Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-08-16
WILSON ACCEPTS
THE NOMINATION
Is Told by Committee He Is
Party's Choice for President.
GIVES HIS IDEAS ON ISSUES
Declares Coming Campaign Is Unusual
One and That Candidates Must
Face Awakened Nation on
Many Important PribIems.

Sea Girt, N. j., Aug. 7.-Woodrow
Wilson was today officially notified
that he had been nominated by the
Democratic party as their candidate
for president. The speech Of notifca-
ton was delivered by Ollie James,
chairman of the notification commit
tee.
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
I've more susceptible to unselfsh 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-
lege and private control, and are seek
ing bigger things than they have eve
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" said Mr.. Will
son, and he answered his W 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 tar11,
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 n commercial I'M
dertakings, and the political life OF
the people of the Philippines, for
whom we hold governmental power In
trust, for their service, not u own.
The other, the additional duty is the
great task of protecting u people
and u our 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 n
water ways, of the building Of an ade-
quate merchant marine, and h open
ing of every highway and facility and
the setting up Of every safeguard
needed by a great industrious, expand
ing nation.
Revision Of the Tariff.
Coming to the tariff question, the
governor said the schedules have
made up for the purpose of keep
ing as large a number as possible Of
the rich and influential manufacturers
of the country in a good humor with
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 to
conceal"
Reasserting the Democratic convic-
ton that the only legitimate object
of tariff duties is to raise revenue for
the support of the government, he
continued:
There should be an immediate revi-
sion, and it should be downward, I'M
hesitatingly and steadily downward. It
should begin with the schedules which
have been most obviously used to kill
and to raise prices in the
United States, arbitrarily and without
to the prices pertaining else
where in the markets Of the world;
and it should, before 1t is finished or
be extended to every item
in every schedule which affords any
opportunity for monopoly, for special
to limited groups Of benef-
Charles, or for subsidized control of
any kind in the markets or the enter
of the country; until special
favors of every sort have been abso
lutely withdrawn and every part OF our
laws Of taxation shall have been rams
from a system of government
al patronage into a system of just and
reasonable charges which shall fall
where they will create the least bur-
den. When we shall have done that.
we a fix questions Of evenue and OF
business adjustment in a new spirit
and with clear minds. We shall then
be partners with all the business men
of the country, and day of freer.
more stable prosperity shall have
dawned.
Control Of the Trusts.
The governor spoke of how recent
Investigations have revealed the con-
nection between the tariff and the