Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-10
ROOSEVELT IS EXHORT|VE
 FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Urged Ratification of
 Peace Treaty, Including League of Nations, in Speech of Acceptance-Homer s. Cummings Delivered the For. maj Address of Notification -Tammany Delegation of 500 Including 15O Women Was Present.

Hyde Park, N. Y, Aug 9-Before crowd of several thousand persons, who
 stood for nearly two hours under
 sweltering August sun, Franklin D.
 Roosevelt gave an address formally ac
 cepting the democratic nomination for vice president here today and urged rat if1cation of the peace treaty which to
 make it a real treaty for a real peace
 must include a League of Nations"
 'The League of Nations" he assert ed lis a practical solution of a practical situation It is no more perfect than our original constitution, which has been amended eighteen times and will soon,
 We hope. be amended the nineteenth, was perfect, It is not anti-national, 1t is ] anti-war
 Through it we may with nearly every
 other duly constituted government in the whole world throw our moral force and our potential power into the scale of
 peace. That such an object should be contrary to American policy is unthink-
 able but if there be any citizen who has honest fears that it may be perverted from it's plain intent so as to conflict with our established form of govern ment, it will be simple to declare to him and to other nations, that the con stitution of the United States is in every way supreme.
 Today We are offered a seat at the | table of the family of nations to the end that smaller peoples may = tr6ly | safe to work out their own destiny. We shall take that place. I say so because I have faith-faith that this nation has no selfish destiny; faith that our people are looking into the years beyond for better things and that they are not afraid to do their part"
 l Referring to domestic issues, MT. | PnOSaNalt of +aa +0 the illiterate, strengthening of the immi-
 grafton laws to exclude the physically and morally unfit. higher salaries to government employees, further protection
 of child life and women in industry and
 reorganization of governmental machin- cry.
 The ceremonies were held at Spring
 wood the Roosevelt ancestral estate, al l 3 this afternoon. Mr. Roosevelt spoke from the front veranda of his home
 which was gaily decorated with Ameri- can flags Homer S. Cummings, form
 CT chairman of the democratic national committee, who delivered the formal ad- i dress of notification and members of the notification committee and guests occu- pied seats near the speakers.
 l One of the unique features of the cele-
 bration was the presence of a Tammany delegation of 500, including 150 women 1 who arrived on special train from New York MT. Roosevelt's early politica
 successes are attributed by his friend!
 to his opposition to Tamnany but ap parently past differences were forgotteT today in the desire to present the united
 front in the coming campaign. l MT Roosevelt closely following his
 manuscript and was listened to with in l tense interest.
 MT. Roosevelt will go to New York
 early tomorrow for a final conference with national party leaders before be ginning his first campaign tour. He vii l leave New York late tomorrow after noon for Chicago, where he will make
 his opening speech in the Auditorium
 on Wednesday evening. From Chicago 1 he will go to the Pacific coast and back
 speaking in fifteen different states.