GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON UNFOLDS
FARRIG OF HIS POLITIGM. BEUEFS
LARGE CROWD OF DEMOCRATS
WITNCBB EXERCISES AT GOV.
ERNOR'B HOME.
HAS OUTLINED HIS POUCIES
Olll* JimM, on Ithilf of Committee,
Officially Informs Now Jsrosy Oov-'
ornor of Hl* Soloctlon to Load Dem
ocracy to Suocoao In Novombor.
Sea Girt, N. J.— GOT. Wood row Wll
son ot New Jersey waa officially noti
fied Wednesday that ho had been
chosen by the Baltimore convention as
the nominee for tho presidency on the
Democratic ticket.
Briefly and simply the Governor
was notified of his nomination by Sen
ator-elect OUIe James of Kentucky,
why emphasised, as he said, that the
Governor had obtained the honor un
trammelled by obligations and unem
barrassed by affiliations of any kind.
Mr. James praised the candidate
and his achievements and bespoke a
harmonious party with "no disgrunt
led Democrats sulking in their tents."
Ho attacked both President Taft and
former President Roosevelt, and held
up tho Republican party as "disheart
ened, discouraged and disorganised."
The Republican conduct of trust
prosecutions wsa condemned. He de
clared the Democrats were pledged
to "felon's stripes," for great malefac
tors. "Big business" was promised
support If legitimate, and the Demo
cratic party was pledged to take the
tarlc out of politics when the "trust
fed barons take their larcenous hands
out of the pockets of sthe American
people."
The motto, "Thou shalt not steal"
was a plagrlarlsm from Democratic
faith Mr. James said, and he express
ed belief in the charges both Presi
dent Taft and former President Roose
velt have made against each other.
On the left of Mr. James was Gov
ernor Marshall, the vice presidential
nominee, and on his right Governor
Wilson. Governors Dlx of New York,
Foss of Massachusetts, Baldwin of
Connecticut, Donaghey of Arkansas,
Plaisted of Maine, O'Neal of Alabama
and Mann of Virginia, sat nearby.
Though the Governor spoke In accep
tance, theoretically to the 52 members
of the committee, representing every
state and territory in the Union, the
speech, sounding the depth of his poli
tical philosophy waa heard by a great
throng.
Prominent Democrats, Governors of
many states, their families, members
of the Woman's National Democratic
League and a multitude of seashore
folk came from up and down the
Jersey coast to attend the exercises.
From the broad veranda of the
White House, where the Governors of
New Jersey are wont to spend their
summers, the nominee delivered his
speech. s
The Governor read from his manu
script. The platform, he said, was not
A a pragram but a practical document
Intended to show "that we know what
the nation is thinking about and
what it is most concerned about." The
people, he added, were about to be
asked not particularly to sfdopt a plat
form, but to entrust the Democratic
party with "office and power and guid
ance of their affairs," and their desire
now was to know what "translation of
action and policy he Intends to give to
the general terms,of the platform,
should he be elected."
The task ahead, the Governor ex
plained, was set up the rule of
Justice of the trusts and the preven
tion of monopoly the adaptation of the
banking and currency laws to meet
present day conditions; the treatment
of those who labor in factories and
mines throughout all the great in
dustrial and commercial undertakings
and the political life of the people of
the Philippines, for "whom wa hold
governmental power in trust for their
service, not our own."
On the tariff the nominee declared
emphatically
"There should be an Immediate re
vision. and it should be downward, un
hesitatingly and steadily downward."
This revision, he explained, should be
gin wtth schedules "which have been
most obviously used to kill competi
tion and extend to every Item Inr evdry
schedule that afford any monopoly,"
and the system of taxation so adjusted
that they will fall whore they will
create tho least burdens. "The means
• and methods by which trusts have
established monopolies," said the can
didate, "now have become known. It
will bo necessary to supplement tho
present law with such laws both eivll
and criminal as will effectually punlah
pad prevent those methods."
y In closing, the Governor declared
that a presidential campaign might
"eaaily degenerate Into a mere per
sonal contest and so lose Its real dig
nity and significance.
