East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-08-09
Nomination for Vice Presidency
is Accepted in Speech at
Hyde Park Today Dealing
With Looming Difficulties.
WORLD RELATIONS AND
HOME PROGRESS CITED
Nominee Declares America
Must Shut Eyes and Live as
Hermit Nation if She Will
Not Face Complexities.

WOl dCc OVitipiCAitlcS.
HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. ga
P.)-Franklin d. Roosevelt today ac-
cepted the democratic nomination for
the vice presidency. The address no.
tifying Mr.. Roosevelt of his nomina-
tion was mahe by Homer S. Cum
| mings.
In his acceptance speech Mr.. Roose-
/ welt said in part:
Two great problems will confront
the next administration: our relations
with the world and the pressing need
of organized progress at home. The
latter includes a systematized and in
tensified development of our resourc-
es and progressive betterment of our
citizenship. These matters will re-
quire the guiding hand of a president
who can see his country above his
party. and who, having a clear vision
of things as they are, has also the in
dependence, courage and skill to guide
us along the road to things as they
should be without swerving one FOOT
step at the dictation of narrow parti-
sans who whisper party or of sell
fish interests that murmur profits"
III our WOflu pIObitHlS We IluSA
either shut our eyes, sell our newly
built merchant marine to more far
seeing foreign powers. crush utterly
by embargo and harassing legislation
our foreign trade, close our ports and
build an impregnable wall of costly
armaments and live. as the Orient
used to ike a hermit nation, dream
ing of-the past; or, we must open our |
eyes and see that modern civilization i
has become so complex and the lives |
of civilized men so interviewer with |
the lives of other men in other coun-
tries to make il impossible to be in |
this world and not of it. We must |
see that it is impossible to avoid ex-
cept by monastic seclusion those hon
orable and intimate foreign relations
which the fearful hearted shudder-
ingly miscall by that Devils catch |
word international complications"
"As for our home problem, we have
been awakened by this war into a I
startled realization of the archaic
of our governmental |.
machinery and of the need for the /
kind of reorganization which only
clear thinking business man, expert
enced in the technicalities of govern
mental procedure can carry out. Such
reformed the business
of his own great state is
obviously capable of doing greater
things This is no time to experiment
with men who believe that their party
can do no wrong and that what is
good for the selfish interests of a po-
itical party is of necessity good for
The nation as well. l as a citizen be-
ieve that this year we should choose
rs president a proved executive. We
need to do things; not to talk about
hem.
Much has been said of late about
good Americanism. 1t is right that it
should have been said. and it is right
hat every chance should be siezed, to
'epeat the basic truths underlying our
and our national existence
tself But it would be an unusual
ind much to be wished for thing if in
he coming presentation of the issues
/ new note of fairness and generosity
,ould be struck. Littleness, mean
ness, falsehood extreme partisanship
these are not in accord with Am
sricap spirit. like to think that in
his respect also we are moving for
ward.
Let us be definite. We have passed
through a great war-an armed con-
'lict which called forth every effort I
on the part of the whole population.
rhe war was won by republicans as
well as by democrats. Men of all l
parties served in our armed forces.
Men and women of all parties served
the government at home. They
strived honestly as Americans. not as
mere partisans. Republicans and
alike worked in admins
trative positions, raised Liberty
Loans, administered food control
toiled in munition plants, built ships
The war was brought to a successful
by glorious common ef-
fort-one which in the years to come
will be national pride. l feel very
certain that our children Will come
to regard our participation as memor-
able for the broad honor and honesty
which marked it, for the absence of
scandal, and for the
splendid unity of action which extend
ed to every position of the nation. 1t
would. therefore. not only serve little
purpose. but would conform in to our
high standards IL any person should
in the heat of political rivalry seek
to manufacture political advantage
out of a nationally conducted strug-
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