New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1916, Page 6

AT BIG HARTFORD MEETING k-Governor of New York and Keynote Speaker at Dem- ceratic Convention at St. Louis Deliv- ers Thrilling Address. Before a huge crowda of voters in bt Guard Hall in Hartford last night H. Glynn ot New | bk, keynete speaker at the demo- | convention in St. Liouis of | Fovernor Martin | ic national | summer, spoke on the and gres =l siasm when he recited the achieve- | ts of Fresident Wilson and det nced his critic | thers who spoke at the big raliy e Dudley Field Malone, collector of port of New York, and John M. ker of Loui: na, who was nomi- ba by the progressives for vice- Fident at the national convention hicago last June. Augustine Lon- hn, candidate for congressman in district, presided and introduced speakers. fhe addre of e: Fovernor Glynn is fpidecred by impartial listeners to be lof the finest and falrest expositions he issucs of the present campaign has been given in Connecticut fall. In full it was as follows: ring the past four years the ocratic party has given this na- an administration of its natlon- fairs that id efflcfency of ad- and in responsiveness to popular has had no rival in our history e last half century. ring the past four year a demo- c president and a democratic ress have redeemed the pledges he democratic party, the pledges ho progressive party and such kes of the republican party as b public interest and foster public hre. man appeal is the essence of ness in politics as well as in re- h, in literature and in art. The utilitarian facts of history pass hhserried ranks Int6 the archives plivion but the facts that touch ives of women, fire the hearts en and make smooth and straight rduous road on which humanity 1s ‘will live forever on the red- d tablets of grateful human campaign aroused lis is why despite the riches of b, the power of autocrats and nachinations of despots, democ- lanimated by the spirit of golden has grown from the poet's dream the philosopher’s ideal into an ir- ible political power that rules earts and sways the destinies of ind, ocracy ption and sslon. such the present administration pshington has viewed it and in- ted it. their fruits ye shall ' the Bible says and by its this administration will go into history as one of good Ted with a heart throb in every an inscription from some divine andment in almost every pur- is humanity’s political humanity’s political know ause Abu Ben Adhem loved his -man the angel of light wrote hme of Abu Ben Adhem high on roll of time ahove the name of pvers of the Lord, ji #0 the historfan who allows ght of truth to guide his pen prite on the pages of the future his administration has been the jorogressive since Jefferson’s, the fhumane since Lincoln’s and the jhumane since Lincoln’s and tho since the days when Andrew bn presided over the destinies of htion, In where you will, look where ay, in economic legislation or ial legislation, in domestic or lelgn affairs, the more you look, lhe more you study, the more ill become convinced that the istration of Woodrow Wilson pen animated by the spirit, em- with the purpose of John Wes- ule of life “to do all the good jon, by all the means you can, the paces you can. at all the you camn, to all the people you s long as ever you can.” 6 is often more philosophy in lines of poetry than in a tome itical economy and this is em- ally true when Indlana’s match- bn of song—James Whitcomb wrote that “What Our Fore- 5 Were Trying to Find” was the unity “to garner and sow in cred soil of the rights of man, r land and ours, with its flag ven’s own light designed, and vast love over all.”” t our forefathers were trying my friends, is what the Wil- iministration has given to this ly and in the giving it has writ- e most resplendent page in an history during the past ears. administration has “looked up pt down, out and not in, for- fnd not back,” and “forgetting things which are behind and | g forth unto those things are before,” it has given a nd lent a hand to the things ght-to-be against the things | dministration has marched forward along the road of ps and never once turned back. have o’erhung it only to van- neath the searching ra of ‘Wrong has obstructed it only flown before the mighty arm of Baffled and beaten today it | ught with renewed vigor on orrow, and by insisting upon | ht thing because it is right fear of punishment or hope ard it has turned yesterday's into the triumph of today administration has recognized | e great movements which ben- | nkind spring from the throb. | eart of the masses and not he school-harrowed brains of tune-favored fe administration has realized | national ills, | mere that laws are not or dangerous be: spite the moanin sacred because old, new; that de- of misanthropes or the predictions of false prophets, all legislative changes are not for the worse else the world would have stood still and man remained in his pri- meval state. This administration has attacked the causes, not the symptoms of our with the thought that a thorough cure, however unpleasant, is better for the body politic than a palliative which lowers the fever without removing the canker. This administration has believed that the way to our national sal tion lies along the path of consider: tion for social cost as well as ¢ mic cost v step that