The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-06-17

row Wilson for president, and T. r,
Marshall, for vice-president of the
United States. 1t was the express
ed desire of President Wilson, made
known to the delegates direct from
the White House, that Mr.. Mar
shall be chosen as his running mate
again. This shutout all vice-presi-
Dental booms that had been started.
The keynote speech was deliver
ed by former Gov. Glynn of New
York. which was as follows:
st. Louis, Mo-, June 14-Following
is condensed version of the address
delivered at the opening of the Demo.
cratic national convention today by
Temporary Chairman Martin H.
Glynn former governor of New York.
Gentlemen Of the Convention The
Democratic party, in this convention
assembled, meets to perform a duty,
not to itself but to the nation
We have entered this hall as Demo-
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as Americans.
Disregarding the divisions that make
one man Tory and another a Whig.
one man Republican and another a
Democrat. Americans will cast aside
the tinsel of party emblems.
From the great, pulsing heart of the
nation will come a patriot command
to crush partisanship and rebuke what
ever is mean or blind.
And when, century from now
Americas children come to read our
history, we pray God that the history
we are about to make may prove an
inspiration to their loyalty
In the attainment of this hope, the
utterance Of this prayer we who gather
here today have responsibility that
sobers our emotions as it strengthens
our resolutions.
For two years the world has been
afire. That fire still burns, but thus
far the United States has held the
flame at bay.
Must Support Principles.
What the people of the United
States must determine through their
suffrage is whether the principles that
have been asserted as our national pol.
Icy shall be indorsed or withdrawn.
This is the paramount issue.
For 200 years neutrality was a the.
ory; America made it fact. To win
this priceless right of neutrality this
nation had to undergo long and pain.
full struggle.
Where is the American hardy enough
to challenge policy so firmly fixed
In the nations traditions?
The president OF the United States
stands today where stood the men who
made America and who saved Amer.
lea and made American neutrality a
national creed.
If Washington was right, If Jeifer.
son was right, II Hamilton was right,
If Lincoln was right, then the pres.
dent of the United States is right
today, if the Republican leaders are
right then Lincoln was wrong and
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was wrong and Washington was
wrong.
In all the history of the world
there is no other national policy that
has justified itself so completely and
entirely as the American policy of
neutrality and isolation from the quar-.
rels of European powers
Neutral Rights Asserted
No American who knows the facts
can honestly oppose or criticise the
policy of neutrality which the present
Democratic administration has pur-
sued.
Americas doctrine OF neutrality
never meant that this nation must
rush headlong into war at the first
invasion of it's neutral rights. This
does not mean that America will not
resort to war when allN other means
of protecting its neutral rights have
failed, but il does mean that America
will exhaust every peaceful means of
protecting those rights before it takes
the step from which there is no ap-
peal
The issue, raised by our opponents,
of the vigor with which our neutral,
ity has been enforced is a compare
tive issue which can be decided only
by comparative results.
When Grant was president, during
the war between Spain and the Span
ish West Indies, Spanish gunboat
seized the vessel Virginius flying the
American flag and a Spanish com
mandant in cold blood shot the cap
tain of the virginius, 36 Of the crew
and 16 OF the passengers.
But we didn't go to war. Grant
settled our troubles by negotiation.
When Benjamin Harrison was
president the people of Chill. con-
ceived violent dislike to the United
States. One junior officer from the
H...:5-: 5::-.-1 warship Baltimore was