Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-15
GLYNN'S KEYNOTE
WILSON EU[OGY
Reviews Four Years of Democra.
cy in Keynote Speech at,
St. Louis.

ST. Louis, Mo-, June 14.-With the
assertion that no president since the
Civil war has had as crucial problems
to solve; and no president has dis
played grasp more sure. a states
manship more profound, than Presi-
dent Wilson, Hon. Martin H. Glynn,
former governor Of New York, opened
the democratic national convention
here today. Declaring that "Ameri-
canism and peace, preparedness and
prosperity-are the issues upon which
the democratic party stands, and the
heart OF democracy swells with pride
that is more than pride OF party,
as it halls the man who has asserted
this Americanism, assured this peace,
advocated this preparedness and pro-
duced this prosperity" he predicted
the reelection of President Wilson.
Foreign Relations.
Taking up our foreign relations
that have been called into emphatic
prominence by the worldwide war,
the speaker declared that Eve have
entered this hall as democrats; we
shall deliberate as Americans" 7"
The policy. Of neutrality, he argued,
is as truly American as the American
flag. For 200 years neutrality was a
theory; America made it fact. at
took Washington and his successors
so years of endless negotiation to win
recognition. of American neutrality.
And this 80 years of struggle wove
the doctrine Of neutrality so closely
into the warp and wool of our nation
al life that to tear ii out now would
unravel the very threads OF our ex-
istence." By the records of history,
Mr. Glynn maintained that if Wash
ington and Lincoln were right. Presi-
dent Wilson is right. The neutrality
that President Wilson stands for to.
day was advocated by Washington, by
Hamilton, by Jefferson and by Lin
coin.
BY citing presidents, Mr.. Glynn
justified and defended the course o.
the president in the Lusitania and
similar incidents. ''In the face Of
this record he asked, "dO Republi-
cans realize that when they arraign
the policy OF the president of the
United States today they arraign the
policy of Harrison. Of Blaine, of Lin
coin and Of Grant? For the pleasure
Of criticizing a democratic president,
are they willing to read out of the
republican party the greatest men the
republican party ever had? Are they
willing to say that the republican par
ty Of today condemns what Hamilton
did In revolutionary days, what Lin
coin did in Civil war days and what
Grant and Blaine and Harrison did
but yesterday? ~. ~,
Follows Preeedents,
I'm his policy, of HeacefH negot{as
tions today, the president otsthe u nit
ed States follows the, Example set him
by the greatest presidents which the
democratic party and the greatest
presidents the republican party ever
gave this nation.
Mr.. Glynh Impressed on his hearers
that it was the business of this con
yention, representing every section
of the United States, speaking for
every racial, strain in America, to
send forth a.message to all the world
that will leave no room for doubt.
1--WE must enable every real Ameri.
can to stand up and assert his Amer
icanism. We must make the issue so
clear that every ballot box in the land
may become monument to the 10y
atty Of American manhood.
'The citizens of this country must
stand behind their president because
his policies are right. They will