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Show Ollie M. James and Others Bear Message to New Jersey Governor Telling of the Ac- M tion of Baltimore Convention i DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE MKfS REPLY Sounds Keynote of Party's Principles Talks on g Tariff, Panama Canal, Merchant Marine, La- g bor and Other Democratic Policies. ij Sea Girt, N. J, The Democratic committeo of notification, numbering thirty-five arrived here this afternoon after-noon and Governor Wilson was officially offi-cially informed that he has been nominated for the presidency. An Interesting member of the committee was Mrs. C. P. Overfleld, of Salt Lake City, who took the place of her husband, hus-band, C. P. Overfield, who was unable un-able to come east and asked his wife to act for him in the committee. The notification commitee led by Senator-elect Ollie James of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, arrived at 1 45 o'clock, accompanied accom-panied by Governors Baldwin of Connecticut, Con-necticut, Dix of New York, Donaghey of Arkansas, Foss of Massachusetts and O'Neal of Alabama, Senator Myers My-ers of Montana, former National Chair man Norman E Mack. Charles R. Craine of Chicago, who has Just been appointed vice chairman of the Demo-crati9 Demo-crati9 finance committee, and Representatives Repre-sentatives Heflln of Alabama and Johnson of Kentucky. The members of the party were received by the governor, his wife and daughters In the governor's cottage, where luncheon lun-cheon was served to them William Jennings Bryan sent a telegram regretting that previous engagements en-gagements had prevented himv from qoming lo Sea Girt. Senator-elect Ollie James came to the front of the veranda at 3 o'clock, accompanied by Govornor Wilson and Governor Marshall. Mar-shall. They were greeted by loud cheers. Governor Wilson sat to the right of Mr. James while the vice presidential candidate was at his left. Mr. James' speech of notification was frequently fre-quently interrupted by applause. James Makes Speech. Senator-elect Ollie M. James of Kentucky, permanent chairman of the Baltimore convention, acted ar. spokesman for the notification committee com-mittee which today formally tendered to Gov. Woodrow Wilson the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination for president. Mr James praised the candidato and his achievements, declaring that "no cry of a fraud controlled convention conven-tion was heard," and bespoke a har-nolous har-nolous party. He said in part: ' The principles for which our party fought in previous campaigns have so aroused the public conscience that thev have drawn out support practir-calfj practir-calfj of all unselfish Americans and divided irreconciliably the hitherto victorious Republican party. "Sixteen years of Republican rulo have riveted the chains of monopoly and special privilege upon every field of industrial and commercial endeavor. endeav-or. The Republican party has taught the trusts that It barks and never bites. Their prosecutions against these outlaws are but the signal for a rising market." The speaker declared the Democrats were pledged to "felon's stripes ' for great malefactors. "Big business' was promised support sup-port If legitimate, and the Democratic party pledged to take the tariff out of politics when the "trust-fed barons bar-ons take their larcenous hands out of the pockets of the American people-" The motto "Thou shalt not steal" was a plagiarism from Democratio faith, Mr. James said, and added: "That principle which has divided the Republican party has caused tne American people to come to the Democratic Dem-ocratic party, which says, 'Thou shalt not steal by taxation, thou shalt not commission trusts and monopolies to steal by taxation ' " Referring to the division in the .Republican' .Re-publican' party. Mr James said: Believe Both Charges. "A former president charges tho present president with being friendly with certain trusts and failure to prosecute them, the present president charges the former president with being friendly with certain other trust's and fniluro to prosecute them. We belo them both What the people peo-ple want Is a president w-ho will enforce en-force the law to the utmost letter and prosecute all trusts For they know ( tho cost of living cannot be reduced, relief cannot come to the people unless un-less monopoly Is destroyed. "When the Democratic party passed , its tariff reduction measures 60 just that the senate, controlled bj the op- , position party, could not resist their , passage, offering to the people cheap- , or clothes, to the farmer and laborer j cheaper implements with which lo j toll, cheaper meat and bread to tho j hungry, reducing tho cost of living, , privilege made its last desperate t stand in the White house and won , by reason of the president's veto of t these righteous measures. The Amer- a lean people desire to turn the White i House from a bulwark of privilege t to a fortress of