Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-09
Democratic Candidate For
Vice President Echoes
COx's Sentiments.
GETS WORD. HE HAS
BEEN NOMINATED
Chairman Cummings Makes
Notification Addrs'. at Roess..Ifs
Homo in Hyde Park--Aeceptance
Speech Devoted Largely to League
Of Nations lssue-Says America
Has Important Work in World.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Hyde Park, N. Y. Aug. s.-Ffank-
lin d. Roosevelt. in formal address
accepting the democratic vice presi-
Dental nomination at his home here
today. Joined with his chief. James Nj.
Cox, in accepting the challenge OF the
republicans to make the league of ma
tions one Of the principal Issues Of
the national campaign.
The democratic party, he said, has
offered to this nation q treaty of
peace which, to make it a real treaty
for real peace. must include q
league Of nations"
Today" he continued, we are of
fered seat at the table Of the family
of nations to the end that the smaller
peoples may be truly safe to work out
their own destiny. We will take that
place. say so. because we h..ve faith
faith that this nation has no selfish
destiny; faith that our people are
looking into the years beyond for bet
ter things. and that they are not
afraid to do their part.
Even as this nation entered the
war for an ideal. so 1t has emerged
from the war with the discrimination
that the ideal shall not die. It Is idle
to pretend that the war declaration
Of April s. 1917. was q mere act Of
self defense or what the object OF our
participation was solely to defeat the
military powers OF the central nations
Of Europe. We knew then aSsa ma
tion, even as we know today. that
success on land and - could be but
shalf q victory. 80 the cry oesthc
French at Verdun. ''They shall not
pass and the cheer OF our men In
the Argonne: We shall go thru.
must add this positive declaration OF
iour own wills: that the world shall
be saved from the repetition Of this
crime.
Secs Two Great Problems
.The league OF nations is a prac-
tical solution of practical situa-
tion. It is no more perfect than the
original constitution which has been
amended eighteen times and will soon,
! we hope, be amended the nineteenth
was perfect. It is not anti-nation:
it is anti-war."
Two great problems, he declared
will confront the next administration
our relations with the world and the
pressing need Of organized progress
at home. Among the most pressing
OF national needs he placed ''the bet
terfng Of our citizenship. the exteU-
sion Of teaching to our 5000, 900 OF
our population above the age Of 10
who are illiterate the strengthening
OF immigration laws to exclude the
physically and morally unfit, the Inn
proyement in working conditions, es-
pecially In the congested, centers, the
extension of communications to make
rural life more attractive and the
further protection Of women and
child life In industry"
Reorganization Of governmental
machinery which, he said, has be-
come antiquated. especially since the
war, also was urged by Mr.. Roose-
welt.
l sEs nVo0oN0lS1 S%CC9ptdV0Os
In part Mr.. Roosevelt said:
| Two great problems will confront
the next administration; our relations
with the world and the pressing need
Of organized progress at home, The
latter includes a systematized and I'M
tensifled development Of our resourc.
es and progressive betterment Of
our citizenship. These matters will
require the guiding hand Of a pres
ident Yho can see his country above
his party. and who. having a clear
vision of things as they are, has also
the independence. courage and skin
to guide us along the road to things
as they should be without swerving
one footstep at the dictation Of mar
row partisans who whisper party or
OF selfish interests that murmur
! profits
Tn our world problems we must
either shut our eyes, sell our newly
built merchant marine to more far
seeing foreign powers, crush utter
ly by embargo and harassing legisia-
ton our foreign trade, close our ports
and build an impregnable wall of
costly araments and live,, as the
Orient used to live, hermit nation,
dreaming of the past; or, we must
open our eyes and see that modern
civilization has become 50 complex
and the lives Of civilized men SO in
terwoven with the lives Of other men
in other countries to make it impos-
sible to be in this world and not of
it. We must see that 1t Is impossible
to avoid except by monastic seclu-
sion those honorable and intimate
foreign relations which the fearful
hearted shudderingly miscall by that
devils catchword, international
complications"
"As 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 man, ex-
perienced in the technicalities Of
governmental procedure can carry
out. Such 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 10 no time