The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-28
NEW JERSEY NAMES WOODROW WILSON
Judge Westcott Speaks for State, Nominating Favorite Son.
urges Democratic National Conven- ton to Select "the Princeton SchooImaster" as Their Stand ard Bearer In the PresL
 ldentIai Campaign.

Baltimore.-Answerin the call for nominating speeches, at the national Democratic convention, Judge John W. Westcott put forward the name of Woodrow Wilson, in the following speech:
 New Jersey, once bound, but, by the moral energy and intellectual great ness of single soul, now free. comes to this great convention, in the glory of her emancipation, to participate in your deliberations, aid in formulating your judgments and assist in execut- ing your decrees. The New Jersey delegation is not empowered to exer- else the attributes of proprietorship, but Is commissioned to represent the great cause of Democracy and to offer you, as It's militant and triumphant leader, scholar, not a charlatan; a statesmen. not doctrinire; a pro found lwyer, not a splitter of legal hairs; a political economist, not an egotistical theorist; practical poli- ttCian. who constructs, modifles, re- strains without disturbance and de- structon; resistless debater and ,consummate master of statement, not Q mere phrase-maker; @ humanitarian not defamer of characters and lives; a man whose mind is at once, cosmo- ,politan and composite of America; 0 gentleman of unpretentious habits, with the fear of God in his heart and the love of mankind exhibited in ev- cry act of his life; above all a public servant who has been tried to the uttermost and never found wanting peerless, matchless, unconquerable.
 New Jersey has reasons for her course. Let us not be deceived in our premises. Campaigns of villifica- ton, corruption and false pretense have lost their usefulness. The evo- lution of national energy Is towards more intelligent morality in politics and in all other relations. The line of cleavage is between those who treat politics as game and those who regard is at the serious business of government. The realignment of political parties will be on this prin- ciple. The situation admits of no compromise. The temper and pur- pose of the American public will tol- crate no other view. The indifference of the American people to politics has disappeared. Any platform and any candidate not conforming to this vast social and commercial behest will go down to ignominious defeat at the polls. Platforms are too often mere historic rubbish heaps of broken promises. Candidates are too ire quently the unfortunate creatures of arrangements and calculations. Ex- agencies, conditions, national needs and necessities make better platforms and produce greater leaders than does the exercise of proprietorship. A dis regard of this first premises will bring our dreams crashing in ruins next November.
 Again, the eternal conflict between equal opportunity and special privi- lege is upon us. Our fathers wrote the issue of that struggle in our Con- sututions. They declared all men to be free and equal. In single century that principle developed the North American continent, leavened the world with its beneficence, inspired all nations with hope and made the United States the asylum of the world. Yet America, at this very hour, pre- ,sents the most stupendous contradic- ton in history-a people politically free while economically bound by the most gigantic monopolies of all time and burdened by system of taxation which exploits millions to enrich few. We have preserved the forms of freedom, but are last losing its sub stance. The evils of this condition are felt in thousand ways through out the land. Therefore 1t is that America Is awake. Therefore 1t Is that a mistake in our premises will be fatal. Therefore 1t Is that the situ- ation, national exigency, the crisis, call for the right man. Therefore it is that silent and resistless revolu- ton demands our patriotic and best judgment. Individuals are as noth- ing and personal ambitions are worse than nothing. If the chosen candidate fails in any sense or in any degree fully and con- pletely to meet the call of the nation, he Is doomed to defeat.
 Men are known by what they say and do. They are known by those who hate and oppose them Many years ago Woodrow Wilson said, "No man Is great who thinks himself so, and no man is good who does not try to secure the happiness and comfor@