The log cabin Democrat., 1920-08-09
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 ISSUE AGREED
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(By United Press ]

Tor wee president, was today notified ot his nomination, the notification speech being made at the Roosevelt residence by Homer S. Cummings of Connecticut, former chairman of the Democratic national committee. Mr. Roosevelt responded with an address.
 Accepting, as did Governor Cox, the eague of nations as the principal is sue of the campaign, Mr. Roosevelt devoted the bigger part of his address 1 to international issues. "Two great problems will confront the next ad- ministration," said MT. Roosevelt, "our relations with the world and the pressing need of organized progress at home. The latter includes a sys- tematized and intensified development Of our resources and progressive bet terment of our citizenship X. In our world problems, we must either shut our eyes, sell our newly built merchant marine to more farseeing powers, crush utterly by embargo and harrassing legislation our foreign trade, close our ports, build an inn pregnable wall of armaments and live, as the Orient used to live, hermit nation, dreaming of the past; or, we must open our eyes and see that mod ern civilization has become so com plex and the lives of civilized men so 1 lnterwoven with the lives of other men III other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and not be of it. We must see that it is inn possible to avoid except by monastic seclusion these honorable and int- mate foreign relations which the fear ful hearted miscall by that devils catchword, International complca. tions'"
 Success of American arms on land and sea was but half victory, MT. Roosevelt declared "The other half is yet to be won,' he said To the cry of the French at Verdun, They shall not pass;' the cheer of our own men in the Argonne, We shall go through, we must add this, It shall not occur again This is the positive declaration of our wills, that the world shall be saved from a repetition of this crime"
 Republicans by proposing to estab- fish peace by congressional resolution have offered an insult to the nation, the nominee said. War may be de- clared. but peace can not" MT Roose- welt said. Ut must be established by mutual consent of the minds of the parties in interest. From the prac- tical point of view alone, peace by resolution is unworkable From the view of millions of splendid Ameri- cans who served in that whirlwind of war and of those other millions at home who saw part of the conflict, the splendid hope of days of peace for future generations, peace by res oution of congress is an insult and a denial of our national purpose"
 Praising the Democratic platform as "a solemn pledge that, given the authority, our party will accomplish clear aims, Mir. Roosevelt enumerated the present national problems as the extension of teaching to over 5,000,- 900 of our population above the age of ten who are illiterate, the strength ening of our immigration laws to ex- clude the physically and morally un- fit, the improvement of working con- ditions especially in the congested centers, the extension of communica- tion to make rural life more attrac- 1 II life and of women in industry" On all of these problems, the nominee declared that Democratic platform isl clear and specific and offers a pro- gram of constructive effort. He also advocated the placing of government 1 department on a common sense' basis to eliminate waste and friction
 "To this future I dedicate myself ] MT. Roosevelt said, willing whatever may be the choice of the people to continue as best l am able. It is the faith which is in me that makes me very certain that America will choose the path of progress and set aside the doctrines of despair, the whispering of cowadice, the narrow road to yesterday. May the guiding spirit of our land keep our feet on the broad road that leads to better tomorrow and give us the strength to carry on.
 MT. Cummings assailed the Repub- lican party as composed of men ''who have lived for many years in the blind stupor of moral negation." Its plat form was "the result of a series of carefully calculated compromises he said, with timidity and cunning as it's chief characteristics. Finally, it's