
not secure mention IN any other way
seized upon this preteXt for getting
their names into the papers, and the
country now knows how stubbornly
they would resist the adoption of any
plank which contained even casual
reflection upon the business Of the be
nevolent brewer, the philanthropic dis
filler and the iberal-handed vendor OF
Intoxicating liquors.
1t was false alarm. Careful search
failed to reveal anyone with such evil
designs upon the harmony of the con
vention.
Suffrage Meetings Interesting.
Aside from the main attraction, tho
convention. there were collateral gath
erings ard entertainments for the del
ecates. The most interesting outside
meetings were the ones conducted b!
the women In charge of the equal suf
fraCe cause. They had a hall where
audiences assembled twice n day t.
listen to speeches in favor Of votes FOL
women.
DR.. Anna Shaw was the chief speak
er on Wednesday. She Is a woman o
great ability. profoundly interested II
the movement and happy In the hops
OF seeing an early victory for the prin
ciples for which she so long and clio
quently commended
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