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

NUMEROUS PROMINENT DEMO.
Gratis JOURNEY TO sEAGIRT
!. TO HEAR STRONG ADDRESS
WILSON'S VIEWS IN A NUTSHELL
There are two great things to do: TO
set up the rule Of right and Of Justice
and to protect; our people and resources,
keeping open to the whole people the
door of opportunity. =: II r..
The tariff should be revised at once
beginning with schedules which have
most obviously been used to kill COM
petition and to raise prices. Revision
should. be gradual 80 as not to disturb
business too Violently i!
~ The tariff in the past has been a.
matter of private understanding in
which the people have held no part
nership. Henceforth it must be mat
ter of business, not politics. s..
T.: Efficient trust legislation. is need
ed to supplement the present anti
trust law.
+ Waterways should be improved and
strong merchant marine built up, but
not by means Of subsidies. -.
Trusts are the product Of present
system of making the tariff.
Big business is not dangerous be-
cause it is big, but because itat bigness
is an unwholesome initiation created by
unjust exemptions and privileges.
Legislation for betterment Of wage
earners is urged.
Currency reform is necessary, but it
must not be framed by bankers ex-
clusively. -
There can be no rule of right with
out rule Of the people, who must be
partners in public affairs. -.
Seagirt, N: j., Aug. 7.-Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey Off
cially was notified today that he had
been chosen by the Baltimore con-
vention as the nominee for the presi-
dency on the democratic ticket. :;
Briefly and simply Governor Wilson
was notified: OF his nomination by
Senafof.elecf Ollie: James Of Kentucky;
! who emphasized,; as :he said, that
the governor had: obtained the honor
'untrammeled by obligations and .pn-
embarrassed by. z affiliations of any
kind.' " Though the:governor spoke in
acceptance. theoretically to: the fifty
! two members Of the committee, repre-
senting each state and territory in the
United States; the speech was heard
by large crowd. :. -.
Many Democrats: Attend -
Prominent democrats, governors OF
many states, their families, members
of the Women's National Democratic
league and others came to attend the
exercises.
From the veranda of the white house
where the governors of New Jersey arr
wont to spend their summers, thu
nominee delivered his speech. Grouped
beneath wide spreading willows ant
elms were the more prominent guests
hedged in by clumps of ferns ant
bushes.
The governor read from manuscript
gram, but practical document in
the nation is thinking about and wha
it is most concerned about" TIL
people, he added, were about to be ask
= ed not particularly to adopt plat
form, but to entrust the Democrat
party with coffee and power an,
the guidance Of their affairs,' an
their. desire now was to know "wha
translation of action and policy he in
tended to give the general terms o
the platform, should he be elected"
/ The Task Ahead
The task ahead, the governor explain
ed, was to set up the rule of justic
and Of right in such matters as tn
tariff, the regulation of the trusts, tn
prevention of monopoly, the adoption
Of the banking and currency laws t,
meet present day conditions, the treat
ment Of those who labor in factorie
and mines through the great industrial
and commercial undertakings and tn,
political life Of the people of the Philip
pines, for "whom we hold government
al power in trust for their service, mo-
our own.'
Speech Of Ollie James
In part Representative James said:
"The democratic party believes thai
you possess in splendid fullness those
great attributes Of constructive genius
inventive intellect and resistless viii
that SO transcendently be6t you for tn
great undertaking for*~which YOU
party has commissioned you. AS thu
democracy has bestowed upon you it,
most exalted confidence by naming yor
for the highest office in the gift oil
your countrymen, they have done SC
with an abiding confidence that YOU
equal laws and equal opportunities and
in justly apportioning their burdens
will meet in full and rounded measure
all their hopes and expectations.
"The principles for which our party
fought and for which we fell in the last
campaigns have so aroused the public
conscience that they have drawn to the
support of the democratic party prac
tically all unselfish Americans anG
have divided into irreconcilabIe
factions the hitherto victorious repubi
can party, which in the past, triumphed
by opposing them.
No Haven for Oppression
| "The democratic party is striving tt
give to all the people government SC
just, with laws so righteous that mono
poly can find no hiding place and op
preston no haven; one that will make