Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-14
WILSON IS NOTIFIED.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR IN
FORMED HE IS NOMINEE FOR
PRESIDENT BY DEMOCRATS.
ACCEPTS HONOR IN SPEECH
Gives His Views on Way Nation
Should Be Governed-WouId Have
Tariff Revised Downward and
Trusts Controlled.

Sea Girt, N j., Aug. THE notifi-
| cation committee named by the Dem
ocratic national convention today
called upon Gov. Woodrow Wilson at
| his home and officially told him he
had received the nomination for the
! presidency. Ollie James, chairman of
the committee, made the notification
speech.
In reply Governor Wilson, after
! thanking the committee, commented
on the unusual nature of the coming
campaign in which the candidates
must address an awakened nation, i'm
patient of partisan make-belieye and
never more susceptible to unselfish ap-
peals or to the high arguments of
sincere justice. The forces of the ma
ton, he said, are asserting themselves
against every form of special privi-
lege and private control, and are seek
ing bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
Two Great Things to Do.
"How do we expect to handle each
Of the great matters that must be
taken up by the next congress and the
next administration? said Mr.. Will
son, and he answered his own query
as follows:
What is there to do? 1t is hard to
sum the great task up, but apparently
this is the sum of the matter: 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 adapta-
ton of our banking and currency laws
to the varied uses to which our peo-
pie must put them, the treatment OF
those who do the daily labor in our
factories and mines throughout all our
great industrial and commercial I'M
dertakings, and the political life OF
the people of the Philippines, for
whom we hold governmental power in
trust, for their service, not our own.
The other, the additional duty is the
great task of protecting our people
and our resources and of keeping
open to the whole people the doors OF
generation by generation pass If 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 of for
ests and water powers and mines and
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quate merchant marine, and the open
ing of every highway and facility and
the setting up of every safeguard
needed by a great Industrious, expand
ing nation.
These are all great matters upon
which everybody should be heard.
We have got into trouble in recent
years chiefly because these large
things, which ought to have been
handled by taking counsel with as
large a number of persons as possible,
because they touched every interest
and the life of every class and region,
have In fact been too often handled
in private conference. Our difficulty
Is not that wicked and designing men
have plotted against us, but that our
common affairs have been determined
upon too narrow view, and by too
private an initiative. Our task now
is to effect a great readjustment and
get the forces of the whole people
once more into play.
Revision of the Tariff.
Coming to the tariff question, the
governor said the schedules have
been made up for the purpose of keep
ing as large a number as possible of
the rich and influential manufacturers
of the country in good humor with
the Republican party, which desired
their constant financial support. The
tariff has become a system Of favors,
which the phraseology of the schedule
was often deliberately contrived to
conceal"
Reasserting the Democratic convic-
ton that the only legitimate object
of tariff duties is to raise revenue for
the support of the government, he
continued:
There should be an immediate revi-
sion. and it should be downward, I'M
hesitatingly and steadily downward. 1t
should begin With the schedules which
have been most obviously used to kill
competition and to raise prices In the
United States, arbitrarily and without
regard to the prices pertaining else
where in the markets of the world;
and it should, before 1t is finished or
intermitted, be extended to every item
in every schedule which affords any
opportunity for monopoly, for special
advantage to limited groups of benefl-
Charles, or for subsidized control of
any kind in the markets or the enter
prises of the country; until special
fayors of every sort have been abso-
lutely withdrawn and every part of
our laws of taxation shall have been
transformed from a system of govern
mental patronage into system of
lust and reasonable charges which
shall fall where they will create the
least burden. When we shall have
done that. we can fix questions of rev.
enue and of business adjustment In a
new spirit and with clear minds.
Control of the Trusts.