"There is no indispensable man" re
marked tho Governor, "tho govern
ment will not collapse aad go to pieces
i'i ,■ • •>...*■*•» .'h-» itf-i-.. , •••?
if any on* of tho gentlemen who are
seeking to be entrusted with Its guid
ance ahould bo left at home. f
"Wo represent the ieaire to aet up
an unentangled government." he con
cluded* "a government that cannot be
used for private purposes, either in
the field of politics, « government that
will not tolerate the use of the organi
sation of a great party to serve the
personal aims and ambitions of any
Individual and that will not permit
legialation to be employed to further
" any private Interest"
Among the visitors who arrived
early for the exercises were a number
of professors from Princeton Unl
' verslty.
Colonel William Llbbey, Prince
ton '77, a member of the Governor's
i staff, was an early arrival. It waa Col
t onel Llbbey who gave the orange and
black color scheme to Princeton.
Wllaon'a Speech.
After thanking the committee of
notification and expressing his pro
found sense of responsibility in ac
cepting the nomination, the Governor
said be realised that he was expected
to speak plainly, to talk politics and
open the campaign, "in words whose
meaning no one need doubt." And he
was expected to speak, he added,
to the country as well as to the com
mittee.
"We must speak," he continued, by
way of preface, "not to catch votes,
but to satisfy the thought and con
science of a people deeply stirred by
the conviction that they have come
to a critical turning point in their
moral and political development.
"Plainly It Is a new age," he went
on. "It requires self-restraint not to
attempt too much, and yet it would
be cowardly to attempt too little. In
the broad light of this now day we
stand face to face —with what? Plain
ly, not with questions of party, not
with a contest for office, not with a
1 petty struggle for advantage. With
1 great questions of right and of Justice,
rather —questions of national develop
' ment of character and of standards
i of action no less than of a better busi
ness system. The forces of the nation
are asserting themselves against every
form of special privilege and private
control, and are seeking bigger things
. than they have ever heretofore
; achieved.
Two Things to Do.
"There are two great things to do.
One la to set up thfe rule of Justice
and of right in such matters as the
1 tariff, the regulation of the trusts
and the prevention of monopoly, the
adaptation of our banking and cur
1 rency laws to the very uses to which
our people must put them, the treat
-1 ment of those who do the dally labor
in our factories and mines and
throughout our great industrial and
political life of the people of the Philip
! pines, for whom we hold -govern
i mental power In trust, for their service
not our own. The other, the additional
i duty la the great task of protecting
> our people and our resources and
of keeping open to the whole people
i the doors of opportunity through which
■ they must, generation by generatloii,
. pass, if they are to make conquest
i of their fortunes In health, in free
dom, In peace, and In contentment.
In the performance of this second
great duty we are face to face with
questions of conservation and of de
velopment, questions of forests and
waterpowerß and Tplnes and water
ways, of the building of an adequate
merchant marine.
"We -have got Into trouble In re
cent years chiefly because these large
things, which ought to have been
handled by taking counsel with as
large a number of persona as pos
sible, because they touch every In
terest and the life of every class and
region, have in fact been too often
handled in private conference. They
have been settled by very small, and
often deliberately exclusive groups of
men, who undertook to speak for the
whole nation, or, rather, for them
selves In the terms of the whole na
tion—very honestly It may be, but
very Ignorantly sometimes, and very
shortsightedly, too, a poor substitute
for genuine common counsel. No
group of director*, economic or po
litical, can speak for a people. They
have neither the point of view nor
the knowledge. Our difficulty Is not
that wicked and designing men have
plotted against us, but that our com
mon affairs have been determined
upon too narrow a view, and by too
private an initiative. Our task now
1* to effect a great readjustment and
get the force of the whole people
once more into play. We need no
revolution; wa need no excited
change; we need only a new point
of view and a new method and spir
it of counsel. '
Tho Tariff Question.
"The tariff question, as dealt with
in our time at any rate, haa not been
busineaa. It haa been politics. Tar
-1 schedule* have been made up tor
the purppose of keeping as large a
number a* possible of the rich and
Influential manufacturers of the
country in a good humor with tho
Republican party, which desired
their constant financial support. The
tariff' haa become a system of favors
which the phraseology of the sched
ule waa often deliberately contrived
to conceal. Who, when you come
down to tho hard facts of tho mat-
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WOODROW WILSON.
