The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-06-23

lacked both the candor to indorse the
currency law and the courage to de-
nounce II.
He brought the convention to les
feet in his eloquent justification Of the
presidents Mexican policy. The fol-
lowing passage from his speech will
be widely used during the campaign,
combining. as 1t does, citation from
Lincoln precedent with a powerful
word picture of the condition that
would have followed Intervention. II
reads:
"When the Republican platform az
Chicago denounced the Mexican pol
icy of Woodrow Wilson, 1t denounced,
at the same time the similar Mexican
policy of Abraham Lincoln-the one
they have heretofore called the pa
tron saint of the Republican party.
Mexico Was In Turmoil.
"When the Lincoln administration
came into power Mexico had been In
turmoil for years. The government Of
Juarez was In power, but was unable
to enforce order. Not only had Amert-
can property been destroyed, but
American lives had been lost and O
member Of the American legation had
been murdered.
ut is perfectly easy thing for the
president Of the United States to
plunge his country into war If he IL
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 q war president and never
will. We are naturally red-blooded,
lighting race. OF course our army
could invade Mexico and march In
triumph to It's capital, but after the
war was over other armies would
MARKHAM army Of widows and or
phans, an army Of eripples 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" s--f- ga ~,
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 q. 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 vote Of 81 to and the house by
a vote Of 295 to 10, the explanation be-
Ing that Senators Lodge, Oliver and
Wadsworth, three Of the senator's who
voted no, were members Of the sub
committee which prepared the Repub-
lican platform. They secured a plat
form vindication Of their own votes
by condemning the Republicans in both
house and senate who voted with the
Democrats for the rural credits sys-i
tenn.
The greatest applause, however, was
called forth by the following SEN
tence:
without orphaning single child,
without widowing a single American
mother, without firing single gun,
without the shedding of single drop
Of blood, he wrung from the most mill
tant spirit that ever brooded above Q
battlefield an acknowledgment OF
American rights and an agreement to
American demands" e
II is evident that the speaker had
not counted on the sentence producing
the effect that It did because 1t was
buried In 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" ~