The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-06-14
REELECTION PREDICTED
Continued from rAge one.)

! The tentative draft of the suffrage
!. Iplank proposed by Secretary Daniels
for the platform, put the women in a
shouting mood
Atmosphere of Victory
In calling the Democratic national
: convention to order at noon today.
Chairman VIM. F. Combs, of the Demo
cratic national committee, spoke as
fellows:
1--WE are in an atmosphere of victory
We have no feeling of guess, but spir-
it of certainty. We meet to celebrate
the marvellous achievements of the
Democratic party since it came into
power and TO place milestone upon
1.-The path of its future success. Over
two thousand years ago an old slave
related the fable of the frog who want
ed to grow to the size of an elephant.
Such was the ambition of his soul that
his body swelled to a marvellous pro-
portion. Indeed, Aesop went so far as
to predict that the frog, upon reaching
the size Of the elephant, would burst.
u commend to your notice the wisdom
of Aesop II took over two thousand
lyears for this prophecy to come
Through. Only last week the frOg-ele-
Iphant or the elephantfroS exploded,
THE Republican party for years sue
Iceeded in deceiving the country. Now
lit is successfully deceiving itself. IN
its platform it offers pulchritudinous
promise-but with vacuous intent 1t
promises the country in the main what
the Democratic party already has done
Tor is in the process of doing, saving
always, the bog god Protection" II
has cIoaked its iniquity with a judicial
robe, but the cloven hoof of special IN
terest still protrudes.
"Thn board of directors has sat In
| Chicago md again resolved that they
are the ~ountry. They have adopted
the doct; lie Of Denomination and pre-
Idestinatitn but have made it apple
able on 20 themselves. The rest o!
the peop|e are their wards-for profl:.
! "Ambit,.n is a noble attribute, but
when it is adulterated with greed, a
| cataclysm IL inevitable. We have rec
emily with ed the painful spectacle
of two greai american parties in Chi
cago. putin self in place Of ideals; !
self glorificat,on in place of national
honor; repubi.canism and progressive
ism, so-called, IN place of our only
sm"-Amercapism.
Eve have -''''' Led the drab spec
ltacle of two groups of men, traainS
principals like competitors in a ilsh |
market, in the hope that some compro-
mise would win H'lbic support. They
have not ccmc togcther-they have
fallen out over the "swag." For the
sake of victory many of the men, essen
TALLY opposite in principles, have been
willing to become friends with false
masks. The result is nevitable-"dl-
vided they fall" We welcome the pent
up Amcricanism of the real progress
ives individually to our ranks, offering
them a haven, in a principle. Their
leader has abandoned them with Grass
cruelty.
"The gentleman from Oyster Bay IN
q recent letter to Chicago quoted Abra-
ham Lincoln as saying, May not ALL
having a common interest, reunite III
common effort to save our common
country Ladies' and gentlemen, beg I:
to recall your attention 10 the Woro
reupite. The words, Save the country
have been the disguise of the Opposl-
ton for years There may be po-
liticaI war today in this country, bul
that war exists only between factions. ,
WHY did the gentleman quote the
words of Lincoln? In the hope of re-
uniting Americans? No. Americans
are reunited as never before. he
meant by reuniting that two factions
of his party should reunte. The6e
two factions or parts of them hoped to T.,
ioin for a self-aggrandizement.
Leaders of these two tactions-iac-
tons powerless as entities-hoped TO
ioin hands. however strained and how
ever divided on irreconcilahle princi-
pies. for the insidious purpose oil over )
throwing q third entity. which for the
last four years stood united in com
mon cause: whose shiboleth is one Tor
II and all for one; equal rights ana
5p.r ~ privileges to none; whose chlef
tenet OF la.ih is that America is Amer I
lean and Americans are America.
This is the crucial hour in the MS
tory of the world. 1t is an hour when q
every man should take stock of himself t
and his principles. This is an hour
when everyone should see whether IN Itl
his inner Consciousness he squares fl
with the ideals of 1875 and the later
periods of dramatic episode, when this S
country rcsolutely maintained peace Il
with honor. IL