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. ter, have been repersented in recent
. years when our tariff schedules were
. being discussed and determined, not
I oh the floor of Congresu, (or that is
I not where they have been determin
ed, but in the committee rooms and
conferences? That is the heart of
the whole affair. Will you, can
you, bring the whole people Into the
partnership or not?
"We do not Ignore the fact that
the business of a country like ours la
exceedingly sensitive to changes in
legislation of this kind. It has been
built up, however Ul-advlsedly, upon
tariff schedules written In the way I
have indtvated, and Its foundations
must not be too radically or too sud
denly disturbed. When we act we
should act with caution and pru
dence, like men who know what they
are about, and not like those in love
with a theory. It is obvious that
the changes we make should be
made only at such rate and in such
a way as will least Interfere with the
normal and healthful course of com
merce and manufacture. But we
shall not on that account act with
timidity, as if we did not know our
own minds, foij we are certain of our
ground and of our object. There
should be an Immediate revision ,and
It should be downward unhesitating
ly and steadily downward.
High Cost of Living.
"The nation as a nation has grown
Immensely rich. She Is Justly proud
of her Industries and of the genius
of her men of affairs. They can
master anything they set their minds
to and we have been greatly stimu
lated under their leadership and
command. Their laurels are many
and very green. We must accord
them the great honors that are their
I due and we must preserve what they
I have built up for us. But what of
the other side of the picture? Is It
not as easy for us to live as it used
to be? Our money will not buy as
much. High wages, even when we
can get therti, yield us no great com
fort. We used to be better off with
less, because a dollar could buy so
much more. The majority of us have
been disturbed to find ourselves
growing poorer, even though our
earnings were slowly Increasing
Prices climb faster than we can push
our earnings up. We know that they
are not fixed by the competitors of
the market, or by the ancient law of
supply and demand which is to be
found stated in all the primers of
economics, but by private arrange
ments with regard to what the sup
ply should be and agreements among
th» producers themselves. Those
who buy are not even represented by
counsel. " The high cost of living Ib
arranged by private understanding.
"We naturally ask ourselves, how
did these gentlemen get control of
these things? Who handed our eco
nomic laws over to them for legls
latiye and contractual alteration? We
have In these disclosures stlTl another
view of the tariff, still another proof
that not the people of the United
States but only a very small inumber
of them have been partners In that
legislation.
The Labor Question.
"The so-called labor question Is a
question only because we have not
yet found the rule of right in adjust
ing the interests of labor and capital.
Here, again, the sense of universal
partnership must come into play if
we are to act like statesmen, as those
who serve, not a class, but a nation.
"The working people of America —
if they must be distinguished from
the minority that constitutes the rest
of it—are, of course, the backbone
of the nation. The law that safe
guards their life, that Improves the
physical and moral conditions under
which they live, that makes their
oours of labor rational and tolerable,
that gives them freedom to act in
their own interest, and that protects
them where they cannot protect
themselves cannot properly be re
garded as class legislation or as any
thing but as a measure taken in the
Interest of the whole people, whose
partnership In right action we are
trying to establish and make real and
practical. It Is In this spirit that we
shall act If we are genuine spokes
men of the whole country,
"In dealing with the complicated
and difficult question of the reform
of oar banking and currency laws,
It in plain that we ought to oonsult
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' very many persons besides the bank
\ era. not because we distrust the
bankers, but because they do not
necessarily comprehend the busi
ness of the country, notwithstanding
they are indispensable servants of it
and may do a vast deal to make it
hard or easy. No mere bankers' plan
will meet the requirements, no matter
how honestly conceived. It should
be a merchants' and farmers' plan as
well, elastio in the hands of those
who use It as an indispensable part
of their daily business.
"In dealing with the Philippines,
we should not allow ourselves to
stand upon any mere point of pride.
We are not the owners of the Phil-
Ippins Islands. We hold them In
trust for the people who live In
them. It is our duty, as trustees, to
make whatever arrangement of gov
ernment will be most serviceable to
their freedom and development.
Here, again, we are to set up the
Complete Parcels Post.
