Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-16
DEMOCRACY HAS
CHOSEN LEADERS
FOR CAMPAIGNS

Wilson was nominated for president Of
the United States by the democrats at
midnight. Thomas r. Marshall, Of In
diana, was nominated for vice presi-
dent five minutes later, the leaders of
the ticket being selected by acclama-
ton
The convention adjourned at 1871
o'clock early Friday morning, until IL
o'clock, when the body will adopt the
democratic platform
William ]. Bryan, three times can
didate for the presidency on the demo-
cratic ticket, yielded to the shouts OF
the convention and spoke for forty-five
minutes. He paid tribute to Wilson
ard the party, announcing his alleg-
iance to the cause of democracy.
WestcOtt NOminates Wilson.
Attorney-General John w. Westcott,
Of New Jersey, placed Woodrow Will
son in nomination. Alabama yield on
the roll call to New Jersey, and West
cctt nominated the great president. He
began by saying:
Prophecy is fulfilled. The eternal
verities of righteousness have prevail
eG, Undismayed by the calamities of
war, unmoved by vituperation and vain
defamation, holding to the pure altar
OF truth, the schoolmaster is states
nan, the statesman financier, the f.
nancier emancipation, the emancipator
paciicator, the pacifcator the moral
leader of democracy.
"The nation is at work. The nation
is at peace. The nation is accom-
EIlSllluS IIlC uSOIllly VI
Four years ago the nation was not at
work. With resources boundless, with
a hundred million people eager to
achieve and do, commerce languished,
Industries halted, men were idle. The
country struggled in the tolls of an in
adequate financial system. Credit was
at the mercy of piracy. The small
business man was bound hand and
foot. Panic hung like storm cloud
, yer the bushes world.
Now bursting granaries, teeming
factories, crowded railways and over
laden ships distribute wealth and COM
fort to uncounted millions the world
over. Production outruns the means
Of distribution. The parallel of Amer
lean prosperity is not found in indus
trial history; nor is it causeless. II
cid not descend, like a merciful acci-
dent, from heaven. 1t is not due TO the
devastations of revised tariff 1t is
not the result of destructive legisla-
ton. 1t cannot be attributed to the
manufacture of war materials, consti-
tuting bare five per centum of the
volume of national business. War is
destruction, not production. War cur
tails international trade. War de-
PRESSES industrial energy. When the
European cataclysm struck the world,
n.oratoria fell like blight upon many
of the neutral nations, but not upon
the United States.
There stands the astounding phen-
cmenon of American prosperity. What
il its explanation? The Euclid of fl
nancial theory worked to a demon
stration measures for the country'S
relief. He promptly put into effect
the legislative expression of q great
program. He did not talk. He did
things. He dynamited the monetary
Iams and let credit flow to the remot-
EST corners of the land, it's spray dash
ing even upon foreign shores. He re-
leased the nations resources and set
he energies of all men free to ex-
lott them. He destroyed commercial
,lavery. He struck off its shackles.
rhe prosperity of the nation is the
-qoduct of craftsmanship and financial
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