The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20
JUDGE PARKER NOTIFIES GOV. MARSHALL NOW TELLS CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT THAT SONS OF DEMOCRACY PUT HIM IN
 NOMINATION. SEES NO RELIEF FROM BULL MOOSE, WHOSE HEADER DIDN'T ATTEMPT TO CURE
 TRUSTS WHEN IN
 OFFICE.

Indianapolis, Aug. 2o.---Democrats from all over the state and many parts of the country flocked here, to- day, to attend the notification cere- monies when Governor Thomas R. Marshall was formally notified of his nomination for the vice. presidency at Baltimore.
 Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, chairman of the notification committee, was chosen formally to notify the Hoosier executive. Ac- cording to Judge Parker, he did not prepare a speech in advance for the event but planned to wait and see what kind of an audience was present before he would decide just what he would say.
 Automobile trips were scheduled for the entertainment of the notifica- tion visitors, and at noon Thomas Taggart, Indiana member of the luncheon to 100 prominent Demo- crats
 The day will end with a reception
 by Governor and Mrs. Marshall at their home following the cerem onies
 Every part of Indiana was repre- i coming by trolley and steam road from Fort Wayne, LaFayette, Terre Haute, Evansville and many other towns.
 Owing to engagements made before the date. of the Marshall notification was made public, Governor Woodrow Wilson was unable to be present. to- day. Chairman McCombs, of the Democratic campaign committee. be- cause of illness, was also unable to attend. The ceremonies were held on a platform erected in front of the Indiana Democratic Club, opposite University Square. Thomas Taggart
 Indiana member of the Democratic National Committee, introduced Judge Parker, chairman of the notification committee, who made the notification speech.
 William McAdoo, acting chairman of the Democratic national commit After attending the ceremonies, he will go to Chicago to open head quarte1s With McAdoo was Joseph E. Davies. secretary of the national Notifying Not Goverror Marshall of lis said:
 .The sons of Democracy. proud of the history of their party covering
 half a century of federal adn1inistra- ton welcomed at Baltimore the op. portunity to substitute practice for preaching and performance for
 They seized it by the nomination of Wilson and Marshall, seized it with so firm a grip that they cannot be loosened, either by the host of Re- l publicanisn or by the deluded people
 who have not as yet discovered their | leader tbattles are waged for himself l and not for inc T,0rd ''
 1 Reviewing the Baltimore conven- l ton, Judge Parker said:
 | They nominated for president and vice-president men whose records as
 governors respectively of New Jersey and Indiana show that they know
 how to create and apply needed gov ernmental remedies"
 1 Attacking the partnership between l government and privilege, the speak
 CT quoted largely from Governor Will
 sons speech of acceptance at Sea Girt and then attacking the tariff he said that the Republican party and l It's tariff policies were responsible for | the trusts
 lA Judge Parker contended at length that no relief could be expected from
 the Republican or progressive parties and then devoted several minutes to l Roosevelt, though he did not name him.
 F ''The creator of the progressive party and it's nominee for president, ' he said, occupied that office for E years but during all that time he
 could not be persuaded to say a l single word in favor of lifting from l the people the burden of extortionate
 tariff rates. It is impossible to read l his tariff discussion without being
 convinced that he is a standpatter
 now as he was when president. | Certainly only a very stupid man ' 1WwvAV % Ao& l. lY-f l when seven-eighths of all the com binations in existence when he went l out of office were created while he was president. Did he not stay the l hand of his pliant attorney general
 when he was about to bring suit to
 dissolve the harvester? Was not a 20 minute conversation long enough .o
 persuade him that the steel corpora
 ton should be allowed to absorb its
 leading competitor? ?'
 Gov. Marshalrs speech of accept
 ance will be found on page Ii of The
 Farmer.
 Trenton Aug. Ex-Governor Wilson today, sent the following telegram tc 1 Governor Marshall:
 My heartiest and sincerest congrat. 1 ula t1ons. It is matter of the deepest regret with me that I could not be I S-~~S~AAS " CAL ALC1Ad ny CO1SIdtuISdLlOIlf
 in person and to express again tht I warm satisfaction it gives me to bt
 associated with you on the Democratic l ticket. I should have liked to have 2 1 chance to join you in saying how con l hdent I feel in the presence of the l party's great opportunity to serve the people without fear, favor or timid. l ity. Pray accept my warm persona 1 regards