Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-17

pull the fat out of the fire and save
the administration plank. In an i'm
passioned speech he swept aside the
smaller questions which had been in
jected into the fight and told the dele
gates that Presiden Wilson himself
knew the plank was in the platform
and considered it essential for party
victory.
Whatever your opinions may be-
he said, eve shall never be anything
but dscordant and divided party
unless we surrender some of our con-
victions to the wisdom of majority.
Here you are confronted, as one OF
our famous leaders said, with con-
dition, not theory.
Suffrage States Have 81 Votes.
Twelve suffrage states represent 81
votes in the electoral college. Every
political party has made this declara-
ton in some form or other. 1t be-
comes simply the question of whether
you will incur the enmity of these
women. There is no possibility of
losing single vote if you adopt this
majority plank, because every other
party has done the same.
81 ask you,' he cried, 'if you are
going to put resolution in here that's
a lie. You can't adopt this minority
report without stulifying yourself"
Vital to Success.
Senator Walsh then explained that
the president knew about the suffrage
plank and added, "He believes it vital
to his success that it stay there.
ask you with all the fervor of my soul
who is there here who is wiser or
more patriotic than he?"
There were renewed cries of "Vote
vote.' But they were not shouts TO.
the defeat of the plank.
Clerks called the roll of states and
the defeat of the substitute was as
sured before dozen states had voted
AT the close of the roll call the whole
platform as written was adopted and
after the disposition of some formal
ties, the convention adjourned.
James Boosts Wilson.
Achievements of the Wilson ad
ministration in enacting beneficial leg
islation and in keeping the country a
peace without sacrifice of the natiOna
honor were pronounced experimenting
in American history by Senator Ollie
NJ. James, of Kentucky, in his address
today as permanent chairman of the
Democratic National Convention.
During three years OF it's national
control" said Senator James, "dem
ocracy has enacted into law more pro
gressive remedial legislation than the
nation has ever had written upon its
statute books since it's birth. In
former national contests in the last
wo decades our parry came as proph
ct. Today we come with deeds, not
words; with performance, not promise
The Democratic party has kept its
word with. the American people. We
have made good"
The chairman reviewed at length
the legislative record of the admins
tration and eulogized the President
for his direction of foreign affairs
The Democrats, he Said, had enacted
a tariff law under which monopolies
were curbed and unexamuled pros.
perity attained; banking law taking
the money control out of the hands
of an oligarchy and making panics nc
longer possible; and many reform
measures of lesser Importance.
He declared President Wilson's
Mexican policy and his course in pro
tecting American rights against the
entertainments of European belliger-
ents had shown all the world that the
President neither DULLES the weak
nor fears the strong"
In a concluding appeal for the tri
umph of patriotism above politics
Senator James said the denomination
Of such president in partisan con
vention ought not to be necessary
and that to discredit him might palsy
the hand that could write the peace
treaty of the world.
At the outset the Senator referred
briefly to President Wilson'S cam
paign against lobbying in Congress
and pointed out that under this ad-
ministration the constitution had been
amended for he first time since the
CIVIL War when Eve freed the Senate
from the control of the great interests
by making it elective by the people
at the polls" He then eulogized the
Underwood-Sim tariff act as one
of which the party was justly proud.
mot schedule in it fosters a mon.
opoly," he said. "Our republican
friends told us it would close the
factories, fill the streets with idle
men, produce a panic, create soup
houses and distress would reign every
where; but we rejoice today to point
to an unexampled prosperity in thr
nation with labor more generally EN-.
ployed, at higher rates, shorter hours,
and better conditions than ever be-
fore. Our Republican friends tell us
that after the war is over poor, strick.
en-, PROSTATE, torn, bleeding Europe
will take our home market from us
I have no such fear. America is go
ing to take the markets of the world
But we shall cut from them the last
hope of having even false issue, for
we shall pass a bill creating tariff