Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-14
PROSPERITY AND
PEACE KEYNOTES
OF DEMOS PARTY
Strict Maintenance OF Neutrality and
Country's Wealth Theme of Martin
H. Glynn's Speech.
ADMINISTRATION is SUPPORTED
President Wilson'S Policies at Home
and Abroad Praised by Temporary
Chairman at Convention.


Chairman at Convention.
st. Louis, June 14.-With the aSser-
ton that no president since the Civil
war has had as crucial problems to
solve; and no president has displayed
a grasp more sure, craftsmanship
more profound, as President Wilson,
Hon Martin H. Glynn, former COVER
nor of New York, opened the demo-
cratic national convention here today.
Declaring that "AmericaniSm and
peace, preparedness and prosperity
are the issues upon which the demo-
cratic party stands, and the heart Of
democracy swells with pride that is
more than a pride of party, as 1t halls
the man, who has asserted this Amer
icanism. assured this peace, advocated
this preparedness and produced this
prosperity" he predicted the reelec-
ton of President Wilson.
Taking up our foreign relations that
have been called into emphatic promi-
nence by the worldwide war the
speaker declared that I'VE have en-
tered this hall as democrats; We shall
deliberate as Americans" The
policy of neutrality. he argued, is as
truly American as the American flag.
For two hundred years neutrality was
a theory; America made it fact. 1T
took Washington and his successors
so years of endless negotiation to win
recognition of American neutrality
And this so years Of struggle wove the
doctrine of neutrality so closely into
the warp and wool of our national life
that to tear it out now would unravel
the very threads of our existence" By
the records of history Mr. Glynn main
tanned that if Washington and Lincoln
were right, President Wilson is right
The neutrality that President Wilson
stands for today was advocated by
Washington. by Hamilton, by Jeffer,
son and by Lincoln.
Justibes LuSitania Case.
By citing precedents Mr. Glynn jus
tilted and defended the course of the
president in the Lusitania and similar
incidents. in the face of this record,
he asked: DO republicans realize
that when they arraign the policy o
ihe president of the United States to
day they arraign the policy of Harri
son, of Blaine, of Lincoln and OF Grant
For the pleasure of criticising a demo
cratic president. are they willing Il
read out of the republican party tn
greatest men the republicans ever had
Are they willing to say that the re
publican party of today condemns Wha
Hamilton did in revolutionary days
what Lincoln did in Civil war days anC
what Grant and Blaine and Harrison
did but yesterday.
in his policy of peaceful negotia
lions today the president of the United
States follows the example set him BY
the greatest presidents which the dem
ocratic party and the greatest presi
dents the republican party ever gave
this nation"
Mr.. Glynn impressed on his hearer:
that it was the business of this con
vention representing every section o
the United States, speaking for every
racial strain in America, to send fortI
message to all the world that vii
leave no room for doubt
We must enable every real Ameri-
can to stand up and assert his
Americanism. We must make the is.
sue SO clear that every ballot box il
the land may become monument tt
the loyalty of American manhood.
THE citizens of this country mus
stand behind their president because
his policies are right. They will stanC
behind him because his policies are
the policies which have brought the
nation century of prosperous anC
honored peace. They will stand be.
hind him because they want these pol
icies continued, that prosperity pro,
longed, that peace assured"
Democrats Fulfill Promise.
He pointed out that the promise
made four years ago that a democratic
administration would liberate the ma.
ton from the chains of industrial
tyranny has been carried out. He eulo,
gized the federal reserve act and de-
Ciared that the scholar statesman
whose rod has struck the golden rocb
Of Americas resources, to set free the
wealth imprisoned for half a century
is Moses who has led Americas in.
dustries from the wilderness of doub
and despair to the promised land Of
prosperity and hope"
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