The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-09-08
WILSON NOTIFIED
OF HIS NOMINATION
HE RECOUNTS PARTY ACHIEVE
MENTs; PROUD OF RECORD s
President Scores Republican Party as
Political and Moral Failure" in
Accepting Duty as His Party
u Standard Bearer.

opened his campaign for reelection
with speech accepting the democrat
ic nomination in which he character
ized the republican party as a "practi-
cal and moral failure" defended his
Mexican and European policies, recit.
ed the legislative achievements Of his
administration, and declared for a 'big
America"
The President left Shadow Lawn at
11:SO Saturday night for Washington.
In his speech President Wilson was
unsparing Of his criticism Of the re.
ppbhcan party as party of mastery
inactivity and cunning resourcefillness
in standing pat to resist change"
and said that old leaders still select
its candidates, but he did not mention
Charles E. Hughes, the republican can.
didate by name.
The president spoke from the veran.
da of his summer home to crowd
which filed eight thousand chairs and
overhowed to the lawn. Speaking in
the open, his voice could be heard By
only a small portion Of the crowd, but
those who did hear him constantly
interrupted with applause. Once,
-srl.en be said \ ueisker seek fhe fasos
nor fear the dispieasure OF that small
alien element amongst us which put;
loyalty to any foreign power before
loyalty to the United States" the
crowd stood and cheered.
The notification ceremonies were
brought to a dramatic close when more
than score of American flags attach
ed to parachute were fired into the
air by mortars and unfolded over the
Presidents head as the band played
"America." Afterward Mr.. Wilson
stood more than an hour on the veran-
da and shook hands with several thous-
and men, women snd children.
Senator James, of Kentucky, chair
man of the notification committee, in
troduced the President. When he de
clared that Mr.. Wilson had kept Amer
lea at peace the crowd responded in
stantly and applauded for several min
utes. He concluded by HANGING the
president copy of the st. Louis plat
form.
Reading slowly, but distinctly from
a printed copy Of his speech, and fire.
quently looking up to emphasize par
ticular points. Mr.. Wilson spoke Of
the democratic platform as definite
pledge" Reviewing the achievements
of the administration, he said, "alike
in the domestic field and in the wide
field of commerce Of the world, Amer
lean business and life and industry
have been set free to move as they
never moved before"
He said: sWe have provided for
national defense upon a scale never
before seriously proposed upon the
responsibility Of an entire political
party"
Concluding his list of measures pas
sed by congress in the last three years,
the president declared; "This extraor-
binary recital must sound like plat
form, a list of sanguinary promises,
but it is not. It is a record Of promises
made four years ago and now actually
redeemed in constructive legislation"
The president made a bid for the
progressive vote by saying that 1--WE
have in four years come very near
carrying out the platform of the pro-
gressive party as well as our own, for
we are also progressive" Further
along, rebuking foreign born Amer
leans who are not loyal to the United
States, he said: 81 am the candidate
of party, but l am above all things
else an American citizen"
When Mr.. Wilson declared that the
revolution in Mexico is right, and that
so long as its leaders represent, how
ever imperfectly, struggle for free
dom, he is ready to serve their ends,
the crowd applauded. America must
do its part in laying the foundation of
world peace.
The policy Of the United States in
dealing with violations of the rights Of
Americans as a result Of the Eurpean
"That property rights can be vindicat-
ed by claims for damages when the
war is over, and no modern nation can
decline to arbitrate such claims, but
the fundamental rights Of humanity
cannot be-
The audience which listened to the
presidents address of acceptance was