The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-09-07
WILSON IS NOTIFIED
OF. HIS NOMINATION
Ceremony Takes Place at
Shadow Lawn, N. J.
SENATOR JAMES HEADS BODY
President Defends His Mexican and
Foreign Policies and Sets Forth
Achievements of the
Democrats.

Achievements OF GNS
Democrats.
| Long Branch, n. j., Sept. 2.-Wttt
all due formality President Wilson was
informed today that he had been re
nominated by the Democratic party
and in characteristic speech he nc
cepted the honor and predicted that
the voters of the United States would
again select him as their chief mag
| istrate.
The notification ceremony took
place at Shadow Lawn. the beautiful
summer White House which Mr.. Will
son has had so little chance to use.
There he and his official staff received
the notification committee, headed by
Senator Ollie James. The big Ken
lucky statesman, in a brief. graceful
of the Democratic convention, and the
president, in response, first expressed
his gratitude TO the party, his realiza-
ton of the heavy responsibility in
volved in the honor bestowed OH him,
and his confidence that the people Of
the United States would wish the Dem
ocratic party TO continue in control OF
the government
To justify this confidence, he re-
cited what he considered the failures
OF the Republican party and set forth,
much as did the Democratic platform,
the achievements of his administIa-
ton.
His Foreign Policy.
Turning to foreign affairs, the presi-
dent declared his policy had been
clearly conceived and consistently
lived up to. ave have been neutral"
he said, mot only because 1t was the
fixed and traditional policy OF the
United States to stand aloof from the
politics of Europe and because we had
no part either of action or of policy
in the influences which brought on the
present war, but also because it was
manifestly our duty to prevent. If ii
were possible, the indefinite extension
of the fires of hate and desOIation kin
died by that terrible conflict and seek
to serve mankind by reserving our
strength and our resources for the anx-
ious and difficult days of restoration
and healing which must follow. when
peace will have to build its house
anew. 80
'The rights of our own citizens of
course became involved; that was in
evitable. Where they did this was our
guiding principle: that property rights
can be INDICATED by claims for dam
ages, and no modern nation can decline
to arbitrate such claims but the fun
damental rights of humanity cannot
be. The loss of life is irreparable.
Neither can direct violations of u ma
TONS sovereignty await yindicatiOn
in suits for damages"
Course With Mexico Defended.
AS TO Mexico, Mr.. Wilson said he
had acted upon the principle that the
people of small and weak states have
the right to be dealt with exactly as
would be. "Our recent pursuit of
bandits into Mexican territory" he CON
tinued, was no violation of that prin-
ciple. We ventured to enter Mexican
territory only because there were no
military forces in Mexico that could
protect our border from hostile at
tack and our own people from violence,
and we have committed there no single
act of hostility or interference even
with the sovereign authority of the
republic of Mexico herself.
MANY serious wrongs against the
many irreparable wrongs
against the persons of Americans have
been committed within the territory of
Mexico herself during the confused
revolution, wrongs which could not be
effectually checked so long as there
was no constituted power in Mexico
which was in position to check them.
We could not act directly in that mat
ter ourselves without denying Mexi-
cans the right to any revolution at all
which disturbed US and making the
of her own people await
our own interest and convenience"
The immediate future, said Mr.. VIII
son, will bring US face to face with
many exciting problems. The country
must be prepared to do its part IN the
settlement of the worlds peace, and
must prepare to do its full service in
the trade and industry which are to
sustain and develop the life of the ma
tons in the days TO come. The admin
istration, he said, has already been pro-
vident in this matter. having created
the trade and tariff commissions and
formulated policy of law which will
remove the ban now supposed to rest
upon cooperation among our export
era
At home, he asserted. capital and
labor must have liberal treatment and
our natural resources must be hus-
handed and developed, while the rail-
way systems Of the country must be
co-ordinated for national use In trade
and defense.