The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-14
FORMER NEW YORK GOVERNOR
OPENS CONVENTION OF DEM.
OCRATIC PARTY.
PRAISE HIS POLICY
Policy to Course Pursued ny Grant
When Spanish Attacked American
Ship.

st. Louis, June 14.-With the as
sertion that no president since the
civil war has had as crucial prob.
lens to solve and no president has
displayed grasp more sure, a states.
manship more profound, as Presl.
dent Wilson, Hon. Martin III. Glynn.
former governor of New York, OPEN
ed the democratic convention here
today. Declaring that "Americanism
and peace, preparedness and pros
perity-are the issues upon which
| the democratic party stands, and the
heart of democracy swells with pride
that is more than a pride of party
as it halls the man, who has asserted
this Americanism, assured this peace,
advocated this preparedness and pro-
duced this prosperity" he predicted
the reelection of President Wilson.
Taking up our foreign relations
that has been called into emphatic
prominence by the worldwide war
the speaker declared that 1--WE have
entered this hall as Americans
The policy of neutrality, he argued, is
as truly American as the American
flag. For two hundred years neu-
trality was theory; America made
it fact at took Washington and
his successors eighty years of end
less negotiation to win recognition
of American neutrality. And this
eighty years of struggle wove the
doctrine of neutrality so closely into
the warp and woof of our national
life that to tear it out now would
unravel the very threads of our ex-
istence." By the records of history
Mr.. Glynn maintained that If Wash
ington and Lincoln were right, Pres
ident Wilson is right. The neutral
ity that President Wilson stands for
today was advocated by Washington.
by Hamilton, by Jefferson and by
Lincoln.
By citing precedents Mr.. Glynn
justified and defended the course OF
the president in the Lusitania and
similar incidents. "In the face or
this record he asked, DO repup-
licans realize that when they arraign
the policy Of the president of the
United States today they arraign the
policy of Harrison, of Blaine, of Lin
coin and of Grant? For the pleas
ure of criticising democratic pres
ident, are they willing to read out
of the republican party the greatest
men the republican party ever had?
Are they willing to say that the
republican party of today condemns
what Hamilton did in revolutionary
days, what Lincoln did in civil war
days and what Grant and Blaine
and Harrison did but yesterday?
an his policy OF peaceful negotia-
tions today the president of the Uni
ted States follows the example set
him by the greatest presidents which
the democratic party and the great
est presidents of the republican par
ty ever gave this nation"
Mr.. Glynn impressed on his, hear
ers that it was the business of this
convention representing every Sec
ton of the United States, speaking
for every racial strain in America.
to send forth message to all the
world that will leave no room for
doubt.
1--WE must enable every real Amer
ican to stand up and assert his AM
ericanism. We must make the issue
so clear that every ballot box in
the land may become a monument
to the loyalty of American manhood.
"The citizens of the country must
stand behind their president because
his policies are right. They will
stand behind him because his poll
cies are the policies which have
brought the nation a century OF
prosperous and honored peace. They
will stand behind him because they
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