The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-28
Wescott's Speech
Nominating Wilson

Baltimore, June 27.-The speech
placing the name OF Governor Wood
row Wilson. of New Jersey, in nom.
ination for the presidency was de-
liveTed by former Judge John w.
Wescott, OF Camden. y j. Mr. Wes-
colt spoke as follows:
New Jersey. once bound, but, by
the moral energy and intellectual
greatness OF a single soul. now free.
comes to this great convention In
the glory of her emancipation. to par
ticipate in your deliberations, aid In
formulating your judgments and assist
in executing your DEGREES. The New
Jersey delegation is not empowered
to exercise the attributes of proprie-
torship. but is commissioned to rep
. resent the great cause OF Democracy
and TO offer you. as its militant and
triumphant leader a scholar. not a
charlatan; a statesman. not doc
trinaire. a profound lawyer not a
splitter of legal hairs: political
economist, not an ef-otisticaI theorist.
a practical politician. who constructs,
mobiles. restraints without distur-
bance and destruction: a resistless de-
batter and consummate master of
statement not mere phrasemaker.
humanitarian, not a defamer of char
! acters and lives, man whose mind is
at once cosmopolitan and composite
! OF America, gentleman OF unpreten-
tlous habits. with the fear of God in
! his heart and the love OF mankind
| exhibited in every act OF MIS- life:
above all a public serrant who mas
been tried TO the uttermost and new
| or found wanting-pcerless, matchlcss
unconqucrablc
New Jersey has reasons for her
! course. LIE, US not be deceived in
our premises. Campaigns OF vi!ihca-
INV
/ have lost their usefulness. The cvo-
luton OF national energy is towards
d more Intelligent morality in poll
tics and in all other relations The
! line of Cleavage is between those who
treat politics as a game and those
who regard It as the serious bust
ness OF government The realignment
of political Parties will he on this
| principle.
/ The situation Admits Ct no compro-
mise The temper and purpose OF the
/ american public will tolerate no other
/ view. The Indifference Of the Amcrl-
can people 10 POLITICS has disappeared.
ANY platform and any candidate not
( conforming TO this vast social and com
I mercial behest will go down to igno-
= minious defeat 1t the polls Platforms
i are too often mere historic rubbish
. heaps Of broken promises. Candidates
ere too frequently the unfortunate crca-
:. turse OF arrangements and calcula
! tons. ENiScncics. conditions, national
/ needs and ne cSsities mako better
platforms and produce greater leaders
than does tic exercise of proprietor
snip. y disregard of this FIRST premis e
! VIII bring our dreams crashing into
ruins next November.
Again. the eternal conflict between
equal oppo-tHntY and special privilege
/ IS upon us. Our fathers wrote the is-
! sue OF that Struggle in our Constitu-
| ilcns Tncy declared all men TO bc
| iree ana equal In single century
\ that pr!nc!p!e developed the North
American continent. lcavenins the
F, "orid with It's benegccnCc. inspired all
I nations with hope and made the United
states the asylum OF the world Yct
America. al this very hour. presents
he most stupcndcous contradiction in
history---a people politically free. whila
economically bound by the most gigan.
tic monopol!es Il all time. and burden
"a by a system Of taxation which eX-
/ plots millions to enrich few We
have preserved the forms Of freedom
7 cut are ias, losing its substance. The
evils OF this condition are felt In a
( thousand ways throughout the land
| therefore IL liz that America is awake
therefore II Is that a mistake in our
premises VIII be fatal. Therefore IL If
trat the situation. national exigency
the Crisis call for the right man
Therefore II is that n silent and resist
less revolution demands our patriotic
ana best judgment. Individuals are as
Il hoihing. and personal" ambitions arc
worse than nothing. ii the chosen
candidate fails in any sense or in any