Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-08-08
Bares Fabric of Political Be.
lief in Accepting Nom
inatiOn for President
IS FORMALLY NOTIFIED
COMMITTEE PRESENT REPRE-
sENTING EVERY STATE AND
TERRITORY. INCLUDING
EIGHT GOVERNORS.

By Associated Pres
Sea Girt. \. j., Aug. 7-Go'ernor
Wilson today unfolded the fabric OF
his political beliefs in a speech ac-
cepting the Democratic nomination
to the presidency
Establishing first what he termed
his political faith he invoked the rule
of Right and Justice in politics
proceeding to show its application TO
the tariff, trusts, restoration OF the
Merchant Marine, development oil
WATERWAYS. conservation of natural
resources, banking reform and other
issues.
There was a notification committee
representing every state and terri
tory. With them were eSht Demo
cratic governors.
Spread over the green extending
from the governors cottage to the
ocean was gathering OF several
thousand.
Wilson's Address.
After thanking the committee oil
notification and expressing his pro
found sense of responsibility III ac-
cepting nomination GOV. Wilson sald
he realized that he was expected TO
speak plainly, to talk politics ana
omen the campaign in words whose
meaning no one need doubt Ana
he was expected to speak, he added,
TO the country as well as to the COM
mittee.
we must speak, he continued
by way OF preface, not to eaten
votes. but to satisfy the thought and
conscience of a people deeply stirred
By the conviction that they bave
come to critical turning point IN
their moral and political develop
ment.
Plainly il is a new age, he went
Oh. "It requires self-restraint not
to attempt too much, and yet II
would be- cowardly to attempt too lit
tie. In the broad light of this new
day We stand face to face with what?
Plainly, not with questions OF party,
not with contest for office, not
with a petty struggle for advantage.
With great questions OF right and
OF justice, rather questions OF ma
tional development, OF the develop
ment OF character and of standards
of action no less than OF better
business system The forces OF the
nation are asserting themselves
asins; every form OF special privilege
and private control, and are seeking
bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
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
adoption of our banking and curren-
CIV laws 10 the very uses to which our
people must put them, the treatment
of those who do the daily labor IN
our factories and mines and through
out all our great industrial and com
mercial undertakings, and the politi-
cal life OF the people OF the Philip
mines. for whom We hold government
al power In trust, for their service,
not our own. The other, the addi-
tional duty is the great task Of pro-
tecting our people and our resources
and OF keeping open to the whole
NJ
through which they must, generation
by generation, pass II 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 oi
forests and waterpowers and mines
a,a waterways. OF the building Of an
ADEQUATE merchant marine.
I'VE have got into trouble In re
cent years chiefly because these large
things, which ought to have been
handled by taking counsel with a.
large a number OF persons as possible
because they touch every Interest and
the life OF every class and region
have In face been too often handled
In private conference. They have
been settled by very small and often
deliberately exclusive groups OF men
who undertook to speak for the
whole nation-yery honestly II may
be bu, very ignorantly sometimes
and very shortsightedly too. pooi
substi,uie FOR genuine common