Arizona republican., 1912-08-08
Fifty Two Gentlem e Il Whose Veracity Cannot Be Questioned Assure Him He Was Marked for Slaughter at Baltimore
REPLY OF WOODROW
 TO WORDS OF DOOM
He Feels His Responsibility and Promises to Do Ger tain Things If the Worst Should Eventually Come to the Worst

SEA GIRT, August 7-Wilson un- folded today the fabric of his polit- teal beliefs in a speech formally ac- cepting the democratic nomination for presidency. Establishing first what he termed his faith, he invoked the rule of right and justice" to politics proceeding in succession to show it's application to the tariff, the trust question, the restoration of the mer- chant marine, the development of wat erWays, the conservation of natural re- sources, banking reforms and other issues.
 Officially there was a notification committee of fifty-tWo, representing every state and territory and with them came eight democratic governors. After thanking the committee 1 of notification and expressing 1 his profound sense or respor- sibility in accepting the nomina tion, the governor said he realized 1 that he was expected to speak plain | ly, to talk politics and open the cam | paign ''in words whose meaning no l one need doubt" As he was ex- | pected to speak, he added. to the country as we'll as to the committee. We must speak, he continued, "by way of preface, mot to catch votes, i but to satisfy the thought and con 1 science of a people deeply stirred by l the conviction that they have come l to critical turning point in their | moral and political development. Plainly it is a new age" he went 1 on. Tt requires self restraint not to attempt too much, and vet it would
 be cowardly to attempt too little. In
 the broad light of this new day we l stand face to face with what? Plain ly, not with questions of party, not with contest for office, not with petty struggle for advantage With i great question of right and justice rather-queStions of national develop l ment, of the development of charac- 1 ter and of standards of action no less l than of a better business system The | forces of the nation are asserting ] themselves against every form of spe-
 cial privilege and private control and
 are seeking bigger things than they
 have ever heretofore achieved
 There are two great things to do.
 One is to set up the rule of justice
 and of right in such matters as the
 tariff. the regulation of the trusts and
 the prevention of monopoly, the l adaptation of our banking and cur rency laws to the very uses to which
 our people must put them, the treat
 ment of those who do the daily labor , in our factories and mines and
 throughout all our great industrial and commercial undertakings, and the l political life of the people of the
 Philippines for whom we hold gov
 ernmental power in trust, for their
 service. not our own. The other, the
 additional duty is the great task of
 protecting our people and our re-
 sources and of keeping open to the whole people the doors of opportunity through which they must. generation
 by generation. pass if they are tC
 make conquest of their fortunes ir
 health, i'll freedom, in peace, and ir r cOntentment. In the performance ot
 this second great duty we are face tC
 face with questions of conservation 1 and of development, questions of for , ests and waterpOWers and mines anC | waterways, of the building of an ade- quate merchant marine.
 We have got into trouble in re $ cent years chiefly because these large . things, which ought to have beer Q handled by taking counsel with a
 large a number of persons as possi y bIe, because they touch every inter est and the life of every class ant II region, have in fact been too oftel S handled in private conference. The,
 have been settled by very small. ant
 often deliberately exclusive groups o
 men who undertook to speak for tn
 whole nation, or rather, for them 1t selves in the terms of the whole na
 tion,-very honestly it may be, bu
 very ignorartly sometimes and yer
 short sightedly too, poor substitut )t for genuine common counsel N t. group, of directors, economic or poll )- tical can speak for people The T. have neither the point of view no " the knowledge Our difficulty is nc l. that wicked and designing men hay q plotted against us, but that our com le mon affairs have been determine ld upon too narrow a view, and by to to private an initiative. Our task no' epl is to effect great re- adjustment an
 get the forces of the whole peopl
 once more into play. We need n
 revolution; we need no excite
 change: we need only q new point
 view and a new method and spirit lg counsel
 he ''The tariff question. as dealt wit xe in our time at any rate has not bee ,e business. It has been politics. Tari ,n schedules have been made up for u
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