The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-09
WILSON IS NOTIFIED
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR IN.
FORMED HE is NOMINEE FOR
PRESIDENT BY DEMOCRATS.
ACCEPTS HONOR IN SPEECH
Gives His Views on Way Nation
Should Be Governed-Would Have
Tariff Revised Downward and
Trusts Controlled.

Trusts Controlled.
Sea Girt, N. j., Aug. THE notif-
cation committee named by the Dem
ocratic national convention today
called upon Gov. Woodrow Wilson at
his home and officially told him he
had received the nomination for the
presidency. Ollie James, chairman Of
the committee, made the notification
speech.
In reply Governor Wilson, after
thanking the committee, commented
on the unusual nature Of the coming
campaign in which the candidates
must address an awakened nation, i'm
patient of partisan make-believe and
never more susceptible to unselish ap-
peals or to the high arguments OF
sincere justice. The forces of the ma
ton, he said, are asserting themselves
against every form of special privi-
iege and private control, and are seek
ing bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
Two Great Things to Do.
How do we expect to handle each
of the great matters that must be
taken up by the next congress and the
next Administrations" slid Mr.. Will
son, and he answered his own query
as follows:
What is there to do? 1t is hard to
sum the great task up, but apparently
this Is the sum of the matter: 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 varied uses to which our peo-
pie must put them, the treatment OF
those who do the daily labor in our
factories and mines throughout all our
great industrial and commercial un
d~ertakings, 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 u 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 for
ests and water powers and mines and
water ways, of the building Of an ade
quate merchant marine, and the open
ing Of every highway and facility and
the setting up of every safeguard
needed by a great Industrious. expand
ing nation.
These are all great matters upor
which everybody should be heard
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 touched every interest
and the life of every class and region
have in fact been too often handled
in private conference. Our difficulty
is not that wicked and designing mer
have plotted against US, but that oul
common affairs have been determined
upon too narrow a view, and by toe
private an initiative. Our task now
is to effect a great readjustment and
get the forces Of the whole people
once more into play.
Revision of the Tariff.
Coming to the tariff question, the
governor said the schedules have
been made up for the purpose of keep
ing as large a number as possible O.
the rich and influential manufacturers
of the country in a good humor witt
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 tc
conceal"
Reasserting the Democratic convic
ton that the only legitimate object
of tariff duties is to raise revenue fol-
the support of the government, he
continued:
There should be an immediate revi
sion, and 1t should be downward. un
hesitatingly and steadily downward. II
should begin with the schedules which
have been most obviously used to kill
competition and to raise prices in the
United States, arbitrarily and without
regard to the prices pertaining else
where in the markets of the world
and it should, before 1t is finished OF
intermitted, be extended to every item
in every schedule which affords any
opportunity for monopoly. for special
advantage to limited groups of bened
Charles, or for subsidized control OF
any kind In the markets or the enter