Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-06-23
NAMED BY WESCC7T
Made Powerful Speech in Praise
Of President.
;jjnicAI tHEHJS!fSM IN HALL

Before adopting platform the
democratic national ccnvenisn III
-. Louis unanimously Gomlaa:eI
Woodrow Wilson, oi New Je 'sey, ioG
president OF the United States and
Thomas r. Marshall, of Indiana, for
VICE president.
Judge john w. Wesc0tt, Of Haidon
field, n. j., who made the speech nDmi'
lating President Wilson il Baltimore,
iour years ago, performed tie same
service III a'spcech CT remarkable pow
o..
Following Wilson's nomination, John
". Kern presented 10 the conyeati~n n
the name of Thomas X. Marshal for
vice president.
Vance G.. Mccormick, Of Harrisburg,
head of the victorious Democratic re
organization movement in Penn Viva.
MIA, was announced as the choice OF
President Wilson and the Dem cia .ic
national committee, for the most i'm,
portant post OF chairman Of the COM
mittee.
The convention during the session
registered it's approval of President.
Wilson's conduct Of foreign affairs
which has kept the country at peace
with one demonstration alter another.
When Senator Ollie James, of Kcn
tucky, as permanent chairman, re-
counted the diplomatic achievements
OF the president in the negotiations
with Germany, the convention launch
ed into an eighteen-minute uproar o.
marching, cheers and waving Of flags,
in which former Secretary Of State
William J. Bryan, from his seat in the
press section, joined.
William A. Glasgow, of Philadelphia,
chairman Of the committee on rules,
smashed the silly conspiracy of ST.
Louis politicians, hotelkeepers and
brewers to keep the convention at
work until Saturday night.
Mr.. Glasgow's chief contention was
that it would be impossible to hold
the delegates and that it would be
poor politics to make the nominations
with empty seats The New York dele.
CATION, he said, would leave for home,
regardless OF when the nominations
were made.
A. Mitchell Palmer, Of Str0uisburg
Pa, apparently has won his fight
against Senator Stone to insert in the
platform a plank declaring against the
elevation of the supreme court justices
to the presidency.
The Pennsylvania delegation, actin:
in caucus as a unit, killed the raAc:
candidacy cf Roger Sullivan, the Chi
cago Eeader for vice president.
Little Delaware, stirred to action b,
the prominence OF her nei hbo,s, au
tered into the spotlight tne ii;-i erin
minute when Senator Salisbury sus
gested the president be invite 70 corn
to St. Louis, arriving SGjur !ay, I
the purpose OF accepting in ne"s2A b
fore the convention. The surge III.
was so pa!pably in the iateTc~t Of t
hotelkeepcrs an brewers, ia. t y
hurled down in tho STATE c@I".l oS 4,
not brought up in the co:iEc:: ;ion.
When the roll was ca cI 'or Il =
nations for president, All&alna vi /
to New Jersey and In!ga Nesc tt tc
ped to the Platform 10 mi = 2 Pr
dent Wilson amid sto-I.: of a1'l.n
At the conclusion o. il "a We
cottsspeech the de,eSa:ea and til
thousands OF SPECTATORS III The 81.
leries leaped to their feet and c1ee"a
wildly. Hats were tossed ami thou
sands Of Tags waved Owe tho II ais Of
the delegates below. With the bar !
playing patri3ti2 airs and in tie Storm
OF cheers the delegates ]: : ~ mos.
from New Jersey heEan m r :ia@
through the aisies. They w1r4 qii X
ly Joined by other delegations and
pandamonium reigned. Afte. an ho.ir's
demonstration Chairman James began
rapping for order assisted by the ser
gcant-at-arms.
The vote for Mr.. Wilson was Grani
nous and the nomin2ti~n for vie pres
ident was made and tie scene Cf en-
thusiasm was repeated in d mider
form.
When the convention convened On
Friday platform was adcp;e after a
spirited debate of three hours and
the convention adjourned sine die.
The Platform.
The supreme issue of today in
American politics and American lie
is the assertion and Triumphant de
monstration of the indiyisibi i.y Of GO
herent strength OF the nation" accord
ing to the platform. Stripped of the
verbage, the declaration means pain
Americanism, or anti-hyPhenisn, a1d
the platform rinces no words il its
ringing call for the support OF thl:;
principle.
The anti-hyphen plank condemns ell