The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-08-09
By wM. K. HUTcHINsoN

HYDE PARK, n. r Aug "a bat
tie call to the democracy or American
70 rally around the covenant of the
league Of nations was souneded here
today by Franklin D. Roosevelt. for
mer assistant secretary Of the navy.
when he formally accepted the vice
presidential nomination from the DEM
ocratic party. Describing the America
Of the future as a hermit nation" II
she rejects the world covenant. he de-
clared that ratification alone could full
I'll the ideals held by this nation when
she entered the world war.
CUMMINGS BRANDS G. D. p
Thousands ri visitors thronged the
Roosevelt home town for the ceremor-
les attending his notification Th4
townspeople had decorated their homes
and streets in holiday garb and work
was at a standstiH
Homer s. Cummings. in his formal
notification address branded the re-
publicans since 1912 as party Of de-
structive criticism with a purpose Of
population and retreat while the
democratic party in the same period
was winning for America the homage
Of the world. Describing the repub-
lican platform as a product Of timdty
and cunning BY men who have lived
moral negation.' he declared the demo-
cratic platform was means of win
ming back the worlds respect for Am
erica and an instrument of construc-
tive progress in domestic problems
Y. IS GREATEST PROBLEMS
Roosevelt. il his reply declared Am
erica must either accept the world
covenant or else build al impregnable
wall of armanents and live a hermit
nation dreaming of the past
Foreign relations and organized
progress al homo. lie said. we're Am
eriea's two greatest problems today
/ The covenant would dispose Of the
first while democratic alninistrati9 n
under the kind Of leadership represent
ed by James NJ cox the dernocratic
presidential nominee. would solve tns
other. Roosevelt declared
TALKS or COMMON SENSE
He laid great stress on d "comlnon
sense government. and business ad-
ministratfon. declaring Gov. C0xs .'cu-
bernatorial achievements eminentIy
ted him for the nations chief magis-
tracy. He attacked incompetence.
house Of congress. lie also declared
the departments IN the governments
administrative branch would have to
be re-organized.
Mr. Roosevelt spoke in part. as fol-
lows:
Il accept the nomination for the or
fee Of vice-president with humbIeness
and with deep wish to give to our
beloved country the best that is in me.
Il could not conscientiously accept
il if | had not come TO know BY the
closest intimacy that he who is our
selection for the presidency i a man
possessed Of ideals which are also
mine. In James NJ. Cox l recognize
one who can lead this nation forward
IN an unhalting march of progress
Two great problems Will confront
the next administration: Our relation
with the world and the pressing need
Of organized progress at home
The latter includes systematized
and intensified development OF our re-
sources and progressive betterlnent
of our citizenship.
In our world problems. we must
either shut our eyes. sell our newly
built merchant marine to more far
seeing foreign mowers. crush utterly
BY embargo an6 harassing legislation
our foreign trade. close our ports
build an impr4gnable wall Of costly
armaments and I've as the orient US
cd t. life, a hermit nation dreaming
of the past. or We must open our eyes
and see that modern civilization has
become So complex so as 10 make II
possible to be in this world and not OF
il. We must see that it is impossible
to avoid except By monastic seclusion.
the honorable and intimate foreign re-
lations which the fearful-hearted
shudderly miscall by that, devils catch
word. international complications
As for our home problem we have
been awakened by this war into
startled realization Of the archaic
short comings Of our governmental
machinery and Of the need for the
kind Of Organization which only a
clear thinking business man can carry
out
Even as the nation entered the war
for an ideal. 50 it has emerged from
the war with the determination that
ideal shall not die. To the cry of the
French at Nerdun. They shall not
pass the cheer Of our own men in the
Argonne: We shall go through.
must add this It shall not occur
again"
This is the positive declaration n
our own wills. that the wcrld shall he
saved from a repetition OF this crime.
TO this end the democratic party
offers treaty Of peace. which to make
a real treaty for a real peace must in
clude a league Of nations, because this
peace treaty If our best and bravest
are not to have died in vain. must be
no thinly disguised armistice devised
BY cynical statesmen to mask their
preparations for a renewal or greed
inspired conquests later on
"The league Of nations is a practical
solution Of practical situation. II
is no more perfect than our original
constitution. which has been amended
eighteen times. and Will soon, we hops
be amended the nineteenth, was per
feet 1t is not anti-national it is anti
war
From the practical point Of view
alone a peace by resolution Of con-