Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-08-16
Governor Wilson'S Speech OF Ac-
ceptance.

ceptance.
Speaking for the National Democratic
Convention, recently assembled at Balti-
more. you have notified me Of my nomins-
ton by the Democratic party for the high
Office of President of the United States
Allow me to thank you very warmly for
the generous terms in which you have,
through your distinguished chairman, con-
veyed the notification. and for the tho1Rht-
full personal courtesy with which yoa have
performed your interesting and important
Grand
Il accept the nominstioo with 6esp
sense Of its unusual significance and q
the great hOnor done ne. and also with &
very profound sense oi ny Responsibility
to the party and 70 the ns15oz- Yes WI
expect me in accepting the baaT &c s,rsEE
very plainly the faith thsEi Is n ne N1U
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realize The sEcr lnd 5aei Is Summation
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inhueness that str n every quarter about
him The nation has awakened % a sense
Of neglected ideals and neglected duties
to a consciousness that the rank and hle
Of her people find life very hard to sustain.
that her young men find opportunity EN-
barrassed, and that her older men find bu-
siness difficult to renew and maintain be-
cause of circumstances of privilege and
private advantage which have interlaced
their subtle threads throughout almost every
part of the framework Of our present law.
She has awakened to the knowledge that
she has lost certain cherished liberties
and wasted priceless resources which she
had solemnly undertaken to hold in trust
for posterity and for all mankind and to
with an occasion for constructive states
manship such as has not arisen since the
great days in which her government was
set up.
Plainly. it is new age. The tonic of
such time is very exhilarating 1t re-
quires self-restraint not to attempt too
much, and yet it would be cowardy to
attempt too little. The path of duty soberly
and bravely trOd is the way to service and
distinction, and many adventurous feet
seek to set out upon it,
There never was time when impa-
tience and suspicion were more keenly
aroused by private power selfishly employ
ed; when jealousy Of everything concealed
or touched with any purpose not linked with
general good. or inconsistent with it, more
sharply or Immediately displayed itself.
Nor was the country ever more suscep-
tible to unselfsh appeals or to the high
arguments Of sincere justice. These are
the unmistakable symptoms of an awak-
enine. There is the more need for wise
counsel because the people are so ready
to heed counsel if it be given honestly and
in their interest.
MANY FORCES ASSERTING THEMSELVES.
ut is in the broad light of this new day
that we stand face to face-with what
Plainly. not with questions of party. not
with a contest for Office. not with petty
struggle for advantage. Democrat against
Republican, liberal against conservative,
progressive against reactionary. With great
questions Of right and Of justice. rather
questions of national development. of the
development of character and Of standards
Of action no less than Of better business
system. more free. more equitable, more
open TO ordinary men, practicable to live
under, tolerable to work under, or better
fiscal system whose taxes shall not come
out Of the pockets of the many to 60 into
the pockets of the few. and within whose
intricacies special privilege may not SC
easily find covert. The forces of the ma
ton are asserting themselves against every
form of special privilege and private con-
troll. and are seeking bigger things thar
they have ever heretofore achieved They
are sweeping away what is unrighteous il
order to vindicate once more the essentia
rights Of human life and, what is yer.
serious for us, they are looking to us TO
guidance. disinterested guidance. at onc'
honest and fearless.
Two GREAT THINGS REQUIRED.
The platform is not program. A pro
gram must consist Of measures. admins
trative acts. and acts Of legislation. The
proof of the pudding is the eating thereof
How do we intend to make It edible ant
digestibleH From this time on we shall b,
under interrogation. How do we expec
TO handle each Of the great matters tina
must be taken up by the next Congress an,
the next administration
What is there to do II is hard to sun
the great task up. but apparently this i
the sum Of the matter. There are tw
great things TO do. One is TO set up tn
rule Of justice and Of right in such matter
as the tariff. the regulation Of the trust
and the prevention Of monopoly, the adap
tation Of our banking and currency laws t
the varied uses to which our people mus
put them. the treatment of those who d
the daily labor in our factories and mine
and throughout all our great industrial an,
commercial undertakings, and the poltics
life Of the people Of the Philippines. 70
whom we hold governmental power il
trust. for their service not our own. Tn
other. the additional duty is the great tas
of protecting our people and our resource
and Of keeping open to the whole peopl
the doors Of opportunity through which the!
must. generation by generation, pass !
they are to make conquest Of their fortunes
In health. in freedom. in peace. and il