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Emancipation for Business.

But while the big men" who used to
write the tariffs and command the assist
ance of the Treasury have been hostile
all but a few with vision-the average
business man knows that he has been de-
ivered, and that the fear that was once
every day in his heart, that the men who
controlled credit and directed enterprise
from the committee rooms Of Congress
would crush him, is there no more and
VIII not return-unleSs the party thai
consulted only the big men should re-
turn to power-the party Of nasterly in
activity and cunning resourcefulness in
standing pat to resist change.
The republican party is just the party
that cannot meet the new conditions as
a new age. 1t does not know the way
and II does not wish new conditions
II tried to break away from the old
leaders and could not. They sin So
lect its candidates and dictate its mol
Icy. still resist change. still hankcr
after the old conditions. sim know no
methods of encouraging business bur
the old methods. When it changes its
leaders and its purposes and brings it's
IDEAS up to date il Will have the right
10 ask the American people to give 1t
power again; but not until then
change. needs new purposes and new
ideas.
In foreign affairs we have been guild
ed by principles clearly conceived and
consistently lived up to. Perhaps thev
have not been fully comprehended be-
cause they have hitherto governed in
ter9ationai affairs only in theory. not in
ractice. They are simple. obvious.
easily stated and fundamental to
American ideals
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Saving Strength for Peace.

We have been Neutral not only be-
cause il was the fixed and traditionaI
policy of the United States to st.tnd
aloof from the politics of Europe and
because We. had had no part either of
action or of policy in the influences
which brought on the present war. but
also because II was manifestly our duty
to prevent, If II We're possible the in
definite extension of the fires of hate
and desolation kindled by that terrible
conflict and seek to serve mankind by
reserving our strength and our re-
sources for the anxious and difficult
days of restoration and healing which
must follow, when peace will have to
build its house anew.
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
10 arbitrate such claims; but the funda-
mental rights of humanity cannot be.
The loss of life is irreparable Neither
can direct violations of nations
sovereignty await vindication in suits
for damages. The nation that violates
these essential rights must expect to be
checked and called to account by direct
challenge and resistance. 1t at once
makes the quarrel in part our own
These are plain principles, and we have
never lost sight of them or departed
from them, whatever the stress or the
perpiexity of circumstance or the provo
cation to hasty resentment. The record
is clear and consistent throughout and
10 Judge who wishes to know the truth
a
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Natural Resources.

We ought both to husband and to de-
yeIop our natural resources, our mines
our forests. our water power. ] wish
we could have made more progress than
We hay. made in this vital matter, and
call once more, with the deepest ear
.nestness and solicltude. upon the adyo-
Gates OF a careful and provident con-
srryation, on the one hand. and the
advocates of a free and inviting field
for private capital, on the other. to get
together in a spirit of genuine accom-
inodation and agreement and set this
great policy forward at once.
We must hearten and quicken the
spfrit and efficiency of labor through
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations do
ing iustice to the leborer, not only by
paving a living wage, but also by max
ing all the conditions that surround la
bor what they ought to be. And we
must do more than justice. We must
safeguard life and promote health and
ea fety in every occupation in which
they are threatened or imperiled. That
is more than justice, and better, be-
cause it is humanity and economy.
We must coordinate the railway sys-
TENS of the country for national use,
and must facilitate and promote their
ordination and to their better adapta-
tion as a whole to the life and trade
and defense Of the nation. The life and
industry of the country can be free and
unhampered only if these arteries are
open, efficient and complete.
Thus shah we stand ready to meet the
future as circumstance and interna-
tional policy effect their unfolding,
whether the changes come slowly or
come fast and without preface.
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Exchange Over Rights in Albania.

