Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-08-14
WILSON ACCEPTS
THE nomination
Is TNId by Committee He Is
Party's Choice for President.
GIVES HIS IDEAS ON ISSUES
Declares Coming Campaign is Unusual
One and That Candidates Must
Face Awakened Nation on
Many Important Priblems.

One ana tuat @etaStSaAcS N'dSh
Face Awakened Nation on
Many Important Priblems.
Sea Grit. n j. Aug. F.-Woodrow
Wilson was. today officially notified
that ne had been nominated by the
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 unseltish APP
peals or to the high arguments of
sincere Justice. The forces OF the ma
ton, he said, are asserting themselves
against every form of special privi-
lege and private control. and are seek
ing bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
IMo treat Fln9S TO 70.
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 tariff,
the regulation of the trusts and the
prevention of monopoly, the adapta-
ton of our banking and cure ney laws
to the varied uses to which our PEG
pie 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 mnst,
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 a great Industrious. expand.
ing nation.
Revision Of the Tariff.
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 good humor with
the Republican party. which desired
their constant financial support. The
tariff has become a system of favors.
which the phraseology Of the schedule
was often deliberately contrived to
conceal.
iReasserting the Democratic convic.
ton that the only legitimate object
Of tariff duties is to raise revenue for
the support of the government, he
continued:
There should be an immediate reyi-
sion, and ii should be downward, un.
hesitatlnglys and steadily downward II
should begin with the schedules which
have been most obviously used to kill
competition and to raise prices in the
United States, arbitrarily and without
regard to the prices pertaining else.
where In the markets OF the world:
and 1t should, before it is finished or
lntermitted, be extended to every item
In every, schedule which affords any
opportunity for monopoly, for special
advantage to limited groups of benefl-
Charles, or for subsidized control of
any kind in the markets or the enter.
prfses OF the country; until special
favors Of every sort have been abso-
lutely withdrawn and every part of our
laws of taxation shall have been trans
formed from a Eystem5of government
al patronage into system of just and
reasonable charges which shall fall
where they will create the least bur
den. When we shall have done that.
we can fix questions OF revenue and Of
business adjustment in new spirit
and with clear minds We shall then
be partners with all the business men
Of the country. and a day Of freer.
more stable prosperity shall have
dawned.
Control Of the Trusts.
The governor spoke of how recent
investigations have revealed the con-
nection between the tariff and the