we and every move that we make. This administration has concerned itself with the living thoughts of liv- ing men more than with the letter of dead edicts or defunct statutes, and in its efforts to realize our traditional aspirations under new conditions it has not departed from the id of the fathers in adapting our traditional policy to our present day needs. This administration has realized that the way to promote national ef- ficlency is to foster individual effi- clency by an equalization of oppor- tunity as far as legislation can equal- ize opportunity amid the complexities of civilization and the vagaries of rature. This administration has recognized thdat the power which has turned the face of the world from monarchy to- wards democracy is the moral power of democracy and becaudse of thi moral power it is the duty of a demo- cratic form of government to view legislation from a moral as well as from an economic viewpoint. This administration has realized that the mission of democracy is the widest possible diffusion of material well being with a humanizing and Larmonizing of the people of a na- tion into a solidarity of purpose and mutuality of interest. This administration has asserted and maintained that the people who tug at the ropes of soclety’'s coach and pull the coach along are made of the same clay, endowed with the | same rights and entitled to the same consideration as the people who ride on top of the coach. And what is the result of this reali- zation, of this assertion, of this main- tenance? No longer will the hearts of little children be coined into gold or their blood stain the commerce of our land; no longer will the poetry of youth be robbed of its glamor or its song of Joy transformed into a lamentation of despadr. No longer will the sowers of our seed and the reapers of our harvest be denied proper place in the sun of our financial world. No longer will widows and orphans, robbed of their pittance and savings, beat their clenched fists in vain upon the doors of banks closed by manu- factured panics. No longer will any man or set men be able to corner the money mar- ket, or take the country’s business by the throat and force it to deliver to their financial pressure, No longer will labor wear the stig- ma of a commodity; no longer will the men who carry the burden of the world upon their shoulders be brand- ed as matters of barter, as objects of sale; no longer will labor be denied its crown of honor: no longer de- prived of its place in the councils of the nation, No longer will the poor pay more than their proper share of taxation for the entrenchment of the powerful the enrichment of the rich. What is the result? Why, to capit- ulate. To capitulate all the social and humanitarian laws which this ad- ministration has enacted in four year would be to enumerate all the forward looking pieces of legislation for which the schools have cried. the churches preached and the humanitarians sighed during the great progressive movement of the last generation. A Lesson From Lincoln. In all that we have done we have lived up to that impulse toward hu- manity which has made the official career of Abraham Lincoln revered by men worthy of the name, beloved by women whose instincts are un- warped. One day while president of the United States Abraham Lincoln with his long bla coat and his tall silk hat walked down Pennsylvania sve- nue with a friend. On the curb stood a group of men watching a beetle on its back vainly clawing the air with its legs to attempt to get upon its feet. To the amazement of the by standers Abraham Lincoln bent down upon a knee, righted that beetle about and placed him upon his legs. As he stood the Great Commoner remarked to his friends “if I had left that beetle struggling there on his back I would not have felt just right. I wanted to put him on his feet and give him un equal chance with every other beetle of his clas: As far as national legislation, party advocacy or executive action can open the gates of opportunity and hold tha scales of justice true this administra- tion has placed every man on hig feet and given him an equal chance with svery other man. ‘When our opponents unfairly assail and misrepresent these policles we of S Let the howlers howl, and the growlers growl, and the prowlers prowl and the gee-gaws go it, Behina the night, there is plenty of light, and things are all right, and we know it.” In their search for hoppers ne hopped as our oppon- . ents have hopped, chameleons never an issue grass- LA =5\ /20 3 J ehar have paizn, ¢ rey are like the “‘Huma,” th | of perpetual motion that never on land or sea but is alw | wing. their hues as our opponents d their cries in this cam- bird lizhits is < on 5 Amerieanism. an issue out ut soon as they that Woo g today in our fo iirs exactly what Washington | Adams and Jefferson and Lincoln rant did under similar circumstances, why, our republican friend another issue, chan their raise ne s the Ikecp on the wing. they create rism Iirst “Ameri the people Wilson is de soe Know and wnd hop to hues, and like Huma Mexico. Then Mexico hecomes their But a as they the knows the Mexican situation is an in- heritance from a republican admini tration, and that in his dealin, | Mexico Woodrow Wilson is pursuing the same course that Abraham Lin- coln and President Taft