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Show L. tws SPEECH 1 FOR JttARSHALL I Sums Up Results of Wilson H cation Speech. Administration in Notifi- I SPEAKS IN INDIANA H Says Republicans Are at Loss I for Real Issue in Present I Campaign. I' Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 14. Martin H. Glynn, in his speech notifying Thomas R. Marshall of his nomination as the Democratic candidate for vice president here tonight, summed up the results of the administration of Wood-row Wood-row "Wilson, replied to critics of the administration and sot forth the rea-sons rea-sons why he believed Mr. Wilson and .-bsik Mr Marshall should be re-elected. (fiSlsf "There is something peculiarly befit- SkRt- ting in a man from New York heading T this committee to do honor to a son of Indiana," he said. "Thirty-two years ago, after a long unbroken series of defeats, the Democratic party under tho leadership of a man from New York and a man from Indiana won an inspirational victory that put new heart and new life into the Democracy Democ-racy of the nation' Mr. Glynn described the Wilson administration as one "that in efficiency effi-ciency of service and in responsiveness responsive-ness to popular will, has had no rival in this country In tho last fifty years." Concerning it, he said: "The historian of the future will say that into the laws of the nation wore written not only the pledges of the Democratic platform, but the pledges of the progressive platform and tho pledges of the Republican platform, plat-form, that served public Interests and I fostered public welfare." Asserting that Woodrow Wilson would be the next president and Mr. Marshall the next vice-president, Mr. Glynn said that the most potent reason rea-son therefore "lies in the great human appeal of the policy and performances of tho administration in which you have been second in command." Summing up the results of the WI1-son WI1-son administration, Mr. Glynn defined III' them as follows: No longer will the hearts of little fti$ 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 desrhir. "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 of savings, beat their clinched fists in vain upon the doors of banks closed by manufactured manu-factured panics. "No longer will any man or set 01 men be able to corner the monev market, or take the country's business by the throat and force it 'o deliver to their financial pressure." Concerning some of the issues of I the campaign, Mr. Glynn said: I "In their search for an Issue grass hoppers never hopped as our opponents oppo-nents have hopped, chameleons never changed their hues as our opponents have changed their cries in this campaign. cam-paign. , . , "They are like the Taima,' the bird of perpetual motion that never lights I on land or sea but always on the K wing. "First they create an issue out ot 'Americanism.' But as soon as they see the people know that Woodrow Wilson is doing today in our foreign Ate, ' affairs exactly what Washington and Stfl- Adams and Jefferson and Lincoln and i! Grant did under similar circumstances l why, our Republican frionds hop to ( another issue, change their hues, raise new. cries and like the huma, keep on the wing. "Then Mexico becomes -their issue. But as soon as they see the country knows the Mexican situation is an inheritance in-heritance from a Republican administration adminis-tration and that, In his dealings with Mexico, Woodrow Wilson Is pursuing the same course that Abraham Lincoln and President Taft pursued under similar sim-ilar circumstances why our Republican Republi-can friends hop again, change their hues, raise new cries and like the i the huma keep on the wing, j "Then they dig up the 'old man of Pershing expedition against Villa and the mobilization of the troops on the border. But as soon as they see that I the people remember President Taft s Sdffion order in 1912. and that armed F"jJ lnvaaeo. opa-mou on ten different occasions for offenses identical with that which Villa com-mltted com-mltted against this country why our Republican frionds hop again change their hues, raise new cries and like the human keep on the nf. ' 'Then they dig up the 'old man of the sea'-tho tariff. But as soon as they see tho people know from bitter experience that an exorbitant protec-Sve protec-Sve Uff ves money rttoonevg& SfS whiie it takes It away with the other, W our Republican friends hop again 1 change their hues raise . new -cries. and like tho huma, keep on the wing. "Then they attack the recent eight-hour eight-hour law tor railroads. They make as ! much noise about this as ssback conservatives made eighty years ago over President Van Buren's ten-hour ?aw and they probably will achieve Sc same negative result. And since Monday last they have been trying - on make an issue out of the state dec- I" ' tton up in Vine as a repudiation of the Wilson policies and a forecast o I national Republican victory. But this I contention will not hold water. The I average Republican majority in Maine in the last five national elections 1 was 33,164, and yet on Monday last f the Republicans carry it by oni i 1 " 000 "This same kind of a Republican victory would swing New York to Alison Ali-son by 250.000. The falling off of the t Republican vote In Maine is 20 per cent from the vote of four years ago. If this percentage prevails throughout the country on next election day, Woodrow Wilson will carry every doubtful state in the nation. "Then they make an issue out of 'presidential vacillation.' "Vacillation, thy other name is the name of tho present Republican candidate candi-date for president. Between his statements state-ments as to why a supreme court justico should not and could not be- his double quick time rush In accepting accept-ing the nomination, he veered I Veered like a tin weather cock in a criss-cross windstorm. In side-stepping and pussy-footing all around this issue, is-sue, ho was as bad as tho man in the perplexities of the famous old railroad ditty of "Off again, on again, gone again, Finnegan.' "President Wilson or any other man has got to do some vacillating in order to keep up with the Republican candidate candi-date for president as the champion vacillator of the political arena." "Tho fact remains," said Mr. Glynn, "that under a Democratic president and a Democratic congress, this country coun-try is enjoying the greatest prosperity In its existence. The business Is here, the work is here, the money is here and no prophcy of our opponents can puff them away Our banks are stacked with money, our mills are filled with orders, our farms revel In prosperity, tho hum of this industry is belter than all the war songs In the world. "To maintain our national honor by peace. If we can. but by war if we must," declared Mr. Glynn, "is the motto of Woodrow Wilson. The result of the form of Mr. Wilson's negotiations negotia-tions with the warring nations of Europe Eu-rope is that while Europe is drenched in the blood of a sinister war, we are enjoying tho blessings of an honorable peace. The men In societ'y salons, I lettered dllitants in libraries and swaggering devotees of fashion who would fight out battles on the carpet of parlor trenches, in the restaurants of clubs, or amid the dangers of afternoon after-noon teas, may be primarily Interested In the form of our diplomatic negotiations. nego-tiations. But the men who must light our battles where the cannon roars and bullets sing and death stalks their wives, their sons, their daughters daugh-ters and their mothers they are primarily pri-marily Interested in the result of our negotiations and not In the form. And tho men who would do the fighting, fight-ing, stand where Woodrow Wilson stands." |