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Address as Permanent Chairman Judge Wescott's Speech Nomi
nating President Wilson Democratic Platform of 1 916 Bryan's
Stand on Party's Record Secretary Lane's Exposition of the
President s Mexican Policy.
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W6odrow Wilson
Vice President
Thomas RMarshall
GLYNN SOUNDS CAMPAIGN KEYNOTE
Notable Address of Former
Gentlemen of the Convention:
The Democratic party. In this convention
assembled, meets to perform a duty, not
to itslf. but to the nation. Proud of the
part it has played In the nation s past, the
party of Jefferson and of Jackson is gath
ered here to dedicate its .If anew to the
preservation of a free.( a united, a sov
ereign republic.
We are proud of the battles we have
fousht in the past under the emblem of a
ereat political parly, but there is a truth
that we desire to blazon above all that we
may say or do In this convention
We have entered this hall as Democrats;
we shall deliberate and act here as Am
ericans We who gather In this hall, stand for
the Americanism of the Fathers who laid
Governor Martin H. Glynn, of New York, as Temporary Chairman of the Democratic
National Convention, St. Louis, June 14th, 1916
the foundations of this nation 1.0 strong
in, I rieen that no storm has evei rocked
them, no upheaval ever moved then,. We
stand for the Americanism which under
the magic spell of citizenship and the
mystic influence of the btars and stripes
converts men of every country into men
of one country, and that country our
country: men of every flag into men of one
Hag, and that Has our flag.
OIK IDICAI.S AND Ol'll ASIMRATIONS.
When a hundred years look back upon
this gathering of today, when we who
now guard the ark of American covenant
have become nothing but a memory and a
name, the principles for whioh we declare
in this convention, the issues for which we
fitht in thm campaien will live in the Uvea
of generations of Americans yet unburn
If In the great crisis that now confronts
the nation, the American people falter. If
they fotgei th.H they ate guaidiaiis "I
the most sacred trust that a pie evr
helil, their apo.-oasy will be visili .1 upon
the descendants of their children's children
Out of the finning tire of revolution,
out of a struggle in which they risked
their lives, their foitunes end their sacred
honor, the Fathers of the ItfpnMic brought
a nition which t-h'-y dedicated to liberty
and to human progress.
For the nation to consecrated, true men
in every generation have labored and strug
gled. nufTered and died, that it might flour
ish and endure.
We who stand today on the fertile soil of
America, who live under the smiling skies
of a free and fruitful land, must prove
worthy of the trust that Ameiieun sacrl-
I, as imp.i.-.'d on every American.
For the America of today and for the
m..rini of 1 now. for the civilisation
of Mie present and for the civiliaal ion of
Hie future, we must hold to Ho- course that
I1.11 made our nitloe gre.u. we mud steer
l.y lie- stnrs tint gild.. I our ship of statu
through the vici.isilo l.-s of 1 century.
For myself 1 hive confidence enough
in my country, faith enough In my coun
trymen tO I, -I. ,-VO thll the people of A III -
eri.-a will rc,e to th-ir respoii-ibililics with
a single mind and a single voice.
Iiisick inlutg tin- divisions 'h it m ilie one
man a Tory and another a Whig, one man
1 K. -publican and another a liemocrat. Am
ericins will east sld tie- liesel of party
lab-Is and the mummery of parly emblems.
From the treat pulsing heart of the na-