The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-09
ANOTHER
CANDIDATE
ACCEPTS
Franklin D. Roosevelt Agrees
to Run for Vice President
on Democratic
Ticket.
IA GREATER AMERICA
Peace Treaty and League Of Nations
Again Held Up as Important
Issue Of Cam
paigr.
GREATER AMERICA

rUnited Press Leased Wire Service
HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. "a
greater America" nationally and in
ternationally was the keynote Of the
speech here today of Franklin ID.
Roosevelt in accepting the democra-
tic nomination for vice president.
Realization Of added greatness for
America depends, Roosevelt said, on
the solving of two great problems by
the next national administration
l"our relations with the world and
the pressing need OF organized pro
gress at home.
, He declared Governor Coz Is pre-
ssrninensIy dnaiiflef, N spirit, training
land experience to meet and soive
these problems properly, "one who
Ican lead this nation forward in an
Iunhalting march Of progress"
In world problems. Roosevelt de-
iclared. 1--WE must either shut our eyes,
build an impregnable wall of arma-
ments and live a hermit nation, or
we must open our eyes and see that
modern civilization has become so
Icomplex as to make it impossible to
be in this world and not of it"
AS for home problems, he said, we
have been awakened by this war into
Ia startling realization Of the archaic
shortcomings 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 gov
ernmental procedure can carry ouf
We need to do things, not to talk about
them"
He appealed for fairness and
generosity in the campaign, declar-
+ ing that mas much as partisanship
was buried during the war, it should
mot now be revived in ancient bitter
ness.
(; The nominee asserted that the
nation knows that the war has been
lnnly half won until to the cry of the
French at yerdun, ''they shall not
/ So and OF the Americans in the
! Argonne. eve shall go through are
added the words at shall not occur
again."
To this end, he said, the demo
crats offer a peace treaty, which to
make it real treaty for real peace
must include the league Of nations.
! He urged that the American people
| he dealt with without vagueness,
idouble-dealing or equivocation" on
THE league issue, and added:
"The league will not die. An idea
does not die which meets the call Of
the hearts of our mothers.
| Peace, he said, cannot be declared
by congress as war is; he predicted
that soon the United States Will take
its seat in the league.
Turning to domestic questions, to
which he devoted much of his speech,
Roosevelt outlined as vital needs the
following:
"Bettering of citizenship. through
elimination of illiteracy and strength
Eening of immigration laws; Improve.
iment Of working conditions, especially
in congested centers: protection OF
child life and women in industry;
extension of communications to mike
rural life more attractive; develop
Iment of national resources; reform OF
government. by elimination of archaic
methods in congress and the ad
iministrative branches of the govern
ment. Better paw for government
temployes with higher standard oi
deficiency"