Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-15

ilOn LHdl IlO pItSiutHl oittSu ilS >i''i war nas had as crucial problems to solve: and no presIuenI has displayed a grasp more sure, statesmanshlp mores profound, as President Wilson, Hon. sMartin H. Glynn, former gov ernoraof New York, opened the Demo- cratic national convention here today. Declaring that "Americanism and peace, preparedness and prosperity are the issues upon which the Demo- cratic party stands, and the heart of Democracy swells with pride that is more8than pride of party. as it halls inc man, who has asserted this Amer icanism, assured this peace, advocat- ed this preparedness and produced this prosperity" he predicted the re- election of Pres ident Wilson.
 Taking up our foreign relations that has been called into emphatic prominence by the worldwide war, the speaker declared that We have entered this hall as Democrats; we shall deliberate as Americans The policy of neutrality, he ar gued, is as truly American as the American flag. For two hundred years neutrality was theory; Amer ica made it a fact. Tt took Wash ington and his successors eighty years of endless negotiation to win recognition of American neutrality. And this eighty years of struggle wove the doctrine of neutrality so closely into the warp and wool of our national life that to tear it out now would unravel the very threads of our existence" By the records of history Mr. Glynn maintained that if Washington and Lincoln were right, President Wilson is right. The neu- trality that President Wilson stands for today was advocated by Washing ton, by Hamilton, by Jefferson and by Lincoln.
 By citing precedents Mir. Glynn justified and defended the course of the president in the Lusitania and similar incidents. "In the face of this record" he asked: DO Republi- cans realize that when they arraign the policy of the president of the United States today they arraign the policy of Harrison of Blaine, of Lin coin and of Grant? For the pleasure of criticising a Democratic president. are they willing to read out Of the Republican party the greatest men !. the Republican party ever had? Are they willing to say that the Repdbli- can party of today condemns what Hamilton did in revolutionary days, what Lincoln did in civil war days and what Grant and Blaine and liar rison did but yesterday?
 Follows Great Leaders.
 "In his policy of peaceful negotia- tions today the president of the Unit ed States follows the example set him by the greatest president which the Democratic party and the greatest presidents the Republican party ever gave this nation"
 MT. Glynn impressed on his hearers that it was the business of this con- vention representing every section of the United States, speaking for every racial strain in America, to send forth a message to all the world that will leave no room for doubt.
 'We must enable every real Amer ican to stand up and assert his Americanism. We must make the is- sue so clear that every ballot box in the land may become a monument to the loyalty of American manhood.
 "The citizens of this country must stand behind their president because his policies are right. They will stand behind him because his policies are the policies which have brought the nation century of prosperous and honored peace. They will stand behind him because they want these policies continued. that prosperity prolonged, that peace assured"
 He pointed out that the promise made four years ago that Democrat ic administration would liberate the nation from the chains of industrial tyranny has been carried out. He eulogized the federal reserve act and declared that the "scholarst statesman whose rod has struck the golden rock of America's resources, to set free the wealth imprisoned for half cen tury, is Moses who has led Ameri- ca's industries from the wilderness of doubt and despair to the Promised Land of prosperity and hope"
 Business Legislation.
 The laws restraining big business from stifling competition, the trades commission act, the movement to fos ter expansion of American trade, the close union of economic, commercial and financial interests between the United States and the nations of South America are shown to be legis- lation of the widest benefit. The Uv- derwood tariff MT. Glynn character ized as the fairest and the best of all we have enacted. Under the present administration the United States has enjoyed wonderful era of good busi- ness and good times.
 The Americans ideals and his as pirations served as the basis for the speakers opening discussion
 We who stand today on the fertile soil of America, who live under the smiling skies of free end fruitful land, must prove worthy of the trust that American sacrifice has imposed on every American.
 "Disregarding the divisions that make one man Tory and another a Whig, one man a Republican and another a Democrat, Americans will cast aside the tinsel of party labels and the mummery of party emblems.