The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-07-02
Roosevelt
Spoke Before
$4,000 Folk
Accepted Nomination AS De-
mOcratic Candidate
Hurled Challenge
GIVEN HUGE OVATION
Outlined New Deal Detectives
Following Close of 1886
Convention
GIVEN HUGE OVATION

President Roosevelt delivered his
acceptance speech to $4,000 per-
sons in the sports bowl at Philadel-
pbia Saturday night. This great
spectacle, reversal to the old time
political rallies, closed the Demo-
cratic convention and opened the
campaign with challenge to
special privilege.
The Democrats in five days of
speech making and parading NOM
mated Roosevelt and Garner by
reclamation and ratified the New
Deal. The President was given a
rousing ovation preceding his
speech, which was as follows:
Senator Robinson, member of
the Democratic convention, my
friends:
I'VE meet at time of great mo-
ment to the future of the nation.
1t is an occasion to be dedicated to
the simple and sincere expression
OF an attitude toward problems,
the determination of which will
profoundly affect America
II come not only as the leader Of
a party-not only as a candidate
for high office, but as one upon
whom many critical hours have i'm
posed and still impose a grave res
possibility.
For the sympathy, help and con-
fidence with which Americans have
sustained me in my task, I am
grateful. For their loyalty, I salute
the members of our great party, in
and out of official life in every part
of the union. salute those of 9TH
err parties, especially those in con-
gress who on so many occasions
put partisanship aside. thank the
governors of the several states,
their legislatures, their state and
local officials who participated UNI
selfishly and regardless of party in
our efforts to achieve recovery and
destroy abuses. Above all, thank
the millions of Americans who
have borne disaster bravely and
have dared to smile through the
storm. America will not forget
these recent years-will not forget
that the rescue was not a mere
party task-it was the concern of
all of us.
'Tn our strength we rose to-
gether, rallied our energies togeth-
err, applied the old rules Of COM
mon sense and together survived.
I'm those days we feared fear.
That was why we fought fear. And
today, my friends, we have won
against the most dangerous of our
foes-we have conquered fear.
But I cannot, with candor,
tell you that all is well with
the world. Clouds of suspicion,
tides of i'll will and intolerance
gather darkly in many places.
In our own land we enjoy in
deed a fullness of life greater
than that of most nations.
"But the rush of modern civil
ization itself has raised for us new
difficulties, new problems which
must be solved II we are to pre-
serve to the United States the pol
itical and economic freedom for
which Washington and Jefferson
planned and fought.
philadelphia is a good city in
which to write American history.
This is fitting ground on which to
reaffirm the faith of our fathers;
to pledge ourselves to restore to
the people Of wider freedom-to
give to 1886 as the founders gave
to 1776-an American way Of life.
1.-THE very word freedom, in it.
self and of necessity, suggests free
dom from some restricting power.
In 1776, we sought freedom from
the tyranny of a political auto
cracy-from the eighteenth century
royalists who held special privilege
from the crown 1t was to perpet-
uate their privilege that they gov
erned without the consent of the
governed; that they denied the
right of free assembly and free
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