The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-15
CONVENTION SLOW
ON SECOND DAY
Rules Committee Recon-
mended Unanimously That
the Nominations Be Made
Tonight, Whether or Not
Resolutions Were Ready
to Be Presented to the
Convention

st. Louis. June I5.-The second day of
1.-THE Democratic national convention was
Icalled to order at ll.46. the delegates
Having been late in arriving. just be-
fore the session was called to order it
was announced the rules committee had
voted unanimously to recommend that
nominations be made tonight at s
o'clock The leaders of the convention
favor this plan whether or not the reso.
lutions are ready.
| Senator Ollie NJ James of Kentucky
was introduced as the permanent chair
man of the convention and he began his
speech
James Speech.
During three years Of its national
control said Senator James, "Democ-
racy has enacted into law more progres-
sive remedial legislation than the nation
has ever had written upon its statute
books since its birth. In former national
contests in the last two decades our
party came as prophet. To-day we
come with deeds, not words; with per
formsnee, not promise. The Democratic
party has kept its word with the Amer
lean people We have made good"
The chairman reviewed at length the
legislative record OF the administration
and eulogized the president for his di-
rection Of foreign affairs. The Demo
Gratis, he said, had enacted tariff law
under which monopolies were cprbed and
unexampled prosperity attained; bank
ing law taking the money control out of |
the hands of an oligarchy and making |
panics no longer possible; and many re-
form measures of lesser Importance.
He declared President Wilson's Mex
lean policy and his course in protecting /
American rights against the encroaeh-
ments of European beligerents had
shown all the world that the president
neither bullies the weak nor fears the
strong"
In concluding appeal for the triumph
Of patriotism above politics, Senator
James said the denomination of such a
president in partisan convention ought
not to be necessary, and that to dscred-
il 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 campaign !
lgainst lobbying in Congress and pointed
nut that under this administration the y
had been amended for the q
irst time since the Civil war, when eve /
reed the Senate from the control Of the $
,reat interests by making 1t elective by I
he people at the polls" He then eulo- b
lied the Underwood Simmons tariff act a
S one of which the party was justly j
Iroud. a
Not a schedule in it fosters q mono t
oily" he said. "Our Republican friends n
old lis il would close the factories, fill
he streets with idle men, produce pan I
;. create soup houses and distress would v
eign everywhere but we rejoice to-day h
D point to an unexampled prosperity in a
he nation with labor more generally en- a
loyed. at higher rates. shorter hours, J.
nd better conditions than ever before. A
ur Republican friends tell us that after
1e war is over poor. stricken. PROSTATE,
,rn, bleeding Europe will take our home
Iarket from us. | have no such fear. b
merics is going TO take the markets OF
le world. But we shall cut from them
le last hope Of having even q false is A
le. for We shall pass bill creating ~
riff board to gather the facts created IA
7 new war conditions" m
Turning to the federal reserve law, IA
,nator James declared that il alone n,
lerted panic at the outbreak of the NJ
lropean war. ~
"What would have been the result if ~
e old Republican system had been in ~
iect." he asked. The stock exchanges -
every city In the world were closed. {,
Irope poured its vast holdings in pie -
argic streams upon our shores. Who II
inks that the old Republican system OF
ance under the guidance Of those pa
otic guardians would have been able
Withstand this mighty eataelysmi But A
lat was the result? Not a bank closed
doors not a laborer was thrown out
employment: not a business was
iced into bankruptcy; but there stood u
'ong. serving the masses Of mankind ~
i great legislative achievement Of the AZ
party. As the master achieve 70
mt OF Woodrow Wilson. to my mind. Tor
Il TO keeping lO0000000 people at Tor
ice with the world. the historian will ue'
ord the federal reserve law"
Declaring that "self-defense and prep-
Ition for il is as necessary now as ever
ore" the speaker pointed to the ad- ma
preparedness program a. q val
'of that the party believed in apre- Ish1
.edness without militarism bet
In 1905 be continued. I attended Ides
great peace conference held in Lon ms
l. ] thought that the millennium Of thr