The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

l WIbSON'S SFEECH
 1 Louisville. Courier Journal: The party
 to which the country Is to intrust the
 administration of its government next
 March is fortunate in having so lucid
 and forcible a spokesman, and the coun- Itry will be doubly fortunate if, under
 the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, it
 shall see realized the soundly progress
 sive policies enuneiated by him at Sea- girt yesterday.
 | St Louis Republics: These very say ings of his and the tone of the whole l address indicate that the speaker un-
 derstands the opportunity and the limr- tations of the presidency An Ameri- can President is not a drafter of acts
 a maker of legislation. He is, in a peculiar way, a sort of pilot of the
 political thinking of Congress and the
 great body of citizens. His touch on
 the wheel has power in determining
 not so much what we shall do as how we shall regard things. Woodrow Will son cannot become President for yet many long month, but the kind of guidance of the political thinking of Americans which is a Presidents pecu- | liar province he has begun to supply already.
 1 Savannah News: Democrats have no treason to find fault with it and all who | have the best interests of the country
 at heart will give it their heartiest ap- proval Republicans and national pro | .l,tx aaxr if, it, but they will not meet with such success as to encourage them to con- | tinue their efforts.
 Baltimore News: There is little in 1 the speech to which anybody can take objection. Nobody denies that the tar 1 fir should be revised downward, or that some way should be found to control | the license which the great trusts en- joy, or to put back our ships upon the
 sea if we can find out how to do it.
 set about any of these things, except l to say that we should bear in mind
 that we are all in partnership and that we should keep this thought uppermost in solving the problems that con front us. Baltimore Sun: Governor Wilson's speech of acceptance makes it perfectly clear that he does not intend to be led away from the dominant issue of this campaign-the reform and revision
 downward of the tariff-into any dis cussion of side issues, or of questions which are of state rather than of na- tional concern. His speech is plea
 for the administration of the govern
 ment, and especially the taxing power
 of the government-the greatest of all
 powers-in the interest of the whole
 people, and not for the benefit of any
 special class or private interest 1 Washington Post: The speech of ac-
 ceptaAce may not prove wholly satis-
 flying to uncompromising partisans, but
 it Is a message of reinsurance and com I fort to all who, like Governor Wilson, take the ground that presidential campaign should not be so conducted
 as to Hose it's real dignity and sig nificance."
 Pittsburg Post: In his speech of ac- ceptance delivered at Seagirt yesterday afternoon, Governor Wilson more than
 meets the approval of those who looked to him for declaration of broad scope. He has swept away the foundation of the charge that he is more a school master than a statesman, for he shows an intimate knowledge and a thorough lconception of the problems with which the nation has to deal, and he handles them vigorously and convincingly Of the fact that he is familiar with every point upon which he dwells. The speech reads like presidential message rath- CT than an acceptance of the nomina- 1 ton.
 | New York Evening Post: After the
 earthquake, still small voice. After the raging torrent of epithets at Chi cago. a calm and poised discussion of the chief political issues before the peo- | ple Governor Wilson's speech of ac- ceptance today has literary form
 rare in such productions It bears out the reputation which he long since won | for ability to express himself with ex- ouisite precision. And beneath the at 1 tractive style there appears spirit oi
 the utmost frankness. Never did c presidential candidate so completely
 drop the Sir oracle manner.
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