Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
ROOSEVELT NOTIFIED.
Committee Goes 10 His Country
Home Near Oyster Bay.

ernor Roosevelt was today Ofiiciall]
notified of his nomination for vice
president at his country home, Saga.
more, near here. The notification
committee left Nav York OH a special
train at l0:3 80 and made a quick run
to Oyster Bay. Here carriages were
taken, the party reaching its destina-
tion at noon. Governor Roosevelt re.
ceiyed them on n wide y~inc-covered
porch, grasping the hand Of each gem
tleman as he alighted, and then intro
ducing him TO Mrs. Roosevelt.
Shortly after IL Senator Wolcott
called the committee TO the porch and
read the formal notification, as fol.
lows.
Governor Roosevelt: The pleasant
duty has devolved upon this commit
tee appointed by the national repub-
lican convention to make known to
YOU officially the action # the con
tcntion and to hhnd you d copy of
the platform il adopted, which en-.
bodies the principles of tho party.
Representatives Of the republican
party, in convention assembled, man
imously and spontaneously selected
O as the candidate of the party at
! the next election for the high and Dig
nifed office Of vice president. You
were so selected and named through
no wish Of your own, but because the
convention believed that you, among
all the republicans in the land, were
best fitted and adapted TO be the asso.
ciatc Of our president in the important
and stirring campaign upon which we
are entering. The convention realized
YOU were needed i'm the great Empire
state, whose executive you now are,
whose people would delight still fur.
Their TO honor you, but it believed your
path Of duty lay for the future in the
field of national usefulness. You are
still a young man, rs years are count
ed, but the country knows more of
you than most of It's citizens. You
are identified, and will ever be associ-
ated, with those efforts toward reform
in the civil service which command
the approval of intelligent men of all
political parties. Your stirring love
Of adventure has made you u more
familiar figure i'm western camps and
on western plains than on the ave-
nues Of your native cities; your ster'
ling hmepcanism has led you to mas
ter early history; you have told us of
the winning of the west with a charm
and spirit that have made us all bet
ter lovers Of our country, while your
tales of western hunting adventure
have filled the breast of every lad in
the land with envy and emulation, and
whatever doubts may have existed in
the past, now that you are our candi-
date, they will be believed to he true
by every good republican. There is
no man whose privilege it was to
know and associate with you while
you were assistant secretary of the
navy under McKinley's appointment
who is not eager TO testify to the
great ability and the fidelity which
characterized your incumbence of
that Office.
When Wolcott concluded Roosevelt
said:
"Mr. Chairman, / accept the honor
conferred upon me with the keenest
and best appreciation of what il
means, above all, of the responsibility
that goes with it. Everything that is
in my power to do will be done to Sc
cure the reelection of Mckinley, to
whom has been given in this crisis Of
our history to stand for and embody
lilC Dl IIlNlDltS NllNh hV NlOStSb W NlS
heart of every American worth the
name. This is very much more than a
mere party contest. We stand at the
parting Of the ways. The people have
now to decide whether they shall &C
forward along the pathway of pros
perity and honor abroad or whether
they will turn their backs upoy what
has been done during the past three
years; whether they will plunge the
country into an abyss of misery and
disaster or, what is worse, even than
misery and disaster-Shame. ] feel
we have a right to appeal not merely
to republicans but TO all good citizens,
No matter what have been their party
affiliations in the past we ask them.
on the strength of the record McKin-
ley has made during the past three
years, on the strength of threats i'm.
piled in what was done in Kansas City
n few days ago, to stand shoulder TIC
shoulder with MS in perpetuating the
conditions under which we have
reached a degree of prosperity never
before attained in the nations his.
tory, under whicA abroad we have
put the American flag on n level it
never before in the history of the
country has been placed.
For these reasons l feel we have
a right to look forward with confident
expectations to what the verdict OF
the people will be next October and
ask the men to whom the well being
of the country and the honor of the
national name is dear to stand with
us as we fight for prosperity at home
and the honor of the flag abroad"
At the conclusion of Roosevelt,
speech the party were photographed
refreshments were served and at IL;
the party started on the Te.urR &C
New York.