"I do not know any greater ques
tion than one of conservation.
We have been a spendthrift nation
and must now husband what we
have left We must do more than
that. We must develop, as well
must add great waterways to the
transportation facilities of the nation,
to supplement the railways within our
borders as well as upon the Islands.
We must revive our merchant, too,
and fill the seas again with our own
fleets. We must add to our present
postofflce service a parcels post as
complete as that of any other nation.
We must look to the health of our
people upon every hand, as well as
hearten them with justice and oppor
tunity. This is the constructive work
of government. This is the policy that
has a vision and a hope and that looks
to serve mankind.
"With regard to the development
of greater and more numerous water*
ways and the building up of a mer
chant marine, we must follow great
constructive lines and not fall back
and subsidies. In the case of the Mis
slsslppl river, that great central art
ery of our trade. It Is plain that the
Federal government must build and
maintain the levees and keep the
great waters In harness for the gen
eral use. It 1b plain, too, that vast
trade will be most served and trans
portation most readily cheapened by
them. Such expenditures are no long
er a part of the government;
* they are national Investments.
"The very fact that we haye at
last taken the Panama Canal 'se
riously in hand and are vigorously
pushing it towards completion is elo
t quent of our reawakened Interest In
I international trade. We are not
I building the canal and pouring out
i millions upon nfllllons of money
i upon Its construction merely to es
- tabllsh a water connection between
I the two coasts of the continent, lm
t portant and desirable as that may be
1 particularly from the point of view
r of natural defense. It is meant to be
i a great International highway. It
f would be a little ridiculous if we
t should build it and then have no
I ships to send through It. These have
been years when not a single ton of
i freight passed through the great
Suez Canal In an American bottom,
i so empty are the seas of our ships
> and seamen. We must mean to put
! an end to that kind of thing or we
i would not be cutting a new canal at
r, our very doors merely for the use of
our men-of-war. We shall not man
i age the revival by the mere paltry
r device of tolls. We must build and
r buy ships In competition with tne
r world. We can do It If we will but
> give ourselves leave.
r Vocational Education.
"There Is another duty which the
, Democratic party has shown Itself
| great enough and close enough to
r the people to perceive, the duty of
! government to share In promoting
agricultural, industrial vocational
education in every way possible with*
\ In its constitutional powers. No oth
er platform has given this Intimate
vision of a party's duty. The nation
cannot enjoy its deserved supremacy
In the markets and enterprises of
the world unless Its people are given
the ease, and effectiveness that come
only with knowledge and training.
Education Is part of the great task
of conservatism, part of the task of
renewal and of perfected power.
"A presidential campaign may
l easily degenerate Into a mere per
: sonal contest and so lose Its real dig
nity and significance. TheJe Is no
indispensable man. The government
will not collapse and go to pieces if
any one of the gentlemen who are
seeking to be entrusted with its
guidance should be left at home.
But men are instruments. We are
as important as the cause we repre
sent, and in order to be important
must really represent a cause. What
Is our cause? the people's cause?
i That Is easy to say. but what does it
mean? The common as against any
particular Interest whatever? Yes,
but that, too, needs translation Into
acts and policies. We represent the
desire to set up an unentangled gov
ernment, a government that cannot
be used for private purposes, either
in the field of business or In the field
of politics; a government that win
not tolerate the use of the organisa
tion of a great party to serve the
individual, and that will not permit
legislation to be employed to further
any private' Interest. I heed with
deep thankfulness the message you
bring me from the country. I feel
that I am surrounded by men whose
principles and ambitions are those of
Ood, and take courage."
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IKB HEEL SENATORS
FOR GOOD ROADS
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SENATORB OVERMAN AND SIM
MONS SUPPORT THE MEASURE
IN THE SENATE.
ASK FOR A HALF MILLION
The Arugument In ths Matter Was
Thst As the Government Is Using
the State Highways They Bhould
Help Pay the Upkeep.
Raleigh.—A special from Washing
, ton states that both Senator Simmons
and Senator Overman delivered good
road speeches in the Senate. The se
* j nlor Senator made his address early
In the morning and later in the after
noon Overman delivered another,
, i Senator Slmmonß spoke in favo# of
the House bill providing for the up
keep of postal roads. Mr. Simmons
said he was opposed to the Senate
committee proposition to appoint a
i | commission to investigate and then
report.
