The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-08-14
WILSON'S SPEECH
OF ACCEPTANCE
Observation-Disclosures
Nomination
HAS THE PROPER RING TO IT
Not to Catch Votes, But for
Right aud Justice to
the People.
GREAT IDEAS OF A GREAT MAN

Seagirt, n. j., Aug 7.-lmpres-
sive austerity marked the delivery
of the speech OF Gov. Wilson this
afternoon accepting the Democrat
ic nomination for President. The
executive unfolded a fabric of po-
litical beliefs and invoked a rule
"of right and justice" in politics.
A motley throng gathered at the
summer capital, including the noti-
Gcation committee, Democratic gov
errors, college professors, summer
folk and marching clubs. Attentive
seriousness was the attitude eff the
audience. The applause was fire.
quent. The Governor was ill at
ease because of the reading of the
address instead Of speaking eXtem-
poraneously, as he is accustomed.
Senator-e!ect Ollie James speech
of notification was punctuated by
FREQUENT demonstrations from the
crowd.
From the broad veranda of the
white-coated house where the Gov
ernors of New Jersey are wont to
spend their summers, the nominee
delivered his speech. Grouped be-
meath the Incorporating willows
and elms We're the most prominent
guests. hedged in by clumps OF
ferns and bushes.
After thanking the committee OF
notification and expressing his pro-
found sense of responsibility in ac-
cepting the nomination, the Cover
nor said he realized that he was eX-
pected to speak plainly, to talk pol
itics and open the campaign lin
words whose meaning no one need
doubt" And he was expected to
speak, he added, to the country
as we'll as to the committee. The
following is an excerpt of his
speech:
I'VE must speak," he continued,
by way of preface, mot TO catch
votes, but to satisfy the thought
and conscience OF a people deeply
stirred by the conviction that they
have come TO critical turning
point in their moral and political
! development.
PLAINLY it is new age he
went on. 1T requires self re-
straint not to attempt too much,
and yet it would be cowardly TO at
tempt too little. In the broad light
of this new day, we stand face 10
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questions of party, not with con-
test for office, not with petty
struggle for advantage. With great
questions of right and of justice,
rather-questions of national de-
velopment, of the development OF
character and Of standards of action
10 less than Of a better business
system. The forces of the nation
are asserting themselves against ev-
cry form of special privilege and
private control. and are seeking
bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
There are two great things to
do. One is to set up the rule OF
justice and OF right in such matters
as the tariff, the regulation of the
trusts and the prevention of mo-
nopoly, the adoption of our bank
ing and currency laws to the very
uses to which our people must put
them, the treatment of those who
do the daily labor in our factories
and mines throughout all our great
Industrial and corr Iorcial under
takings, and the political life of
the people of the Philippines, for
whom we hold governmental power
in trust, for their service, not our
own. The other, the additional
duty. is the great task of protec-
ing our people and our resources
and of keeping open to the whole
people the doors of opportu Nity
through which they must, gener-
alton BY generation, pass, II they
are to make conquest of their for
tunes In health, in freedom, In
peace, and in coptentment In the
performance of this second great
duty We are face to face with ques-
lions of conservation and OF devel-
opment. questions of forests and
waterpowers and mines and water