The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 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 Is Unusual
One and That Candidates Must
Face Awakened Nation on
Many important Prihlems.


that he had been nominated by the
Democratic party as their candidate
for president. The speech Of notitica'
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 makebelieve and
never more susceptible to unselfish 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 privi'
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? II 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 tarih'
che regulation OF the trusts and the
prevention OF monopoly, the adapta-
ton OF our banking and currency laws
10 tho varied uses to which our PEG
ple must put them, the treatment OF
those who do the daily labor In our
factories and mines throughout all our
great industrial and commercial un.
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 oil
opoprtunity through which they must
generation by generation, pass II 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 lace
to face with questions of conservation
and of development, questions OF for
ests and water powers and mines and
water ways. OF tho building OF an ade-
auate merchant marine. and the open
ing of every highway and facility ana
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 to 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
As not that wicked and designing mer
have plotted against us, but that oul
common affairs have been determined
upon too narrow view, and by toe
private an initiative. Our task no"
r. TO effect great reimbursement anC
get the forces Of the whole people
once more into play. We need M
revolution; we need no excited
change: we need only new point o
view and new method and spirit o
counsel.
We are servants of the people, thu
whole people. The nation has beet
unnecessarily. unreasonably at wa
within itself Interest has clashet
with interest when there were com
mon principles OF right and OF fai
dealing which might and should hay
bound them all together, not as rivals
but as partners. As the servants o
nil, we are bound to undertake tn
great duty of accommodation and Nd
justment.
Revision Of the Tariff.
Coming to the tariff question. tn
governor said the schedules "hav
been made up for the purpose OF keer
ing as large n number as possible @
the rich and influential manufacturer
of the country In a good humor wit
the Republican party, which desire
their constant financial support Tn
tariff has become a system of favor
which the phraseology Of the schedul
was often deliberately contrived {
conceal"
Rensserting the Democratic convi
ton that the only legitimate objeC
of tariff duties is to raise revenue fc
the support OF the government. b
continued:
There should be an immediate rev
sion. and It should be downward, III
hesitatingly and steadily downward.
should begin with the schedules whic
have been most obviously used to XII
competition and TO raise prices in II
United States. arbitrarily and witho,
regard to the prices pertaining els
where in the markets of the worlt
and It should, before II is finished {
tntermitted, be extended to every lite
in every schedule which affords az
opportunity for monopoly. for speci
advantage TO limited groups OF bene
ctaries, or for subsidized control