Republican farmer., 1920-08-13
TO TAKE PLACE IN
 LEAGUE
Franklin D. Roosevelt So Says in His Speech of Acceptance Reply to the Addressing of Notification by Homer s. Cummings at Hyde Park Today-League of Nations the issue.


 Hyde Park, N. r., Aug. 9-Hyde Park, ordinarily a sleepy, picturesque Hudson valley village, awoke today to find itself the Democratic mecca of the East with the rank and file of the party unable to find hotel accommo- dattons either here or in Poughkeep- sic pouring into the town at daybreak to attend the notification ceremonies of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 Like the notification ceremonies of the three other major candidates there was an "old home week" atmos- phere about the days festivities.
 Mir. Roosevelt, who arrived here last evening from Dayton. arose early to assist in preparations to receive crowd of 10000 persons expected at Springwood, the Roosevelt ancestral estate, where the ceremonies are to be held. They are not scheduled to start until o'clock this afternoon.
 There was no mistaking the fact that this was Frank Roosevelts 8 Day." Pictures of the candidate and his chief were posted conspicuously about the town. while flags and bunt- ing gave a holiday atmosphere to the main streets. Former navy men re- gardless of political aff1liation, turned out in full force as did the local lodges of Masons. Odd Fellows and the Grange, to which Mir. Roosevelt belongs. Weather conditions were ideal.
 A pretty natural setting has been provided for the exercises.
 The Roosevelt home stands on a. broad terrace several hundred feet above the Hudson and is flanked by spacious lawns and beautiful trees. MT. Roose- welt will speak from the front yer anda. The official notification com nittee headed by Homer s. Cummings will occupy seats on the veranda and on the lawn directly in front of it and the rest of the audience will stand be- hind them.
 The program was not expected to take more than an hour. It will be- gin with the singing of the national anthem, followed by the invocation by the Rev. Edward P. Newton, pas tor of St. James Episcopal church, which the Roosevelt family attends. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., chairman of the local committee on arrangements, will then introduce George White. Democratic National Chairman, who in turn will present MT. Cummings. Mir. Roosevelt responding to MT. Cum migs' address. will then deliver his formal spech of acceptance. The ex- ercises will close with benediction by the Rev, David P. Morley, pastor of the Regina Coeli Catholic church here, and the singing of America
 Mir Roosevelt leaves Tuesday morn ing for Chicago where he will open his first campaign tour on Wednes- day evening" The tour which will last three weeks will take him to the Pacific coast and back with addresses scheduled in 15 different states in II working days. Tr=rtr
 In his speech of notification Homer S. Cummings said:
 MT Roosevelt: There has growrMp iu national politics the delightful and informative custom of notifying candi- dates for President and Vice Presi- dent of their respective nominations through the formal action of commit tees appointed for that purpose. The Democratic National Convention which was recently in session at Sar Francisco. unanimously selected you as the Democratic candidate for Vice President and designated the commit tee which you see before you, to con vey to you officially the tidings of tht nomination and the desire of the con vention that you should accept 1t. Thl' action, therefore, affords the Democ racy of the Nation an opportunity tt express the satisfaction which it feel in the result of its diliberations ant the high respect and personal affec ton in which you are held by Demo crats everywhere.
 ''I cannot refrain from commen1nl upon the differences, so easily notice able, which characterized the delioer ations of the two major national con ventions. The Chicago platform wa the result of series of carefully cal culatcd (compromises. Humidity an cunning are its essential characters tics. It offers no remedy for the eNll of which 1t complains and it seems t be the product of men who have i've for many years in the blind stupor O moral negation. Following the adop tion of such a platform, those who ha taken charge of the work of the con .ention proceeded to the business c nominations. Here again the proces of compromise was adopted, compl1 cated as 1t was by charges and cour ter-charges of an embarrassing char acter relative to the improper and eS cessive use of pre-convention campals funds The candidate ultimately che sen was not in fact the choice of an considerable number of the delegate Every candidate before the ccnver ton who had shown any evidence ( popular support was rejected b methods well understood by the ir itiated: and the choice ultimately fe on one who, in the prophetic languae of his present campaign manager, ws elected as result of a conferent held in the early hours of the morr ing by weary men around a table in Chicago hotel It cannot for a mt nene oe sunOosed that a I1ominatio erscrz- I--oer sucn clrcumstance could evoke any popular respons and, indeed. 1t failed to create ar enthusiasm even in the register1r convention itself.
 '.The proceedings at San Francis were of another sort. Every deba able question was settled upon Il open floor of the convention; evel group had O full hearing; every righ ful interest was faithfully presente The platform, expressive of the be thought of America and earne purpose to retrieve the world leade ship which our country has lost, W adopted amid great enthusiasm; al tho selection of candida tes for Pre- ident and Vice President went fo