Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-29
WESCOTT NOM|NATES
WOODROW WILSON
"A Public Servant Who Has Been
Tried to the Utmost and Never
Found Wanting

The speech placing he name OF
Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New
Jersey, in nomination for the pre- 81
dency was delivered by former Judge
John w. Wescott, of Camden n. j.
Mr.. Wescott spoke as follows:
New Jersey once bound. but. by
the moral energy and intellectual
greatness of a single sou now free,
comes to this historic convention, in
the glory of her emancipation, to
participate in your deliberations. aid
in formulating your judgments and
assist in executing your DEGREES. The
New Jersey delegation is not empow-
cred to exercise the attributes Of
proprietorship, but is commissioned
to represent the great of DEM
ocracy and to offer you, as its mill
Itant and triumphant leader, a scho-
IT. not a c~harlatan; a statesman, not
a doctrinaire; a profound lawyer.
not a splitter of legal hairs; a poll
teal economist, not an egotistlcai
theorist; a practical politician, who
constructs, modifies, restraints with
out disturbance and destruction; a
|resistless debater and consummate
master of statement not a mere soph-
istry: a humanitarian, not a defam-
err of characters and lives; a man
whose mind is at once cosmopolitan
and composite of America. a gentle
man of unpretentious habits. with
the fear of God in his heart and the
love of mankind exhibited in every
act Of his life; above all a public
servant who has been tried to the
uttermost and never found wanting
peerless, m~atchless, unconquer-
able, ultimate democrat, Woodrow
Wilson.
New Jersey has reasons for her
course. Let us not be deceived in Y
premises. Campaigns of ~vilification
corruption and false p%retense have
lost their usefulness. The evolution
of national energy is towards a more
Intelligent morality in politics and in
all other relations. The line OF cleav-
age is between those who treat poll
tics as a game and those who regard
It as the serious business of govern
ment. The realignment of political
parties will be on this principle. The
situation admits of no compromise.
The temper and purpose of the Am
erican public will tolerate no other
| view. The difference of the American
people to politics has disappeared.
| Any platform and any candidate not
conforming to this vast social and
commercial behest Will go down to
lignomoninius defeat at the polls.
Platforms are too often mere histor-
ic rubbish heaps of broken promises.
Candidates are too frequently the un-
fortunate creatures of arrangements
and calculations. ~Exigencies, condl-
lions, national needs and necessities
make better platforms and produce
greater leaders than does the exer-
else of proprietorship. A disregard
of this first premises will bring our
dreams crashing in ruins next Nov
ember.
Again, the eternal conflict between
equal opportunity and special priyi-
llege Is upon us. Our fathers wrote the
issue of that struggle in our Consti-
tutions. They declared all men to be
free equal. In a single century that
principle developed the North Ameri-
can continent. leavening the world
with it's b~eneficence, inspired all ma
tions with hope and made the United
States the asylum of the world. Yet
America, at this very hour. presents
the most stupendous contradiction in
history-a people politically free,
while economically bound by the
most gigantic monopolies Of all time
and burdened by a system Of tax
alton which exploits millions to en-
rich a few. We have preserved the
forms OF freedom but are fast losing
its substance. The evils of this con
dition are felt in a thousand ways
Throughout the land. Therefore IL Is
THAT America is awake. Therefore IL
is hat a mistake in our premises
will be fatal. Therefore it Is that a
mistake in our premises will be fatal.
Therefore il Is that the situation. ma
tional exigency. the crisis, cell for
the right man. Therefore IL Is that a
silent and resistless revolution de-
mands our patriotic and best judg-
ment. individuals are as nothing and
personal ambitions are worse than
nothing. If the chosen candidate fails
IN any sense Or in any degree fully