The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-20


ficially notified" thar he had been
selected as the running mate OF Gov
Woodrow Wilson to head the demo
cratic national ticket in the coming
campaign. Judge Alton B. Parker Of
New York. delivered the notification
address. Thomas Taggart of Indiana,
was master Of ceremonies and intro
duced Judge Parker.
Indianapolis. Ind Aug. 20.-Gov.
Thomas r. Marshall of Indiana in
his formal speech Of acceptance OF
the democratic vice presidential
nomination delivered to the notifiea-
ton committee here today, attacked
the republican party on the grounds
that ii had fostered secial privilege
to the point OF making men every
where socialistic in theory if not in
conduct
In this connection he said:
1T is idle for thoughtful man in
America, whether millionaire or
pauper, to longer play ostrich. Sai
ETY. does nor consist in hiding ones
head in the sands OF either sent-
ment or hope. II is foolish for the
vastly rich to keep on insisting that
more and more shall be added 10
their riches through a specious sys-
tenn of special legislation ostensibly
enacted 10 run the government in
reality enacted to loot the people
Il S more than Ignorance for them
AZ inf.llii-
gent Americans who regard them
selves as fortunate if the debit and
credit accounts OF life balance al the
end of the year; and to assume that
the mighty many who are becoming
convinced that that social system
that we eau Democracy is but gilt
tering generality viii lons endure
the industrial slavery being produced.
whether voting the ticket or NOT
men everywhere looking upon lie
awful Injustice of this economic sfs.
tenn are becoming socialists IN theo-
ry if not in condact
"And shall any fah-minded man
say that If it rebounds 10 the inter-
ests OF the people of this country
that a hundred men shall control lis
business Ia the good Of everyone,
that there is anything fallacious IN
the theory that government instead
Of transferring business to a favored
few for the benefit of tll should lt
self discharge that business Tor the
benefit Of all2
Il do not hesitate to say thar Il i
l.. chic RpnlIh.
lie to it's ancient ideals, which do
not believe and must make the ul-
innate choice between the paternal-
ism OF the few and the socialism OF
the many, count me and my mouse
with the throbbing heart Of hnmanl-
ty
The discomfort in Republican ranks
is Democratic discomfort How much
Of it has reached the point where
wearied with the bad workings OF
good system, it is willing to topple
that system over and try something
new, cannot prophesy
'But | am quite sure that whatever
badges men may wear in America
this year whatever ballots they may
N"nN ana whatever pitta' NtiN' N+~-
may utter. there are but three grades
Of citizens.
The first grade is made up OF me
favored few their hangers-on ana
their beneficiaries, who think the
eagle is upon the dollar, not as an
emblem of liberty but as an emblem
Of power and who look upon govern
ment as an annex to their business
affairs: these are they who in the
past years of Republican mlsruie
nave turned the temple of consttu-
tonal freedom into a money-chahs
ers mart and have made the co-orodl-
nate branches of the government
ooeisant lackeys of the jngllns
guinea.
The second grade consists OF those
whose out look upon life mas oeeH
enlarged BY the civilization under
Which we live, who have been taush'
oy the school and the college. by inc
Dress and the magazine, WHO appfe
4 sate the good things OF life. whose
q horizon has been enlarged and whoS'
apaeity for joy and sorrow has been
Increased.
Conditions have become unbear
i vie to them. They have reached
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