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Show PRESIDENT MAKES ACCEPTANCE TALK Recounts Record of Democratic Demo-cratic Party in Address at r k- Long Branch, 'N. J. DEFENDS HIS POLICIES Excoriates Those Who Would Draw United States Into Bloody War. Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 2. President Presi-dent Wilson formally accepted his re-nomination re-nomination here this afternoon with an address recounting the legislative record of the Democratic party, a vlg orouB defense of his Mexican policy his dealings with the European bel ligerents and an outline of his view of America's obligations for the fi ture. With the members of the notlfica tion committee, headed by Senator James, grouped about him at Shadow Lawn, tho summer "White HouBe, the president declared the Republican party was "just the party that cannot meet the new conditions of a new age" and that the day of little Americanism Amer-icanism when "methods of 'protection' 'protec-tion' and industrial nursing were the chief study of our provincial statesmen" states-men" was past and gone. "We can no longer Indulke our traditional provincialism," said the president "We are to play a leading part In the world drama whether we wish It or not. We shall lend, not borrw; act for ourselves," not Imitate or follow; organize and .initiate, not peep about merely to see where we may get in." Speaking of his diplomatic negotiations negoti-ations with the European belligerents belliger-ents the president followed a declar ation that while property rights be vindicated by claims for damages, the loss of life and tho fundamental rights of humanity never could be, with this statement: "The record Ib clear and consistent throughout and stands distinct and definite for anyone to judge who wishes to know the truth about it." Immediately afterward he said: "I am the candidate of a party, but I am above all things else than American Amer-ican citizen. I neither seek the favor fav-or nor fear the dlsplcaaure of that small alien element amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign power before be-fore loyalty to tho United States." Regarding his Mexican policy the president reiterated that the people of Mexico were struggling "blindly It may bo and as yet Ineffectually" to free themBelves from alien interests "some of them Americans pressing for things tboy could never have got In their own country," and that he would do everything In his power to prevent anyone standing in their way. "It is a hard doctrine," said he, "only for those who wlBh to get something some-thing for themselves out of Mexico." At another point the president said: "Mistakes I have no doubt made In this perplexing business but not In purpose or. object," He declared at another point: "I am more interested in the fortunes for-tunes of oppressed men and pitiful women and children than in any prop-, prop-, erty rights whatever." At the outBet of his references to the legislative achievements of his : party the president enumerated the ' laws placed on the statute books re-, re-, latlng to business Including tariff re-- re-- vlalon, anti-trust laws, revision of the bunking and currency system, rural credits, rehabilitation of the merchant marine and the creation of the federal fed-eral trade commission. "What other party has understood the task so well or executed It so Intelligently In-telligently and energetically?" he asked. "What other party has attempted at-tempted It at all? The Republican leaders apparently know of no means of assisting business but protection. How to stimulate it and put it upon a new footing of energy and enterprise they have not suggested." At the conclusion of his review of the party record, the president declared: de-clared: "This extraordinary recital must sound like a platform, a list of sanguine san-guine promises; but it is not. It is a record of promises made four years ago and now actually redeemed in constructive legislation." Then, later he said: "We have In four years come very near to carrying out tho platform of the Progressive party as well as our own; for we are also progressives." pro-gressives." The president's address was some 5,000 words long, one of the most lengthy he has delivered on any occasion oc-casion since taking office. |
