Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-08
GOV. WOODROW WILSON
NOTIFIED or NOMINATION.
Brief Notification Speech by Ollie James,
In Presence OF Great Gathering at Sea
Girt, N. J.==Goyernor Wilson'S
Speech of Acceptance.


row Wilson of New Jersey was Off
cially notified, wednesday, that he had
been chosen ny the Baltimore conven-
lion as the nominee for the Presidency
fn tile Democratic ticket. Briefly and
simply the Governor was notified of
his nomination by Senator-elect Ollie
james of Kentucky, who emphasized,
as he SAID. that the Governor had OBJ
tanned the honor untrammelled by OBJ
ligations and unemharrassed by affili-
ations OF any kind. Through the
speech OF acceptance, theoretically to
the So members of the committee rep-
resenting every state and territory in
the United States, the Governor
sounded the depth OF his political phil
osophy and was heard by great
sthrong
Prominent Democrats, governors Of
many states. their families and null
titude of seaslere folk came from up
and down the coast to attend the cere-
monies.
The nominee delivered his speech.
faced by wide spreading willow and
elm trees, hedged In by elumps of
ferns and bushes. The Governor read
from his manuscript
after thanking the committee of no.
tification and expressing his profound
sense of responsibility in accepting
the nomination. the Governor said his
realized that he was expected to speak
plainly. to talk politics and open the
campaign in words whose meaning
no one need doubt" and he was ex
spected TO speak, he added to the coun-
try. as well as to the committee.
I'VE must speak, he continued. by
waysof preface, mot to catch voters,
but to satisfy the thought and con-
science of a people deeply stirred by
the conviction that they have come to
critical turning point in their moral
and political development
PLAINLY 1t Is new age" he went
on 1T requires self restraint not To
attempt too much, and yet ii would be
cowardly to attempt too little. In the
broad light of this new day we stand
face to face, with what? Plainly. not
with questions of party not with a
contest for office, not with petty
struggle for advantage. With great
Questions of right and Of justice. rath
er, questions of national development,
of the development of character and OF
standards of action no less than of a
better business system The forces Of
the nation are asserting themselves
against every form of special privilege
and private control, and are seeking
bigger things than they have ever here
tofore 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
prevention of monopoly, the adapta-
ton 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 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 re-
sources 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, ir
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 de-
veIopgnent. questions of forests ana
waterpowers and mines and water
ways. Of the building of an adequat
merchant marine.
I'VE have got into trouble in recent
years chiefly because these large
things, which ought to have been