The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
WILSON IS TOLD
Formal Notification of His
Nomination at Baltimore
Is Made by Committee Chair
man Ollie M. James.
GOVERNOR EXPRESSES THANKS
And Opens the Campaign in
His Acceptance.
"NOt TO Catch Votes, but to Sat-
isfy Thought"
GOVERNOR EXPRESSES THANKS

Seagirt Aug. 7.-Governor Woodrow
Wilson, of New Jersey was officially in
formed today that he had been chosen
by the Baltimore convention as the
nominee for the presidency on the
Democrat ticket. Governor Wilson was
notified by Senator elect Ollie James,
of Kentucky, who emphasized, as he
said, that the governor had obtained
the honor untTammeled by obligations
and unennbarrassed by affiliat tons Of
any kind. Though the governor spoke
in acceptance, theoretically to the fifty
two mem ers of the committee, the
speech. sounding his political philoso-
ply, was heard by great throng. The
governor. read from manuscript. The
platform he said was not a program
but a practical document intended TO
Show that we know what the nation
is thinking about and what it is most
concerned about"
The people, ae added. were about TO
be asked not particularly to adopt a
platform but to entrust the Democratic
party with "office and power and the
guidance of their affairs and their de-
sire now was to know what ''transla-
ton of action and policy he intended to
give to the general terms of the plat
form should he be elected
By half past eleven The road way was
damned with automobiles. Governor
Mann, of Virginia, was the first of the
governors to arrive.
It's great DAY Tor Democracy,
said Governor Mann as he greeted the
Democrat presidential nominee The
marching clubs which arrived with
brass bands bore orange and black
pennants with Wilson picture on
them. On their coats they wore sun
flowers.
James's speech.
Mr.. James praised the candidate and
his achievements and bespoke a har-
monious party with mo discounted
Tlah1nRTnfG in hot 30 IT,
attacked both President Taft and for
mer President Roosevelt, and held up
the Republican party as ''disheartened,
discouraged and disorganized."
The Republican conduct of trust
prosecutions was condemned. He de-
clared the Democrats were pledged to
felon' s stripes for great malefactors-
big business" was promised support
If legitimate, and the Democratic par
ty was pledged to take the tariff out of
politics when the trust fed barons
take their larcenous hands out of the
pockets of the American people,"
The motto Thou shalt not steaF'
was a plagiarism from Democratic
faith. Mr.. James said, and he express
ed belief in the charges both President
Taft and former President Roosevelt
have made against each other.
Wilson's Speech.
After thanking the committee of
notification and expressing his pro-
found sense of responsibility in &C
cepting the nomination, the governor
said he realized that he was expected
to speak plainly, to talk politics and
open the campaign Tin words whose
meaning no one need doubt And he
was expected to speak, he added, to
the country as we'll as to the COM
mittee.
1--WE must speak," he continued by
way of preface, mot to catch votes,
but to satisfy the thought and con-
science of people deeply stirred by
the conviction that they have come to
a critical turning point in their moral
and political development.
''Plainly it is a new age" he went