Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-08-09
JUDGE WESCOTT'S

JUDGE WEscoTT's
GREAT SPEECH
Following is the speech of Hon. John
W. Wescott of Camden, N. j., nominat-
ing Woodrow Wilson Of New Jersey,
for the presidency Of the United States
at the democratic convention at Balti-
more, June q, 1912:
New jersey, once bound, but, Of the
| moral energy and intellectual greatness
of a single soul, now free, comes to this
historic convention, in the glory of her
! emancipation, to participate in your de-
! alterations, aid in formulating your
| judgments and assist in executing your
DEGREES. The New Jersey delegation is
| in no sense empowered to exercise the
| attributes of proprietorship. On the
wreck and ruin Of bipartisan machine
master hand has erected an ideal com.
monwealth in less than two years.
(Applause.) New Jersey is free. There.
fore, the New Jersey delegation is COM
missioned to represent the great cause
Of democracy and to offer, as it's mill
tant and triumphant leader, a scholar,
not charlatan; a statesman, not a
doctrinaire; profound lawyer, not
splitter Of legal hairs; political
economist, not an egotistical theorist;
a practical politician, who constructs,
modifes, restraints without disturbance
or destruction; resistless debater and
consummate master Of statement, not
a mere phrasemaker; humanitarian,
not defamer Of characters and lives;
a man whose mind is at once cosmo-
politan and composite of all America;
a gentleman Of unpretentious habits,
with the fear Of God in his heart and
! the love Of mankind exhibited in every
act Of his life (applause); above all a
public sevant who has been tried to the
uttermost and never found wanting
peerless, matchless, unconquerable in
the performance of his duty, the
ultimate democrat, the genius of liberty
I and the very incarnation Of progress.
| (Applause.)
New Jersey has reasons for her
course. Let US not be deceived in the
essentials of the premises upon which
this convention will build, if it builds
successfully. Campaigns of villifcation,
corruption and false pretense have lost
their usefulness. The evolution of ma
tional energy is toward a more .intelli-
! gent morality in politics and in all 9TH
er relations. (Applause.) The line Of
cleavage is between those who treat
| politics as game and those who re-
gard it as the serious business of gov
eminent. The realignment of political
parties will be on this principle. The
situation admits Of no dispute and no
compromise. The temper and purpose of
| the American people will tolerate no
other view. The indifference of the
American public to it's politics has dis
! appeared. Any platform, and any candi-
! date on that platform, not fully re-
! sponsive to this vast social, political
! and economical behest will go down to
ignominious defeat at the polls.
! (Applause> Platforms are too often
mere historic rubbish heaps of broken
promises. Candidates are too often the
unfortunate creatures Of arrange
| ments and calculations. Exigencies,
| conditions. national needs and necessi-
| ties make better platforms and produce
greater leaders than does the exercise
Of rrorriotorship. (Ann1aNso> Hence it
is that disregard Oh the premises will
}ring our dreams crashing in ruins next
November.
Again the ctrr,al conflict between
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