The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-07
Declares Gov. Wilson Accepting
Democratic Nomination
AS RENDERED HIM TO-DAY
One. Is to Set Up Rule of Justice and
Other Is to Protect Our People
and Our Resources-Festiv-
ties Held at Sea Girt.

| Iva piiNp 49, W. huSs sh'tHub boI Nlhe
, Ollie NJ. James, of Kentucky, permanent
: chairman of the Baltimore convention
acted as spokesman for the notification
committee which to-day formally ten
dered to Governor Woodrow Wilson til,
Democratic nomination for president
Mr.. James praised the candidate and
his achievements and bespoke harmoni.
Gus party with mo disgruntled Demo.
Gratis sulking in their tents" He at
tackled both President Taft and former
President Roosevelt, and held up the
Republican party as "disheartened, dis
couraged and disorganized"
After thanking the committee of mott
iication and expressing his profound
sense of responsibility in accepting the
nomination, Governor Wilson said hu
realized that he was expected to speak
plainly, to talk politics and open his
campaign Sin words whose meaning no
one need doubt" And he was expected
to speak, he added, to the country as
well as to the committee.
1--WE must speak" be continued, by
way of preface, mot to catch votes, but
to satisfy the thought and conscience of
a people deeply stirred BY the conviction
that they have come to critical turn
ing point in their moral and political
development.
| Plainly it is new age" he went on.
at requires self restraint not to at
tempt too little. In the broad light
OF this new day, We stand face to face
with whatf Plainly, not with ques-
tions of party, not with contest for
Office, not with petty struggle for ad-
vantage With great questions of right
and OF justice, rather, questions of ma
tional development. of the development
of character and Of standards of action
no less than of a better business sys-
tenn.
THE forces OF the nation are assert
ing themselves against every form of
special privilege and private control, and
are seeking bigger things than they have
ever. heretofore, achieved,
There are two great things to do.
One is to set up the rule OF Justice and
of right in such matters as the tariff
the regulation Of the trusts and the pre-
vention of monopoly. the adaptation OF
our banking and currency laws to the
very uses to which our people must put
them, the treatment OF those who do the
daily labor in our factories and mines
and throughout all our great industrial
and commercial undertakings, and the
political life of the people of the Philip
pines, 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 of opportunity
through which they must, generation by
generation. pass If 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 face to face with questions
of conservation and of development,
questions of forests and waterpowers
and mines and waterways, of the build |
ing of an adequate merchant marine.
Too Exclusive Control.
"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 a number
of persons as possible, because they |
touch every interest and the life of every |
class and region. have in fact been too |
often handled in private conference.
They have been settled by very small, |
and often deliberately exclusive groups |
Of men. who undertook to speak for the
whole nation, or, rather, for themselves,
in the terms of the whole nation-very |
honestly. it may be- but very gnorantly
sometimes, and very shortsightedly, too,
Il poor substitute for genuine common
No group of directors, cconom-
ic, or political, can speak for people.
They have neither the point of view nor
the knowledge Our difficulty is not that
wicked and designing men have plotted
against us, but that our common affairs
have been determined upon too narrow
a view, and by too private an initiative.
Our task now is to effect a great re.
adjustment and get the forces of the
whole people once more into play. We
need no revolution; we need no excited
we need only new point of
view and new method and spirit of
counsel.
Tariff Plaything of Politics.
"The tariff question. as dealt with in
our time at any rate has not been bust
ness. IL mas DeeH politics. IarlH sCheu-
nles have been made up for the purpose
Df keeping as large number as possible
of the rich and influential manufacturers
p. the country in a good humor with
the Republican party which desired their
constant financial support. The tariff
has become a system of favors, which
The phraseology of the schedule was
often deliberately contrived to conceal.
Who. when you come down to the hard
facts of the matter, have been repre-
;ented in recent years when our tariff
schedules were being discussed and de-
-ermined. not on the floor of Congress,
'or that is not where they have been /
determined. but in the committee rooms |
md conferences? That is the heart of Z
he whole affair. VIII you, can you, {
,ring the whole people into the partner
hip or not! Ia
1--WE do not ignore the fact that the +,
business of country like ours is ex- ]
sensitive to changes in legis- /
alton OF this kind. 1t has been built up, I
,owever ill-advisedly, upon tariff sched- G
lies written in the way ! have indicated. i
md its foundations must not be too '
adically or too suddenly disturbed. y
When we act, we should act with eau I