justice to the people. . The people wait one In control thero who will leal the fight in their be- balt-" Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 7. Governor l'l Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey was officially informed today that he had 5 been chosen by the Baltimore con- '$ vention as the nominee for the pres- &f Idency on the Democratic ticket. $$ Brieflv and simply Governor Wil- i$ son was notified of his nomination by 2g Senator-elect Ollie James of Ken- mt? tucky, who emphasized, as he said, jg-J that the governor had obtained tho 3 honor untrammeled by obligations ani 5g unembarrassed by affiliations of any jjjj kind Though the governor spoke in f acceptance, theoretically to the fifty- '& two members of the committee rep- j.i resenting each state and territory in --m the United States, the .speech, sound- $M ing the depths of his political phll- rjj osophy was heard by a great throng b Prominent Democrats, governors of fijH many states, their families, members jm of the Women's National Democratic JL) league and a multitude of seaside folk j came from up and down the Jersey Ify coast to attend the exercises. f- Sea Girt, N J., Aug. 7. After thank- BR ing the committee of notification and iKJ expressing his profound sense of re- BE5 sponsibllity in accepting the nomina- Kj tion, the governor said he realized If9 that he was expected to speak plainly, ttSm to talk politics and 'open the campaign Hj9r 'in words whose meaning no one need rW doubt." And he was expected to speak, jj,ira he added, to the country as well as 'j to the committee. j ti "We must speak," he continued, tr j way of preface, "not to catch Totes, j JW but to satisfy the thought and con- I ' science of a people deeply stirred up B- by the conviction that they have come I B J to a critical turning point In their W j moral and political development. G 2 "Plainly it Is a new age," he went 3. J on. "It requires self-restraint not to IS m attempt too much, and j-et it would ;fl be cowardly to attempt too little. In j M the broad light of this new day we , stand face to face with what? Plainly. not with questions of party, not with tl contest for office, not with a petty : struggle for advantage. With great , questions of right and of justice rath- 1 "B ei-questions of national develop- rH ment. of the development of character n and of standards of action no less , B than of a better business system. The forces of the nation are asserting themselves against oven' form of spc- J clal privilege and private control, and n are seeking higger things than they . M have heretofore achieved. ' lj Two Great Things. "There are two grtat things to do. IJ One is to set up the rule of Justice , h and of right In such matters ai the ? , tariff, tho regulation of the trusts and 1 1 i the prevention of monopoly, the Jf. adaptation of our banking and cur- I., rency laws to the very uses to which J ;, our people must put them, tho treat- . ment of those who do tho daily labor ' In our factories and mines and r throughout all our great Industrial and commercial undertakings, and the polftlcal life of the Philippines, for t whom we held governmental power j, in trust, for their service, not our own. The other, the additional duty, I Is the great task of protecting our , people and our resources and of keep- 1 1 j ing open to the whole people the i ,M doors of opportunity through which t)M they must, generation by generation. J . pass if they are to make conquest of l( their fortunes in health, in freedom. U I in peace, and in contentment. In the y I performance of this second great duty I we are face to face with questions i A of conservation and of development, t questions of forests and water powers r and miues and waterways, of the building of an adequate merchant ma- J.t rine. r I "We have got Into trouble in re- r cent vears chiefly because these large i M things, which ought to have been han- W T died by taking counsel with us as i.,Js large a number of persons as possl- ble because they touch every Inter- P est and tho life of every class and P- m region, have In fact been too often f handled in private conference. They h P have been settled by very small and AM often deliberately exclusive groups of j? p men who uudertook to speak for tho I P Ifi whole nation, or, rather, for them- If" fi selves, in the terms of the whole na- gr MB tion very honestly it may be. but Fr 3 very Ignoraatly sometimes, and very B shortsightedly, too a poor substitute U HH for genulno common counsel. No t iH group of directors, economic or polit- feil8 leal, can speak for a people. They Fs'lM hae neither the poiut of view nor the L M knowledge. Our difficulty is not that j ; M wicked and designing men have plot- K M ted against us. but that our common (foH affairs have been determined upon h H too narrow a view, and by too private I7TH an initiative. Our task now is to ef- jj H feet a great readjustment and get y,' H tho forces of the whole people