Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-07

Seagirt, N. J., Aug. SENATOR Elect
Ollie NJ. James. of Kentucky, perma-
nent chairman Of the Baltimore con-
vention, acted as spokesman for the
notification committee which today
formally rendered to Governor Wood
row Wilson the democratic nomination
for president.
Mr.. James praised the candidate and
his achievements and bespoke har-
monious party with no disgruntled
democrats sulking in their tents" He
attacked both President Taft and
former President Roosevelt, and held
up the republican party as "disheart-
ened, discouraged and disorganized."
The republican conduct Of trust pro-
secutions was condemned. He declared
the democrats We're pledged to "felon's
stripes" for great malefactorS. big
| business was promised support if
legitimate. and the democratic party
was pledged to take the tariff out of
politics when the trust fed baronS
take their larcenous hands out of the
pockets of the American people"
The motto Thou shalt not steal'
was a plagiarism from democratic
faith, Mr. James said. and he expressed
! belief in the charges both President
and former President Roosevelt have
made against each other.
Mr.. Wilson's Acceptance.
In accepting the nomination Mr..
Wilson said:
Mr. James and Gentlemen Of the
Notification Committee-Speaking for
the national Democratic convention.
! recently assembled at Baltimore, you
have notified me Of my nomination by
the Democratic party for the high Of.
f,ce Of president Of the United States.
Allow me to thank you very warmly
for the generous terms in which you
have. through your distinguished chair
| man. conveyed the notification and for
the thoughtful personal courtesy with
which you have performed your inter
esting and important errand.
accept the nomination with deep
sense Of Its unusual significance and Of
the great honor done me and also with
a very profound sense Of my response.
bility to the party and to the nation.
You will expect me in accepting the
honor to speak very plainly the faith
that is in me. You will expect me, in
| brief, to talk politics and open the cam
paign In words whose meaning no one
need doubt. You will expect me to
speak to the country.
We cannot intelligently talk politics
unless we know to whom we are talk
| ing and in what circumstances. The
| present circumstances are clearly un-
usual No previous political campaign
| In our time has disclosed anything like
them. The audience we address is in
no ordinary temper. 1t Is no audience
of partisans Citizens Of every class
and party and prepossession sit to-
gether, single people, to learn wheth-
; er we understand their life and know
how to afford them the counsel and
guidance they are now keenly aware
that they. stand in need OF. We must
speak not to catch votes, but to satisfy
| the thought and conscience of people
deeply stirred by the conviction that
they have come to o critical turning
| point in their moral and political de-
velopment
The Awakened Nation.
We stand In the presence of an
awakened nation, impatient Of parti-
san make believe. The public man
who does not realize the fact and feel
its stimulation must be singularly un-
| susceptible to the influences that stir
in every quarter about him.
Plainly, it il a new age. The tonic
Of such a time is very exhilarating.
It requires self restraint not to attempt
too much, and yet 1t would be COW.
ardly to attempt too little.
| It is in the broad light Of this new
day that we stand face to face-with
what? Plainly not with questions Of
party, not with a contest for Office, not
with petty struggle for advantage.
Democrat against Republican, liberal
against conservative, progressive against
reactionary. With great questions of
right and Of justice, rather-questions
OF national development, Of the devel-
opment Of character and Of standards
of action no less than Of a better bust
ness system, more free, more equitable.
more open to ordinary men, practicable
to live under, tolerable to work under.
or a better fiscal system whose taxes
shall not come out Of the pockets Of
the many to go into the pockets Of the
few and within whose intricacies spe-
cial privilege may not 30 easily find
covert.
At such time and in the presence Of
such circumstances what is the mean
ing Of our platform and what 10 our re-
sponsibility under it, What are our
duty and our purpose7 The platform
is meant to show that we know what
the nation Is thinking about, what It Is
most concerned about, what It wishes
corrected and what It desires to zee at.
tempted that 10 new and constructive
and intended for its long future. But
for us it Is very practical document.
We are not about to ask the people Of
the United States to adopt our plat
form. We are about to ask them to
intrust us with ONCE and power and
tho guidance Of their affairs. They
Will wish to know what sort Of men
we are and Of what definite purpose,
what translation Of action and Of pol
icy we intend to give to the general
terms Of the platform which the con-
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