pursued un- | der similar umstanc why, cur republican fends hop again, chanze their hues, riise new cries and liike the Huma keep on the wing Mobilization. Then they fall to criticising the Pershing expedition against Villa and the mobilization of the troops on the border. But as soon as they see that the people remember President Taft's mobilization order in 1912 and that armed forces from the United States invaded Spanish and Mexican terri tory on ten different occasions for of- fenses identical with that which Vilia committed against this country—why, our republican friends hop again, chainge their hues, raise new cries and like the Huma keep on the wing. “The Old Man of the Sca.” Then they dig up the ““Old Man of the Sea’—the tariff,—"“who sits on the throne of our shoulders, all shams and a hundred names besides.” But s soon as the e the people know from bitter experience tariff gives money with one hand while it takes it away with the other, like the nimble- fingered inion of the Night,” who gave a Kansas widow money enough to pay her mor , and, when the widow 2ot her receipt, took the money away from the mortgagee at the point of a pistol—why, then our republican friends hop again, change their hues, raise new cries, and like the Huma keep on the wing. and remember, my friends, seventy- five republicans voted for the eight hour law in the House of Representa- tives. If Mr. Hughes was against it, why didn’t he spend twenty-five cents and telegraph these republicans not to vote for it? TIf Mr. Hughes re- pudiates these seventy-five republican cong men, he ought to urge thelr defeat in this election, Has anyone been heard to do it? TUnder the rules of the United States Senate the re- publican members of that body could casily have defeated the eight hour law if they desired. Has anyone heard Mr. Hughes condenm them for not doing it, or urge their defeat at this election? Oh no, but he does ask vou to defeat President Wilson for favoring the elght hour law, and he does ask you to elect seventy-five re- publican congressmen who voted for the bill? How do vou like such hy- pocrisy? And though he talks a lot about this bill, Mr. Hughes has not yet and never will say before election, that he will urge Its repeal if elect- ed. Propliets Lose Their Peacock Feather. Then confounded and perplexed by their prediction that the prosperity which we are now enjoying would never come they tried to make an issue out of the prophecy that it will not last. Prophets must never go wrong. Th lose thelr peacock feather” by a single slip. Confidence and blind faith are their stock in trade, and once this is injured the business of phophecy goes up in smoke. There isn’t a single fact in history against which a hypocritical “if"” can not be manufactured by an ingenious mind or advanced by a can- tankerous tongue. If Newton had not seen that apple fall from the tree, he might not have discovered the laws of gravitation—but he saw the applo fall and gravitation's mystery was solved. It it had not rained torrents on the morning of the conflict, Napoleon might have won the battle of Water- loo—but it rained and Napoleon lost, But why enumerate further? Facts are the things that count in life, not theories. And the fact remains thay under a democratic president and a democratic congress this country enjoying the greatest presperi ini ts existence. All the hypothet- ical * devised by ingenious minds or uttered by cantankerous tongues can not banish their prosperity to tho realms of non-existence. The bus ness is here, the work is here, the money is here and no prophecy of our opponents can puff them away. Our banks are stacked with money, our mills are filled with orders, our farms revel in prosperity as they never revelled before. The things we raise, the things we make, and the time we sell command unprecedented prices in the markets of the And the song of thils prosperity, the hum of this industry is better than all the war songs in the world. Its words are in every man's mind, its music on every man's lips, its chorus is swelled by the man with the hoe, the man in the shops and the man in the street. It tells of gold in purses where only coppers dwelt be- fore. Yor children it means trifles and trinkets that throw open wide the gates of a paradise on earth. For women it means the delicacies and refinements which nature decrees for their endowments of gentility and their niceties of taste. For men it means the inevitable satisfaction of glving pleasure and bringing happi- ness to blood of their blood, hone of their bone and heart of thelr heart. For the poor man in the country it means a chance to see the kaleidi- scope of life and view the marvels that men work. For the poor of the clty it means a chance to go out into the flelds of God and see the lamps of Heaven burn undimed by clouds of smoke, unobscured by walls of K or towering piles of smke; it issue. soon see count eartn, br! RUNNING AWAY:FROM IT. ITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916. CLYNN ON CAMPAIGN ISSUES e ROLLIN KIRBY «x NY WOLD means a chance to know the perfume of a new mown field and breathe the healthful odor of the pines; a chance to see the shimmer of the heaving, pulsing sea and hear the soothing murmur of the waves. It means that poor man's sons and widow’s daugh- ters will get a