Imperial Valley press., 1916-06-15
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Session
Moves in Harmony

St. Louis, June 15.-The Democratic
national convention is moving swim
mingly through oiled waters, and there
will be no hitch to the nomination Of
Wilson on distinctively Wilsonian
platform.
The keynote speech by Ex-Governor
Glynn yesterday afternoon rang true
to the sensibilities of the Democratic
throng, and the events are leading
along the harmonious lines suggest
ed.
Choose Officers.
When Chairman McCombs an
rounced the temporary officers Of
the convention selected by the ma
tional committee, former Governor
Martin H. Glynn of New York, tenn
porary chairman, was cheered. The
full list Of temporary officers was
read and approved as follows:
Chairman-Martin H. Glynn.
geant-at-arms-John l.. Martin.
Chief doorkeeper-Chas. A. White.
Official reporter-Louis Graust.
Senator Reed Of Missouri, Senator
Taggart of Indiana and Senator Pom
creme of Ohio were appointed to es-
cort Temporary Chairman Glynn to
the chair. When the cheering sub
sided, Glynn launched into his keynote
speech.
With the assertion tnat no president
since the Civil war mas had as cru
cial problems to solve; and no pres
ident has displayed grasp more
sure, a craftsmanship more profound,
than President Wilson, Glynn, former
governor of New York, opened, declar-
ing that "Americanism and peace, pre-
paredness and prosperity the is
sues upon which the Democratic party
stands, and the heart of democracy
swells with pride that is more than a
pride of party, as it halls the man
who has asserted this Americanism,
ttooulCu IHlS PcdSC anu plouuSCu oiiio
prosperity" he predicted the re-elec-
tion of President Wilson.
Taking up our foreign relations
that have been called into emphatic
prominence by the worldwide war,
the speaker declared that eve have
entered this hall as Democrats; we
shall deliberate as Americans" &.
The policy of neutrality, he argued,
is as truly American as the Ameri-
can flag. For two hundred years neu-
trality was a theory; America made
it a fact. "It took Washington and
bis 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 Glynn main-
tanned that if Washington and Lincoln
were right, President Wilson is right.
The neutrality that President Wilson
stands for today was advocated by
Washington, by Hamilton, by Jeffer-
son and by Lincoln.
By citing precedents Glynn justi-
fled and defended the course of the
president in the Lusitania and SINH
lar incidents. "In the face of this
record" he added: "Do Republicans
realize that when they arraign the
policy of the president of the United
States today they arraign the policy
of Harrison, of Blaine, of Lincoln and
Of Grant? For the pleasure of criti-
cising a Democratic president, are
they willing to read out of the Re-
publican party the greatest men the
Republican party ever had? Are they
willing to say that the Republican
party of today condemns what Hamil-
ton did in revolutionary days, what
Lincoln did in Civil war days, and
what Grant and Blaine and Harrison
did but yesterday.
"In his policy of peaceful negotia-
tions today the president Of the Unit
ed States follows the example set
him by the greatest presidents which
The Democratic party and the great
est presidents the Republican party
ever gave this nation"
Glynn impressed on his hearers that
it was the business of this convention
Representing every section of the
United States, speaking for every ra-
cial strain in America, to send forth