Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-07
Candidate Says the Tariff
Has Become System
of FaVors.
TO REDUCE GRADUALLY
High Schedules Are Held Re-
SponSible for Trusts and
Cost of Living.

otdSA y -. 1 aug. e. t~eHdNOI -tlftN
Ollie NJ. James Of Kentucky, perma-
neat chairman OF the Baltimore con-
vention, acted as spokesman for the
notification committee which today
formally rendered 10 Governor Wood
row Wilson. the democratic nomination
for president
Mr.. James praised the candidate and
his achievements and bespoke a har.
moniOus party with no disgruntled
democrats suking in their tents" He
attacked both President Taft and form
or President Roosevelt. and held up
the republican party as "dishcarteued,
discouraged and disorganized'
The republican conduct Of trust pros
ecutions was condemned He declared
the democrats were pledged TO "felOns
stripes for great malefactors. Big
business was promised support If
legitimate and the democratic party
was pledged 20 take the tariff out Of
politics when the trust fed barous
FAKE their larcenOus hands out Of the
pockets OF the American people"
The motto. Thou shalt not steal"
was plagiarism from democratic
Faith, Mr.. James said. ami he express
cd belief IN the charges both Presi-
dent TAFT aud former President Roose
Welt have made against each other
Governor Wilson replied as follows:
Mr.. James aud Gentlemen Of the
Notification Committee Speaking for
the national Democratic convention.
recently assembled AT Baltimore. you
have notified uc Of my nomination by
the Democratic party FOR the high Of
Zee Of president - the United States.
Allow me 10 thank you very warmly
for the generous terms in which you
have, through your distinguished chair
man, conveyed the notification and for
the thoughtful personal courtesy with
which you have performed your inter
cstng and important crganl.
accept the nomination with a dcep
sense Of IT. unusual significance aud Of
tie great honor done me and also with
II very profound sense Of my RESPONSE
bility 10 the party aud 10 the nation
You Will expect me in accepting the
honor 20 speak very plainly the faith
that IS la ulc. You viii expect me, ~
brief 10 tain politics and open the cain
paigu IN words whose meaning no one
need doubt You VIII expect me 20
speak 90 the country.
We cannot iutcii"cntlY talk politics
unless we know 10 whom we are talk
ing and in what circumstances. The
present circumstances axe clearly IN
usual No previous political campaign
in our time has disclosed anything ike
them. The audience we address is In
no ordinary temper. II IS NO audience
Of uartiSaus. Citizens Of every class
and party and prepossCssion ST to
gcthcr, a single people, 10 learn wheth-
or we understand their life and know
how to AFFORD them the counsel and
guidance they are now keenly aware
that they stand In need Of We must
speak not ~ catch votes. but 20 satisfy
the thought and conscience Of = people
deeply stirred by the conviction that
they have come 10 critical turning
point IN their moral and political de-
yelopmeut
~ AWAKEN NATION.
We stand In the presence OF an
awakened nation. impatient OF parti-
san make believe. The public man
who does not realize the fact and feel
its stimulation must be singularly un-
susceptible 10 the influences that stir
in every quarter about him.
Plainly, it Is a new age. The tonic
OF such a time IS very exh!larating.
1t requires self restraint not to attempt
too much, and yet II would be cow
ardly TO attempt too little.
IL Is IN the broad light Of this new
day that We stand face TO face-with
whatl Plainly not with questions OF
party. not with a contest for office, not
with a petty struggle for advantage.
Democrat against Republican. liberal
against conservative. progressive gsinst
reactiouary. With great questions Of
right and Of justice. rather-Iuestions
OF national development. OF the devel-
oPueAt Of character and OF standards
or action no less than Of a better bust
ness system, more free, more equitable
more open 20 ordinary men. practica BILE
10 live under. toierSble 10 work under
or better nscSl system whose taxes
shall not come cut OF the pockets Of
the many 10 20 into the pockets OF the
few and within whose intricacies spe-
cial privilege may not SO easily End
covert
Al such time and in the presence OF
such circumstances what is the mean
ing Of our platform and what Is our re-
spOnshJhity under Il? What are oUr
duty aud our purpose; The platform
is meant TO show that We know what
the nation Is thinking about. what It is
most concerned about. what It wishes
corrected and what il desires TO see at