THE CENTRE of them 4 Wilson Speech of Acceptance. PA WILSON SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE BELLEFONTE, ————— Woodrow Wilson Sounds Keynote When Notified of His Nomination for Presidency---De- fines Issues that Confront the People in this Cam- paign---“Right and Justice” is His Foundation--- Ollie James’ Eolquent Speech Enlivens the Pro- ceedings---Great Euthusiasm Prevails. DEMOCRAT, Thursday, August 15th, 1912, EE ——— mines and throughout all our great in. | moment about the policy of protection dustrial and commercial undertakings, | concelved and earried out ag a disin- and the political life of the people of | terested statesman might conceive It. the Pbllippines, for whom we hold Our own clear conviction as Dec governmental power in trust, for thelr | erats is that in the last analysis the service, not our own. The other, the | only sufe and legitimate object of tariff —— additional duty is the great task of | duties, as of taxes of ovary other kind protecting our people and ouf resources | Is to raise revenne for the support of and of keeping open to the whole peo the government, jut that is not my Insists That the Whole People ple fe doors of opportunity through | present point We d¢ nounce the Pave | which they must, generation by gener | Aldrich tariff act as the mont consi: u Be Consulted. | Ation, puss If they are to make ous example ever afforded quest of thelr fortunes In health, in privileg: hat You EE — | freedom, in peace and In contentment POWerful talents nd In the erformance | bh Your power nd ' A p swrmance of this reat genius cast off ENING great duty face to face with the ‘country that vou ‘ a thes questions couservation of de desperate stand of : of forests an changers and did so In t; h hind each one that feeds upon labors ton swer and say we will take out of politics when they larcenous hands out of the the American people, “If elected, as now seems assured, it Is our hope and belies that your name and administration wi) pe em- | balmed In the hearts of the »" nle | and that history may record " real | truth that you found vou ntry | with all the avenues of ommerce the arteries of trade, In th. grasp of | vicious monopoly, and that 1 left it | free, untrammeled unsha a hy law-protected ; lonk dominated by through Ereat monopoly we an- the tariff take thelr pockets of oO con the country of the speclal favors apd monopolistic advantages which the leaders of the Republican party have so often shows themselves willing to extend to to whom they looked for « tributions. Tariff duties, as they have employed thew, have not been a Te ans of setting protection, contrary, greed, and loner vour 1 wecond Last week, on August 7th, there was an interesting event Jersey, at the home of Gov. Woodrow Wilson The notification of the Governor of his nomination for the Presidency by at Sea Girt, New nop we of questions and mines and ! ways, of the building of an adequate merchant marine, and the opening of iy every highway and facility, and the a method of fostering up of every safeguard ne ded | privilege. They have made it by an industrious, expanding nation In Partnership With the People. These which every are those occasion was the formal and ————— 4 ampalgn con velopment, water the Dem. POW Ers wate ocratic National Convention at Baltimore, The Tariff Has Become a System of Favors—S8hould Be Gradually Re- duced—High Schedules Responsible For Trusts and Cost of Living—Defi- nition of Fundamental Democracy, up an e ¥ hey ben Believe Them Both. was “A former acceptance, | present | with system of occasion for National This was an the reason that the the important man who president o¢} President with trusts and Ticket, in his that head of the speech of the on all toples that will engage like chosen as certain prosecute them: charges the former Ing friendly with and fallure to belleve them Notification great inatters Wi i134 w 1 1 Mr VV 1 » *f ya .. A ha ! yr the national Democratic convention on) 850 1d be heard | de who will enf th ’ ave got into trouble in Pov gt let recently asséimbled at Baltimore, You! ehiefly because | no ave notified we o y “ pot one w have no 1 me of which ought to have been handled by | dent taking counsel with as large a ber of ons as possible, they touched every interest life of every cl in fact too private settled by 28 mall was expected to define the leading issues confront American people 11 id setting 1¢ pr pre certain establish monopol; markets. Trusts + owed gin and thelr secure pu 1 at this time, and indicate his views clearly lic attention in the haw he treat As Gov, many pub. | their and in manner he would indicate Mr. James and head of coming campaign, all not Gentlemen of Speaking the for are all upon JwWer to them, w +] recent year if chosen the official would such problems as the Committee Wilson public nation like interest No Budden Disturbance, We do not business of a ceedingly sensitiy lation of this kind up, however {ll advi schedule i indicated not distur! with « has served In any capacity at Washington, office Although he h author of standard the ignore the fa men who are nominated for this high unusual attached to and is an these large things this occasion. 