Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-08-16
Rule of Justice and Right Should Be Set
Up in Such Matters a. the Tariff,
Regulation of Trusts, Treat
ment Of Labor.

the conservation of natural resources,
banking reforms and other issues.
1t was a cosmopolitan throng that
gathered at the summer capital of New
Jersey. Officially there was a notifica-
ton committee of ifty-two, representing
every state and territory, and with them
came eight of the Democratic governors.
| Spread over the green that stretches
away from the governors cottage to the
ocean, however, waS a mixed gathering
of several thousand.
College professors and instructors were
there from Princeton and elsewhere,
clergymen, marching clubs with brass
bands, summer folk from seaside points,
women and children, automobile loads OF
the curious from New York, Philadel-
| phia and intermediate towns and hamlets
and the usual stream of vendors.
A semicircle of automobiles fringed
the crowd, which closed tightly on the
| spacious lawns of the governors cottage.
On the veranda were grouped the noti-
~fcation committee.
Senator-elect Ollie James of Kentucky
officially informed Gov Wilson of the &C.
ton of the Baltimore convention in a
speech hat was frequently interrupted
by applause.
On the left Of Mr.. James was Gov.
Marshall, the vice-presidential nominee,
and on his right Gov. Wilson. Cows.
Dix of New York, Foss of Massachusetts,
Baldwin of Connecticut, Donaghey of
Arkansas, Plaisted of Maine, O'Neal OF
Alabama, and Mann of Virginia sat near
by.
With solemn attention the crowd lis
tened to Gov. Wilson's speech. Though
frequently a s~atirical remark brought
laughter, Gov. Wilson's expression of his
political doctrine was received with
marked attention.
Nominee Ill at Ease.
The governor plainly was ill at ease
at the beginning of his speech. He
would have liked to discard the printed
manuscript from which he read, and
speak, as has been his won't, extempora-
neously.
"The tariff was once a bulwark, now
it is a DAM" the governor read, but
catching the puzzled look Oh his auditors,
added with a laugh, you can spell. it
either way"
His audience seemed particularly
pleased with his declaration that the
question of governors was largely one
of good faith and morals and that in
the market of life, where the prices climb
higher than earnings, those who buy ARE
not even represented by COUNSEL"
Gov. Wilson added to his speech a
pointed reference in prosecutions under
the federal antitrust law.
"The means and methods" he said,
"by which trusts have established mo-
nopolies have now become known. It
will be necessary to supplement the pres.
ent law with such laws, both civil and
criminal, as will effectually punish and
prevent those methods, adding such other
laws as may be necessary to provide
suitable and equitable judicial processes,
whether civil or criminal, to disclose
them and follow them to final verdict
and judgment, thus overcoming in some
degree the modesty Of our courts in this
pursuit."
It's ~Indefensible Now.
Of the tariff, the nominee declared EN-.
phatically;
"There should be an immediate revis'
ion, and it should be downward, unhesi.
tatingly and steadily downward"
This revision, he explained, should be-
gin with schedules (which have been
most obviously used to kill competition
and extended to every item in every
schedule that affords any monopoly"
and the system of taxation 80 adjusted
that they will fall where they will Gre
ate the least burdens.
"The means and methods by which
trusts have established ~monopolies," said
the candidate, 'now have become known.
1t will he necessary to supplement the
present law with laws both civil and
criminal as will effectually punish and
prevent those methods"
In closing, the governor declared that
a presidential campaign might easily
degenerate into a mere personal contest
and so lose its real dignity and signif'
cance."
"There is no indispensable man." re.
marked the governor. THE government
will not collapse and 60 to pieces if any
one of the gentlemen who are seeking
to be entrusted with its guidance should
be left at home.
I'VE represent the desire to set up an
~unentangled government" he concluded
"a government that cannot be used fol
private purposes, either in the field Of
business or in the field of politics; a
government that will not tolerate the
use of organization of a great party tc
serve the personal aims and ambition:
of any individual and that will not per
NIT legislation to be employed to furthel
any private interest"
Senator-elect Ollie James came to the
front OF the veranda at 3 o'clock, accom-
panied by Gov. Wilson and Gov. Mar
shall, They were greeted by loud cheers