Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-08-08
WILSON ACCEPTS
THE NOMINATION
Is Told by Committee He Is
Party's Choice for President.
GIVES HIS IDEAS ON ISSUES
Declares Coming Campaign 10 Unusual
one and That Candidates Must
Face Awakened Nation on
Many Important Priblsms.


that he had been nominated by ths
Democratic party as their candidate
for president. The speech Of notifica
ton was delivered by Ollie James
chairman of the notification commit
tee.
In reply Governor Wilson, after
| thanking the committee, commented
ON the unusual nature of the coming
campaign In which the candidates
must address an awakened nation, i'm
patient OF partisan make-believe and
never more susceptible to unselhsh ap-
peals or to the high arguments oil
sincere Justice. The forces of the ma
ton. he said, are asserting themselves
against every form Of special priv
lege and private control, and are seek
ing bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
TWO Great Things TO Do.
How do we expect to handle each
of the great matters that must be
taken up by the next congress and the
next administration" said Mr. VIII
son, and he answered his own query
as follows:
What is there to do? 1t is hard to
sum the great task up, but apparently
this is the sum of the matter: There
are two great things to do. One is
to set up the rule Of justice and OF
right in such matters as the tarin,
the regulation of the trusts and the
prevention Of monopoly, the adapta-
ton of our banking and currency laws
to the varied uses to which our peo-
Pile must put them, the treatment OF
those who do the daily labor In our
factories and mines throughout all our
great industrial and commercial I'M
dertakings, 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 protecting our people
and our resources and Of keeping
open to the whole people the doors OF
opportunity through which they must
generation by generation, pass If they
are to make conquest Of their fortunes
in health, In freedom, in peace, and IN
contentment. In the performance OF
this second great duty we are face
to face with questions Of conservation
and OF development, questions OF for
! ests and water powers and mines and
water ways, of the building Of an ade-
Quate merchant marine, and the open
ing Of every highway and facility and
the setting up of every safeguard
needed by great industrious. expand
ing nation.
These are all great matters upon
which everybody should be heard.
We have got into trouble in recent
years chiefly because these large
things, which ought 10 have been
handled by taking counsel with as
large number of persons as possible,
because they touched every interest
and the life Of every class and region,
have in fact been too often handled
in private conference. Our difficulty
is not that wicked and designing men
have plotted against us, but that our
common affairs have been determined
upon too narrow a view, and by too
private an initiative. Our task now
rs to effect great read1ustment and
get the forces of the whole people
once more into play We need no
revolution; we need no excited
change; we need only new point of
view and a new method and spirit of
counsel.
We are servants of the people, the
whole people. The nation has been
unnecessarily, unreasonably at war
within itself. Interest has FLASHED
with interest when there were COM
mon principles of right and Of fair
dealing which might and should have
bound them all together, not as rivals,
but as partners. As the servants Of
all, we are bound to undertake the
great duty Of accommodation and adj
justment
Revision Of the rarlm.
Coming to the tariff question, the
governor said the schedules have
been made up for the purpose Of keep
ing as large a number as possible Of
the rich and influential manufacturers
of the country in q good humor with
the Republican party. which desired
their constant financial support The
tariff has become system Of favors.
which the phraseology Of the schedule
was often deliberately contrived to
conceal"
Reasserting the Democratic convic-
ton that the only legitimate object
o., tariff duties lie to raise revenue. for
the support of ne-govSz-gsl. ne
continued:
There should be an immediate revi-
sion and It should be downward, ua-
hesitatIngly and steadily downward. Il
should begin with the schedules which
have been most obviously used to kin
competition and to raise prices in the
United states. arbitrarily and without
regard to the prices pertaining else