Although the foregoing statement
SAYS that a Greek garrison evacuated
Tepelem. there has never been any
official information of the occupation
Of the town by the Greeks. Early in
the war Greek troops. reported to have
been irregulars. went into southern AL
bania and for a time held Berat north
of Tepelemi. There has been much
diplomatic interchange over the rights
of both Greece and Italy in Albania
and especially oyer possession of Av-
Iona. Tepeiemi is approximately thir-
ty-five miles north and west of the
Greek border
BERLIN. September Thy wireless to
Sayville).-A dispatch from CONSTANT
nople says that at o'clock last night
the Turkish government delivered to
the Rumanian minister at CONSTANT
nople a declaration of war against Ru-
mania.
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Chamber Directors to Meet.

A meeting of the board of directors Of
the Chamber of Commerce is to be held
Wednesday evening in the rooms Of the
organization.
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Senator James Notifies Mr..
Wilson That Democracy
Has Summoned Him.
POINTS TO THE RECORD
OF PLEDGES REDEEMED
Nomination. He Says. Not Result of
Desire to Honor. But Voices
Peoples Will.

SHADOW LAWN. y. J., Septeiulc~
Senator James of Kentucky
speech today notifying PresIus
son that he had been renomIUs;'
the presidency. said. in part:
MIR. President-The democracy OF .-.e
republic assembled in national conNeH-
ton at St Louis. No. June II. 1915.
was genuinely representative of the
true spirit of America--its ideals of
Justice and of patriotism.
These representatives of the purest
democracy in the world. after three and
q half years of trial of your service to
the people of the country, with nation
to choose from To fill the greatest office
in the world. instiuctively and euthusi-
astically turned To you. BY this they
not only registered their own VIII ana
desire. but also the will and wish eff the
people back home. whose trusted aud
honored spokesmen they We're. With an
enthusiasm. unanImity and eaTneStHeSS
never surpassed In the political life of
America they have summoned you
again TO lead the hosts of peace. pros
perity and American righteousness.
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Counsel Sought of All.

-Four years ago in accepting the
nomination of the democratic party for
the presidency you stated that YOU
would seek advice and counsel wher-
ever sou could obtain il upon free
terms: this you have done. You ua-
covered and drove mighty lobby out
of the Capitol and invited Americans
of all stations to come and counsel viii
YOU The laborer with his griuy hand
the farmer with the tan of the blazing
sun upon his face, the railroad men
who hold the throttle, swing the Ian
tern and direct the rolling wheels of
commerce. the toiler from the damp and
darkness of mine. from the shop, the
mill and the factory: the business men
from their Offices. the clerk from the
counter, the banker, the artisan, the
lawyer and the doctor have come and
found welcome and shared counsel with
ySu- They knew YOU were free to
serve. that you we're unboSseJi un-
owned and unafraid. They knew YOU
only sought the truth. and when you
found il you We're ready TO challenge
Ell of its adversaries to any conflict"
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Interpreter of Platform.

| have not spoken explicitly. gentle
men, of the platform adopted at St
Louis: but it has been implicit in all
that | have said. l have sought to in
terpret its spirit and meaning. The
people of the United States do not need
to be assured now that that platform
is a definite pledge, practical pro-
gram We have proved to them that
our promises are made to be kept
We hold very definite ideals. We be-
lieve that the energy and initiative of
our people have been too narrowly
coached and superintended; that they
should be set free, as we have set them
free. to disperse themselves throughout
the nation: that they should not be con-
centrated in the hands of few power
ponents have again and again, in effect
trate them.
We believe, moreover-who that looks
about him now with comprehending
eve can fail to believe?-that the dav
of little Americanism. with its narrow
horizons when methods of protection"
and Industrial nursing were the chief
study of our provincial statesmen, are
past and gone. and that day of en-
terprise has at last dawned for the
United States whose field is the wide
world.
We hope to see the stimulus of that
new day draw all America. the repub-
lies of both continents, on to a new
life and energy and initiative in the
great affairs of peace. We are Ameri-
cans for big America, and rejoice to
Evening star., 1916-09-02
PARTY Has Done Its Duty.