chance in college this fall to master the key of life and open unto themselves doors that would otherwise be barred. It tells of contentment in the cottage and philanthropy in the palace, It ban- ishes the fear of nced, the-timidity of poverty and In their place installs the independence and the bravery that come when necessity's shackles fall away, dread no longer stays tho arm or fetters of the mind and men | can walk with feet upon the earth and head among the stdrs. And for this prosperity, this abundance and this happiness the voters of this country will not forget that in fair weather and in foul, in stress and in storm, the democratic party during the last four years has placed the material welfare, the spiritual greatness, individual happiness and the national dignity of the United States every other consideration world. The Vacillations of Hughes. Then they make an issue “presidential vacillation.” the people who lived in glass houses ought not to throw stones? Inasmuch as in his telegram of acceptance and his speech of acceptance the republ can stanadrd bearer himself put Pre: ident Wilson's official actions under the telescope, he cannot object if other people put a few of his official actlions under a microscope. When a mwan starts a fire in a campaign he must not expect the opposition to fight the fire with feathe: Vacilla- above in the out tion, thy other name is the name of | the present republican president! Between his statements as to why a supreme court justice should not and could not become candidate for president, and h double quick time rush in accepting the nomination, he veered like a tin weather cock in a criss-cross wind- storm. In side stepping and pussy- footing all around this issue, he was as bad as the man in the perplexi- ties of the famous old railroad ditt of “On Again, Off Again, Gone Again, Finnegan President Wilson or any other man has got to do some vacillating in or- der to keep up with the republican candidate for president as the cham- pion vacillator of the political arena. As a candidate for president the republican nominee declares in fa- vor of a federal amendment to the constitution in favor of woman suf- frage. And yvet when he was gov- ernor of the State of New York he refused to receive delegations seeking equal rights for women and the most he could be Induced to say on woman suffrage was “That anything that is right must prevail” TFor this con- duct Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, a promtnent leader In the Woman suf- frage movement, condemned the re- Dublican candidate for president in a speech In Cooper Union in New York clty on February 9, 1908. In this speech Ms. Blatch struck out from the shoulder and about the republi- can nominee for president, she said: “Politicians have no principles, they have only ambitions. The governor of New York has ambitions. When a delegation from 13,000 women asked to see him about the inequalities of the sexes he refused to see them. Do you suppose if we had had votes he would have refused? He never will see us until we can vote his ambi- tions up or down.” When running for governor, in a state where women do mot vote, the republican nominee for president ‘“could not see” the woman suffragists, as Mrs. Blatch puts it; but when running for presi- dent where women “can vote his am- bitions up or down” In several states he declares for a federal amendment on the suffrage question; and vet he dares talk about presidential vacil- lation. Nor is this all. He condemns the cight-hour law as an interference with the business of the railroads, and yet as governer of New York be fathered a public service law which supervises the business of the rail- roads with a hand of iron and a grip of steel. He talks of economy, and vet he was the most extravagant gov- ernor that New York has ever had. e talks of lifting the burden of tax- ation from off the backs of the people, candidate for the | of | Who said | and yet in a message to the legisla- ture while governor of New York he violently opposed the income tax. He condemns President Wilson's ap- { pointments as political, and yet appointed machine leaders and rals of political bosses to high of- ficial places in the State of New York He talks of the need of con- servation of our natural resources, end yet as governor of New York he signed an amendment to the no- torious Long Sault water power bill which turner over a tremendous wa- ter power on the St. Lawrence river to a water corporation without ade- quate compensation. And so flagrant was this water power grab that a subsequent legislature was forced tc v popular demand the very law which the present republican can- didate for president signed. And when these facts percolate out here through the west, T am quite sure that our republican friends will hop again, change their hues, raise new cries and like the Huma, keep on the wing. the 1 ional Honor, When the props fall out from be- neath every other issue and they are driven to take their stand in the last ditch our opponents wave the star | spangled banner and talk of national honor. They talk of national honor as if by some Divine commission they had been appointed the keepers and interpreters of the honor and real dishonor can be felt and are felt by | the lowest toiler ‘in the land as | acutely ana as