The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-06-14
REELECTION Of WILSON PREDICTED
by GlYNN--- DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
GOES WILD WITH PROLONGED APPLAUSE
A MERICANISlN AND PEACE:
PREPAREDNESS. PROSPERITY

ST. Louis. Juae 14.--With the asser-
ton that no President since the Civil
War has had as crucial problems to
solve; and no President has displayed
grasp more sure, state6mar5hip
more profound, as President Wilson.
Martin II. Glynn, former governor of
! New York. opened the Democratic
National Convention here today. De
lclaring that "Americanism and peace.
preparedness and prosperity are the
issues upon which the Democratic
party stands, and the heart of DemOC-
racy swells with pride that is more
nan. who has asserted this American
4 ism. assured this peace, advocated this
preparedness and produced this pros
jperity," he predic' cd the re election OF
! President Wilson.
Taking up our foreign relations that
has been called into emphatic promi-
nence by the world wide war, the
speaker declared that eve have en-
tered this hall as Democrats; we shall
deliberate as Americans" +
The 20 icy Of neutrality. he argued. is
as tyr'Y Amcri, IN as the American
I flag I'n3 Two hundred years neutrality
was a theory: America made it a fact
III took Washington and bis success
ors eighty years of endless negotiation
| to win recognition of American neu-
| trality. And his eighty years of strug-
gle wove the doctrine of neutrality
SO cioyely into the warp and woOf of
our rational life that to tear it out
now would unravel the very threads
of our existence" BY the records of
history Mr.. Glynn maintained that if
! Washington and Lincoln were right,
PrOsident Wilson is right The neu-
traIity that President Wilson stands.
fo today was advocated by Washing
ton, by Hamilton, by jefferson and by
Lincoln
By citing precedents Mr. Glynn jus
TILED and defended the course of the
President in the Lusitania and simi-
lar incidents. In the face of this rec
ord" he asked. do Republicans real
ize that when they arraign the policy
Of the President of the United States
today they arraign the policy Of Har-
risOn of Blaine. Of Lincoln and of
Grant? For the pleasure of criticiz
ing a Democratic President are they
willing to read out of the Republican
party the greatest men the Republi
Can party ever had? Are they willing
to say that the Republican party of
today condemns what Hamilton did
in revolutionary days. what Lincoln
and Blaine and Harrison did but yes
terday?
In his policy of peaceful neEotia
Itions today the President of the Unit
ed States follows the example set him
by the greatest Presidents which the
Democratic party and the greatest
Presidents the Republican party ever
gave this nation"
Iii
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 Amerl-
lean to stand UP and assert his Ameri-
canism. We must make the issue so
clear that every ballot box in the land
may become a monument to the loyal
Ity 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 policies are
the policies which have brought the
nation a century of prosperous and
honored peace. They will stand be-
hind him because they want these
policies continued. that prosperity
prolonged, that peace assured.
In asking for an endorsement of the
Presidents peace policy, Mr.. Glynn
said: