The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-14
New Jerseys Democratic Gov
ernor Discusses Duty Of the
Party at Indianapolis.
FOR RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
Says Democratic Party Must Prepare
Program Of Real Action
and Cease to Deal in
"reminiscences.
Associated Press Special

Associated Press Special.
indianapolis, Ind, April IA
Urging the democratic party to state
it's creed in the concrete and define
clearly the especial forms of priyil-
ege it declares against it in gen
eral campaign for the rights of the
people" Governor Woodrow Wilson
of New Jersey in an address to the
National League of Democratic clubs
set forth the objects of the party as
he believed they exist and should be
| stated. Governor Wilson said in
part:
| 1--WE are fond of speaking of our
| selves as the party of Jefferson and
| Jackson, not because we are a party
| of old men, reminiscent of things
gone by and in love with what has
been, but because we are a party
| touched with the ideals which made
| these men great. whose names we
recall with such reverence and en-
thusiasm, because the breath of our
party's life is it's utter faith in the
principles of democracy. 1t is its de
votion to the rights of the people of
whatever class or degree as against
all claims of privileges as against
all selfish vested interests which
seek control instead of freely serv-
ing the life and development of the
nation
1t is so far from being party of
mere Renaissance, a party which
tries to draw the country back to
policies which belong to another
time to the circumstances of anoth
er age, that it is above all others.
young mans party, because party
movement, of readjuctment party
that presses toward the future with
unshaken faith, with unwavering
| confidence and ever renewed hopes
and aspirations for the principles of
| freedom, which are none other than
the principles of opportunity, the
principles of men not made but on
the make, struggling from achieve
ment to achievement in a free exer-
! else of their powers.
These things are embodied in
| jefferson, the thoughtful, philoso-
phicak penetrating thinker for man
kind, and in the rugged Jackson
who seemed to cut his way toward
the right by rough instinct and the
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private cult and Understanding It's
blood is the blood of tha neople It's
purposes are the purposes shared
by all mankind lis homes arc the
homes of all rational civilization
"This is the dav upon which we
utter our creed and renew our views
It behooves us TO ask ourselves
what our creed is, and to answer the
question without subilty or sophis-
tication. in the plain terms of every
day life. We must state our creed in
the concrete. not in the abstract
Our thoughts run back of course. TO
the great Declaration of Tndepend-
ence which jefferson gave us. but
we cannot stop with that. The Dec
laration of Independence did not
mention the ouestions of our day.
1t is A mere starting point for our
thoughts. II is of no consequence to
us unless we can translate it's gener-
al terms into examines of the pres-
ent dav and substitute them in some
vital way for the examples it itself
gives, SO concrete. SO intimately in