Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-08-29
Gov. MARSHALL
. ACCEPTS CALL
Candidate For Vice President
FavOrS Safe Middle Course.
DEMOCRACY IS IN THE HEART
Would Follow the Ideals Of Jefferson
and the Constitution 49, Reformers
Should Not Be Born With Sore Toes.
Defines Fundamental Democracy.

Indianapolis. AnG. 20.-ln the pres
ence of distinguished company today
Governor Thomas r. Marshall accept
ed the Democratic nomination for the
vice presidency. He said:
Judge Parker and Gentlemen Of tn"
Notification Committee-Permit me to
say that 1t Is not my purpose on this
occasion to present details. wish
merely to present some general obser-
vatioRs clothed In homespun language
in the belief that they may he Of value
in fixing the opinion and determining
the conduct of the Intelligent voter
this year.
Try ms we may to separate the reli-
gious from the civic. the fact yet re
mains that good government has In 1t
an element OF morality. Neither con
stitutions nor laws nor ordinances can
completely divorce civil government
from religious sentiment. There ARE
periods In the history OF people
when the conflict between the good
and the bad may involve almost all OF
the commandments There IL rarely
conflict IN which Mt least the one com
mandment against covetonsness does
not become an issue and this cam
paign In no exception to the rule
II will be well for the voter to clear
up some hnzy definitions, We have
for many years been entertaining ii
belief, founded upon no fact whatever.
that Democracy and Rcpublicanism
represent different Ideas of govern
ment. The Republican has looked
upon the Democrat as n man opposed
to the government The Democrat has
looked upon the Republican as a man
opposed to the peoples rule and In fa.
vor OF aristocratic sway. II In time
for us to remember that Democracy TX
not system OF government. Indeed.
Democracy may find its expression In
any one of numerous systems.
The Rule Of the People.
The rule Of the people Is not essen
tally rule by the people. BY their
votes. even when Democracy has un-
folded to full manhood suffrage. the
people may have monnrchical form OF
government. The peoples rule does
uOJ ucIeHu upon tHt uuIIlDeT VI NottF
nor necessarily upon the system Of
government under which they vote
Good or bad government must go back
to good or bad citizenship, to intelli-
gent or ignorant. to honest or dishon-
est electors | venture the assertion
that II the electoral franchise we're now
granted to all the citizens Of Russia the
la n IN
In Peters city
American Democracy In Its purity
was intended to mean and | believe
does mean something more than vol.
ing, something more than selecting OF,
hcers. Like the sunlight, we cannot
see It, yet we cannot see without 1t.
And. like the sunlight. II has not only
bathed this republic In sen of beauty
and glory, but It has warmed and uur.
tured every fruitage planted In the
garden OF universal brotherhood,
American Democracy does not dc
pend upon caste or creed or condition.
upon race or color, upon wealth or
poverty. upon success or failure. But.
unerringly. II does depend upon the
inner life OF the Individual citizen. Ii
Is an inspiration and an aspiration II
does not always depend upon the ticket
which man votes, Ii does depend
always upon the motive back of the
ballot.
The historic Democratic party OF
America had It's inspiration and It's
aspiration In the life and conduct OF
its great founder, 1t Is time now to
have II perfect concept of that bemoC
racy. for In recent years we have iii
vided ourselves into three classes, and
the classification has been made not
BY the heart throbs OF men, but by THEFT
social condition We have those who mr.,
immeasurably rich and who are looking
for more, and we have those who ARE
unuttcrably poor and who are growing
poorer, Bctween these extremes We
have n great middle class Twins
well and reasonably content except fo,
the uncertainty OF not knowing wheth
er they are to rise into the first class
or sink into the third
Jefferson and Hamilton.
Many have assumed that only III,
unuttcruhly poor and those sinking Int
that class were Democrats and tina
the UNNECESSARILY rich and the climb
ers were Republicans But these divi
sions have not been logical II wac
not the outward ana visible whicl
marked the inward and spiritual q
Thomas Jefferson, Born OF the blues
blood In the old Dominion and accus
toned MS gentleman, scholar. diploma
and statesman to all the luXuries u
his generation. he was the man VIII
declared that all men We're creates
equal and that all were endowed Wit
certain inalieunble rights. such as HE
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Even to his dying hour this Scemiu
aristocrat had not n single heart thro
which was not In unison with tn
heart throbs of his fellow men Iii