8 prolific one who F's ing with past few | was necessarily een a my nomination by writer on political political economy, and others the ps with friendly to the Democratic party for the high of fice of president of United States Allow for which have, through your distinguished chair dealing the {gsues, works num brse #ailise and the region, have handled in have been often de of who ki ook to speak for the whole | not | for themselves in It of the whole has traveled mu over country in the pers this considered most me to thank you warmly Dem fAiddresses, nevertheless life, making was very of his years import and of ant address as it was the “keynote” for eracy in | the generous terms in you ARH this campaign. been ten They and ve groups man, conveyed the notitic conference, ation and for the | } personal with which formed’ your inter ; and Important errand the nomination attending were of The and were attended by ceremonies | thoughtful courtesy Ren eight governors, many United Stat vou hat y 3 aan gressmen, and thousands of citiz all parts of the was temporary rather, if Kentu fication address naturally vention, Hon. Ollie James i% unusus nation ry ignorant ofound set of 1 ROR F RON n ! very shorteighted ant issues that confront } neri 1» D le, and 1 ed the position an Brody - fe } y J thi a CH naustr HL) 0 ae arty try. His address was appropriate r genuin the achievments « Deeming the er and two discou aside and OLLIE JAMES’ ADDRESS. Notifying Gov. Wilson of His Nomi- nation. “Go : ' Taft Trust's Bulwark tional was born w and funded charter of cratic years that litical arena in And” now bel part) once milita nited n } triumphant, divided. torn and dis. | © against these men wl L the Fuitnten 3 a 2. PIApddL BI . a people a disappearing nd diss re COIN ind iy to a +4 ‘ of The Doak 5 : a they have come to a critical t They as) View, in their moral and politic knows ’ plicated n government The shrug their shoulders and lift then Dart party Since battled again og Tis of gha f i prices wl will A n | v y Aemar n shall be | least burden. Tari Demoralizes Politics. There has been no more demoraliz ing Influence In our polities in our time than the influence of tariff legis lation, the influ 1 the | iL Pr 1 their ehaif {rusts and one who. wil: : New Jersey {Wo Years ago wa | we at The A rod Nation. , | eyebrows when you speak as If you | me who rive . gah Ran y Vo Ve stand he presence of an! paally belies y a | . lot the > " . ally believed In presidential pris | genuine democratic, | Of the most unprokressive States i J awakened nation, Impatient of parti- | y RE i i it the stripes of the fel { placed upon them N ia vigorous and people's rule eriminal laws great wealth enforcement to the 1H Union. Special privilege Ww ries, In the direct election of United ¢ 5 20} ntroer 3 3 N N ake lie » y He a1 against malefactors of | #IFOREIY entrenche I service | An make believe The public man! geates senators and in an utter i | agencies had become the mast who does not realize the fact and feel Heits inenlarle be singularly government. from tl A Free Choice. On the forty-sixth ballot, In haps the most memorable and making con on ever held In our | 3 4 3 nin were unanimous. t ’ f - ¥ a J by tha I ike a giar is per- epoch about evervthine ths te 11y | ol ence of the Will Take a Giant. aw not ¢ rot but hn its stimulation mt 1% un i414 tsl 3 Po the eptible to the Influences that stir funds to t) paign i the highest The tonle ‘ The Public They y not or hend the solemn affairs y exhilarating a Noble Whole. lires self restraint not to attempt Fv ! ch, and yet it iy to attempt too little - of this would be cow is in the broad ligl that we sy . a quest) 1 enterprising prudent fair and honest—and you know, w ons in the world thes robbed class, samy the fortunate 1 cated and the strugglin fl KS vernment at rash you see hat thelr that of every ty, not with a contest for office, no for Republicar A } timid, fretf them of and manly force unt a petty struggle advantage rat against sometin withont cotton ors : : X onservalive rogressis . ys wi cried out that they ie of the n it questions of ARKIRLANCE ington mors pended upon committee of the house committee o rtic Ht WAYS Aan Kind an and the somehow an « ate A Christian Statesman, Der ratic part el srganic and nol a single people, and that they Years pa the finance cor whose ‘ terests which no man can tee of the They have I ; determine without thelr yw ledge very anxiously that these cor and counsel. That is the ade up only representative government " wi ! You may think that I am ETew nspicious off into a general disquisition that } those committees little to do with the business in h and controlled, by what in but I am not This is advantage ness of the deepest sort our difficulties if you will as business » work unde yetem not come out of the po to go into the pockets hin whose intrics try wondered being gu flu and Wore : wander privilege may not so easily ences and ch a time and in the presence of what platform and what is our re ity under it? What our purpose? The platforn - 4 that know what 3 agent : | the nation is thinking about, what it is | great