The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-09-08
SENATOR OLLIE JAMES
Makes Greet Speech of
NotificotionNto
PRESIDENT WILSON
Sets ForthEthe Achievements
Of Administrator and the
Dolngs of q Democrat
ic Congress

At Shadow Lawn, the presidents
summer home, last Saturday, the
committee appointed to notify
Woodrow Wilson of his renomina.
tion for the presidency, performed
that duty and Hon. Ollie James, the
big Kentucky Senator, had put on
him the pleasant duty of making
the notification speech.
As a proportion Of PROGRESS read
ers are not yet subscribers to the
daily papers, we reproduce here
with the whole text of Sena-
tor james eloquent address to the
man who has done so much for the
country, as ITS Chief Executive, and
who has received the second time
the greatest honor that can be con-
ferred by the Oldest political party
Of the nation. Senator James said:
Mr. President: The Democracy
Of the republic, assembled in nation
al convention at St. Louis, Mo-,
June IA, 1915, was genuinely repre-
sentative of the true spirit Of Amer
ica--its ideals Of justice and patriot
ism
These representatives Of the pur-
est democracy in the world, after
three and a half years of trial of
your service to the people of the
country, with nation to choose
from to fill the greatest office in the
world, instinctively and enthusiastic
cally turned to you. By this they
not only registered their own will
and desire, but also the will and
wish of the pc ople back home,
whose trusted and honored spokes-
man they were. With an enthusi-
asm, unanimity and earnestness
never surpassed in the political life
OF America, they have summoned
you again to lead the hosts of peace,
prosperity and American righteous
ness.
They do not made this call upon
you for the purpose Of houoring you,
for you have already had bestowed
upon you by your countrymen the
greatest honor within their gift.
They call you for service to Ameri-
ca and mankind, a service you have
so amply proved to be Of the high
est type known to just governments
among men, service that has Civ
en- justice to all men upon free and
equal terms, a service that has re-
stored taxation to its historical and
constitutional function, a service
that has freed trade to Individual
and honest endeavor, a service that
has lifted from the tables and homes
Of the plain people of America a
burden of taxation which they have
unjustly borne for more than a half
century and placed it upon the
wealth and fortunes Of the land, a
service that has denied to the trusts
of Republican creation hiding
place in our economic life, a service
to the toilers of America that lifted
them from the despised level of a
commodity to the high plane of a
human unit in our industrial life, a
service that has dignified them
the great army of workers of the
field, factory and mine; a service
that opened the courts to all men
upon equal terms Of justice and
constitutional liberty, a service that
freed the money Of a nation from
the control Of a money oligarchy'
and lodged it in the hands of the
government; a service that .at once
destroyed two trusts, money trust
and a panic trust, where the busi-
ness cannot be oppressed or destroy
ed by the manipulation Of the mon
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