The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-15
SUPPORT PRESIDENT
PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
1ssnesratic Keynote Sounded by
Temporary Chairman GIynn.
EEFENDS NEUTRALITY POLICY
2sExsvucztes Defense Preparedness and
&Eavfa Miiitarism Bugaboo--Dis-
i @susses Domestic Policies and
Euloqizes Mr.. Wilson.

susses Domestic Policies and
Euloqizes Mr.. Wilson.
- Louis, Mo- June 14.-Following
asn IN condensed version Of the address
sHaaGsNeTed at the opening Of the Demo
<rsc1SSC national convention today by
sxsEurCrsry Chairman Martin II.
&sEymm, former governor of New York.
Gentlemen of the Convention: The
EzsFrocratic party, in this convention
assembled, meets to perform duty,
gxCE fo itself but to the nation.
Ess have entered this hall as Demo
1=rxfE. wa shall deliberate and act here
sas Americans.
~ TN this great crisis that now con-
NrunEs the nation, the American people
.:SzkEsr. their apostasy will be visited
a1u0n the descendants OF their chill
.4xrcnNs children.
Designating the divisions that make
1mna nazn Tory and another Wing.
sozrs man a Republican and another
E1sznncrat, Americans will cast aside
Una tfnsel Of party emblems.
From the great. pulstng heart OF the
nation will come a patriot command
90 crush partisanship andsfebuke what
ssSveE Is mean or blind.
and when, century from now,
.aAraeriea's children come to read our
,safzoury. we pray God that the history
xwe ara about to make may prove an
ssrzspsration to their loyalty.
ssx the attainment Of this hope, the
,1ssterance of this prayer wewho gather
here today have responsibility that
soSgrs our emotions as 1t strengthens
foUr resolutions.
For two years the world has been
esffre. That fire still burns, but thus
Ear the United States has held the
Nanns at bay.
Must Support Principles.
What the people of the United
States must determine through their
suffrage is whether the principles that
1fave been asserted as our national pol
&cY shall be Endorsed or withdrawn.
THIS is the paramount issue.
FSw 200 years neutrality was the
cry. America made 1t fact. To win
This priceless right of neutrality this
x1aeion had to undergo long and pain
Gszf struggle.
Where is the American hardy enough
en- challenge policy so firmly fixed
an the nations traditions?
TIE president of the United States
stands today where stood the men who
made America and who saved Amer
Ecsa and made American neutrality a
a1afhnuaI creed.
x Washington was right, If Jeffer-
4s0u was right, If Hamilton was right,
lie lincoln was right, then the presi-
dent Of the United States is right
sn4fsy; If the Republican leaders are
gwfghf then Lincoln was wrong and
Jefferson was wrong and Hamilton
-Sxas wrong and Washington was
SMrong-
I'm all the history Of the world
41lexe Is no other national policy that
HAS justified itself SO completely and
asnkfrsIy as the American policy OF
1neufraIity and isolation from the quar-
wefs OF European powers.
Neutral Rights Asserted.
Mo American who knows the facts
Gan honestly oppose or criticise the
policy OF neutrality which the present
Democratic. administration has pur-
sued
Amsrica's doctrine Of neutrality
NEVER meant that this nation must
.rtxan headlong into war at the hrst
.xxxv1sSnn of its neutral rights. This
afzoss not mean that America will not
srss,rf to war when all other means
,asf protecting its neutral rights have
sailed, but it does mean that America
,swSM exhaust every peaceful means OF
,surrese1fng those rights before 1t takes
x9hs step from which there Is no ap-
zeal
The issue, raised by our opponents,
saT the vigor with which our neutral
fly has been enforced Is compare
sire issue which can be decided only
Ey comparative results.
When Grant was president, during
sNz1e war between Spain and the Span
Ssh West Indies, a Spanish gunboat
seized the vessel virginius flying the
-Arne1ican flag and Spanish com.
zanaHdant in cold blood shot the cap
gain of the Virginius, 36 of the crew
.ssrsE &c of the passengers.
Buf we didn't go to war. Grant
asastlsd our troubles by negotiation.
When Benjamin Harrison was
president the people of Chill con-
4Ezsfved a violent dislike to the United
S&anes- One junior officer from the
T1nlfed States warship Baltimore was
MffEed outright in the streets Of Val
paxaIso and 16 of our sailors wound
.asf
Hua we didn't 60 to war. Harrison
sanettRed our troubles by negotiation.