Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1912-08-15
LARGE CROWD OF DEMOCRATS
WITNESS EXERCISES AT Gov
ERNoR's HOME,
HAS OUTLINED HIS POLICIES
Ollie James, on Behalf Of Committee,
Officially Informs New Jersey Gov
ernor Of His Selection to Lead Dem.
ocracy to Success in November.

Sea Girt, N. Gov. Woodrow Will
son of New Jersey vas officially mott
fed Wednesday that he had been
chosen by the Baltimore convention as
the nominee for the presidency on the
Democratic ticket.
Briefly and simply the Governor
was notified of his nomination by Sen
ator-elect Ollie James of Kentucky,
why emphasized, as he said, that the
Governor had obtained the honor un-
trammelled by obligations and unem-
barrassed by affiliations Of any kind.
MI. James praised the candidate
and his achievements and bespoke a
harmonious party with mo disgrunt-
led Democrats sulking in their tents"
He attacked both President Taft and
former President Roosevelt, and held
up the Republican party as "disheart-
ened, discouraged and disorganized."
The Republican conduct of trust
prosecutions was condemned. He de-
clared the Democrats were pledged
to "felon's stripes" for great malefac-
tors. big business" was promised
support if legitimate, and the Demo
cratic party was pledged to take the
taric out of politics when the trust
fed barons take their %larcenous hands
out of the pockets of the American
people,"
The motto, "Thou shalt not steal"
was a plagiarism from Democratic
faith MI. James said, and he express
ed belief in the charges both Presi-
dent Taft and former President Roose-
yelt have made against each other.
On the left of Mr.. James was Gov
ernor Marshall, the vice presidential
nominee, and on his right Governor
Wilson. Governors 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 nearby.
Though the Governor spoke in accep-
lance, theoretically to the So members
.-gf the committee, representing every
state and territory in the Union, the
speech, sounding the depth Of his poll
teal philosophy was heard by a great
throng.
Prominent Democrats, Governors of
many states, their families, members
of the Woman's National Democratic
League and a multitude Of seashore
folk came from up and down the
Jersey coast to attend the exercises.
From the broad veranda of the
White House, where the Governors of
New Jersey are wont to spend their
summers, the nominee delivered his
speech.
The Governor read from his manu-.
script. The platform, he said, was not
a pragram but a practical document
intended to show that we know what
the nation is thinking about and
what it is most concerned about" The
people, he added, were about to be
asked not particularly to adopt a plat.
form, but to entrust the Democratic
party with "ofice and power and guild
ance of their AFFAIRS and their desire
now was to know what translation OF
action and policy he intends to give to
the general terms of the platform,
should he be elected"
The task ahead, the Governor ex
planned, was to set up the rule Of
justice of the trusts and the proven
ton of monopoly the adaptation of the
banking and currency laws to meet
present day conditions; the treatment
OF those who labor in factories and
mines throughout all the great in
dustrial and commercial undertaking.
and the political life of the people o.
the Philippines, for whom we hole
governmental power in trust for theil
service, not u own"
On the tariff the nominee declared
emphatically
There should be an immediate re
vision, and it should be downward, I'm
hesitatingly and steadily downward.
This revision, he explained, should be
gin with schedules (which have beel
most obviously used to kill competi
ton and extend to every item in ever.
schedule that afford any monopoly,
and the system of taxation so adjusted
that they will fall where they will
create the least burdens. THE mean
and methods by which trusts hav
established monopolies," said the car
didate, "now have become known. /
will be necessary to supplement tn
present law with such laws both CIV
and criminal as will effectually punis
and prevent those methods"
In closing, the Governor declare
that a presidential campaign Nigh
"easily degenerate into a mere pei
sonal contest and so lose it's real dig
nifty and significance.
There is no indispensable man" r.
marked the Governor, "the govern
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