The Pulaskian., 1916-09-08
WILSON NOTIFIED
 0F NOMINATION
Receives Senator James and Committee at Shadow Lawn.
ACCEPTS WITH GRATITUDE
President Sets Forth "Failures" of Re- pubIlcans and Achievements of Democrats-Defends His For
 elnn and Mexican Policies.

Long bIdncn, IN. J.s Oepl. As-1 IesA- dent Wilson received today at Shadow Lawn, the summer White House, the formal notification of his renomination by the Democratic party from the noti- fication committee headed by Senator Ollie James.
 In response Mir. Wilson spoke iH part as follows:
 Senator James, Gentlemen of the Notification Committee, Fellow Citi- zens 1 cannot accept the leadership and responsibility which the National Democratic convention has again, in such generous fashion, asked me to accept without first expressing my profound gratitude to the party for the trust it reposes in me after four years of fiery trial in the midst of af- fairs of unprecedented difficulty, and the keen sense of added responsibility with which this honor fills q had al- most said burdens) me as l think of the great issues of national life and policy involved in the present and im- mediate future conduct of our govern ment. l shall seek, as 1 have always sought, to justify the extraordinary confidence thus reposed in me by striv- ing to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every mislead- ing party motive and devoting every energy &flave to the service of the na- tion as a whole. praying that l may continue to have the counsel and sup <,f all f,r 1r,fx ax cry turn of the difficult business.
 For I do not doubt that the people of the United States will wish the Democratic party to continue in con- trol of the government. They are not in the habit of rejecting those who have actually served them for those who are making doubtful and conjec- tural promises of service. Least of all are they likely to substitute those who promised to render them particu- lar services and proved false to that promise for those who have actually rendered those very services.
 Republican "Faiures" Cited.
 The Republican party was put out of power because of failure, practical failure and moral failure; because it had served special interests and not the country at large; because, under the leadership of it's preferred and es- tablished guides, of those who still make its choices, it had lost touch with the thoughts and the needs of the nation and was living in past age and under a fixed illusion, the illusion of greatness. 1t had framed tariff laws based upon a fear of foreign trade, fundamental doubt as to American skill, enterprise, and capa- city, and very tender regard for the profitable privileges of those who had gained control of domestic markets and domestic credits; and yet had en- acted antitrust laws which hampered the very things they meant to foster, which were stiff and inelastic, and in part unintelligible. It had permitted the country throughout the long period of it's control to stagger from one financial crisis to another under the operation of national banking law Of it's own framing which made strin-
 
 trol of the larger business operations of the country by the bankers of a few reserve centers inevitable; had made as if 1t meant to reform the law but had fundamentally failed in the attempt, because 1t could not bring it. self to do the one thing necessary to make the reform genuine and effec- tual, namely, break up the control of small groups of bankers. It had been oblivious, or indifferent, to the fact that the farmers, upon whom the coun- try depends for its food and in the last analysis for its prosperity, were without standing in the matter of commercial credit, without the protec- ton of standards In their market transactions, and without systematic knowledge of the markets themselves {: that the laborers of the country, the great army of men who man the in- dustries it was protesting to father and promote, carried their labor as a mere commodity to market, were sub ject to restraint by novel and drastic process in the courts, were without as- surance of compensation for industrial accidents, without federal assistance in accommodating labor disputes, and without national aid or advice in find ing the places and the industries in which their labor was most needed. The country had no national system of road construction and development. Little intelligent attention was paid to the army, and not enough to the navy. The other republics of America distrusted us, because they found that we thought first of the profits of American investors and only as an af- terthought of impartial justice and helpful friendship. Its policy was pro- vincial in all things; its purposes were out of harmony with the temper and purpose of the people and the timely development of the nations interests.
 So things stood when the Democrat 1c party came into power. How do