Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-03
PRES.F0RMALLY
ACCEPTS HIS
denomination
Wilson Gives Lengthy Address to
Enthusiastic Audience at
His Summer Home
GIVES VIEWS ON THE
MEXICAN QUESTION
Nations Leader Admits Making
Mistakes But Says They
Were Not Intentional

dent Wilson formally accepted MS re-
nomination here this afternoon with
an address recounting the legislative
record of the Democratic party, Wig
orous defense of his Mexican policy,
his dealings with the European bel
ligerents and an outline Of his view
of Americas obligations for the fu-
ture.
With the members of the notifica-
tion committee headed by Senator
James grouped about him at Shadow
Lawn, the Summer White House, the
President declared the Republican
party was "just the party that cannot
meet the new conditions of a new
age" and that the day of Little Amer
icanism when methods Of 'protec-
ton and industrial nursing were the
chief study of our provincial states
men" was past ana gone.
I'VE can no longer indulge our
traditional provincialism" said the
President. "We are to play leading
part in the world drama whether We
wish it or not. We shall lend, not
borrow; act for ourselves, not initiate
or followed; organize and initiate, not
peep about merely to see where we
may get in"
tions with the European belligerents
the President followed declaration
that while. property rights might be
vindicated by claims for damages, the
loss of life and the fundamental
rights of humanity never could be,
with this statement:
1.-The record is clear and consistent
throughout and stands distinct and
definite for anyone to judge who
wishes to know the truth about it. -
Immediately afterwards he said:
II am the candidate of party,
but l am above all things else an
American citizen. l neither seek the
favor nor fear the displeasure of that
small alien element amongst us which
puts loyalty to any foreign power be-
fore loyalty to the United States
Regarding his Mexican policy the
President reiterated that the people
of Mexico were struggling "blindly,
it may be-and as yet Intellectually
to free themselves from alien in
terests ''some of them Americans
pressing for things they could never
have got in their own country and
that he would do everything in his
power to prevent anyone standing in
their way.
1T is hard doctrine" said he, 'only
for those who wish to get something
for themselves out of Mexico" At
another point the president said:
mistakes have no doubt made in
this perplexing business but not in
purpose or object" He declared at
another point:
II am more interested in the for
tunes of oppressed men and pitiful
women and children than in any
property rights whatever
At the outset of his references to
the legislative achievements of his
party, the President enumerated the
laws placed on the statute books re-
lating to business, including tariff re-
vision, antitrust, laws, revision of the
banking and currency system, rural
credits, rehabilitation of the merchant
marine and creation of the Federal
Trade Commission.
What other party has understood
the task so well or executed it so
intellingently and energetically he
asked. what other party has at
tempted it at all? The Republican
leaders apparently know of no means
or assisting business but protection.
How to stimulate it and put it upon
a new footing Of energy and enter
prise they have not suggested
AT the conclusion of his review
of the party record the President de-
clared:
''This extraordinary recital must
sound like platform, list Of san
guine promises; but it is not. It is
a record of promises made four years
ago and now actually redeemed in
constructive legislation Then, later
he said: 1--WE have in four years
come very near to carrying out the
platform fthe Progressive Party as
we'll as our own; for we are also
progressives.
The Presidents address was some
five thousand words long, one of the
most lengthy he has delivered on any
occasion since taking office.