ention neerned about, what it wish have so arous f id ‘ wrong Y vou this formal of not corrected and what it desires to see at tempted that is and constructive lence, so gigned by the members of the {cation Committee, accompanied and Intended for its long future. But tor ti fk y : or 1 DUrpose o eeping as iarge for us It is a very practical document pUrpost ing not | copy of the platform adopted 1} | convention, and upen that plat! A ibl ? th oh ' Tom have the honor to request your We are not about to ask the people of | number as possible of the rich an ceptance of the tendered nomin the United States to adopt our plat | flmential manufacturers of the count: And upon behalf of the Democrat o Babin BY in a good humor with the Republica aq " 14 form. We are about to ask them to the whole Republic, who party, which desired their aggressive and mylitant, we intrust us with office and power and | Ananclal upport Th tari 1 their united and earnest he of their affairs. Thes al Suppo e ta ms Iw » RS ] may God gulde you to a Be | wish to know what sort of Lon | COME a system of favors which th { ture? It is not as easy for us to live Sry Sup-dNove mini 1 ging 1 . hat defi it w '| phraseology of the schedule was ofte; [8 it used to be. Our money will not —— | we are and of wha elnite purpose, om . . | buy as much High wages, even 100 Men Defy Court's Ord | what translation of action and of pol | Guifberutely contrived. to conceal : | when we ean get them, yield us no y 8 Urder, " | becomes a matter of business, of legiti | +d A hundred or more men got out of | cy we intend to give to the genera mate busine wiy wh be nor | reat comfort their beds at an early hour Fy terms of the platform which the con lire Laut tay 00 | i. Yhe IF j 1 h mornin at Northumberland, 1 | ship and understanding It represents ariff Causes High Prices, ning rian vention at Baltimore put forth should their way to Queen street and In front | \ lected | are between the leaders of congress an | Moreover, we begin to perceive some N “ . | » De i . | of the property of John T. Colt, whe | We e elf the whole people of the United States | things about the movement of prices several of Shy eTOW " Drought axes The Work to Be Done, instead of between the leaders of con. | that concern us very deeply and fix our 0 play and a Tew minutes ] v ri that stood on the curb Hod whim The platform Is not a program. A | gress and small groups of manufa attention upon the tariff schedules with lying In the street with broken tele. | program must consist of measures, nd | turers demanding special recognitic fa more definite determination than phone and telegraph wires twisted ministrative acts and acts of legisla | and consideration. That is why th ever to get to the bottom of this mat . TT Are bh has been the | ton. The proof of the pudding is the | general idea of representative govern | ter. We have been looking into it at o ¢ He ciudir " . , N | 3 : pi My Adore wiuble, in Nadu, eating thereof. How do we intend to | ment becomes a ne essary part of trials held under the Sherman act and authorities began paving operat make it edible and digestible? From | tariff question. Who when you come | In Investigations In the committee on Queen street they found that this time on we shall be under interro- | down to the hard facts of the matty rooms of congress, where men who would be necessary either to ren gation, How do we expect to handle | have been represented In recent years | wanted to know the real facts the tree or change the line of each of the great matters that must be | when our tariff schedules were bel been busy with Inquiry, and we begin taken up by the next congress and the | discussed and determined not th to see very clearly what at least some floor of congress, for that 1s not wher: | of the methods are by which prices } In plans of personal ment | od In honesty is in jeopardy For what has the result Prosperity? Yes, If by prosperity you ‘mean vast wealth, no matter | tributed, or whether distributed or not; if built up to under the control of comparatively small bodies of men. who deter mine almost at pleasure whether there | shall be competition or not. The nation | a8 a nation has grown immensely rich | But what of the other side of the pi busine (Gover imstances is the mean wholesomely conduct Its It will so cannot but such an atmosphere vers take are om been” The Tariff. Bee how It makes busi: tariff question. The tariff questio dealt with in our time at any rate | not been business. It has been polit Tariff schedules have rounded expectat! “The prinel ty fought and the last campaigns the public cons popular heart, with the m they have Democratic to show we ne ' oot R weld) ‘ , 1 | ¥ : a : ‘ om y par- | m oss out of ind as e Appoints how dis natjyonal cons letter for whic) for Wil l 1 | most ’ you mean vast enterp nd to thelr w new be presently concentrated have become so people drawn to the support of the party practically all unsel. fish Americans and have divided Into irreconcilable factions the hitherto victorious Republican party, which In d ; the past Womiin a A pb AB them Ia Sonvant ona hut to the beneficiaries The Democratic party