The Detroit times., 1912-08-08
TARIFF FAYGRS MUST
SQUARE DEAL TO
ALL,W|LSON! N!SSE0GAk
Denounces Payne-Aldrich Law
as Glaring Example Of Mo
nopolistic Advantages
ANNOUNCES PRINCIPLES IN
ACCEPTING NOMINATION
Democratic Nominee Declares
for Representative Rule
and Many Reforms

James, OF Kentucky, chairman OF the
committee that notified him he had
been nominated for president on the
Democratic ticket, Gov. Woodrow
Wilson made his declaration OF prin.
ciples" Oh the leading problems here
today.
Gov. Wilson dealt at length with
the tariff problem. He denounced the
PayneAldrich bill as the most con-
soicuCus example ever Afforded the
country OF the special favors and
monupCiistic advantages which the
leaders OF the Republican party have
50 often shown themselves To extend
TO those TO whom they looked for
campaign contributions" Tariff legis.
latiop, he declared, has been built on
q foundation OF special privilege and
there should be a revision steadily
downward along safe and sane lines
SO the general business OF the coun.
try would not suffer
Gov. Wilson believes the high cost
OF living is due mainly TO lack of com
petition and tariff-fostered trusts: he
declares for a square deal for the
working classes, merchant marine,
preside ntial primaries, direct election
OF United States senators, publicity
OF campaign contributions and other
reforms.
He also makes strong declaration
for representative rule. saying the ma
tion has got into trouble In recent
years because the larger things have
been settled by very small and often
deliberately exclusive groups OF men
who undertook to speak for the whole
nation.
Gov. Wilson'S speech follows:
Mr.. James and Gentlemen OF the Noti-
1cation COMMITTEES:
Speaking for the National Demo,
cratic convention. recently assembled
at Baltimore. you have notified me OF
my nomination sy the Democratic
party for the high .office Of president
OF the United States: Allow me TO
thank you very warmly for the cen
crous terms in which you have.
through your distinguished chairman
conveyed the notification, and for the
thoughtful personal courtesy with
which you have performed your inter
esting and important errand.
! accept the nomination with deep
OF the great honor done me, and also
with a very profound sense of my re-
sponsibility TO the party and TO the
nation. You will expect me In ACCEPT
ing the honor 10 speak very plainly the
faith that Is In me. You will expect
me. in brief. TO talk politics and open
no one need doubt You Will expect
me &c speak to the country as we'll as
10 yourselves.
We cannot Intelligently talk politics
unless we know to whom we are talk
ing and In what circumstances. The
present circumstances are clearly un-
usual No previous political campaign
IN our time has disclosed anything like
them. The audience we address IL in
no ordinary temper. IL Is no audience
OF partisans. Citizens OF every. class
and rarty and prepossessTon sit to-
gether. single people, 10 learn wheth-
er 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 TO catch notes. but TO sat
isfy the thought and conscience OF
people deeply stirred by the convic-
tion that they have come TO critical
turning point In their moral and polifl-
cal development.
We stand I'm the presence OF an
awakened nation, impatient OF partl-
san make believe. The public--man who
does not realize the fact and feel It's
Stimulation must be singularly unsus-
ceptible TO the Influences that sttr N
every quarter about him. The nation
has awakened to sense OF neglected
ideals and neglected duties; to a con-
sciousness that the rank and ME OF
her people Ind lie very hard 10 aus
tain, that her young men find oppor-
tunity embarrassed. and that her Older
men find business difficult 10 renew
and maintain because OF circumstances
OF privilege and private advantagc
which have interlaced their subtle
threads throughout almost every part
OF the framework OF our present law.
she has awakened to the knowledge
that she has lost certain cherished
liberties and wasted priceless re-
sources which she had solemnly un-
dertaken to hold In trust for pusterity
and for all mankind; and to the con
vtction that she stands confronted with
ut
manship such as has not arisen since
the great days In which her govern
ment was set up
Path OF Duty In Clear.
Plainly. It Is a new age The tonic
OF such a time is very exhilarstinR II
requires self-restraint not to attempt
too much and yet IL would be cowardly
to attempt too little. The path OF duty
soberly and bravely trod is the way to
service and distinction. and many ad-
venturous feet seek to, set out upon H.
There never was time VIXEN impa.
thence and suspicion were more keenly
aroused by private power sclhshly en-
pfoyed: when jealousy OF everything Z
concealed or touched with any purpos,
not linked with general good, or iuyon.
sistent with IT, more sharply or nm
mediately displayed itself.
Nor wns TIE country ever more sus.
ceptible TO unselhsh appeals or 20 'hC
high arguments OF sincere justice
These are the unmistaksble sympf oms
OF an awakening There Is the moro
nee0 TOT Wise COUNSEL htkAlbe the btbs
pie are 80 ready TO heed counse, ~ u
be given honestly and In their interest
II Is in the broad light OF this new
day that we stand face TO faoe--wty
what8 Plainly. not with questions ui
party not with a contest for office, NOT
With a petty struggle for ADVANTAGE
Democrat against Republican, Liberal
against Conservative. ProgresslNC
against Reactionary. With great uues
tions OF Right and OF Justice. rather
questions OF national development, oil
the development OF character and oi
standards OF action no less than OF 4
better business system more free
more equitable. more open TO ordinary
men, practicable TO live under
tolerable to work under or
better fiscal system whose taNes
shall not come out OF Ihe pockets
OF the many TO go into the pockets oi
the few, and within whose intrlcac!e'
special privilege may not so easily hnd
covert The forces OF the nation ,rf
asserting themselves against every
form OF special privilege and prlyat,
controi. and art seeking bigger things
than they nave ever heretofore aCnlev.
ed They are sweepIng away what Il
unrighteous in order 20 yindicate once
more the essential lights Of human
life: and. what Is very serious for us
they are looking TO rs Cor guidah"e
diFintorested guidance, At once honest
ard fearless
At such a timQ, and In tho pres sHes
II sach elrssBlst1 ncsa, what ls Iht
rusRniaz of orr platform, and wnat 7.
pOs raspensibllity under IT. What
a. cur daty and our purpose? TIE
R,affnFsrFr d .nhnut 20 show that We