Boastng is always an empty pusi-
ness. which pleases nobody but the
boaster. and | have no disposition TO
boast of what the democratic party has
accomplished. 1t has merely done Its
duty. 1t has merely fulfilled its ex-
plicit promises.
But there can be no violation OF good
taste in calling attention to the manner
in which those promises have been car
ried out or in adverting to the inter-
eSting fact that many of the things ac-
coInp1ished were what the opposition
marty had again and again promised to
do but had left undone. Indeed. that is
manfestly part of the business of this
wear of reckoning and assessment.
There is no means of judging the
future except by assessing the past.
Constructive action must be weighed
against destructive comment and reac-
ton The democrats either have or
have not understood the varied inter
ests of The country. The test is contain
e., IN the record
What is that record? What were the
democrats called into power to do?
What things had long waited to be
done and how did the democrats do
them? 1t is a record of extraordinary
length and variety. rich in elements of
many kinds. but consistent in principle
throughout and susceptible of brief re-
ri a
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Call Is One to Service.

They do not make this call upon YOU
for the purpose of honorine you. for
you have already had bestowed upon
yeu by your eountryrlen the greatest
honor within their gift They call you
for service to America and mankind; a
service you have 50 amply proved to
be of the highest type known To just
governments among men.
You behold your country after three
and a half years Of your adminiStra-
tion more prosperous than ever in its
history. The earnings of the lahorers
OF America exceed by three billion dol
lars their earnings under four years of
the administration of your predecessor.
the savings of the people deposited in
the banks of our country amount to
six billion dollars more than was de-
posted under the four years of the
administration of Mr. Taft
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SERB|ANS REPULSE
BULGARIAN ASSAULT
King Ferdinand's Men Report
ed to Be Evacuating Soro-
Wtz. on Macedonian Front.

PARIS. September 2-The Bulsarians
returned to the attack last night on the
western end OF the Macedonian front
The war office announced today that an
assault delivered by them in the Netrenik
sector was repulsed by the Serbians
Austro- Hungarian troops on the Ru-
manian front again repulsed the Ru-
olanians near Orsova and Hercules
Fuerdoe August 81. says the official state
ment issued by the Austro- Hungarian
army headquarters under date of Septem-
Der J.
The statement says that the Transyl-
vanian towns of Macy Szeben dHermann-
stadD, and Sepsi- i-Szent- -Gyorgy, north of
kronstadt. already had been evacuated by
the Austro- Hungarians Wednesday.
Information received in Athens says
the Bulgarians are evacuating Soro-
vitz. on the Serbian front near F'lorina.
The Bulgarians are reported to have
failed in their attempt to take Corn
ltchoNo, town east of F'lorina-
Italians Active in Albania.
Italian troops have beun an often
sive in southern Albania and have occu-
pied Tepeleni. thirty-one miles south
east of Avlona, on the NoyuSa river,
says a Rome war office statement. The
Greek garrison withdrew from Tepe-
lini. Austrian attacks in the Brenta
valley and near Gorilla have been re-
pulsed, the statement adds. Describing
the Italian operations. an official state
ment from Rome says:
In Albania, during the morning of
August 80, our composite column oc-
cupied Tepelemi. on the Voyusa, after
a rapid march over very difficult
ground. The Greek garrison with
drew. At the same time detachments
of Bersaglieri made a feint on the
enemy's position on Monte Gradist and
Monte TrubeS, on the right bank of the
Voyusa.
our troops crossed the river near
carbonara and stormed the defended
villages of klog and Hekal under a
heavy artillery fire. Seventy-two pris-
oners, including forty Austrians. and a
large quantity of ammunition fell into
our hands.
During the night news of the oc-
cupation of Tepelemi having been re-
ceived. the Bersaglieri withdrew again
from Monte Gradist. Enemy aircraft
dropped bombs on Proveni and Lapai
without doing damage.
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Poison of Disloyalty Injected.

