Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-09
ROOSEVELT JOINS
COX IN ACCEPTING
LEAGUE AS ISSUE,
"Not Anti-Nation, But
Anti War;" He De-
clares

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his formal
address today accepting the Demo
cratic vice-presidential nomination,
joined his chief, Governor Cox, In
accepting the Republican challenge
to make the League of Nations one
of the principal issues of the national
campaign He declared that two
great problems confront the next adj
INSTRUMENTATION with the
world, and the pressing needs OF
organized progress at home. he de-
clared "the League of Nations is a
practical solution of a practical sit
uation. 1t is not anti-nation; it is
anti-war."
Hyde Park, ordinarily sleepy
little Hudson river village, today be-
came the Democratic mecca of the
east when the rank and file of the
party began pouring into the town
at daybreak for the ceremonies at
which Roosevelt was officially notl-
fled of his nomination as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the vice-presl-
dency. A crowd of 10000 was pres
ent at Springwood, the Roosevelt
ancestral estate, where the ceremo-
nies began at o'clock.
The notification speech was made
by Homer D. Cummings, former
Democratic national chairl an.
Two Problems Faced
In accepting the nomination Mr..
Roosevelt said in part;
81 accept the nomination for the
office of Vice President with hum
bleness and with a deep wish to give
to orr beloved country the best that
is in me.
1.-TWO great problems will confront
the next administration; our rela-
tions with the world and the press
ing need of organized progress at
home. The latter includes systematic
ed and intensified development of
. our resources and a progressive bet
terment of our citizenship. These
matters will require the guiding hand
of a President who can see his coun-
try above his party, and who, having
a clear vision of things as they are,
has also the independence, 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
tisans who whisper Party or of
selfish interests that murmur Prof
it's
in our world problems we must
either shut our eyes, sell our newly
built merchant marine to more far
seeing foreign powers, crush utterly
bv embargo and harassing legisla-
tion our foreign trade, close our
ports and build an impregnable wall
of costly armaments and live. as the
Orient used to live, a hermit nation,
dreaming of the past; or, We must
omen 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 to make it
impossible to avoid except by monas-
tic seclusion those honorable and IN
innate foreign relations which the
fearful-hearted shudderingly miscall
by that Devils catchword, 'lnterna-
tional Complications
Awakened to Shortcomings
GAS for our home problem, we have
been awakened by this war into a
startled realization of the archaic
shortcomings of our governmental
machinery and of the need for the
kind of reorganization which only
a clear thinking business men, exper-
fenced in the technicalities of gov
ernment 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 experiment
with men who believe that their party
can do no wrong and that what is
good for the selfish interests of a po-
litical party is of necessity good for
the nation as well. l as citizen be-
lieve that this year we should choose
as president a proved executive. We
need to do thingfis; not to talk about
them Even as the nation
entered the war for an ideal
so it has emerged from the
war with the determination that
the ideal shall not die. 1t is idle
to pretend that the war declaration
of April 6, 1917, was a mere act of
self-defense, or that the object of our
participation was solely to defeat the
military power of the Central Ma
tions of Europe. We knew them as
nation, even as we know today
that success on land and sea
could be but half vic
tory. The other half is not
won yet. To the cry of the French
at Verdun: "They shall not pass;" the
cheer of our own men in the Argonne
eve shall go through, we must add
at shall not occur again" This is the
positive declaration of our own wills;
that the world shall be saved from
repetition of this crime. To this end
the Democratic party offer Treaty
of Peace, which, to make it 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 armis-
tice devised by cynical statesmen to