The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-10
Franklin RooseueLt Officially
 Notified Of His Nomination

election for the presidency, and who Is ny chief and yours, is man possessed [ ideals which are also mine. He will i've to America that kind of leadership which will make us respect him and ring further greatness to our land. In ames M. Cox I recognize one who can -ad this nation forward in an unhalt- 1g march of progress.
 Two great problems will confront the ext administration; our relations with he world and the pressing need of or ,anized progress at home. The latter includes a systematized and intensified of our resources and a pro- .ressive betterment of our citizenship These matters will require the guiding and of a President who can see his country above his party, and who, hav- ng a clear vision of things as they are, las also the independence, courage and kill to guide us along the road tc hings as they should be without swerv- ng one footstep at the dictation of nar- ow partisans who whisper party" or ,f selfish interests that murmur prof ts."
 "In our world problems we must
 either shut our eyes, sell our newly
 built merchant marine to more far
 seeing foreign powers, crush ut
 teriy by embargo and harassinE
 legislation our foreign trade, close
 our ports and build m impreEnabie
 wall of costly armaments and live.
 as the orient used to live. a hermit
 nation. dreaming of the past;s or,
 we must open our eyes and see
 that modern civilization has be-
 come complex and the lives of
 civilized men so interwoven with
 the lives of other men in other
 countries as to make 1t impossible
 to be in this world and not of it.
 We must see that it is impossible
 to avoid except by monastic sc-
 clusiOn those honorable and inti-
 mate foreign relntiorS which the
 fearfuI-hearted shHdderingly mis-
 call by that devils catchword, In-
 ternntional complications.'
 As for our home problem, we hav been awakened by this war into startled realization, of the archai shortcomings of our governments and of the need for the kint of reorganization which only a clea business man, experienced il the technicalities of governmental pro cedure. can carry out. Such man W have.
 One who has so successfully re formed the business management his own great state is obviously capa ble of doing greater things.
 CANNOT EXPERIMENT
 This is no time to experiment witt men who believe that their party cal 10 no wrong. and that what is goo' Tor the selfish interests of a politica party is of necessity good for the na ion as well. l as citizen believ hat this year we should choose President a proved executive. We nee' 10 do things; not to talk about them.
 Much has been said of late abou good Americanism. It is right that~f should have been said, and it is righ that every chance should be seized t repeat the basic truths underlying ou proserity and our national existence 1t self. But it would be an unusual an much -to- be- wished for thing if in tn presentation of the issues ney note of fairness and generosity coul be struck. Littleness, meanness, false hood, extreme partisanship-these ar not in accord with American spirit. like to think that in this respect als we are moving forward.
 Let us be definite. We have passe through a great war-an armed con flict which called forth every effort O the part of the whole population. Tn war was won by republicans as we'll a by democrats. Men of all partie served in our armed forces. Men an women of all parties served the gov ernment at home. They strived honest ly as Americans. not as mere parti sans Republicans and democrats alik worked in administrative position, raised Liberty loans, administered foo control, toiled in intuition plants, bull ships. The war was brought to, d sue cessful conclusion by a glorious com mon effort-one which in the years t come will be a national pride. l fee very certain that our children will com to regard our participation as mem orable for the broad honor and honest which marked it, for the absence o scandal, and for the splen did unity of action which extended t every portion of the nation. It would therefore, not only serve little purpose but wo-d conform i'll to our hig standards if any person should in tn heat of political rivalry seek to manu facture political advantage out of 8 na conducted struggle. We hay seen things on too large a scale { listen in this day to trifles or to be lieve in the adequacy of trifling meI
 MORE THAN POLITICS
 Tt is that same vision of the big ger outlook of national and ind,vidue life which will. I am sure, lead us demand that the men who represent Il in the affairs of our government shal he more than politicians or the erran boys of politicians---that they shall su bordinate always the individual ambi tion and the party advantage to tn good. In the long run the tru statesman and the honestly forward looking party will prevail
 s'Even as the nation entered the
 war for an ideal, so it has emerged
 from the war with determinn ton
 that the ideal shall not die. It h
 idle to pretend that the war dec-
 Iaration of April & 1917, was an
 act of sch-defense. or that the ob-
 ject of our participation was sole
 Iy to defeat the military power of
 the central nations of Europe. We
 knew then as . nation. even as we
 know today, that success on lana