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


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4. Following is the speech Of Hon. John
W.;Weseott 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 81, 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
aimaster hand has erected aniideal 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 its mill
tant and triumphant leader, q scholar,
not q charlatan; statesman, not q
doctrinaire; q profound lawyer, not a
splitter Of legal hairs; political
economist, not an egotistical theorist;
a practical politician, who constructs,
modifes, restraints without disturbance
or destruction; a resistless debater and
consummate master Of statement, not
a mere phrasemaker; humanitarian,
not defamer Of characters and lives;
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
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 more intelli-
gent morality in politics and in all 9TH
er relations. (Applause.) The line Of
cleavage is between those who treat
politics as a 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 proprietorship. (Anplause.) Hence it
is that disregard Of the premises will
bring our dreams crashing in ruins next
November.
Again the eternal conflict between
equal opportunity and special privilege
is upon US. Our fathers wrote the issue
Of that struggle in our constitutions.
They declared all men to be free and
equal. In single century that principle
developed the North American CONT
nent, leavened the world with its bene-
ficence, inspired all nations with hope
ana made the United States the asylum
Of Ill mankind (Arplausc.) Yet Ameri-
ca, at this very hour, presents the most
stupendous contradiction in history-a
people politically free, while econo-
micallv bound by the most gigantic
with q system Of taxation which ex-
plots millions to enrich few. We
have preserved the forms of freedom,
but are fat losing it's substance. The
evils of this condition are felt in a
thousand ways throughout the land
Therefore it is that America is awake
Therefore 1t IS that mistake in our
premises will be fatal. Therefore it is
that the situation, the national ex-
igency. the crisis. call for the right
man. Therefore it is that silent and
resstless revolution demands our
patriotic and best Judgment. Tndivid- |
uals are as nothing and personal am |
billions are worse than nothing I'm |
should be the majesty Of !
This convention. IF the chosen candi- |
late fails in any sense or in any de- |
gree fully and completely to meet the
all Of the nation, he is doomed to de-
eat. (App]ause.)
Men are known by what they say and
10. Men are known by those who hate
hem and those who oppose them.
Applause.) Many years ago the dis
executive Of New Jersey
aid, emo man is great who thinks
himself so, and no man is good who