Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-29
Wilson Day at Shadow Lawn
Is Featured By Presidents
Speech On The Party's Duty

by provincials but must be played by
citizens of the great world of nations.
And yet we had not altered our policy
or our point of view. The great Euro
pean war has served at least to show
us this one thing, that the world itself
had changed; that it had become at
once too big world and too little a
world to submit its destinies to the
hostile riyalries and ambitions now
OF this and again of that member of the
great family of men; too compact, too
intimate in its contracts, too universal
in it's ways of intercourse, to make it
ally longer possible to limit the effects
of any nations action to single, sep
arate sphere where the rest would be
Untouched. An inevitable partnership
of interests has been thrust upon the
nations. They are neighbors and must
accommodate their interests to one
another, or else disturb the lives and
e1nbarass the fortunes of men every
where. No wonder that in such an age
men in America should be cried awake
and feel once more, as they felt them
in the ways when their great republic
was set up, the compulsions of human
ity and of justice
These are the freshening winds
blowing out of the life of mankind ev
.erywhere, that have brought on a new
day in American politics. We have
looked once more very critically at our
own laws and our own practices have
set about to square them with the ac>
tual conditions of our life and the life
Of the world.
Only One Party.
Four years ago there were two par
ties in the field whose programme was
conceived under the influence of these
great forces of progress and adjust
ment, the Democratic party and the
Progressive party. This year there is
but one, the Democratic party In the
presidential election of four years ago
some fifteen million votes we're cast
OF these, nearly ten and half millions
were cast for the candidates of the two
progressive parties, only three and a
half millions for the candidate of the
Republican party, the party which ling
cred in the old days and felt none OF
the new impulse of new day. More
than two-thirds of the voters of the
United States favored then, and favor
now, a programme whose object is to
serve the changing needs of humanity
and progress.
The Democratic party was entrusted
with the task These powerful forces
of the new age put onder it's direction.
And under that direction what have
they accomplished? They have put
both the business and the life of the
country upon a new footing. They have
released the financial credit, upon
which commerce and production alike
from the control of small groups of
financiers and bankers at the specula-
tive centers They have released the
commerce and industry of the country
from the domination of those who were
hui1dinp nm their nDWeT nv selfish and
unfair methods of competition They
have supplied those who wished to con-
dict their business in conformity with
the spirit of the laws with friendly
guidance and delivered them from a
nervous fear of the courts. They have
released our foreign trade from the
shackles of tariff contrived in the
interest of special groups of favored