Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-15
VICE PRESIDENT IS
FORMALLY NOTIFIED
Thomas R. Marshall Delivered
Speech Of Acceptance at
indianapolis

/ dent Thos. r. Marshall was notified
last night of his denomination for vice
president on the democratic ticket and
| formally accepted the honor. The cere-
monies were the third of the kind to
be held in Indianapolis within the
last few weeks. The other two nom
nations were for j. Frank Hanly, the
prohibition presidential nominee, and
Chas. w. Fairbanks, republican vice
presidential nominee.
Prominent democrats from all over
the country were president. Informal
political conferences were held by the
leaders and plans for the campaign
were made by National Chairman
Vance Mccormick.
Martin II. Glynn, former governor
of New York, delivered the speech of
notification, after having been intro
duced by j. NJ. Adair, candidate for
governor of Indiana, chairman of GER
emonies All the speakers praised the
present democratic administration, re-
piled to the republican attacks which
had been made on it, and expressed
confidence of a democratic victory.
big parade preceded the ceremonies.
The parade was without the amount
of red fire that had been planned. a
large part of the supply was on an auto
truck, and when on its way to the dis
tribution point the torches caught fire
in some manner. Several hundred dol
lars worth of fireworks burned at
once.
The appearance of President
The appearance of ViceP President
Marshall, Mr.. Glynn, Senator Taggart
and other leaders on the platform was
the signal for a prolonged cheer. About
% members of the committee, including
Mrs. Tercse Graham, of Occur d 'Alene,
Idaho, and Mrs. Harrison Foster, of
Tacoma, Wash, several members of
congress, and national committeeman
attended the notification.
In his notification speech, Former
Governor McGlynn said:
''In their search for an issue, grass
hoppers never hoped as our opponents
have hoped, chameleons never changed
their hues as our opponents have
changed their cries in this campaign.
"They are like the huma, the bird of
perpetual motion, that never lights on
land or sea. but is always on the wing.
(Huma-A fabulous bird of the east,
said to be Il restless wanderer, but to
bring luck to whomever it hovers over.
STANDARD Dictionary
First, they create an issue out of
'Americanism. but as soon as they
see the people know that Woodrow
Wilson is doing today in our foreign
affais exactly what Washington and
Adams and Jefferson and Lincoln and
Grant did under similar circumstances
why, our republican friends hop to
another issue, change their hues, raise
new cries and, like the huma, keep on
the wing.
Result in Maine.
"Then they attack the recent eight
hour law for railroads. They make
as much noise about this as mossback
conservatives made so years ago over
President Van Burens l0.hour law,
and they probably will achieve the
same negative result. And since
Monday last they have been trying to
make an issue out of the state cleo
tions up in Maine as a reputation of
the Wilson policies and forecast of
National republican victory. But this
contention will not hold water. The
average republican majority in Maine
in the last five national elections was
33, ,l64, and yet on Monday last the re-
publicans carried it by only $4,000.
"This same kind of republican vie
tory would swing New York to Wilson
by 250,000 The falling off of the re-
publican vote in Maine is 20 per cent
from the vote of four years ago. If
this percentage prevails throughout the
country on next election day, Woodrow
Wilson will carry every doubtful state
in the nation.
Definitions Are Wanted.
The all.important question of what
the republicans would have done re-
garding the Lusitania, Mexico and Bel
gium, said the vice-president, in his re-
ply accepting the nomination, had not
been answered by the party's president
tial candidate, Mr.. Hughes. He adedd
that "firm Americanism should be
categorically defined by those who had
coined it, and declared the people would
lot be willing to discharge one doctor
because he was criticised by another
who offered no remedy.
Progressive Policies Affirmed.
"The democratic party is growing
"a progressive party. Part of its duty
is to quiet the fears of the timid. 1t
proposes that the social and economic
justice of the tariff towards the work
ingman shall have practical instead
of theoretical test. 1t valves its
ancient views as to a tariff commission,
now that the tariff has been lowered
and wealth has been made to bear its
fair proportion of the burdens of gov
ernment, and it proposes to ascertain
the real purchasing difference between
the wage here and abroad, and to put
that difference into the tariff sched-
ule, if needed, which i doubt, and pro
vided that the manufacturer agrees
that the difference shall 60 into the
pay envelope and not into dividends.
What the republicans use to fool, we
shall use to cheer, the weary heart of
labor.
"Those who critieise say the presi-
dent is an infirm American. Now it so
happens in this country that not birth
nor religion, but loyalty to America con.
stitutes the American. Any blood and
any faith and any party that assaults