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Show DEMOCRATS STAND By PARTYLEADERS PRESIDENT WILSON AND VICE-PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT MARSH ALL CHOS. EN BY ACCLAMATION. Will Go Before the People for Reelection Re-election With the Slogan of Peace, Preparedness and Prosperity. St. Louis, June 15. Just a few minutes min-utes before midnight, President Wood-row Wood-row Wilson and Vice-President Thomas Thom-as R. Marshall were nominated by acclamation by the Democratic national na-tional convention, the ticket being completed just four minutes before Friday morning. . The Democratic standard bearers were selected before the platform had been finally approved by the convention, conven-tion, and it was found necessary to hold another session on Friday for the approval of the platform, 'which it is understood had been approved by the president before he was nominated. nomi-nated. There never was any doubt of President Pres-ident Wilson's nomination, but there had seemed to be a possibility that some vice-presidential booms might be brought out in opposition to Vice-President Vice-President Marshall. Tliey melted away, however, .when the convention got in session and as soon as President Wilson's nomination had been made by a roaring chorus of acclamation, Senator Kern, who renominated re-nominated Mr. Marshall, cast aside a long prepared speech and' simply declared de-clared : "I nominate Thomas Riley Marshall Mar-shall of Indiana for vice-president." To President Wilson's nomination there was only one dissenting vote, Robert Emmett Burke of Illinois, who came to the convention announcing that he was opposed to the president. His vote technically made the president's presi-dent's nomination 1,091 to 1. When the convention crowds had assembled at the Coliseum Thursday oight, it was realized that, stirred by the speeches by the temporary and permanent chairmen, both making President Wilson's peaceful conduct of the country's foreign relations the keynote, the convention only awaited the moment of balloting to renominate Wilson and Marshall with the slogan Df peace, preparedness and prosperity. When the gavel fell, calling the night session to order, John W. Wes-cott Wes-cott of New Jersey, who nominated, President Wilson at the Baltimore convention, was. ready on the floor to deliver the speech of renomination, lind Senator Kern of Indiana to renominate renom-inate Vice-President Marshall. Judge John W. Wescott, In closing his speech nominating President Wilson, taid: "Therefore, my fellow countrymen, not I, but his deeds and achievements; not I, but the spirit and purposes of America; not I, but the prayers cf iust men; not I, but civilization itself, nominates to succeed himself to the presidency of the United States, to the presidency of a hundred million !ree people, bound in impregnable anion, the scholar, the statesman, the financier, the emancipator, the pacificator, pacifi-cator, the moral leader of democracy, Woodrow Wilson." As Judge Wescott closed with a mention of the name "Woodrow Wilson," Wil-son," the crowd broke into a great Jemonstration, which lasted forty-five oiinutes. Moving picture flashlights blazed md flags were paraded in front of the stand. The band played "The Star Spangled Banner," while a huge banner ban-ner bearing the president's likeness was unfurled from the roof of 0:? hall. The delegates began a parade, bearing bear-ing state stanchions. The crowds on the floor and balconies rose to- their feet. Many delegates stood on their chairs. "Dixie" and other melodies by the band evoked fresh bursts of cheering. Chairman James yielded the chair during the demonstration to Representative Represen-tative Heflin of Alabama. Women delegates were among the paraders' in the aisles. Senators and representatives representa-tives helped carry banners. Senator Hughes personally bore the New Jersey Jer-sey flag. On motion of Senator Hughes of New Jersey, the rules were suspended suspend-ed and no ballots whatever were taken. tak-en. The delegates simply roared "aye," when the names of Wilson and Marshall were called, and Chairman Chair-man James declared them nominated by acclamation. President Wilson's own plank charging charg-ing conspiracy among some foreigu-born foreigu-born citizens for the benefit of foreign k-iowrs and denouncing any political party which benefits and does not repudiate re-pudiate such a situation was incorporated incorpor-ated in the platform just as the president pres-ident himself Had sent it from Washington. Wash-ington. It was understood that the oresident insisted that the plank y t V , f -' -f 1 v. . u A iL ! s - ' S i . , 1 t ' - v - y v t WOODROW WILSON. should be put in the platform in the way he had drawn it. The Thursday afternoon session of the convention gave the Democrats another chance to rejoice and be glad in an eloquer.t recital of the achievements achieve-ments of the party by United States Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, in his speech as permanent chairman of the convention. . Like former Governor Martin H. Glynn of New York, who made the keynote speech on Wednesday, Senator Sen-ator James aroused the great crowd in the Coliseum to a high pitch of enthusiasm and inspire1 them with high hopes of success at the polls. He dealt with subjects that had not been touched upon by Temporary Chairman Chair-man Glynn and paid high tribute to President Wilson. And it was the deeds of the party and the name of the man that appealed to delegates and visitors and caused a demonstration demonstra-tion that lasted nineteen minutes. The phrase that caught the crowd referred to President Wilson's foreign policy.. Senator James said: "President Wilson's object is the protection of American life and American Amer-ican Interests under international law. The saving of neutral life, the freedom of the seas, and without orphaning a single American child, without widowing widow-ing a single American mother, without with-out firing a single gun, without the shedding of a single drop of blood he wrung from the most militant spirit that ever brooded above a battlefield, an acknowledgement of American rights and an agreement to American demands." Applause drowned out the words of the speaker before he had finished the last sentence. Immediately there were cries from all parts of the hall. "Repeat It! Tell it over again." "Give it to us again, Ollie." Senator James nodded his assent and waived his hand for silence. Then slowly and effectively he repeated re-peated his words, while the crowd listened lis-tened in dead silence. Then came a deafening cheer, and it was repeated over and over again in undiminished strength and vigor while delegates and visitors stood up and thrilled with the sound of 10,000 voices tuned to the battle bat-tle of politics. His audience appeared to be as anxious to hear and understand the record of the Democratic party and its president as Senator James was to persuade them that it was big with brilliant achievements and had saved the peace, dignity annd prosperity prosper-ity of the country. He spoke for more than an hour, not counting the time he was forced to pause for big demonstrations dem-onstrations and prolonged applause, and closed with his bigh tribute to President Wilson. William Jennings Bryan addressed the convention at the night session, and, in reviewing the struggles of the Democratic party, said: "After sixteen years of waiting, our party entered the White House and, fortunately, we won the senate and house at the same time. Our party became responsible for national affairs, af-fairs, and now we come, after three years of labor, to make our plans for the future, and to submit to the American people the claims of our party to continued confidence. "Whatever differences of opinion may exist, or may have existed, as to particular measures or particular acts, we are here to begin the fight of 1916, a united party in every state in the union, ready for battle." In his keynote speech, ex-Governor Glynn declared that: "What the people of the United States must determine through their suffrage is whether the course the country has pursued through thia crucial period is to be continued. This is the paramount issue. Nc lesser issue must cloud it, no unrelated unre-lated problems must confuse it. "Americanism, peace, preparedness and prosperity are the issues upon which the Democratic party stands and the heart of Democracy swells with pride that -is more than a pride of party as it hails the man who has asserted this Americanism, assured this peace, advocated this preparedness prepared-ness and produced this prosperity. "The president of the United States stands today where stood the men who made America and who saved America. He stands where George Washington stood when he prayed that this country would never un-sheath un-sheath the sword except in self-defense so long as justice and our essential es-sential rights could be preserved without it. "Wilson's name . will be the name of the great president who has made Democracy proud that he is a Democrat Demo-crat and made Americans proud thai he is an American." a. t P fur ti VV'ujj. ft -r' . , if THOMAS R. MARSHALL. |