The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-02
WILSON SCORES
G. O.P.IN SPEECH
OF ACCEPTANCE
Senator James Tells President
of His denomination.
Do Not Seek Favor of Aliens,
Says Executive.
STAND PAT ON MEXICAN POLICY
Nearly Carried Out Platform of
Progressive Party.
"Masterly Inactivity" Charac-
teristic of Republicans.
STAND PAT ON MEXICAN POLICY
Nearly Carried Out Platform of
Progressive Party.


today. Before an immense crowd
massed over the beautiful grounds of
Shadow Lawn the president accepted
his denomination AT the hands of the
Democratic party, outlined the
achievements of his administration
and scored the Republicans as "a
party of mastery inactivity, standing
pat to resist change"
The people, he said. would not re-
Ject those who have actually served
them for those who are making
doubtful and conjectural promises OF
service"
Senator James's Speech.
Hon. Ollie NJ James. in his address
notifying President Woodrow Wilson
Of his nomination for president ny the
Democratic party, said:
THE representatives of the purest
democracy in the world after three
and a half years of trial of your ser
vice to the people of the country with
a nation to choose from to fill the
greatest office in the world Instructive
ly and enthusiastically turned to you
BY this, they not only registered their
own will and desire, but also the VIII
and wish of the people back horse;
whose trusted and honored spokesman
they were.
They do not make this call upon
yol. for the purpose of honoring you,
ful YOU have already had bestowed
upon you by your lIlc
greatest honor within their gift They
call you for service to America and
mankind: d service you have so amply
proved to be of the highest type
known to just governments among
men; a service that has restored tax
alton to its historic and constitutional
functions; Il service that has driven
monopoly from its rendezvous of tax
alton; a service that has denied to the
trust of Republican creation a hiding
place in our economic life, Twice
to the tOilers of America that lifted
them from the despotic level of COM
modify to the high plane of human
unit in our industrial life; a service
that opened the courts to all men upon
equal terms of justice and conSttu-
1ionaI liberty; a service that J eed the
money of a nation from thu control OF
a money oligarchy,' and lodged 1t IN
the hands of the government; ser
vice that at once destroyed Two trusts
a money trust and a panic trust. Incse
two trusts that your service and
natchleSs leadership destroyed i've
only in memory, or contemporary with
The malodoroGs rule of the boss-r1d-
zen and monopoly-controlled stand
pat Republican party.
Made Home Building Easy.
1T is u service which has prepared
the nation for its defense; a service to
the farmers of our country who yearn
for a home and fireside to call their
own by enacting into law federal
rural credits system that makes credit
and home building easy to the tillers
of the soil; service that in the storm
lest hours of Americas life and the
bIoodiest days of the life of the world,
You have kept our people at peace
with all the earth; a service whose
victories for the freedom of the seas,
the rights of neutral life, the protec-
ton Of American citizens and Ameri-
can righE stand respondent in the
worlds international law and in the
earth's diplomacy.
''You behold your country after
three and Il half years of your admin
istration more prosperous than ever in
its history. The earnings of the labor
ers of America exceed by three billion
dollars their earnings under four years
of the administration of your prede-
cessor. The savings of the people de-
posted in the banks of our county
amount to s6,0OO.0OO,0 900 more than
was deposited under the four years of
the administration of Mr.. Taft.
Exports Lead World.
our exports for the first time in
our history lead the world. Our
farmers are more prosperous than
ever; business is free; individual en-
deavor is no longer denied it's re-
ward.
-Four years ago, in accepting the
nomination of the Democratic party
for the presidency, you stated that
you would seek advice and counsel
wherever you could obtain it upon
free terms; this you have done. You
uncovered and drove a mighty lobby
out of the capitol and invited Ameri-
cans of all stations to come and coun-
sci with you. And on behalf of the
Democrats of the whole republic. who
are proud of your great administra-
ton, we pledge you their encourag e-
ment and united support and our
prayer is that God, who blesses the
peacemaker, may guide you to a glori-
GUS victory in November
Wilson's Speech.
President Wilson said in acceptine
the nominations:
Notification Committee. Fellow Citi-
zens; L cannot accept the leadership
and reSponsib ility 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
affairs of unprecedented difficulty
and the keen sense of added respon-
sibility with which this honour fills
q had almost said burdens) me as
think of the great issues of national
life and policy involved in the prese nj
and immediate future conduct of our
government. l shall seek, as l have
always sought. to justify the extra
ordinary confidence thus reposed in
me by striving to purge my heart and
purpose of every personal and of every
misleading party motive and devotins
every energy / have to the service OF
the nation as a whole, praying that ]
may continue to have the counsel and
support of all forward-looking men at
every turn of the difficult business.
For I do not doubt that the Daonle