Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-09-07
WILSON NOTIFIED
OF NOMINATION
Receives Senator James and
Committee at Shadow Lawn.
ACCEPTS WITH GRATITUDE
President Sets Forth "Faiiures" Of Re.
publieans and Achievements OF
CONGRATULATIONS His For
eisn and Mexican Policies.


Lawn, the summer White House, the
formal notification of his denomination
by the Democratic party from the noti-
fication committee headed by Senator
Ollie James.
In response Mr.. Wilson spoke in
part as follows:
Senator James, Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee, Fellow Citi-
zens: 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 Il had al
most said burdens) me as l think of
the great issues Of national life and
policy involved in the present and i'm
mediate future conduct of our govern
ment. l shall seek, as l 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 ] have to the service of the ma
ton as n whole praying that ! may
continue to have the counsel and sup
port Of all forward-loOking men at ev-
cry turn of the difficult business.
For / do not doubt that the people
of the United States will wish the
Democratic party to continue In con-
troll 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 Failures" 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 its preferred and es-
tablished guides, of those who still
make it's choices, it had lost touch
with the thoughts and the needs of the
nation and was living in Il past age
and under q fixed illusion, the illusion
of greatness. 1t had framed tariff
laws based upon IL fear of foreign
trade, fundamental doubt as to
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 unintelliglble. 1t had permitted
me 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 its own framing which made strin
gency and panic certain and the con
troll Of the larger business operation:
q
few reserve Centers inevitable; haC
made as If it meant to reform the law
but had fundamentally failed in the
attempt because it could not bring 1t
self to do the one thing necessary t
make the reform genuine and effec
tual, namely, break up the control o.
small groups Of bankers. 1t had beer
oblivious, or Indifferent, to the fac
that the farmers, upon whom the cOun
try depends for its food and in tn,
last analysis for its prosperity, wer'
without standing in the matter o
commercial credit, without the protec
ton Of standards in their marke
knowledge of the markets themselves
that the laborers of the country, tn
great army of men who man the in
dustries 1t was processing to fathe
and promote, carried their labor as
mere commodity to market, were sui
ject to restraint by novel and drasti
process in the courts, were without a;
surance OF compensation for industrial
accidents, without federal assistanc
In accommodating labor disputes, an
without national aid or advice in fine
ing the places and the industries i
which their labor was most needed
The country had no national syster
of road construction and development
Little intelligent attention was pal
TO the army and not enough to tn
navy. Ihe other republics of Americ
distrusted us, because they found tina
we thought first of the profits G
American investors and only as an Al
terthought Of impartial justice an
helpful friendship. Its policy was pre-
vineial in all things Its purposes wer
out Of harmony with the temper an
purpose of the people and the timel
development of the nations Interest,"
SO things stood when the Democrat
&c party came into power. How d
they stand now? Alike In the domei
tic Geld and in the wide field of IN
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