The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-06-16
Both Unanimously
Ren0minated.
NAMED BY WESC0TT
Made Powerful Speech in Praise
Of President.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM IN HALL

st. Louis, June 16.-Before adopting
Z platform the Democratic national
convention unanimously nominated
Woodrow Wilson, Of New Jersey, for
president of the United States and
Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, for
vice president.
Judge John w. Wescott, of Haddon-
field, N. j., who made the speech noml-
mating President Wilson in Baltimore,
four years ago, performed the same
service in q speech of remarkable pow
or.
Following Wilson's nomination, John
w. Kern presented to the convention
the name of Thomas R. Marshall for
vice president.
Vance C. Mccormick, of Harrisburg,
head Of the victorious Democratic re-
organization movement in Pennsylva-
mia, was announced as the choice OF
President Wilson and the Democratic
national committee, for the most i'm
portant post of chairman of the com
mittee.
The convention during the session
registered its approval of President
Wilson's conduct of foreign affairs
which has kept the country at peace
with one demonstration after another.
When Senator Ollie James, of Ken
lucky, as permanent chairman, re
counted the diplomatic achievements
of the president in the negotiations
with Germany, the convention launch
al H~t4 ofrh innfo nj
marching, cheers and waving of flags,
in which former Secretary of State
William J. Bryan, from his seat in the
press section, joined.
William A. Glasgow, Of Philadelphia,
chairman of the committee on rules,
smashed the silly conspiracy of St.
Louis politicians, hotelkeepers and
brewers to keep the convention at
work until Saturday night.
Mr.. Glasgow's chief contention was
that 1t would be impossible to hold
the delegates and that it would be
Door politics to make the nominations
with empty seats. The New York dele
cation, he said. would leave for home,
regardless of when the nominations
were made
A. Mitchell Palmer, of Stroudsburg,
Pa, apparently has won his fight
against Senator Stone to insert in the
platform a plank declaring against the
elevation Of the supreme court justices
70 the presidency.
The Pennsylvania delegation, acting
In caucus as a unit, killed the rancid
candidacy of Roger Sullivan, the Chi
cago leader for vice president.
Little Delaware, stirred to action by
the prominence of her neighbors, fut-
tered into the spotlight one Pickering
minute when Senator Salisbury sug-
gested the president be invited to come
to st. Louis, arriving Saturday, for
the purpose of accepting in person be-
fore the convention. The suggestion
was 80 palpably in the interest of the
hotelkeepers and brewers, that it was
hurled down in the state caucuses and
not brought up in the convention.
When the roll was called for nomi
nations for president, Alabama yielded
to New Jersey and Judge Weseott STEP
ped to the platform to nominate Presi-
dent Wilson amid a storm Of applause.
Wescott Praises Wilson.
Hon. John Wescott, attorney general
Of New Jersey, in nominating Presi-
dent Wilson said:
Prophecy Is fulfilled. The eternal
ver1ties Of righteousness have prevail
ed. Undismayed by the ealamities of
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vain defamation, holding to the pure
altar of truth, the schcolmaster is
statesman, the statesman flnancier,
the flnancier emancipation, the enamel
pator pacif1cator, the pacificator the
moral leader Of democracy:
Is ct peace. The nation is accomplish
ing the destiny of Democracy. Four
years ago the nation was not at work.
With resources boundless, with a hun
dred million people eager to achieve
and do, commerce languished, indus
tries halted, men were idle. The
s country struggled d,d in the tolls Of an
was at the mercy of piracy. The small
business man was bound hand and
foot. Panic hung like a storm cloud
over the business world.
Now bursting granaries, teeming
factories, crowded railways and over
AAuoA Su1pS WEALTH. ana COul-
fort to uncounted millions the world
over. Production outruns the means
OF distribution. The parallel of Amer
lean prosperity is not found in indus
trial history; nor is 1t causeless. II
did not descend, like a merciful acct
dent, from heaven: 1t is not due to
the devastations of a revised tariff. 1t
Is not the result of destructive legis-
lation. 1t cannot be attributed 10 the
manufacture of war materials, concti
tuting bare five per centum o. the
volume Of national business. War is
destruction, not production. War cur
tails International trade. War depres-
European cataclysm struck the world
moratoria fell like blight upon many
OF the neutral nations, but not upon
the United States.
There stands the astounding phe-
1 Mnns o. -, OF American prosperity;
Of financial theory worked to a dem
onstration measures for the country's
relief. He promptly put into edect
the legislative expression of a great
program. He did not talk. He did
things. He dynamited the monetary
est corners of the land, its spray dash
Ing even upon foreign shores. He re-
leased the nations resources and set
the energies of all men free to exploit
them. he destroyed commercial SlaV-
cry. He struck off its shackles. The
prosperity of the nation is the product
Of craftsmanship and financial genius.
American credit is now limited only by
Its own honesty and capacity. The
cause being undisturbed, the effects
must remain. The schoolmaster is
statesman. The statesman is financier,
the fnancier is emancipation. With
Lincoln, the emancipation of the chattel
slave, he will live forever as the
emancipation OF the commercial slave.
The nation is at peace in a wor
at war. America is confronted with
appalling realities. To build words
mountain high as the throne OF vanity
and ambition should not be an Ameri-
can pastime. An attempt to catch the
presidency by phrases is the work OF
folly. When the fate of millions is
at stake it is not the part of any man
to. stack the cards. With civilization
IN, peril the sphinx becomes an ana
ctrQnism. With the whole world