The seas were not broad enough to
keep the infection of the conflict out OF
our own politics. The passions and in
trigues of certain active groups and
combinations Of men amongst us who
were born under foreign flags injected
the poison of disloyalty into our own
most critical affairs. laid violent hands
upon many of our industries. and sub
jected us to the shame of divisions of
sentiment and purpose in which America
was contemned and forgotten. 1t is part of
the business OF this year of reckoning
and settlement to speak plainly and act
with unmtstakable purpose in rebuke
Of these thtnGA in order that they may
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Accomplishments of Democracy.

The tariff has been revised. not on
the principle of repeIlins foreign trade.
but 3p"u the principle of encouraging
81. upon something like footing of
equality with our own in respect Of
tHe terms Of competition. and a tariff
board has been created whose function
ID viii be To keep the relations of
American with foreign business and
industry under constant observation
for the guidance alike Of our business
!.Sn ana pf our Congress. American
energies are NOW directed toward the
markets Of the world
The laws against trusts have been
CHARMED bt definition. with "A view 10
making IL PLAIN that they were not di-
Te"ted against big business but only
against unfair business and the pre-
tense OF competition where there was
none, and 4 trade commission has been
created with powers Of guidance and
accommodation which have relieved
business Taeu OF unfounded fears and
set Them upon the road of hopeful and
confident enterprise.
BY the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal of ac-
tiyc busines. has been rendered elastic,
taxing ITS volume, not from a fixed
body Of investment securities. but from
the IquId assets OF daily trade: and
these assets are assessed and accented
not by distant groups of bankers in
control o. unavailable reserves but by
bankers At the many centers Of local
eXcnange VINO are in touch with local
conditions everywhere.
Effective measures have been taken
for the recreation Of an America n
merchant Ha.ine and the revival Of the
American carrying trade indispensable
10 our emancipation from the control
which foreigners have SO long exer-
cised over the opportunities. the routes
an the methods OF commerce W In n
otneT countries.
the interstate commerce Commission
Is about 70 be reorga nized to enable il
70 perform its great and important
functions more promptly and more ef-
ticlcntiy. We have created, extended
aud improved the service ~ the par
GELS post
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PRESIDENT FIRMLY
DEFENDS POLICIES
AT NOTIFICATION

CONTINUED from First Page.l
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Promises Redeemed in Law.

This extraordinary recital must
sound like a platform. list of san
guine promises, but it is not 1t is a
record of promises made four years
ago and now actually redeemed in con
structive Legislation
These things must profoundly dis
turb the thoughts and confound the
plans of these who have made them
selves believe that the democratic party
neither understood nor was ready to
assist the business of the country in
the great enterprises which 1t is its
evident and inevitable destiny to under
take and carry through. The break ing
up of the lobby must especially discon-
cert them. for il was through the lobby
that they sought and were sure they
had found the heart of things. The
game Of privilege can be played sue
cessfufly by no other means.
This record must equally astonish
those who feared that the democratic
party had not opened its heart to COM
prehend the demands of social justice
We have In four years come very near
to carrying out the platform of the
progressive party as well as our own
for we also are progressives.
There is one circumstance connected
with this program which ought to be
very plainly stated. 1t was resisted at
every step by the interests which the
republican party had catered to and fos-
tered at the expense of the country. and
these same interests are now earnestly
praying for a reaction which will save
their privileges-for the restoration of
their sworn friends to power before il
is too late to recover what they have
lost They fought with particular desper-
alton and infinite resourcefulness the
reform of the banking and currency sys-
tenn. knowing that to be the citadel OF
their control: and most anxiously are they
hoping and planning for the amendment
OF the federal reserve act by the concen-
tration of control in a single bank which
the old familiar group Of bankers can
keep under their eye and direction.
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Failure Ousted Republicans.

