The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-15
MARSHALL UPHOLDS
HANDS OF WILSON
IN HIS ACCEPTANCE
Vice President Says Chief
Executive Has Walked il
No Blazed Pathway
IS During Term

& &, Annapolis, September l4-Thomas r.
- shall formally accepted the demo-
; tic denomination for the vice pres
= ency here tonight. not for additional
lonor he said. but in the hope that /
may assist in the reelection of Woodrow
Wilson, who has not walked where the
path has led, but who has walked where
there was no path and who has left a
trail"
In a speech of acceptance phrased in
characteristic vein, the Vice President
sketched briefly the legislative achieve
ments of the administration, in which
he said he had been IAN onooker,'' and
eulogized the President as the man who
brooded over the republic In storm tossed
times and by mere words spoke peace on
the troubled seas of international psli-
ties" A changed administration, he de-
clared, would not dare repeal a single
one of the important measures put on
the statute books since March A. 1913
Wanting an issue, he continued, the re-
publicans had turned to foreign affairs,
coming such phrases as firm Amer
icanism," which they could not define.
PEOPLE MAKE ISSUE
THE American people this year have
made their own ISSUE" said Mr.. Mar
shall. Those that the parties present
sue of this campaign is that thought
which goes with the father to his work
or business, which engrosses every
mother, wife or sweetheart, which sits
down with them at 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
as to maintain honorable peace?'
The one bright, peaceful spot under
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 shrapnel. If America
is to- lead the world toward that now
seemingly far distant goal where brute
conscience in letters which it can never
again break, then these are the hours
for mere words
REFERS 70 ROOSEVELT
The Vice President made caustic ref
ereDce to the refusal of Theodore Roose-
tial denomination, declaring the former
President, was a leader who promised
he would lead at Arma geddon, but who,
alas! deserted at Bull Moose Rum and
now had turned his back on the Holy
Land He predicted that the issue put
forward by the republicans would not
be accepted as such by the people in the
present abnormal year, adding: You
cannot interest bridegroom in the tar
if nor a widow in the coffin trust"
large number of prominent democrats
from all over the United States were
present at the notification. Informal
political conferences were held by the
leaders, and plans for the campaign were
discussed thoroughly. Reports of what
had been done in Indiana were made to
National Chairman Vance Mccormick.
Martin H. Glynn, former governor of
New York. delivered the speech of notifi-
cation, after having been introduced by
]. A. M. Adair, candidate for governor
of Indiana, chairman of the ceremonies.
All the speakers praised the present
democratic administration, replied to the
republican attacks which had been made
on it and expressed confidence of a
democratic victory.
A big parade preceded the ceremonies.
Mr.. Marshall spoke as follows:
Mr. Chairman and Members of the No
tification Committee:
Ladies and Gentlemen-The years
which have spent in the United States
Senate have taught me at least hu-
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