Senator Simmons denounced the
i suggestion that the House bill was
. crude and impracticable. He said
much to the contrary It was simple,
; direct and acqultable.
i "Instead of building a few national
highways connecting the great cities,"
t | he continued, "It provided a direct
cotrlbutlon to assist the community
through which the postal roads pass.
It Is not only a feasible and workable
plan but Is free from the hackneyed
Interference by the Federal authori
ties In the local affairs of the state."
, I Mr. Simmons severely criticised
I the practice of holding up important
i legislation through the pretext that
. more information was needed. He
t charged that most of these so-called
, i commissions were devices invented
p by men opposed to legislation, their
. only purpose being to delay action in
i the hope that, the sentiment of the
country might change.
1 He said, when there was a crystal-
Izatlon of sentiment In favor of gov
r | eminent contribution to the upkeep
of the postal roads the government
( Ib dally using, it la suggested thnt
t Congrees Ib Incompetent to wisely act
t without the advice of a Junketing
f commission. He charged that the op
position was blowing both hot and
' I cold In one breath they claimed thnt
i the amount to be contributed was too
' { little and In the next Instance it was
I too much. First, they said that the
amount was too small, compared with
t the cost of keeping up these roads
j to do any good. He admitted It was
true It was small compared with the
> cost of keeping up macadam roads
. j and probably sand-clay roads, but the
. • mileage of these improved roads was
i negligible compared with the total
| ! highway mileage.
| Memorial to Seaman Knapp.
t j Farmers of Mecklenburg are to be
' given a chance to assist In the erec
tion of a suitable memorial to the
r late Seaman A. Knapp to whom the
I i agriculturists of the South are In
debted for wise guidance in enhftne
. Ing the productivity of their fields
j and for general betterment of rural
I conditions. The Seaman A Knapp
I memorial committee has decided by a
» unanimous vote to raise $150,000.
f :
i Union County Teachers' Institute,
f The Union county teachers' Institute
; came to a close several days ago after
a two weeks session. It was very suc
. cessful In every wa'y. The directors
■ were Prof. I. C. Grffin of Marion, and
t Miss Pearl Cross of Raleigh. The clos
i ! ing session was held In the court
■ house and was a Joint meeting of pub
f | 11c school committeemen and teachers.
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i Disastrous Fire at Klnston.
. j Fire practically destroyed the home
of W. F. Freeman, near the high
! | school building, In northeast Klnston,
S before the department could reach the
! scene. The blaze, originating from de
fective flue made considerable head
■ ; way before It was discovered.
Orange Democratic Convention.
| The Orange county Democratic, con
i ventlon held a harmonious session at
| and placed the following
ticket in the field: Legislature,
j George C. Plckard, sheriff, R. D. Bain:
I register of deeds, John Laws, treasur
; er, Harry D. Parish, surveyor, James
I O. Webb; coroner, Dr. W. N. Mebane,
i commissioners, J. D. Webb, John P.
j Hughes and Allen Browning. Stirring
' speeches were made by former John
J. Johnston and S. M. Gattls. John
Laws has held office "since the mem
ory of man runneth not."
Lightning Played Peculiar Prank.
Lightning played a peculiar prank
at New Bern when It struck the house
occupied John Dudley and his wife,
colored, and after demolishing numer
ous articles of furniture set the build
ing on fire. At the time the bolt struck
the building wife was sitting
In a rocking chair In one of the rooms
on the second floor. In this room
I was a leather couch and this was
ripped open and set on fire. Several
ether pieces of furniture were damag
ed, but, the woman was not harmed la 1
the least. * j
NORTH STATE IH THE LEAD
In Hookworm War That ft Being
Waged.—Blx CountiM at One* Can
Hava the Dlapenaariaa.
