New Britain herald., 1920-08-09
c. O. P. PARTY OF DEST RUCWVE CRITICISM
 SAYS CUMMINGS IN NOTIFICATION SPEECH
Candidate Pays Gracious Compliment to Party's Choice For Presidential Election.

Hyde Park. N. Y., Aug. 9.-Frank- lin D. Roosevelt. formally notified of his nomination for vice-president of the United States on the democratic ticket by Homer $. Cummings this afternoon. responded with speech that toemed with enthusiasm for de- mocracy and which stoutly defended the peace and League of Nations off, ferod by that party. Speaking Of the league, Mir. Roosevelt declared 1t will not die because 1t Is anti-war and not nnti-national as charged. Mir. Rooscvelts speech of acceptance fol- lows in part:
 . Accepts the Nomination.
 "I accept the nomination for the office of vice president with humble ness and with a deep wish to give to our beloved country the best that is in me- No one could receive a higher privilege or opportunity than to be thus associated with men and ideals which 1 am confident will soon receive the support of the majority of our citizens.
 "In fact. I could not conscientious iy accept it. if I had not come to know by the closest intimacy that he who is our selection for the presi- dency. and who Is my chief and yours.
 
 arc also mine. Hc will give to Ann erica that kind of leadership which . will make us respect him and bring further greatness to our land. In James M. Cox I recognize one who can lead this nation forward in an unhaltinE march of progress.
 Two Great Problems.
 Two great probiems will confront the next administration: our relations with tho world and the pressing need of organized progress at home.
 Tn our world problems we must either shut our eyes, sell our newly built merchant marine to more far seeing foreign powers. crush utterly by embargo and harasaing legislation 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, dream ing of the past: or. we must open our eyes and soc that modern civilization has become SO complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other coun- tries to make it possible to be in this world and not of 1t.
 Both Parties Aided.
 Let us be definite. We have passed through great war-stn armed con- fiict which called forth every effort ton the part of the whole population. The war was won by republicans as we'll as by democrats. Men or all parties served in our armed forces. Mon and women of all parties served the government at home. They strived honestly as Americans. not as mere partisans. Republicans and demo- rrats alike worked in administrative n1 1ninistcred food control. toiied in rnunition plants. built ships. The war was brought to a successful con- elusion by n glorious common effort ---one which in the years to come will he a national pride.
 Even as the nation entered the war Tor an Ideal so it has emerged from the war with tho determination that the ideal shall not die. H is idle to pretend that the war declaration of April, Ia17. was mere act of self defense, or that tho object of our participation was solely to defeat the military power of the central nations of Europe. we knew them as n na- lion. even ns we know today, that succcar on land and sea could be but half victory. The other half is not won vet To tho cry of tho French at verdun: They shall not pass; the cheer Of our own me in the Argonne: we shall go through"-we must add this. "It shall not occur again. This Is the positive declaration of our own wills: that the world shall be saved from a repetition of this crime.
 Endorses League of Nations.
 To this end the democratic party offers a treaty of peace. which, to mako 1t a real treaty for real peace must include n League of Nations; because this peace treaty. if our best and bravest arc not to have died in vain. must be no thinly disguised srmistice devised by cynical states men to mask their preparations for d renewal of Rrecd-inspircd conquests later on. Pence must mean peace that will last. A practical, workable. permanent. enforcible kind Of a peace that will hold as tightly as the bus