The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-24
PARKER NOTIFIES
GOV. MARSHALL
THAT HE Is DEMOCRATIC NoMI-
NEE FOR VICE PRESIDENT
OF UNITED STATES.
ACCEPTS ON PLATFORM
URGES THAT THE GOVERNMENT
SHOULD BE FOR BENE-
FIT OF ALL.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Indianapolis.-Gov Thomas R.
Marshall was officially notified that
he is the running mate of Governor
Woodrow Wilson at the head of the
Democratic National ticket in the
coming campaign.
Judge Alton B. Parker of New York,
who was the presidential candidate of
the party in 1904, informed the Indi-
ana executive of his nomination.
Thomas Taggart. national committee
man from Indiana, was master of GER
emonies.
. Governor Marshall in his formal
speech of acceptance attacked the
Republican party on the grounds that
it had fostered special privilege to the
point OF making men everywhere So
cialisuc in theory If not in conduct.
In this connection he said:
"It is idle for a thoughtful man in
America, whether millionaire or pau
per, longer to play the ostrich. Safety
does not consist in hiding ones head
in the sands of either sentiment or
hope.
1T is foolish for the vastly rich to
keep on insisting that more and more
shall be added to their riches through
a specious system of special legisla-
ton, ostensibly enacted to run the
government, in reality enacted to loot
the people.
1T is worse than ignorance for
them to smile at the large body of in
telligent Americans who regard them
selves as fortunate If the debit and
credit accounts of life balance at the
end of the year; and to assume that
the mighty many. who are becoming
convinced that that social system
that we call democracy is but gilt
tering generality. will long endure the
industrial slavery being produced.
Whether voting the ticket or not
men everywhere looking upon the aw
full injustice of this economic system
are becoming Socialistic in theory il
not in conduct.
And shall any fair-minded man
say that if it rebounds to the interests
of the people of this country hun
dred men shall control its business tc
the good of everyone, tnat there is
anything fallacious In the theory tna'
government, instead of transferring
business to a favored few for the bene
fit of all should itself discharge the
business for the benefit of all?
II do not hesitate to say that if il
be impossible to restore this Republic
TO its ancient ideals, which l do moi
believe, and must make the ultimate
choice between the paternalism of the
few and the Socialism of the many
count me and my house with the
throbbing heart of humanity.
The discomfort in Republican
ranks is Democratic discomfort How
much of it has reached the poin
where, wearied with the bad work
ings of a good system, it is willing tc
topple that system over and try some
thing new, 1 cannot prophesy.
But / am quite sure that whatever
badges men may wear in America
this year, whatever ballots they may
cast and whatever battle cries they
may utter, there are but three grade:
of citizens"
THE first grade is made up of the
favored few, their hangers-on ant
their beneficiaries, who think thu
eagle is upon the dollar, not as an EN-
blem of liberty, but as an emblem o
power, and who look upon government