The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-07
DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE
OUTSPOkEN
Officially Notified Of His Nonli-
nation Today
Spoke "NOt to Catch VOtes
But Satisfy People,
Big Problems Of the Day Were
Thoroughly Discussed

Sea Grit. N. J., Aug. 7.-GovernoT
Woodrow Wilson, Of New Jersey, was
officially informed today that he had
been chosen by the Baltimore conven-
tion as the nominee for the presi-
dency on the democratic ticket. Brief
ly and simply Wilson was notified by
Senator elect Ollie James, Kentucky,
who emphasized he said. that the gov
ernor had obtained the power "un-
trammeled by obligations and unhar.
rassed by affiliations Of any kind"
The governor spoke in acceptance
theoretically to fifty-two members of
the committee representing each state
and territory in the United States.
His speech was heard by q large
crowd.
Prominent democrats. governors of
many states, their families members
league and others, came to attend the
Wilson's Speech.
After thanking the committee
Of notification, and expressing
his profound sense of RESPONSE
biltty in accepting the nomina-
ton, the governor said he realized
that he was expected to speak plainly,
to talk politics and open the cam
paign "in words whose meaning no
one need doubt" And he was expect
ed to speak, he added, to the country
as Well as to the committee
We must speak, he continued by
way Of preface, mot to catch votes.
but to satisfy the thought and con-
science Of a people deeply stirred by
the conviction that they have come TO
a critical turning point in their moral
and political development.
| Plainly II Is a new age" he went
on. 1T requires self restraint not to
attempt too much, and yet It. would be
cowardly to attempt too little. In
the broad light Of this new day we
ly, not the questions of party, not
with contest for Office, not with a
petty struggle for advantage. With
great questions Of right and Justice,
rather-questions Of natural develop
ment, of the development of character
and OF standards Of action no less than
of better business system. The
forces Of the nation are asserting
themselves against every form OF
special privilege and private control
and are seeking bigger things than
they have ever heretofore achieved.
There are two things to do. One is
to set up the rule of Justice and of
the regulation Of the trusts and the
prevention Of monopoly, the adoption
of our banking and currency laws to
the very uses to which our people
must put them, the treatment of those
who do the daily labor in our fac
tories and mines and throughout all
our great industrial and commercial
undertakings, and the political life Of
the people of the Philippines, for
whom we hold governmental power in
trust, for their service not our own.
The other, the additional duty Is the
great task of protecting our people
4 and our resources and OF keeping open
to the whole people the doors of op-
Iportuntty through which they must
generation by generation pass IL they
are to make conquest of their fortunes
in health, in freedom, in peace, and in
contentment. In the performance OF
this second great duty we are face to
face with questions Of conservation
and Of development, questions of for
ests and waterpowers and mines and
waterways, of the building of an ade-
quate merchant marine.
I'VE have got into trouble in recent
years chiefly because these large
things. which ought to have been
handled by taking counsel with as
large number OF persons as possible,
because they touch every interest and
the life of every class and religion,
nave in fact been to often handled in
private conference They have been
settled by very small, and often de-
Hberately exclusive groups of men who
undertook to speak for the whole ma
ton, or, rather, for themselves in the
terms of the whole nation--very hon
estly 1t may be, but very ignorantly
sometimes, and very shortsightedly
too, poor substitute for genuine COM
mon counsel. No group of directors,
t.,s.. 49, -
people. They have neither the points
Of view nor the knowledge. Our diff
. ficulty is not that wicked and design
ing men have plotted against us, but
that our common affairs have been
determined upon too narrow a view,
II and by too private an initiative. Our
task now is to effect great read
justment and get the forces Of the
whole people once more in play. we
: need no resolution; we need no sxcit-
!. ed change: we need only a new point
Of view and a new method and spirit
y of counsel.
il Tariff Question.
"The tariff question. as dealt with
in our time at any rate has not been
business. 1t has been politics. Tariff
A schedules have been made up for the
i purpose of keeping as large number
as possible of the rich and influential
n manufacturers of the country in
II good humor with the republican party
which desired their constant financial
Il support The tariff has become a syH-
Il tenn OF favors, which the phraseology
u of the schedule was often deliberately
il contrived to conceal. Who, when you
i come down to the hard facts OF the
4 matter have been represented In re-
II cent years when our tariff schedules
4 were being discussed and determined
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