The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15
WILSON BLAzED
 NEW PATH, SAYS VICE PREStDEOT
Thomas R. Marshall Praises Executive In Accepting
 Denomination

Indianapolis Ind, Sept. 15- Thomas R. Marshall formally accepted the Democratic renomination for the vice presidency here tonight, not for additional honor, he said, but in the hope that I may assist in the re-eIec- tion of Woodrow Wilson who has not walked where the path has 1ed, but who has walked where there was no path and who has left trail"
 In a speech of acceptance phrased in characteristic vein, the vice presi- dent sketched briefly the legislative achievements of the administration. in which he said he had been "an | onlooker." and eulogized the presi- dent as ''the man who brooded over the Republic in storm tossed times and by mere words spoke peace on l the troubled seas of International poli- | tics" A changed administration, he declared, would not/dare repeal a single one of the important measures put on the statute books since March 4. 1913. Wanting an issue, he con- | unued, the Republicans had turned to foreign affairs, coing such phrases as Firm Americanisna which they could not define.
 "The American people this year
 
 have made their own issue" said MT. Marshall. Those that the parties present may be only side issues. The real issue of this campaign Is that 1 thought which goes with the father to his work OF business, which en- crosses every mother. wife or sweet heart, which sits down with them at l every fireside and goes to bed with them in every home. and that thought is Can the president of the United States continue to SO pa- tiently manage our international af- 1 "The one bright peaceful spot un- der the sun this day is America and it is so because the president pleads guilty to the charge of using words rather than shot and shell and shrap nel. If America is to lead the world toward that now seemingly far dis tant goal where brute force shall be bound by wisdom and conscience ir | letters which 1t can never again break, then these are the hours fo1 mere words"
 l The\vice president made a caustie reference to the refusal of Theodore l Roosevelt to accept the Progressive kpresidential renomination, declarine the former president was a leader "who promised he would lead at Arm. ageddon but who, alas! deserted al Bull Moose Run," and now has turn ed his back on the Holy Land" He predicted that the issues put forward by the Republicans would not be ac cepted as such by the people in the present abnormal year, adding "Yol cannot interest a bridegroom in the tariff nor a widow in the coffin trust Il The all-important question of wha the Republicans would have done re garding the Lusitania, Mexico ant Belgium, said the Vice President. hat not been answered by the party's pres. idential candidate, MT. Hughes. H, added that firm Americanism' should be categorically defined b. those who had coined it, and declar ed the pAQp1e would not be willing t, discharge >one doctor because he wal criticised by another who offered nt remedy.
 s"In my opinion" said MT. Marshall "the average American wants to knov who is in the partnership with Can didate Hughes in this firm Ameri canism.' Does the firm consist O. Hughes and Roosevelt. of Hughes ant Hohenzolern, or of Hughes. surviving partner of the firm of Hughes ant ,Huerta?"