Evening star., 1936-07-19

Woodrow Wilson. on the other hand.
received the notification OF his second
nomination for President at the sum-
mer White House, Shadow Lawn. near
Asbury Park, N. j. Generally speak-
ing. the notification ceremonies OF
presidential candidates have taken
place In the home States OF the
candidates. Wilson, when he had his
notification Of denomination, followed
that tradition. His first notif1ca-
ton of a presidential nomination, in
1912. was at Seagirt, N. j.. at the
mansion which was used in those
days by Governors of that State for
their Summer residence.
The custom has been to hold the
national conventions of the major
political parties during June. Some
times they have stopped over into
the first week in July. Then the
formal notifications of the candidates
and their acceptance speeches have
come late in July or in August. After
their acceptance speeches the candi-
dates have usually laid low until about
Labor day. when they have taken
to the stump vigorously. There is
some justification for proposal that
the national conventions be postponed
until the last of August or the first
of September. Under such a plan
the campaign period would be brief
and the country could get its mind
on it and off it in a hurry.
However, the full time for the cam
paign may have been justified this
year. since the Republicans have had
to rebuild and to build anew their
organization, and have still to present
their presidential candidate to the
Nation. Landon, although he has
had a remarkable build-up through
the press of the Nation, Is still
known personally to very few of the
people who are asked to vote for him.
When Woodrow Wilson was renomi-
mated in 1916 and Charles Evans
Hughes, then an associate justice of
the Supreme Court, was picked by
the Republicans to oppose him. Will
sons administration was under fire
because of its Mexican policy, and
because of its failure to impress upon
the World War belligerents that
American lives and American prop
erty were not to be harmed with i'm
punity. Hughes, who had resigned
from the bench to accept the presi-
dental nomination at the hands of
the Republicans. staged his formal
notification in Carnegie Hall, New
York City. the last day of July. 1t
was an intensely hot night, and the
crowd in the hall sweltered, but loudly
acclaimed the candidate. Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt. who had led the Bull
Moose in revolt against the 6. o. P.
four years earlier, was in q box in
Carnegie Hall, giving his support to
Hughes.
Harding as Chairman.
Warren G. Harding of Ohio was
the chairman of the Notification
Committee which called upon Hughes.
Harding was himself to be notified
that he had been nominated for
President, just four years later. In
July, 1916, the Lusitania had been
sunk, with the loss of many American
lives. American forces were on the
Texas border and an American ed-
ministration was trying to impress
upon the Mexicans that they must
not kill American citizens nor de-
stroy their property in Mexico.
Hughes made a great deal in his
speech of acceptance of the Mexican
issue and also of the charge that
Wilson, note writer, as he was then
known-had not dealt firmly enough
with the European belligerents. In
that same speech, Hughes declared
himself squarely in favor of the pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution
giving the women the right to vote all
over the country.
Wilson delayed his notification"
old of active campaign. Incidentally.
he showed what might be done along
that line. The mammoth Senator
Ollie James Of Kentucky, who had
been chairman of the convention
which nomins ted Wilson, delivered the
notification speech. Wilson replied
with q strong defense of his admins
tration. In his address he insisted
that the United States had big part
to play In world politics: that 1t could
not longer successfully cling to its old
policy of isolation. Wilson charged
that some Americans were trying to
embroil the United States with Mex
leo for personal gain. In this connec-
ton the Democratic nominee for Presi.
dent used language that sounds very
like the language Of the New Deal
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