The republican party was put out of
power because of failure. practical fail
ure and moral failure; because it had
served special interests and not the
country at large; because, under the
leadership of its preferred and estab-
liShed guides. of those who still make
its choices. il 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 great
ness.
1T had framed tariff laws based upon
a fear OF foreign trade. a fundamental
doubt as to American skill, enterprise
and capacity. and 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 hampered
the very things they meant to foster.
which We're stiff and ineiastic. and in
part unintelligible. 1t had permitted
the country throughout the long period
Of its control to stagger from one fnan-
cial crisis to another under the opera
ton Of national banking law of its
own framing which made stringency
and panic certain and the control of the
larger business operations of the coun-
try by the bankers of a few reserve
centerS inevitable; had made as if il
meant TO reform the Law but had faint
HedfleulE ialiei IN the attempt, because
II could not bring itself to do the one
thing necessary TO make the reform
genuine and effectual, namely. break up
the control Of small groups of bankers.
II had been oblivious. or Indifferent
to the fact that the farmers upon
whom the country depends for its food
and IN the last analysis for its pros
perItS. We're without standing in the
matter Of commercial credit. without
the protection of standards in their
market transactions, and without sys-
tenauC knowledge Of the markets
themselves, that the Iaborers of the
country. the great army of men who
mao the industries IL was protesting to
father and promote. carried their labor
as mere commodity TO market were
subject TO restraint by novel and dras-
tic process in the courts, were without
assurance Of compensation for indus
trial accidents. without federal assist
an"e IN accommodating labor disputes
and without national aid or advice in
finding the places and the industries in
which their labor was most needed
The country had no national system Of
road construction and development
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Army and Navy Neglected.

Little intelligent attention was pa id
10 the army ana not enough TO the
navy The other republics of America
distruSt"i us. because they found that
We thought rrSt Of the profits of Amer
ican Investors and only as an after
though, Of impartial justice and help
iui friendship. Its policy was provin-
cial in all things; it's purposes were out
uf harmony with the temper and pur-
pose OF the people and the timely de-
Yelppment Of the nations interests
So things stood when the democra tic
party came IntO power. How do they
stand NOW? Alike in the domestic field
ana in the wide field of the commerce
oi tn" world. American business and
!tft aHd industry have been set free to
move a. they never moved before.
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Work for Business.

So much we have done for business.
What other party has understood the
task SO well or executed 1t so intelli-
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put 1T upon new footing or energy
and enterprise they have not sug-
gested.
Credit for the Farmer.
For the farmers of the country We
have virtually created commercial
credit. by means of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act. They now
have the standing Of other business
men in the money market. We have
futures" and established standards in
the marketing of grains. BY an intel
Hgent warehouse act we have assisted
10 make the standard crops available
as never before both for systematic
marketing and as a security for loans
from the banks. We have greatly
added to the work of neighborhood
demonstration on the farm itself of
improved methods of cultivation, and
through the intelligent extension of
the functions of the Department of
Agriculture. have made it possible for
the farmer to learn Systematically
where his best markets are and how
to get at them.
The workingmen of America have
been given veritable emancipation.
by the legal recognition of mans
labor as part of his life, and not mere
marketable commodity; by exempting
ie'coA oiedulLdliOHS from processes OIL
the courts which treated their mem
bers like fractional parts of mobs and
not like accessible and responsible in
d1viduals; by releasing our searhen
from involuntary servitude; by making
adequate provision for compensation
for industrial accidents; by providing
suitable machinery for mediation and
conciliation in industrial disputes; and
by putting the federal Department of
Labor at the disposal of the working
man when in search of work
We have effected the emancipation
OF the children of the country by re-
leasing them from hurtful labor We
have instituted a system of national
aid in the building of highroads such
as the country has been feeling after
for century. We have sought to
equa]iZe taxation by means of an
equitable income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been taken
at the outset to open up the resources
of Alaska. We have provided for ma
tional defense upon scale never be-
lore seriously proposed upon the re-
sponsibility of an entire political party.
We have driven the tariff lobby from
cover and obliged it to substitute solid
argument for private influence
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gently and energetically? What other
party has attempted it at all? The re-
publican leaders, apparently, know of
no means of assisting business but
protection" How to stimulate 1t and
put it upon a new footing of energy
and enterprise they have not sug-
gested.
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fit to live and work in: and then look
at our part in what is to follow and
our own duty of preparation. For we
must be prepared both in resources and
in policy
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