The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20
G0v. MARSHALL
 ACCEPTS CALL
Candidate For Vice President FavOrs Safe Middle Course.
DEMOCRACY IS IN THE HEART.

DEMOCRACY IS IN THE HEART. Would Fellow the Ideals of Jefferson
 and the Constitution - Reformers
 Should Not Be Born With Sore Toes. Defines Fundamental Democracy.
 z Indianapolis, Aug. 2o.-1n the pres pnce of distinguished company today Governor Thomas R. Marshall accept ed the Democratic nomination for the vice presidency. He said:
 Judge Parker and Gentlemen of the Modification Committee-Permit me to nay that it is not my purpose on this occasion to present details. 1 wisa merely to present some general obscR- wations clothed in homespun language in the belief that they may be of value an fixing the opinion and determining the conduct of the intelligent voter this year. Try as we may to separate the ren- gious from the civic, the fact yet re- mains that good government has in it nm element of morality Neither con stitutions nor laws nor ordinances can completely divorce civil government from religious sentiment. There are periods in the history of people when the conflict between the good and the bad may involve almost all of the commandments. There is rarely a conflict in which at least the one com 1nandment against covetouBness does not become an issue, and this cam paign is no exception to the rule.
 It win be well for the voter to clear up some hazy definitions. We have for many years been, entertaining G belief, founded upon no fact whatever, that Democracy and Republicanism represent different ideas of govern ment. The Republican has looked upon the Democrat as a man opposed to the government The Democrat has looked upon the Republican as a man opposed to the peoples rule and in ia vor of aristocratic sway. It is time for us to remember that Democracy is not system of government. Indeed, Democracy may find it's expression in any one of numerous systems.
 The Rule of the Pscpls.
 The rule of the people is not essen tialIy rule by the people. By their votes. even when Democracy nas uH- folded to full manhood suffrage, the people may have d m6narchicaI form of government. The peoples rule does not depend upon the number of votes nor necessarily upon the system of government under which they vote. Good or bad government must go back to good zor bad citfzenship, to- intelii- gent or ignorant, Co honest or dishon- est electors. I venture the assertion that 1.-the electoral franchise were now eranted to all the citizens of Russia the Little Father would. again be crowned in Peters city.
 was intended to mean and I believe does mean something more than vot- ing. something more than selecting of dcers Like the sunlight, we cannot see it, yet we cannot see, without it. And, like the sunlight, it has not only bathed this republic i'm q sea Of beauty and glory, but it has warmed and nur- fufed every fruitage planted in the garden of universal brotherhood.
 American Democracy does not de- pend upon caste or creed or condition, upon race or color, upon wealth or poverty, upon success or failure. But, unerringiy, it does depend upon the inner life Of the individual citize0. It is an inspiration and an aspiration. It does not always depend upon the ticket which c man votes. 1t does depend always upon the motive back of the ballot.
 The historic Democratic party of America had it's inspiration and its aspiration in the life and conduct of its grest founder. It is time now to have a perfect concept of that Democ- racy, for fin recent years we have di- vided ourselves into three classes, and the classification has been made not by the heart tlrobs of men, but by their social condition. We have those who are immeasurably rich and who are looking for more. and we have those who are unuttefably poor and who are growing poorer. Between these extremes we have q great middle class living well and reasonably content except for the uncertainty of not knowing wheth- CT they are to rise into the first class OF sink into the third.
 Jefferson and Hamilton.
 Many have assumed that only the unutterably poor and those sinking into that class were Democrats and that the inmeasurably rich and the climb ers were Republicans. But these divi- si0ns have not been logical. It was not the outward and visible which marked the inward and spiritual oe, Thomas Jefferson. Born of the bluest blood in the Old Dominion and accus- toned as gentleman, scholar, diplomat and statesman to all the luxuries of his generation, he was the man who declared that all men were created equal and that all were endowed with certain inalienatle rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Even to his dying hour this seeming R-1stocrat had not a single heart throb which was not in unison with the heart throbs of his fellow men. Ills great opponent in statecraft sprang from lineage so lowly as to be un-