Imperial Valley press., 1912-08-08


sEAGlRT. \. J.. Aug. Following
IS a digest ~ the speech of accept
ance made by Woodrow Wilson here
today when notified uf his nomination
by the Democratic party FOR the pres
ideucy.
Dir. James and Gentlemen NJ the No.
tidcatiun Committee:
gneakiug for the national Democrat
ic convention. recently assembled at
Baltimore. YOU have notified me Of
my nomination by The Democratic
party for the high Office Of president
Or the United States. Allow me 10
thank you very warmly for the gener-
Gus terms in which you have, through
your distinguished chairman. conveyed
the notification. and for the thought
ful personal courtesy with which You
have performed your interesting and
important errand.
| accept the nomination with a deep
sense of its unusual significance and
of the great honor done me, and also
with very profound sense of my re-
sponsibility to the party and TO the
nation. You will expect me in ac-
cepting the honor to speak very plain
" the faith that is in me. You will
expect me, in brief, to talk politics
and open the campaign in words
whose meaning no one need doubt.
You will expect me to speak TO tho
country as well as to yourselves.
We cannot intelligently talk politics
unless we know to whom we are talk
ing and n what circumstances. The
present circumstances are clearly un-
usual. No previous political campaign
in our time has disclosed anything
like them. The audience We address
is in no ordinary temper. 1t is no aud
ience of partisans. Citizens of every
class and party and prepossession sit
together, single people, TO learn
whether we understand their life and
know how to afford them the counsel
and guidance they are now keenly
aware that they stand in need of. We
must speak, not to catch votes, but 70
satisfy the thought and conscience OF
a people deeply stirred by the con-
Vietion that they have come to crit
icai turning point in their moral and
political development.
We stand in the presence of an
awakened nation, impatient of parti-
san make believe The public man
who does not realize the fact and feel
its stimulation must be singularl
unsusceptible to the influences that
stir in every quarter about him. The
nation has awakened to a sense Of
neglected ideals and neglected duties;
TO a consciousness that the rank and
file of her people find life very hard to
sustain, that her young men find op-
portunity embarrassed, and that her
i'm 6iftinnlf
renew and maintain because of cir
cumstances of privilege and private
advantage which have interlaced their
subtle threads throughout almost ev-
cry part of the framework of our pres
ent law She has awakened to the
knowledge that she has lost certain
cherished liberties and wasted price
less resources which she had solemn
iy undertaken to hold in trust for pos
terity and for all mankind; and to
the conviction that she stands con-
fronted with an occasion for con-
structIve craftsmanship such as has
not arisen since the great days i'll
which her government was set up.
Plainly. il is a new age The tonic
of such a time is very eXhilarating
II requires self restraint not to al
Cowardly to attempt too little. The
path of duty sObeTly and bravely trod
is the way TO service and distinction,
and many adventurous feet seek %
set out upon it.
There never was a time when i'm
ratience and suspicion were more
keenIy aroused by private power self
ishly employed; when jealousy of ev-
u-itI u
any purpose not linked with general
good, or Inconsistent with it, more
sharply or Immediately displayed It'll
self
At such time. and in the pres.
ence of such circumstances, what is
the meaning of our platform, and what
is our responsibility under it? What
are our duty and our purpose? The
platform is meant to show that we
know what the nation is thinking
about, what it is most concerned
about, what it wishes corrected, ana
what it desires TO see attempted that
is new and constructive and intended
for its long future. But for us it is a,
very practical document. We are not
about to ask the people OF the United
States TO adopt our platform; we are
about TO ask them TO entrust us
with office and power and the guild
ance of their affairs. They will wish
TO know what sort of men we are
and of what definite purpose; what
IsDStation of action and Of policy
We intend 10 give to the general terms
Of The platform which the convention
at Baltimore put forth, should we be
elected