The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-08-08
Photo by American Press Association.

sea and began saying an endless
chain of good things, as it were,
about the governor. This chain is to
be extended, with remarks about
Sea Girt included, until it is nation
wide. 1t Will be the governors nei-
ghbors' endorsement of his cam
paign..
Following is a somewhat condens-
ed copy of Governor Wilson'S speech
of acceptance
Wilson Interprets Platform.
"Mr. James. and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee:
Speaking for the national demo-
cratic convention, recently assemled
at Baltimore, you have notified me
party for the high office of president
of the United States. Allow me to
thank you very warmly for the gen
erous terms in which you have,
through your distinguished chair
man, conveyed the notification, and
for the thoughtful personal courtesy
with which you have performed your
interesting and important errand
II accept the notification with a
deep sense OF its unusual significance
and of the great honor done me, and
also with very profound sense of
my responsibility to the party and to
the nation. You will aXpect me in ac-
ceptng the honor to speak very
plainly the faith that is in me. You
will expect me, in brief, to talk poll
tics and open the campaign in words
| whose meaning no one need doubt.
| You will expect me to speak to the
country as we'll as to yourselves.
1--WE cannot intelligently talk poll
tics unless wek now to whom we are
| talking and in what circumstances.
| The present circumstances ars clearly
unusual. No previous political cam
paign in our time has disclosed any
thing like them. The audience we
address is in no ordi AIRY temper. 1t
is no audience of partisans. Citizens
of every class and party and prepos-
session sit together, q 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 to satisfy the thought and
conscience of a people deeply stirred
| by the conviction that they have
come to a critical turning point in
their moral and political develop
| ment.
Partisanship Unpopular.
eve 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
it's stimulation must me singularly
unsusceptible to the influences hat
stir in every quarter about him. The
nation has awakened to a sense OF
I neglected ideals and neglected du-
ties; to consciousness that the rank
and file of her people find life very
hard to sustain, that her young men
find opportunity embarrassed, and
that her older men find business diff.
ficlllt to renew and maintain because
of circumstances of privilege and
private advantage which have inter
laced their subtle threads through.
out almost every part of the frame
work 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 hole
in trust for posterity and for all man
!, kind: and to the conviction that shs
stands confronted with an occasion
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