Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-06-28

mother, without firing a: single gu}i;
without the shedding of a single drop
Of blood, he wrung from the most mill
tant spirit that ever brooded above a
battlefield an acknowledgment Of
American rights and an agreement to
American demands"
1t Is evident that the speaker had
not counted on the sentence producing
the effect that it did because it was
buried in paragraph, being preceded
by five sentences and followed by one.
The sentence which followed read:
"He truly demonstrated that prin-
ciple is mightier than force, that di.
plomacy hath its victories no less re-
nowned than war;"
Great Campaign Team.
But the audience did not wait for
the concluding sentence of the para.
graph. They again registered their
approval of the "He has kept us out
of war" sentiment-the one overshad-
owing sentiment Of the convention.
The demonstration which followed
lasted several minutes, and was parti-
cipated in by most Of the states, the
delegations carrying their standards
around the hall.
Senator James, even before this
speech, had won place among the
oratorical luminaries of the country.
This speech adds to his fame, and
makes his place more secure.
What campaign team these two
chairmen will make. If the Republi-
cans have any match for either he Is
still In the dark horse class; he was
not entered at Chicago.
False Rumors Spread.
The air was filled with the usual
number Of rumors as to what was go.
ing to happen. What would conven.
ton be without it's prophets Of evil
the patriots who scent danger from
afar and heroically announce their de-
termination to die in the last ditch be-
fore they will permit some unthought.
of thing to happen?
One Of the fears that rushed through
the hotel corridors, wild-eyed and with
streaming hair, was that an effort
would be made to insert q prohibition
plank in the platform. Men who could
not secure mention in any other way
seized upon this pretext for getting
their names into the papers, and the
country now knows how stubbornly
they would resist the adoption Of any
plank which contained even q casual
reflection upon the business Of the be.
nevolent brewer, the philanthropic dis.
tiller and the liberal-handed vendor OF
Intoxicating liquors..
It was false alarm. Careful search
failed to reveal anyone with such evil
designs upon the harmony Of the con.
ventiOn.
Suffrage Meetings Interesting.
Aside from the main attraction, the
convention, there were collateral gath
erings and entertainments for the del.
egates. The most interesting outside
meetings were the ones conducted by
the women in charge of the equal sui.
frage cause. They had hall where
audiences assembled twice a day to
listen to speeches in favor Of votes for
women.
DIR. Anna Shaw was the chief speak
er on Wednesday. She is woman of
great ability, profoundly interested in
the movement and happy in the hone
Of seeing an early victory for the prin-
ciples for which she so long and elo.
guently cOntended.
With all three parties committed I'd
the doctrine that suffrage should be
extended to women, the end of the
contest Is In sight; victory is at hand.
Clashes Over Platform.
The platform committee announced
two hours before the convention onene1
Friday that Its draft was ready for
delegate action.
President Wilson's Americanisnn
plank, which is stern rebuke to those
persons and organizations that have
been active In their sympathy for one
or another of the belligerents In the
European war, and slack In their
American citizenship, caused little
storm In committee. Many Democratic
politicians, 1t is said, are afraid of this
stand by the chief executive and op-
posed incorporation of the plank In
the platform. Senator William j.
Stone, chairman of the committee, was
In constant touch by long distance
phone with the president while the
platform was being put together. Mr..
Wilson won his point.
The platform contains about %
planks and 1900 words. It indorsea
Wilson's policies, praises the federal
reserve banking system, says monopoly
has been strangled, agrees that equal
suffrage is right, speaks Of the income