The Washington times., 1920-08-09
|NDORSE LEAGUE,
. CRIES ROOSEVELT
U. S. Must Ratify or Be "Her.
nit" Says Nominee at
Notification.
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while a Democratic administration
under the kind of leadership repre-
cented by James NJ. Cox, the Demo-
; cratic Presidential nominee, would
solve the other. Roosevelt declared.
- He laid great stress on a com
mon sense government" and "busi-
; ness administration" declaring Gov
ernor Cox's gubernatorial achieve
ments eminently fitted him for the
nations chief magistracy. He at
tackled Incompetence" and anti
[ quated" machinery in the houses OF
Congress- He also declared the de-
partments in the Governments ad'
mini strative branch would have to
| be reorganized.
Roosevelt spoke in part as follows'
"I accept the nomination for the
office Of Vice President with hum
bleness and with a deep wish to give
Bto our beloved country the best that
is in me.
PRAISES COX AS LEADER.
I could not conscientiously accept
1T IL had not come to know by the
closest intimacy that he who Is our
selection for the Presidency is q man
possessed of ideals which are also
mine. In James NJ. Cox I recognize
one who can lead this nation forward
in an unhalting march OF progress.
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 sys-
tematized and intensified development
of our resources and . progressive
betterment Of our citiztnship.
I'm our world problems. we must
either shut our eyes, sell our newly
built merchant marine to more 1ar
seeing foreign powers, crush utterly
by embargo and harassing legislation
our foreign trade. close our porIs,
build an impregnable wall OF costly
armaments and live, as the Orient USED
to 1--we, a hermit nation, dreaming OF
the past; or, We must open our eyes
and SEQ that modern civilization has
become 80 complex as to make 1t I'M
possible to be in this world and not
Of it We must see that it Is impos-
'sible to avoid except by monastic Sc
Icfusion those honorable and intimate
foreign relations which the fearful
hearted shudderingly miscall by that
devils catchword international COM
piicationA'
RAPS GOVERNMENT MACHINERY.
~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 can
carry out.
"Even as the nation entered the
Ad
from the war with the determination
that the ideal shall not die.
ITO the cry Of the French at Ver-
dun, They shall not pass the cheer
OF our own men in the Argonne, we
shall go throughr, we must add this:
Tt shall not occur again
''rhis Is the positive declaration of
our own wills: that the world shall
be saved from a repetition OF this
crime
"To this end the Democratic party
offers a treaty Of peace, which, to
make 1t a real treaty for a real
peace, must include league of ma
tions; because this peace treaty. II
our best and bravest are not to have
died in vain, must be no thinly dis
guised armistice devised by cynical
statesmen to mask their preparations
for a renewal Of greed-inspired con-
quests later on. The League Of Ma
tions is practical solution of a
practical situation. 1t is no more per-
feet than our original Constitution,
which has been amended eighteen
times, and will soon, we hone. be
amended the nineteenth, was perfect.
1t is not anti-national-it is anti
war.
From the practical point of view