The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-28
: SPEECHES NOMINATING CANDIDATES +:
Addresses Delivered Presenting the Names Of Candidates
. to the Democratic Convention :.

Associated Press Special.


Baltimore. June IS The speech
placing the name of Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey in
nomination for the presidency was
delivered by former Judge John
w Westcott of Camden, N. j Mr..
Westcott spoke as follows:
New Jersey, once bound. but, by
the moral energy and intellectual
greatness OF 8 single soul now
free, comes to this great conyen-
ton, in the glory of her emanci-
patton, to participate in your de-
alterations, aid In formulating your
judgments and assist in executing
your DEGREES. The New Jersey del
egation is not empowered to exer-
else the attributions Of proprietor
ship, but is commissioned to rep
resent the great cause of demo
cracy and to offer you. as It's milf
tant and triumphant leader. seh0l-
ar, not a charlatan; a statesman,
not a doctrinaire: profound law
yer. not a splitter OF legal hairs
3 political economist not an ego 1
tistical theorist: . practical politi- |
clan who constructs. modifies, re-
strains without disturbance and de !
-struction; q res.stless debater and I
consummate master OF statement, /
not mere phrasemaker; hum
unitarian, not a defamer of char
acters and lives; man whose
mind is at once cosmopolitan and
composite of America; gentleman
of unprctentious habits with the
fear of God in his heart and the
love of mankind exhibited in every
act of his life; above all a public
servant who has been tried to the
uttermost and never found want
ing-peerless, matchless, uncon-
Querable.
New Jersey has reasons for her
course. Let us not be deceived in
our premises. Campaigns of Will
fication, corruption and false pre-
tense have lost their usefulness.
The evolution of national energy
is towards a more intelligent NOR
ality in bolitics and in all other
relations. The line of cleavage is
between those who treat politics
as a serious business of govern
ment The reahgnment of politi-
cal parties will be on this princi- |
,.ple. The situation admits Of no
z, mpromse. The temper and pur-
tsYsss4 - ~ " nv puhle ns wlii
ference of the American people to |
politics has disappeared. Any plat !
form and any candidate not con-
forming to this vast social and
commercial behest will go down to
ignominious defeat at the polls.
Platforms are too often mere his
toric rubbish heaps of broken
promises Candidates are too fire.
quentiy the unfortunate creatures
of arrangements and calculations.
Exigeneies, conditions. national
needs and necessities make better
platforms and produce greater lead
ers than does the exercise of pro-
prietorship. A disregard OF this
first premises will bring our
dreams crashing in ruins next Noy-
ember
Again the eternal conflict be
tween equal opportunity and spe- /
cial privilege is upon us. Our
fathers wrote the issue of that
struggle in our constitutions. They
declared all men TO be free and
equal. In a single century that
principle developed the North
American continent, leayening the
world with its beneficence, inspir
ed all nations with hope and made
the United States the asylum of
the world Yet America, at this
very hour, presents the most stu
pendous contradiction in history
people politically free. while econ
omieally bound by the most & gan.
tic monopolies of all time and burd-
ened with a system OF taxation
which exploits millions to enrich
few. We have preserved the
forms of freedom, but are fast
losing It's substance, The evils
of this condition are felt in a
thousand ways throughout the land.
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