The Van Buren press., 1912-08-17
rr,io, NewS Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service. q, ,
Searirt n Following Us the
speech delivered In part by woodrow
Wilson In accepting the Nomination T'
the Democratic Party for the p'eS'-
dency. ,--,ss,
Mir, James and Gentlemen Of the NotlIl-
cation Committee A.,
speaking for the national Democratic
convention. recently assembled at balV,-
more YOU have notified me Of my noml-
nation bv the Democratic party for the
Nigh office of president or the uuItSu
Etates Allow me to thank you warmly
for the generous terms IN Whlch you
have through you distinguished chail
man, conveyed the notification and tor
thu thoughtful personal courtesy with
which YOU have performed your interest
ing and important errand
/ accept the nomination with deeP
sense Of its unusual significance ana or
the great honor done me. and also WIN
\ very profound sense OF my responsl-
bility to the party and to the nation.
You will expect me In accepting, tne
honor to speak very plainly the lal{n
that IL IN me You Will expect me IN
brief TO talk politics and open the cam
paign in words whose meaning no one
need doubt You Will expect me 10
speak to the country as well as 10 your
selves. ,,. .-,t.t,s
unless we know TO whom We are talk-
ting and I'm what circumstances. Inc
present circumstances are clearly un-
usual No previous political campaign
In our time has disclosed any thlng IKE
them The audience we address is IN
no ordinary temper. II Is no audience
Of partisans. citizens OF every class ana
party and prepossession slt toEether' a
single people. 10 learn whether we un-
derstand their life and know nov 20
they are now keenly aware that they
stand in need Of We must speak, not
10 catch votes, but TO satisfy the
thought and conscience OF q people
stirred by the conviction that they nave
como to n critical turning point IN thelr
moral and political development
we stand In the presence ot an awak-
Sned nation, impatient OF partisan inahe,
belIeye The public man VINO does not
realize the fact and feel It's stimulation
must be singularly susceptible TO the In
huences that stir In every quarter ABOUT
him. The nation has awakened 10
sense OF neglected Ideals ana negIecteu
duties; to a consciousness thAt the tank
and file OF her people find life very nara
90 sustain that her young men ma OPP
portunity embarrassed, ana tnat her
older men md business diilcult 70 re-
new and maintain because OF clrcuin-
stances OF privilege and private adNan-
tacc which have interlaced their subtle
threads throughout almost every part
OF the framework off our present law
ohe has lost certain cherished llbertes
and wasted priceless resources Wn'Tn
she had solemnly undertaken 10 hoiq ,,ni a.
trnst Tor posterity and for all mankindi
and 10 tho conviction that she STANDS
ronfronted with an occasion Tor com
structive statcsmauship such as mas nGt
arisen since the great days IN Whlch
bor government was set up,
plaInIy a is a now age. The tonic OF
such a time very eNhlleratlnB re-
ouires self.rcstraint not to attempt 100
much, and yet Il would De 'oNa,uy 10
attempt too little ,II3 Ihe patRh Ro OF woy guy ~
service and distinction and many ad-
yenturous feet seek 90 set out upon H.
II is In the broad light Of thls new
dny that We stand faco 10 farc-Wltn
what Plainly, not with questions or
raTtv moi with a contest for orco not
with petty struggle for advantage,
Democrat against Republican, Liberal
against Conservative Progressive
sRaiust Rcncuonnry WIN great queS-
tons Of right and OF justice rather
questions OF national development, OF
mo doyclopment Of character and or
standards OF action no less man or a
better business system, moro tfec, more
sduitable, more open 60 ordinary men,
practicable 60 live under tolerablo 20
work under or better fiscal system
whose taxes shall not come out or tno
pockets OF tho many 20 go into the poek-
sts OF the few, and within whose intll-
Acies special privilege may not 30 eas'ly
We are servants OF tho people, tho
whole people The nation has been
unneoeHsnrily, unreasonbly at war
-ithin itself Interest mas clashed with
interest when there were common prln-
siplos of tight and OF fair deal ing which
might and should haYO bound them all
together, not as rivals, but as partners
AZ tho servant OF ALL we are bound 20
undertake tho great duty Of accomoda-
ton ana adjustment
We cnnnot undertake II except IN 4
spirlt witch some nnd II hard 90 under
stand Romo people only smile when
you rptnk OF yourself nH a servant ot
the people II seems 20 them Ike nnoc'
stion or mere demugoEuory, They ARK
what the unthlnkInT crowd knows oi
eomprohonds OF great complicated mat
ters OF government
You may think that | am wandering
on into general disqulaltlon that has
little 10 do with the hualncas I'M hand
but | am not This IL business -bual
ness OF tho deepest sort it viii solve
your difficulties n YOU VIII but take II
a. your business,
SEQ how Il makes business out of N,
tariff question. Tho tArln question, as
dealt with IN our time At any rate has
not been business II has been polltlcH
Tarir schedules have been made up ful
tho purpose Of keeping aH largo a mum
Der ~ possible Cor tho rich ana influcn
ual manufacturers OF the country IN
good humor with the Republican party
E.