Evening journal., 1912-08-07
In Speech He Says Whole PeO-
pie Should be Consulted
in Government
RELIEVES NATION
IS AWAKENING

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Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
SEA GIRT, n J., Aug. I'm ac-
cepting the Democratic nomination
for the presidency here this afternoon
Governor Woodrow Wilson said
Mr.. James and Gentlemen OF the
Notification Speaking for
the national Democratic convention,
recently assembled at Baltimore, you
have notified me Of my nomination by
the Democratic party for the high Of
ice Of president OF the United States.
Allow me to thank you very warmly
for the generous terms in which you
have. through your distinguished chair
man. conveyed the notification and for
the thoughtful personal courtesy with
which you have performed your inter
esting and important errand.
] accept the nomination with a deep
sense of its unusual significance and Of
the great honor done me and also With
n very profound sense of my responsi-
bility to the party and TO the nation
You win expect me in accepting the
honor to speak very plainly the faith
that is In me. You will expect me. in
brief. 10 talk politics and open the cam
paign in words whose meaning no one
need doubt. You win expect me to
speak to the country.
We cannot intelligently talk politics
unless we know to whom we are talk
sng and in what circumstances. The
present circumstances are clearly un-
usual. No previous political campaign
IN our time has disclosed anything like
them. The audience we address is In
no ordinary temper. It IS no audience
of partisans. Citizens Of every class
and party and prepossession sit to-
gether. a single people. to learn wheth
or we understand their life and know
how to AFFORD them the counsel and
guidance they are now keenly aware
that they stand IN need OF. We must
speak not to catch votes, but TO satisfy
fhe thought and conscience OF people
deeply stirred by the conviction that
they have core 70 a critical turning
point IN their moral and political de-
Telopment
The Awakened Nation.
We stand in the presence Of an
awakened nation. impatient OF parti-
ean make believe. The public man
who does not realize the fact and feel
It's stimulation must be singularly un-
susceptible 10 the influences that stir
in every quarter about him.
Plainly, IL is a new age. The tonic
Of such time is very exhilarating.
Tt requires self restraint not to attempt
too much. and yet It would be cow
ardly 10 attempt too little.
II Is In the broad light Of this new
day that we stand face to face--with
nhat7 Plainly not with questions OF
party. not with contest for office. moi
with "A petty struggle for advantage
Democrat against Republican. liberia
/. against conservative. .progressivea against
reactiouary. With great questions OF
right and OF Justice. ratber-questions
Of national development. Of the devel-
opnent Of character and Of standards
Of action no less than OF better bust
ness eystem, more free. more equitable,
more open 10 ordinary men. practicable
70 live under. tolerable 70 work under,
or a better fiscal system whose taxes
shall not come out OF the pockets of
the many TO go into the pockets OF the
few and within whose tntricacies spe-
cisl privilege may not so easily ind
covert
At such a time and IN the presence Of
such circumstances what is the mean
fng Of our platform and waat is our re
sponsibility under it, What are oul
duty and our purpose2 The platform
IS meant to show that we know whai
the nation IS thinking about. what Il 4
most concerned about. what Il wishe.
corrected and what It desires TO see al
tempted that is new and constructive
and intended for its long future. Blu
for us it is a very practical document
We are not about 70 ask the people o
the United states to adopt our plat
form. We are about 20 ask them I
Antrust Us with Office and power an
the guidance Of their affairs. The
will wish TO know what sort Of me
we are and Of what definite purpos,
what translation Of action and Of 20
icy we intend to give 20 the geners
terms Of the platform which the cor
vention at Baltimore put forth shoul
we be elected.
Tho Work TO Be Done.
The platform is not a program.
program must consist OF measures, az
ministrative acts and acts of legislI
tion. The proof Of the pudding is th
~. eating thereof. How do we intend
make it edible and digestible7 Frol
this time on we shall be under interrl
cation. How do we expect to hand
= each Of the great matters that must /
taken up by the next congress and tt
next administration
What IS there 70 do? II Is hard
sum the great task up. but aprarentl
this Is the sum Of the matter: TheI
are two great things to do. One is I
set mp the rule Of justice and OF rigl
= such matters as the tariff. the reg
lation Of the trusts and the preventic
i Of monopoly, the adaptation OF OF
banking and currency laws to II
varied uses TO which our people mu
put them. the treatment OF those WI
DO the dailv labor in our factories az
mines and throughout all our great Il
dustrial and commercial undertaking
and the political life OF the people {
the Philippines, for whom we hol
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