New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
ideals of Cox
Are Also Mine.
Says Roosevelt
Nominee Is Man Who Can
Lead Nation i'm March
of Progress, He Ayers
in Acceptance Speech
Calls League Necessary
e. 5. Will Become Hermit
Nation Without Foreign
Relations, He Declares

Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democratic
.nominee for Vice President, at the
notification ceremony at Hyde Park
yesterday, said:
Mr. Cummings and ladies and gen
tlemen of the committee:
accept the nomination for the Of.
IRE of Vice President with humbleness
ana with a deep wish to give to our
beloved country the best that is in me.
M ore could receive a higher privi-
sege or opportunity than 10 be thus as
ssciated with men and ideals which.
am confident, will soon receive the
support OF the majority of our citi-
zens.
In fact, | could not conscientiously
accept it if ! had not come to know by
the closest intimacy that he who is our
selection for the Presidency, and who
is my chief and yours, is man pos
sessed of ideals which are also mine.
He will give to America that kind of
leadership which VIII make us respect
him ard bring further greatness to
our land. In James NJ. Cox I recognize
ore who can lead this nation forward
in an unhaitlng march of progress.
Two great problems will confront
tae next Administration: our relations
with the world and the pressing need
tci organized progress at home. The
latter includes systematized and in
tensitied development of our resources
and a progressive betterment of our
citizenship. These matters will require
the guiding hand of q President who
can see his country above his party
and who, having a clear vision Of
things as they are, has also the inde-
pendence, 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 par
tsans who whisper party" or of self
ISL interests that murmer profits"
Alternatives Before Nation
In our world problems we must either
shut our eyes, sell our newly built mer-
chant marine to more farseeing for
eign powers, crush utterly by embargo
and harassing legislation our foreign
trade, close our ports and build an i'm
pregnable wall of costly armaments
and live, as the Orient used to live, a
HeiHlil u6t4Ol, dreaming OF lne past,
or We must open our eyes and see that
,modern civilization has become so
complex and the lives of civilized men
so interviewer with the lives of other
men in other countries as to make it
Impossible to be in this world and not of
j. We must see that it is impossible
u avoid, except by monastic seclusion
those honorable and intimate foreign
wations which the fearful hearted
snadderingly E.iscal by that devils
catchword, international complica-
sons.n
As for our home problem, we have
been awakened by this war into a
rtled realization of the archaic short
1omngs Of our governmental machinery
end OF the need for the kind of rear-
eanzation which only a clear thinking
business man, experienced in the tech
nlcalities of governmental procedure,
can carry out. Such a man we have. One
who has so successfully reformed the
business management of his own great
state is obviously capable of doing
greater things. This is no time to ex-
pertinent with men who believe that
their party can do no wrong and that
what is good for the selfish interests of
a political party is of necessity good for
the nation as we'll. I, as a citizen, be-
heve that this year we should choose as
President q proved executive. We need
to do things not to talk about them.
War Not Partisan Affair
Let us be definite. We have passed
through great war--an armed conflict
which called forth every effort on the
part Of the whole population The war
was won by Republicans as we'll as by
Democrats. Men of all parties served
IN our armed forces Men and women
O. all parties served the government at
nome They strived honestly as Amer
leans not as mere partisans. Repub-
means and Democrats alike worked in
administrative positions, raised Liberty
ioans' administered food control, toiled
III muntlon plants, built ships. The
war was brought TO a successful con-
V''sion by glorious common effort
OF winch IN the years to come will be a
A'. .onal pride. / feel very certain that
en- children will come to regard our
-fAcipatlon as memorable for the
.''ad honor and honesty which marked
H. or the absence of unfortuna te- scan
dsi and for the splendid unity Of action
valch extended to every portion of the
nation. 1t would, therefore, not only
.n sn1lNe little purpose but would conform
!" 70 our high standards if any person
should in the heat of political rivalry
seek to manufacture political advantage
l OF nationally conducted struggle.
nave seen things on too large a
S*,e TO listen in this day to trifes or
W believe IN the adequacy of trifling
Ideals Must Not Die
even as the nation entered the war
,Sn ,Sa an ideal, so it has emerged from
.l Ire war with the determination that
nre IDEAL shall not die 1t is idle to
Aa,esend that the war declaration of
iptil o. 1917, was n mere act of self
i~nse or that the object of our par
;.opauion was solely to defeat the mil
Naiy power of the central nations of