The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-07
SPEECH DEALS LARGELY
With TARIFF QUESTION
Believes In Gradual Reduction All
cal Changes-lnteresting Feature OF
Notification "Old Home Day."

OOo6hI, ~. d., AuS' - he Demo-
cratic National Committee, headed by
United States Senator-elect Ollie
James of Kentucky, who was perma-
nent chairman of the convention at
Baltimore, arrived here from New
York and proceeded straight to the
summer home of Governor Wilson, to
tell him that he was nominated for
President of the United States by the
National Democratic convention at
Baltimore.
The official audience at the notifica-
ton, which is also the Initial cam
paign rally is composed of forty-eight
Democrats from the forty-eight states
of the Union and four Democrats from
the Colonial dependencies and terri
tories, these fifty-two persons compris-
ing the committee named by the con-
vention to formally notify Governor
Wilson of his nomination. In addi-
tion to the committee members, a
large assemblage of Democratic lead
ers and friends of the Governor and
Mrs. Wilson will hear the speech of
notification and the Governors speech
OF acceptance.
Both Governor Wilson and Senator
elect James, in planning for the notifi-
cation arranged that it should be
much more than a mere formality, and
arrangements have been completed
for making today's meeting an occa-
sion for building a groundwork for
the Democratic campaign that will not
hereafter be departed from. Senator
James speech of notification will pre-
sent to Governor Wilson the conven-
tion's platform and the Governors
speech will be an outline of his cam
paign, for it will consist of his inter-
probation of the platform, and, of
course, it is the Governors interpreta-
tion rather than the document itself
which is to count between now and
the election next November.
The tariff has received a great deal
of consideration in the Governors
speech Of acceptance. He regards II
as moral issue rather than a political
.expedient, one which the entire coun.
try must consider patriotically as the
cause of all the economic evils borne
today.Ni He will not insist upon i'm
m>aiate drastic legislation which will
disturb existing business conditions
i. but gradual revision downward un
til true tariff for revenue only ID
reached. 1t is known that Governor
Wilson regards the tariff and the high
cost Of living as the leading issues o.
today, but, Of course, he has giveI
much attention to the labor problem
to the attacks which have been made
upon him as a free-trader, upon the
criticism of Colonel Roosevelt and the
policies of his opponents in the regu
lar Republican party much attention
Governor Wilson is not maker Of un
usually long speeches, and announced
several days ago that his speech o
acceptance would be as brief as a full
discussion of the problems of the cam
paign would permit.
1t is known that he will take per
sonal interest in directing the cam
paign for his election. Although tn,
bulk of the responsibility is in tn
hands of new and younger men, ther
is a belief in politics that these mel
are not to disregard the advice an,
counsel of old hands at the politica
ugame, 4's,-.s stL 'fs-g esvi t4a
The committee is new, 1t is made u
of ardent progressives, but 1t is no
going. to be foolish, In New York
where an independent party of Demo
Gratis has. been formed, headed b,
State Senator Franklin Roosevelt, a
interesting situation has arisen. Tn
new party will work for the nationa
ticket, although it will oppose Tan
many Hall in the state, and there 1
much conjecture as to what will haI
pen when Senator Roosevelt an
Thomas F. Smith, secretary of Tan
many and the diplomatic intermediar