Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-20
THE Time PAST FOR
PLAYING THE OSTRICH
SAYS GOV. MARSHAL
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE ON DEMOCRATIC TICKET IS FORMALLY
NOTIFIED OF HIGH HONOR BY JUDGE ALTON PARKER HE APPEALS
FOR RICH AND PAUPER TO VOTE TICKET OF UNTERRIFD AND SAVE
THE COUNTRY
SPECIAL LEGISLATION IS LOOT|NG
MASSES FOR BENEFIT OF FEW

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 20.-Gover-
nor Thomas R. Marshall. of Indiana,
in his formal speech of acceptance of
the democratic vice-presidential nom
ination, delivered to the notification
committee here today, attacked the
republican party on the grounds that
it had fostered special privilege to
the point of making men everywhere
socialistic in theory if not in con
duct.
In this connection, he said
at is idle for a thoughtful man IN
America, whether millionaire or pau.
per, to longer play the ostrich. Safe.
ty does not consist in hiding ones
head in the sands of either sentiment
or hope. 1t is foolish for the vastly
rich to keep on insisting that more
and more shall be added to their
riches through specious system of
special legislation oStensibly enact
ed to run the government, in reality
enacted TO loot the people.
1T is worse than ignorance for
them to smile at the large body of in
telligent Americans who regard them
selves as fortunate if the debit and
credit accounts of life balance at the
end Of the year; and to assume that
the mighty many, who are becoming
convinced that that social system that
We call democracy is but a glittering
generality, will long endure the So
dustrial slavery being produced.
whether voting the ticket =
not, men everywhere looking upol
the awful injustice of this economic
system are becoming socia1istic il
theory if not in conduct
And shall any fair-minded man 81,
that if it rebounds to the interests o
the people of this country that a HIM
dred men shall control its busines
to the good of everyone, that there il
anything fallacious in the theory tina
government instead of transferring
business to a favored few for the ben
eft of all should itself discharge tina
business for the benefit of all.
Il do not hesitate to say that if i
be impossible to restore this republic
to its ancient ideals, which | do no
mate choice between the paternalisn
o. the few and the socialism of thu
many, count ME and my house will
the throbbing heart of humanity.
The discomfort in republican rank
is democratic discomfort. How mucl
of it has reached the point wher'
wearied with the bad workings of ;
good system, it is willing to toppl'
that system over and try something
new, l cannot prophesy.
But | am quite sure that Whateve
badges men may wear in America
this year, whatever ballots they ma!
cast and whatever battle cries the!
may utter, there are but three grades
Of citizens.
THE first grade is made up of thu
favored few, their hangers-on ant
their beneficiaries, who think thu
eagle is upon the dollar, not as al
emblem of liberty, but as an emblem
of power and who look upon gov
ernment as an annex to their bushes!
affairs: there are they who in thu
past years of republican misrule have
turned the temple Of constitutions
freedom into a money-changers mar
and have made of the coordinate
branches of the government-obeisan
lackeys of the jingling guinea.
"The second grade consists of thos,
whose outlook upon life has been en-
larged by the civilization under which
we live. who have been taught by the
school and the college, by the press
and the magazine, who appreciate thu
good things of life, whose horizon has
been enlarged and whose capacity TO,
joy and sorrow has been increased.
Conditions have become Jnbear
able to them. They have reached thu
point where, in the struggle for tha
which they believe to be right, the!
are willing to destroy the ideals o
the republic. How many of thes'
there are, | do not know, but | d.
know that special privilege in the re
public is breeding them day by da,
like rabbits in a warren.
THE third grade of citizens
pleases me to call old-fashioned cor
stitutional democrats. These are the
who believe that the equality Of mar
kind does not consist in an equalit
of brain and Drawn, but in an equalit
whereby every man, native and fol
eign born, has an inalienable right t
exercise all of his ability in gettin
on in the world just so he realize
that in getting on he owes it to hin
self, to his family and to the republi
to see to it that he gets on honestl!
and that he does not prevent an
other man from obtaining the rewar
of his honesty and enterprise.
These old-fashioned democrats b,
lieve in making money, but they b