Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
WILSON NOTIFIED
OF nomination
Receives Senator James and
Committee at Shadow Lawn.
ACCEPTS WITH GRATITUDE
President Sets Forth Failures" OF Re-
publieans and Achievements Of
Observation-Disclosures His For
eiqn and Mexican Policies.

Pr. /
eign and Mexican Policies.
Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 2.-Presi-
dent Wilson received today at Shadow
Lawn, the summer White House, the
formal notification of his denomination
by the Democratic party from the mott
ficatian 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: l 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 | think OF
the great issues of national life and
policy involved in the present and i'm
mediate future conduct of u govern
ment. l shall seek, as | 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 l have to the service of the ma
ton as a whole, praying that | may
continue to have the counsel and sup
port of all forward-looking men at ey-
cry turn Of the difficult business.
For l 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 c%onjec-
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 1t
had served special interests and not
the country at large; because, under
the leadership of it's preferred and es-
tablished guides, of those who still
make its choices, it had lost touch
with the thoughts and the needs Of the
nation and was living in a past age
and under a fixed illusion, the Illusion
of greatness. 1t had framed tariff
laws based upon a fear of foreign
trade, a fundamental doubt as tt
American skill, enterprise, and capa'
city, and a 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 hamperet
the very things they meant to foster
(which were stiff and inelastic, and il
part unintelligible. 1t had permitted
the country throughout the long periot
of its control to stagger from on'
financial crisis to another under thu
operation of a national banking Law
of it's own framing which made strin
gency and panic certain and the con
troll of the larger business operation
of the country by the bankers of
few reserve centerS inevitable; hat
made as If it meant to reform the Law
but had fundamentally failed in tn,
attempt, because it could not bring ii
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 bee
%oblivious, or Indifferent, to the fac
that the farmers, upon whom the cOur
try depends for its food and in til
last analysis for it's prosperity, wer
without standing in the matter O
commercial credit, without the proteC
ton of standards in their marke
transactions, and without systemati
knowledge of the markets themselves
great army of men who man the il
dustrles it was processing to fathe
and promote, carried their labor as
mere commodity to market, were sui
ject to restraint by novel and drastl
process in the courts, were without n
surance of compensation for industrl;
accidents, without federal assistant
in accommodating labor disputes, an
without national aid or advice in flint
Ing the places and the industries
which their labor was most neede'
The country had nc national systei
Of road construction and development
Little intelligent attention was pa
to the army, and not enough to Il
navy. The other republics OF AmeriC
d%istrusted us, because they found thi
we thought first OF the profits !
American investors and only as an q
/ terthought Of impartial justice al
helpful friendship. Its policy was pr
v'nclal in all things its purposes we
out Of harmony with the temper al
purpose Of the people and the time
development of the nations interest
. SO things stood when the Democra
ic party came into power. How I
they stand now? Alike in the dome
e tic field and in the wide field of Il
commerce Of the world, American bui
ness and life and iuaeg;ry have be-