The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-14
GLYNN'S SPEECH

deliberate as Americans" The
policy of neutrality, he argued, is as
truly American as the American nag
For two hundred years neutrality was
a theory: America made it fact. TT
took Washington and his successors
eighty wears of endless negotiation to
win recognition of American neutral
ity. And this eighty years OF struggle
wove the doctrine of neutrality so
closely into the warp and wool OF our
national life that to tear L out now
would unravel the very threads of our
existence" BY the records of history
Mr. Clvnn maintained that If Wash
ington and Lincoln were right, Presl-
dent Wilson is right. The neutrality
that President Wilson stands for to-
day was advocated by Washington. by
Hamilton, by jefferson and by Lin
coin.
Defends Lusitania Policy.
BY citing presidents Mr. Glynn JUS
titled and defended the course of the
president in the Lusitania and SINH
lar incidents. In the face of this
record he asked: do Republicans
realize that when they arraign the
policy of the president of the United
States today they arraign the policy
of Harrison, of Blaine, of Lincoln and
of Grant? For the pleasure of criti-
cising a Democratic president, are
they willing to read out of the Repub-
lican party the greatest men the Re
publican party ever had? Are they
willing to say that the Republican
party of today condemns what Ham
ilton did in revolutionary days, what
Lincoln did in Civil war days and
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 Democratic party and the great
est presidents the Republican party
ever gave this nation"
Mr.. Glynn impressed on his hearers
that it was the business of this con-
vention, representing every section
of the United States, speaking for
every racial strain in America, to send
forth a message to all the world that
will leave no room for doubt.
I'VE must enable every real Ameri-
can to stand up and assert his Amer
icanism. We must make the issue so
clear that every ballot box in the
land may become monument to the
loyalty of American manhood.
The citizens of this country must
stand behind their president because
his policies are right. They will
stand behind him because his poll
cies are the policies which nave
brought the nation a century of pros
porous and honored peace. They will
SCanQ DeD1nQ MIN because Iney want
these policies continued, that pros
perity prolonged, that peace as
sured.
From Chains of Industrial Tyranny.
He pointed out that the promise
made four years ago that a Demo
cratic administration would Hberate
the nation from the chains of indus
trial tyranny has been carried out.
He eulogized the Federal Reserve act
and declared that the ''Scholar-states-
man, whose rod has struck the golden
rock of Americas resources, to set free
the wealth imprisoned for half CEN
fury, is a Moses who has led Americas
Industries from the wilderness of
doubt and despair to the Promised
Land of Prosperity and hope"
The laws restraining big business
from sitting competition, the trades
commission act, the movement to fos-
ter expansion of American trade, the
close union of economic, commercial
and financial interests between the
United States and the nations of South
America are shown to be legislation of
the widest benefit. The Underwood
tariff, Mr.. Glynn characterized as the
fairest and the best of all we have en-
acted Under the present adTninistra-
ton the United States has enjoyed a
wonderful era of good business and
good times.
The Americans ideals and his aspi-
speakers opening discussion.
I'VE who stand today on the fertile
soil of America, who live under the
smiling skies of a free and fruitful
land, must prove worthy of the trust
that American sacrifice has imposed
on every American.
Will Cast Aside Party Lines.
'Disregarding the divisions that
make one man a Tory and another
Wing, one man Republican and
another Democrat, Americans will
cast aside the tinsel of party labels
and the mummery of party emblems.
+ From the great pulsing heart of
mand to crush partisanship, and re-
buke whatever is mean OF blind.
That command will be heard by the
ploughman in his field, and by the
laborer at his bench. It will reach
the merchant in his office and the
to ourselves, and recreant to those
who send US here if we permitted any
thought Of partisan profit, and con-
s1deration of political advantage to OBJ
scure our vision of the tremendous
issues now before the people of the
United States. We must cast aside all
that is selfish, we must hold ourselves
worthy of a nations confidence by Of
fering only the best of our intelligence,
the flower of our patriotism toward
the solution of what all men perceive
TO be crisis in the nations affairs.
In asking for an endorsement of
| the presidents peace policy Mr..
! Glynn said:
For two years the world has been
fire; the civilization that we know
struggle in its history. Sparks from
Europe's flagration have blazed in
our own skies, echoes of her strife
have sounded at our very doors. That