Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-06-23

to enforce order. Not only had Ameri-
can property been destroyed, but
American lives had been lost and a
member of the American legation had
been murdered.
ut Is q perfectly easy thing for the
president of the United States to
plunge his country into war If he is
a politician before he is a patriot. He
would seek his own reelection as he
came upon horseback up the bloody
highway Of %contending armies. The
American people have never yet re-
pudiated a var president and e.
will. We are naturally a re~d-blooded,
fighting race. OF course our army
could invade Mexico and march in
triumph to its 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 of 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 ~precedents
justifying settlement by negotiation
instead of by war.
Explains G. o. p. Stand.
The audience roared when Chair
man James explained why the Repub-
lican convention condemned as in
effective the proposed rural credits
system which the senate had Endorsed
by a vote of 81 to 5 and the house by
a vote of 295 to 10. the explanation be-
ing that Senators Lodge, Oliver and
Wadsworth, three of the senators who
voted 40, were members of the sub
committee which prepared the Repub-
lican platform. They secured a plat
form v~indication of their own votes
by condemning the Republicans in both
house and senate who voted with the
Democrats for the rural credits sys-
tenn.
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 a single gun,
without the shedding of a single drop
of blood, he wrung from the most mill
tant spirit that ever brooded above a
battlefield ar 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 wait for
the concluding sentence of the para
graph. They again registered their
approval of the HE has kept us out
of war; s~entiment-the n overshad-
owing sentiment 4 h 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 a place among the
oratorical luminaries of the country,
This speech adds to his fame, and
makes his place more secure.
What q campaign team these two
chairmen will make. If the Republt
cans have any match for either he Is
still In the dark horse" class he vas
not entered at Chicago.
False Rumors Spread.
The air was filled with the usual
ing to happen. What would a conve
ton be without its prophets Of evil
the patriots who scent danger from
afar and heroically their de-
termination to die In the last ditch be
fore they will permit some u%nthought,
of thing to happen?
One of the fears that rushed through
the hotel corridors, wild-eyed and with
streaming hair, was that an effort
would be made to insert a prohibition
plank In the platform. Men who could
not secure mention In any other way
seized upon this pretext for getting
their names into the papers, and the
country knows how stubbornly
they would resist the adoption Of any
plank which contained even a casual
reflection upon the business of the be-
neyolent brewer, the philanthropic dis
tiller and the liberal-handed vendor of
intoxicating liquors.
1t was q false alarm. Careful search
failed to reveal anyone with such evil
designs upon the harmony of the con-
yention.
Suffrage Meetings Interesting.
Aside from the main attraction, the
convention, there were collateral gath
erlngs and entertainments for the del
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