The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1912-08-16

seagirt. N Following is th'
Wilson in accepting the Nomination 81
the Democratic Party for the presl
dency. ..f,
cation Committee.
Speaking for the national Democratic
conv ention. recently assembled at BAT
more you have notified me OF my homi
nation by the Democratic party Tor tnS
nigh office of president of the Unite
states. Allow me to thank you warm J
for the generous terms IN whlch You
have through you distinguished chair
man, conveyed the notification ana ioi
the thoughtful personal courtesy VIII
which you have performed your interest
ing and important errand
I accept the nomination with a deel
sense of it's unusual significance ana OF
the great honor done me. and also WITH
n very profound sense OF my RESPONSE
biiity TO the party and to the nation
You will expect me III accepting tnt
honor to speak very plainly tne 1attn
that is in me You will expect me, III
brief to talk politics and open the cam
paign in words whose meaning no one
need doubt You Will expect me to
speak to the country as we'll as to your
we cannot intelllgenely talk politics
unless we know to whom We are talk
ing and in what circumstances. Inc
present circumstances are clearly I'M
usual No previous political campaign
in our time has disclosed any thing Ike
them The audience we address is In
NO ordinary temper. 1t Is no audle i.e' :
of partisans Citizens of every class ana
marty and prepossession sit together, n
single people. to learn whether we IN
derstand their life and know how 10
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 me
thought and conscience OF a. pG ~
rome To a critical turning point in thef
moral and political development -.
We stand in the presence OF an awth-
.ned nation impatient of partisan make
theIjeye. The public man who does not
fFeaiiZe the fact and feel It's stlmuia ton
smust be singularly susceptible 10 me IN.
fHuences that stir in every quarter ABOUT
Mn THE nation has awakened to a
wense of neglected ideals and neSlectea
duties: TO a consciousness tnat tne tanh f
and file of her people mn IRE Res ~ ha ori
10 sustain. that her young men ma OPP
r,ortrritv embarrassed, an that het
older men find business dnucut 70 re
new and maintain because OF clrcum-
s-fancas of privilege and private adNan-
r.ga which have interlaced their suhtle
1hreads throughout almost every part
of the framework off our pteset1 raw
chs has lost certain ChertShe1 llpertleS
ond wasted priceless resources which
abe had soIemnly undertaken to hold IN
trust for posterity and for All nahkAl9
and to the conviction tha{ she staa l.,
confronted with an occasion Tor con
structiye craftsmanship such as has NOT
arisen since the great DAYS In which
her government was set up
Plainly 1t is "a new age. The tonic oil
wueh a time very eXhilCratug re-
Guires self-res traint not to attempt too
much, and yet it would be cowardly 70
attempt too little The pain or dulS
eobcrly and bravely trbd Is the way to
service and distinction. and many adj
wenturous feet seek to set out upon II
IT Is in the broad light of this new
day that we stand face to face-with
what? Plainly, not with Questions oil
marty. not with contest FOR office, not
with petty struggle f3r adVaq 3,atsa;
Democrat against Republican. Liberal
against Conservative. Progressive
against Reactionary. With great CUES
lions of right and of justice. rather,
questions of national development, OF
the development of character and OF
standards of action no less than OF a
better business system. moro free, more
equitable more open to ordinary mel
practicable to live under. talerahle to
work under or better fiscal system
whose taxes shall not come out of the
pockets of the many II go into the pock-
cts of the few. and within whose intri-
cacies special privilege may not so easily
findP convert.
We are servants OF the people, the
whole people. The nation has been
unnecessarily, unreasofnaly at wal
within itself Interest has elashed with
interest when there were common prin-
ciples OF right and of fair dealing which
might and should have bound them all
together. not as rivals, but as partners
As the servant of all. We are bound Ia
undertake the great duty of accomoda-
ton and adjustment
We cannot undertake it except In a
spirit which some find 1t hari to under
stand. Some people Onl3 smile When
you speak of yourself as a servant OF
the people; II seems TO teen like affee=
tation or mere demagognery They ass
what the unthinking crowd knows or
compresends of great complicated mat
1ers of government
You may think that ! am wandering
off into a general disquisition that has
little to do with the business in hand
but I am not This is business bust
ness OF the deepest sort II viii solve
your difficulties If you will but take il
as your business
See how ii makes business out Of the
tariff question. The tariff question as
dealt with in our time at any ratc. has
not been business II has been politics
Tariff schedules have been ma ie up for
the purpose OF keeping rs large a mum
per as possible for the rich and influen-
tial manufacturers Of the country In a
good humor with the Republican party