Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — “HOPE PARTY WILL NOT REGRET IT," COMMENTS WILSON [ARTICLE]

“HOPE PARTY WILL NOT REGRET IT," COMMENTS WILSON

Nominee ls j Overwhelmed With Delegations at His Home. IS MODEST IN VICTORY Declares Responsibility Involved Far Outweigh Any Honor or Pride He May Feel Over Hit Success. , Sea Girt, N. J., July 3.—“lt’s remarkable, it’s remarkable,” exclaimed Gov. Woodrow Wilson, when he was told of his nomination on the forty-sixth ballot at Baltimore. “It came with a rush,” he continued. “After the way it opened, I did not think It would come so fast. “You must sometimes have wondered why I did not show more emotion as the news came in from the convention and I have been afraid that you might get the impression that I was so self-confident and sure of the result tljat I took the steady Increase in the vote for me complacently and as a matter of course. The fact is that the emotion has been too deep to come to the surface. In fact, as the vote has grown and as it has sdemed more and more likely that I might be nominated, I have become more and more solemn. Fight Was Not Personal. “I have not felt of this fight as if it were a thing that centered on myself is a person. The fine men who have been fighting for me in Baltimore, I have not as my representatives. It has been the other way all iround. I have felt all the while that they were honoring me by regarding me ns their representative and that they were fighting for me because they thought I co«ld stand for and fight for ;he things that they believed in and lesired for the country. “I do not see how any man could feel elation as such responsibilities loomed nearer and nearer to him or how he could feel any shallow personal pride. Hopes Party Not Regret. “The honor is as great as can come to any man by the nomination of a party, especially under the circumstances, and I hope I appreciate it at Its true value, but just at this moment I feel the tremendous respohslbllity it Involves even more than I feel the honor. 1 hope with all my heart that the party will never have reason to regret it” This was the statement of Governor Wilson upon the receipt of the telegram that proclaimed him the Democratic choice for the presidency. It was delivered under circumstances that formed a dramatic climax for a long fought battle. , Two hundred reporters and officials rushed Into the little white house where the governor and his family sat awaiting the results of the continuous balloting and casting formality to the winds, besieged him with a chorus of congratulations. So great was the noise of acclamation that Mr. Wilson could scarcely make himself heard. News Spreads Quickly. The news soon spread through the countryside and within half an hour of the actual nomination, hundreds of automobiles and pedestrians began to flock into Sea Girt to offer their felicitations. Prominent Democrats from all over the state assembled and the governor's cottage was thrown wide open. The governor was happy in the honor accorded him and modest in his expressions of appreciation. Hundreds of messages of congratulation were received at the special telegraph office here.