accurately as by even a real lawyer or even a presidential candidate. Instinct serves better here than legal speculation or metaphysical | distinction. The man in the street, the toller on the field, the artisan In the shops, the man who shoulders his musket and marches away at his needs no lawyer, no statesman, no interpreter to tell him when the honor of his nation is out- raged or the glory of his flag is sullied. Tt is an elemental instinct which ! knows without knowing why. It is an | elemental instinct which enables even the unschoolel to know right from wrong, justice from injustice, prin- ciple from prejudice, passion from reason. When the honor of our country is outraged and the glory of cur flag assailed the people will know it without any political leader telling them. If such an insult ever comes to this country the great mass of the people wha will have to do the fight- ing will not have to be called to war. Thkey will call themselves to war. They will rally around the stars and stripes as their fathers rallied at Lex- ington and Concord, at Saratoga and at Yorktown and they will rally with the blessing and the prayers of those left at home, sorrowing in anxiety but exulting in self-sacrifice to prezerve our honor and to glorify our flag. Form is Secondary; Result Is Primary. “Ta malntain our national honor by peace if we can but by war if we must,” is the motto of Woodrow Wil- son. But before submitting to the chance and misery of war, true states- man that he is, he proposes to put the reason and Jjustice and megotiations to the test. Just as Horace Greoly criticised the form of Lincoln’s nego- tiation, just as Alexander Hamilton and Rufus King criticised the form of the Genet negotiations when Washing- ton was president, just as the mem- bers of John Adams’ own cabinet criticised his nagotiations in averting war with France, just as John Ran- dolph criticised the farm of Jeffer- son’s negotiations with France and just as fanatics condemned Lincoln, for overruling his secretary of the navy and even the house of represen- tatives in the Trent affair with Eng- land, just so for personal and political purposes ambitious partisans criticise the policies of President Wilson. There never was penned an important diplomatic document that was not criticised by some one, because phraseology is largely a matter of education, taste and temperament. In diplomacy form is secondary, result is primar; Form is a matter of CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the fignature of opinion, result is fact. And what is the result of the form of Mr. Wilson's | negotiations with the warring natians | of Europe? he | Why simply this. While Europe is drenched in the blood of a sinister war we are enjoying the blessings of an honorable peace. The men in society’s salons, lettered dilitants in librarles and swaggering devotees of fashion who would fight our battles on the carpet of parlor trenches, in the restaurants of clubs, or amid the dangers of afternoon teas, may be primarily interested in the form of our diplomatic negotiatione. But the men who must fight our bat- tles where the cannon roars and the bullets sing, and death stalks,—their wives, their sons, their daughters and their mothers—they are primarily in- terested in the result of our negotia- tions and not in the form. And the men who would do the fighting stond where Woodrow Wilson stands. Their motto is, “We will maintain our na- tional honor by peace if we can but by war if we must.” For this reason Woodrow Wilson with malice towards no nation, with justice for this nation and with sympathy for all nations champions and will continue to cham pion the policy that the United States stands upon its un ilable rights to be a ral nation and to act as a neutral nation. We Follow Where Grant Lea Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Lincoln insisted that the United States Lad a sovereign national right to sta out of the war as much to go into w and so does Woodrow Wilson. General Grant said there never was a war that could not have been settled better some other way and the people of this coun- try are in favor of taking Grant's s vice and trylng the other way before trying Others may make the expediency the star of their force in reign matters waMmhA mbvigwk mf foreign affairs but we follow the star of justice. Others for valn glory or for selfish purpose may cry up a policy of blood and iron but we contend in the long run true humanity is true statesmanship and true statesmanship true humanity . History repeats itself historians say. In the annals of old there is a story of a ship caught at sea in a storm which raged as if the very heavens were at war. Havoc threatened on every side, confusion beckoned and nature seemed to be out of joint, but to the elements in their wildest fury the captain of the ship calmly said “You may sink me, you me, but I'll hold my rudder true So today to the American people hotheads and cool-h partisans and neutrals—iwhether they follow wisdom or coax: on fury Woodrow Wilson says by his deeds, not hy words. “You may sink me, you ma me, but I'll hold my rudder true For these reasons the people of the United States will re-elect Woodrow Willson president to continue the good work he has so nobly begun. 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