Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-16
otzlie James Praises
: Legislative Record
of Administration
Permanent Chairman Pro-
nounces achievements of
Wilson as Epoch Making
in American History.

ST. LOUIS, MO. June 15.-The
achievements of the Wilson admins
,~tration in enactIng beneficial legislation
and in keeping the country at peace
without sacrifice of the national honor
were pronounced epoch-making in
james. Of Kentucky. in his address to-
day as permanent chairman of the
Democratic National Convention.
During three years Of it's national
control" said Senator James. "Democ-
racy has enacted into law more pro-
gressive remedial legislation than the
nation has ever had written upon It's
statute books since it's birth. In
former national contests in the last
two decades our party came as a
prophet. To-day We come with deeds,
not words: with performance, not
promise. The Democratic party has
kept its word with the American peo-
pie. We have made good"
The chairman reviewed at length the
legislative record Of the administra-
t!on, and eulogized the President for
his direction of foreign affairs. The
Democrats. he said. had enacted a
tariff law under which ]monopolies
we're curbed and unexampled pros
perity attained: n banking law taking
the money control out Of the hands Of
an oligarchy and making panics no
longer possible; and many reform
measures OF lesser Importance.
He declared President Wilson'S Next
can policy and his course in protecting
American rights against the encroach-
ments of European belliSerents had
shown al! the world that the President
neither DULLES the weak nor fears
the strong"
In a concluding appeal for the
triumph Of patriotism above politics,
Senator James said the denomination
OF such a President in partisan con-
vention ought not to be necessary, and
that to discredit him might palsy the
hand that could write the peace treaty
OF tho world.
AT the outset the enator referred
briefly to President wilson's campaign
against lobbying in Congress. and
pointed out that under this admins
trat!on the Constitution had been
amended for the frs, time since the
i War, when I'VE freed the Senate
from the control Of tho great interests
by making II elective by the people
at the polls" He then eulogized the
Enderwood-S.mmons tariff act as one
OF which the party was Justly proud.
AMERICA GOING TO TAKE
MARKETS OF WORLD
Not "a schedule in It fosters a
monopoly" he said. Our Republican
friends told VS. II would close the fac
tories, fill the streets with idle men,
produce a panic, create soup houses
and distress would reign everywhere;
but we rejoice to-day TO point to an
unexampled prosperity in the nation
with labor more generally employed,
az higher rates. shorter hours. and
Better conditions than ever before.
Guar Republican friends tell us that
after the war is over poor. stricken.
PROSTATE. torn, bleeding Europe will
take our home market from us.
have no such fear. America Is going
to take the markets Of the world. But
We shall cut from them the last hope
of having even a false issue, for we
shall pass a bill creating a tariff board
to gather the facts created by new
Jar conditions"
Turning to the Federal reserve law.
Senator James declared that it alone
ave-ted a panic at the outbreak Of the
European war.
What would have been the result if
the old Republican system had been in
effect he asked. The stock ex-
,hanges in every city in the world
we're closed. Europe poured its vast
holdings in pletharSic streams upon
our shores. Who thinks that the old
Republican system of finance under
the guidance Of those patriotic guard
inHs would have been able to withstand
his mighty eataclysm? But what'was
the result? Not Il bank closed its
ioors: not a laborer was thrown out
II employment; no; a business was
creed into bankruptcy; but there stood
his great legislative achievement OF
he Democratic party. AS the master
achievement OF Woodrow Wilson, to
NY mind. next to keeping 100. 900. 900
people at peace with the world. the
historian will record the Federal re-
serve law"
Declaring that '~seIf-defense and
preparation for it Is as necessary now
as ever BEFORE" the speaker pointed
to the administration's preparedness
program as a proof that the party be-
ieved in preparedness without mill
arism."
In 1906" he continued, 81 attended
thu great peace conference held in
London. ! thought that the millennium
Of peace had come, and such a thing
s the worlds war was impossible.
tut that day when the Christian heart
hall rule the world is not in sight.
We must not mistake dishonor for
'eace. as we cannot mistake oppression
or peace. Woodrow Wilson and the
Democratic party advocate an arny |
|