The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-06-15
tBy Associated Press.

st. Louis, Mo-, June 15.-The
achievements of the Wilson admins
tration in enacting beneficial legis-
lation and in keeping the country at
peace without sacrifice of the ma
tional honor were pronounced epoch
in American history by Sen
ator Ollie NJ. Jafnes, of Kentucky,
in his address today as permanent
chairman of the Democratic National
During three years of its nation
al control" said Senator James,
democracy has enacted into law
more progressive remedial legislation
than the nation has ever had writ
ten upon its statute books since its
birth. In former national contests in
the last two decades our party came
as a prophet Today we come with
deeds, not words; with performance,
not promise. The Democratic party
has kept its word with the Ameri-
can people. We have made good. Z"
The chairman reviewed at length
the legislative record of the admin
istration and eulogized the president
for his direction of foreign affairs.
The Democrats, he said, had enacted
tariff law under which monopolies
were curbed and unexampled pros
perity attained; a banking law TAX
ing the money control out of the
hands of an oligarchy and making
panics no longer possible; and many
reform measures, of lesser import
ance.
He declared President Wilson's
Mexican policy and his course in pro-
tecting American rights against the
encroachments of European belliger-
etns had shown all the world that
the president neither bullies the
weak nor fears the strong"
In concluding appeal for thetri-
umph of patriotism above politics,
Senator James said the denomination
OF such a president in partisan con-
vcntion ought not to be ecessary, and
that to discredit him might palsy the
hand that could write the peace
treaty of the world.
At the outset the senator referred
briefly to President Wilson'S cam
paign against lobbying in Congress
and pointed out that under this ad-
ministration the constitution had
been amended for the first time since
the Civil War when I'VE freed the
Senate from the control Of the. great
interests by making it elective by
the people at the polls" He then
euIogized tn Underwood Simmons
tariff act as one of which the party
was justly proud
"Not a schedule in it fosters a
monopoly" he said "our Republic
an friends told US it would close the
factories, fill the streets with idle
men. produce a panic, create soup
houses and distress would reign ev-
erywhere; but we rejoice today to
point to an unexampled property in
which the nation with labor more
generally employed. at higher rates,
shorter hours. and better conditions
than ever before. Our 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 war condi-
tions."
Turning to the federal reserve
law. Senator James declared that 1t
alone averted a panic at the out
break Of the European war.
What would have been the result
If the old Republican system had
been in effect" he asked. "The
stock exchanges in every city in the
world we're closed. Europe poured