Raleigh.—The countlea of Buncom*
be, Cleveland, McDowell, Scotland and
Yncey each made the provlalon (or
having the atate and county dispen
sary campaigns for the free examin
ation and free treatment of hookworm
disease. Theae five counties rendered
available $1,300 of their funda for
co-operating in the campalgna, all of
which money uaed is devoted to lo
cal expenses as thymol, advertising
and mlscroooplo examinations. Forty
nine counties have now provided for
the dispensary campaigns.
Dr. W. P. Jacocks has entered the
state board of health work and will
be one of the assistant state directors
of the campaign against hookworm
disease. He is splendidly equipped
for the work, being an A. B. gradu
ate from the State University and a
medical graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania. He was captain of the '
University football team, an instruc
tor in the University, has completed
hlr hospital service and has had ex
tensive experience as teacher. He,
with the five directors already at
work, will enable the state board of
health to work in six counties sim
ultaneously.
The quarterly report of the hook
worm commission gives North Caro
lina first place in the work accom
plished in the eradication of the dis
ease. Up to June 30, 73,658 people
had been treated in the state, 18,-
734 of them being in the quarter end
ing June 30. Dispensary appropria
tions have been made in forty-nine
counties, forty-two of them being prior
to June 30. infection surveys have
been completed in thirty-eight coun
ties, and aanitary aurveya in fifty
tour counties.
Republlcana of Waka to Meet.
That the Republican situation Is to
be In tenslfled at an early date ap
pears certain from the call to the Re
publicans of the county to meet In
convention here August 24. The or
der is Issued by Lester F. Butler,
though hla name does not appear up
on the document. He merely signs it
"chairman." And the signature alono
makes it Interesting. Mr. Butler oc
cupied a strange position. He held the
regular convention in May and after
getting the fellows 111 a weaving way,
Colonel Logan Harris and his friends
mounted the rostrum and took the
convention away from him. He was
regular and expected to be seated.
Politics In Rowan County.
The Rowan county Republican ex
ecutive committee held a meeting
which was well attended. Chairman
James D. Dorsett of Spencer called
the meeting to order and business was
raplf).ly_ disposed of. It was decided to
call the county primaries for Satur
day, August 24, the convention to be
held one week later, August 31, to
choose delegates to the state conven
tion at Charlotte, and for the purpose
of putting out a full county ticket.
The Republicans have put no re
striction on members of the party in
Rowan, be he Roosevelt or of the
Taft variety.
Six Men-Break Jail at Henderson.
The Henderson jail was practically
depopulated when six men assaulted
Jailer VV. W. Langston as he brought
their dinners and escaped. Only two
prisoners, a man and a woman, re
mained in the Jail. One of the escapes
was Frank Singleton; of Dabney, held
on the charge of murder, and in ad
dition three men charged with bur
glary. While Mr. Langston was out of
the jail, the prisoners broke their cell
locks and were waiting for him as he
opened the outer door of the Jail. They
Jumped on him, overpowered htm and
rushed out over his body.
Moaer Charged With Assault. >
Dob Moser, the young white man
accused of assaulting and beating Mrs.
Pherebe Tomberlin, at her home 12
miles from Monroe was captured near
Pineville, by a Mecklenburg officer
who had been on his trail since the
alleged crime. Sheriff Griffith went
after the prisoner as soon as
he was notified of his capture and
Moser was brought to Monroe and
lodged in jail.
Robbed Old Lady of $1,700.
A robery of $1,700 in cash from
Mrs. Hawkins Hicks was reported to
the Durham county officers. According
to the reports given the sheriff and
his deputies some one entered the
house of the old woman who lived In
Hickstown, west of the city and took
a trunk containing her money from
one of the rooms. The robbers took
the trunk into a nearby field and rifl
ed it of the valuables and the money,
Mrs. Hicks is a very old woman, half
blind and half crazy. She was known
ta have a lot of money.
Odd Pranka of Neuae River.
Neuae river, constantly induling in
odd pranks, and several weeks ago
threatening to overflow its banks op
posite Kinston and at other points,
is at the lowest stage now in many
months. All navigation to Kinston and
above has ceased, and the fickle
stream is so shallow that even gaso
line launches are tied to their moor
inga, unable to get to and from the
channel. The only traflc now is by
rowboat, thia being of no commer
cial advantage. No Improvements ia
expected until rmlu brine relist i