once fij M (Continued on Page Ten.) H Hi I NOTIFY WILSON OF HIS NOMINATION (Continued From Page One.) more Into play. We need no revolution revo-lution ;we need no excited change, we need only a now point of view and a new method and spirit of counsel Dealc With Tariff. "The tariff question, as dealt with in our time at any rate has not been business It has been politics. Tariff schedules havo been made up for the purpose of keoplng as large a number num-ber as possible of the rich and Influential Influ-ential manufacturers of the country in a good humor with the Republican party, which desired their constant financial support. Tho tariff has become be-come a system of favors, which the phraseology of the schedule was often deliberately contrived to conreal Who, when you come down to the hard facts of the matter, have been represented in lecent yoars when our tariff schedules wero being discussed and determined, not on the floor of congress, for that Is nl whore tney havo been determined, but in tiie committee rooms and conferences? That is the heart of the whole affair Will, you. can you. bring the whole people Into the partnershio or not? "We do not ignore the fact that the business of a country like ours is exceedingly ex-ceedingly sensitive to chances in leg islation of this kind. It has been built up. however, Ill-advisedly, upon 1 tariff schedules written In the way I have indicated, and its foundations must not be too radically or too suddenly sud-denly disturbed When we act we should act with caution and prudence, like men who know what they are abotil, and not like those In love with a theory It Is obvious that the changes we make should be made only at such a rate and in such a wny ns will least interfere with the normal and healthful course of commerce and manufacture. But we shall not on that account act with timidity, as if we did not know our own minds, for we are certain of our ground and of our object. ob-ject. There should be an immediate revision, and It should be downward unhesitatingly and steadily downward. down-ward. "In dealing with the Philippines, we should not allow ourselves to stand Upon anv mere point of pride. We are not the owners of the Philippine Islands. Is-lands. They ore theirs, for the UBes of their life. We are not even their partners. It is our duty, as trustees, to make whatever arrangement of government vdll be most serviceable to their freedom and development. Here., again, we are to set up the rule of justice and of right. Have Been Spendthrift. "I do not know any greater question ques-tion than that of conservation. Wo have been a spendthrift nation and must now "husband what wc have left. We must do more than that. "We must develop, as well as preserve, our water powers and must add great waterways to the transportation facilities facil-ities of the nation, to supplement the railways within our borders as well as upon the Isthmus. We must revive our merchant marine, tco, and fill the seas again with our own fleets. Wo must add to our present postoffice Bervice a parcels post as complete as that of any other nation We most look to the health of our people upon every land, as well as hearten them with justice and opportunity. This Is the constructive work of government. This is tho policy that has a vision and a hope and that looks to serve mankind. Develop Waterways. "With regard to the development of greater and more numerous waterways water-ways and the building up of. a merchant mer-chant marine, we must follow great constructive lines and not fall back upon the cheap device of bounties and subsidies. In the case of tho Mississippi Missis-sippi river, that great central arterv of our trade, it is plain that the federal fed-eral government must build and maintain main-tain the levees and keep the grcnt waters In harness for the general use. Is plain, too, that vast sums of money must be spent to develop new waterways where trade will be most served and transportation most readily cheapened by them. Such expenditures are no largess on the part of the government j they are national na-tional investments. "The very fact that we have at least taken the Panama canal p- rlously in hand and are vlgorouslv pushing it towards completion is eloquent elo-quent of our re-awakened interest in international trade. "What Is our cause? The neonle s cause? That Is easy to sabut what does It mean? The common as against any particular interest whatever" Jes, but that,. too. needs translation SedaeCsfrantd PrdeS- We "present the desire to set up an uuentaugled Government, a government that cannot hMJBe8 Mr ,m;'Vate Impose". Xh2 in the field of business or In the field of Politics; a government that will not tolerate the use of the (frganlzatfon of a great party to serve the personS ?nTtbntdw.7bUl,0n8 any fwffl and that will not permit legislation to be employed to further anv priJatS Interest. 1 heed with deep 'thankful ncss the message you bring me from the country, r fei ,hat 1 ...Z |