Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-15
WILSON NOTIFIED
Of NOMINATION
Receives Senator lanes and
Committee at Shadow Lawn.
ACCEPTS WITH GRATITUDE
President Sets Forth Failures" Of Re
publicans and Achievements Of
Demoerats-Defends His For
eiqn and Mexican Policies.

dent Wilson received today at Shadow
Lawn. the summer White House, the
formal notification Of his denomination
by the Democratic party from the nou-
ication committee headed by Senator
Ollie James,
In response Mr. Wilson spoke in
part as follows:
Senator james, Gentlemen Of the
Notification Committee Fellow Citi-
gems / 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 1t 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 | think Of
the great issues Of national life and
policy involved iR the present and inn
mediate future conduct of our govern
ment. I shall seek, as ! have always
sonqb+ IN instify the extraordinary
copfdanoa fms ranosed in me Inv striv-
INV I, nnrra nv beart and nurnose of
every personal and of every misIead-
In7 Dsrtv mntfva and devofinr every
e9errv have IN mo service Of the ma.
t;an nc whole nrevinc tbat NAV
,,rri,,,,o IN b,va tha counsel and SIM
n,r+ o4 all f,-,rord-lool,ing men at ay.
erv t,rn of tba dlricuI+ business.
For do not dophr tbat the peonle
- +1o T-,l+od s+otes uiu wish the
DarnoeraHc marty IA continue In CON
t,o1 of tho government They are not
IN the hohi+ of rejecting those who
have Actually served them for those
who ore maxine dorb+ful and coniec-
+,,roI nro,nieae of sarvice Least of
su arc tbav HknIv IN substitute those
ubo nro,,fsad IN render them narticu.
lar services and nroved false to that
nrouisa for those who have actually
rendered. those very services.
Repvblican "F sIluresD Cited.
Tho Ranubllcan marty was nut out
NJ nover because of failure. practical
failure and moral failure because il
md sarvad snecial interests and not
the country at large; because, under
the Leadership of IFS preferred and es.
tsb1shed guides of those who still
make IFS choices. If had lost touch
with the thoughts and the needs of the
nation and was living in a past age
and under fixed illusion the illusion
Of greatness 1t had framed tariff
laws based upon a fear of foreign
trade n fundamental doubt as to
American skin enterprise, and capa.
cfty. and a very tender regard for the
nrofi+ghIe privileges of those who had
goinad control of domestic markets
and domestic credits and vet had en-
nrfad antitrust laws which hampered
tho very filings thew meant 10 foster
which were stiff and inplastic and in
mart unintplItgible Ii had permitted
the country throughout the long period
ne IFS control m sraogpr from ONE
financial crisis TO another under the
operarlon Of national banking law
of frs own framing which made strfn
parcv ana manic certain and the con
troJ of the larger business operation.
NJ the country NV tho bankers of s
faw reserve centers inevitable har
maaa as If n meant IN reform fbe law
bu+ had fain+.heartedIy failed in til,
a++an,n+ because II could NOT bring it
self IN 10 the ono thing necessary +,
nal.a rho reform genuine md effec
4,,eI namely break nm the control o
ANAL yrouns of bankers If had beef
.obI{v{ous or Indifferent tn the fac
That the farmers upop whom the coun
trv danends for its food and in tn
les- anaIvsls for IFS nrosnpritv wer
without standing in the matter 0
commercial credit without the proteC
ton Of standards tn their marke
transactions and without systemati
knowledge of the markets themselves
that the laborers of the country. til
great army of men who man the ii
dpstries II was protesting to fathe
and promote carried their labor as
moro commodity 70 market were sui
iec+ TO restraint by novel and drastl
process in the courts. were without a.
surapce of COMPENSATION for lpdustri,
accidents. without federal assistant