Is striving to |, satis of =. to tariff taven give to all the people a government |. Tutte and nolles, the lesiti. po just with laws, so righteous that and If the Renubil the tariff svatem: monopoly can find not hiding place at hi ig . biican cemvention held and opposition no haven; one that will | 11, CIWS had no other make every citizen a volunteer, and ' the T 0 i narticinants tn every home a fortress against its in- pe " 1¢ en Commandments That vaders. We want to approach as on ble which has Alvided the Re nearly as possible to that ideal In- gn part on practical apnii. dividualism for which Republics were caused tha on Rrocdedrnge hans born, where the fruit of every man's tn the Tx mocratic ty Poop hi come toll can be enjoved by his own family "Thoda shalt “ pas y which save and every man's labor will inure 10 | hon ahalt at sont ~ w taxation his own benefit. The safety and life TaRosaten 1 oe neianton trieta snd of this government, this free Republie, aan TR steal hv taxation’ and this home of constitutional Hherty | 0 " An people are allvine rest at last not In Its marching Pmeelves as never hefore with this armies nor its mighty navy, nor in its | PATLY which helleves that a tax Is a great wealth, but in its equal laws, | ¥° ernmental agency and ean he nged its national honor, And in the ever only for movernmental purposes and Hving truth that above cottage, hut 1 Soliaatad 2 the government tself and palace all allke, the aegis of the |*N ROU aT] ont to favor-seeking Constitution rests, which is the spir- |#nd special privileged classes it of Justice, the greatest attribute of To Extirpate Trusts. God, Ameriean demand atialy ntterad made stenl’ “hie | not new We ite apnlicat! ammanAdment been shalt wnses of the can daetrine party heard It and demand. aA n lone agen. nat only have are ple Ag« support glorious const platforme mon offspring of guidance mate nn EE the virtne, It have ing at that point. Mr. Colt refused + have the tree cut down The ough then began proceedings In co on “The people the pext administration? Greater Than Presidency. “Cirent as Is the honor of being President of this splendid Republic, yet the glory is not In the office, not in the fame of having held if, but in | the service rendered to the people, by which the public servant is properly judged and that which makes fmmor- tal the names of those who hold it, And the people belleve you would not put the armor on if you did not hope and belleve you would see a happier, more prosperous and a more contented people when you take It oft. We all recognize the mighty task in front of ou, Hixteen years of Republican rule ave riveted the chains of monopoly, Loxtirontion of trusts and monopolies not the plucking of a blossom here {and yonder, hut that the axe shall be nid nt special the very privilege root of They the tree of demand the tapplieation of a Just svatem of taxa. tion that shall meet the Immediate and reasonable needs of the govern- ment administered In economy and honesty, that no tax shall be ald either to protect monopoly or te ale low them to plunder the people. “And In answer to the tariff, trust. fed barons, who are demanding that the tariff shall be taken out of poll. ties, when they have secured rates higher than ever before, hiding be- petitioning for permission to ent down the obstructing trees. The cons refused the petition, and the choppy bee followed, Invented a Punctureless Tire. Anthony Lally, a well known Ash land mechanic with an Inventive typ, | of mind, problem tires. has probably solved 1). of punctureless pneumati, already offered large sums for purchase out right, or its manufac. ture on royalty. the offers under advisement, At least it Is so good that an. tomoblle and tire manufacturers have the Mr. Lally Is holding What is there to do? It Is hard to gum the great task up, but apparently this Is the sum of the matter: There are two great things to do. One is to got up the rule of justice and of right fn such matters as the tariff, the regu ation of the trusts and the prevention of monopoly, the adaptation of our banking and currency laws to the varied nses to which our people must put them, the treatment of thoseewho do the dally labor in our factories and they have been determined, but in the committee rooms and conferences That lg the heart of the whole affai Will you, ean you, bring the whol people Into the partnership or No one is discontented with represents tive government. It falls under gues tion only when it conses to be repre sentative. It is at bottom a question of good faith and morals, How does the present tariff look in the light of it? 1 say nothing for the not are fixed. We know that they are not fixed by the competitions of the mar ket or by the ancient law of supply and demand, which is to be found stated in all the primers of economics, but by private arrangements with regard to what the supply should be and agree ments among the prodoacers themselves, Those who buy are not even represent. ed by counsel. The high cost of living Is arranged by private understanding. We naturally ask ourselves, How did (Continued on next page)
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