The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-17
HENRY G., DAVIS
Is NOTIFIED
OF HIS NOMINATION AS VICE
PRESIDENT OF THE U. S.
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS
Delivered at Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia-C Characteristic
Address.


The committee appointed to Motif.
Mr.. H. G.. Davis that the st. Louis
convention nominated him for vice
President of the United States me-
here today. In notifying Mr.. Davis
Hon. John Sharp Williams spoke as
follows:
Mr.. Davis, Sir:
eve have been appointed by a
most notable convention as commit
tee to notify you of your nomination
by the Democracy as their choice for
Vice-President Of the United States,
"Just before leaving home I said
that I was going to West Virginia,
with some others, to notify you of
your nomination. One Of my brother s
little boys, standing by, said. Uncle
John, he must be a mighty big goose
if he hasn' It heard Of it already:' In
certain way the notification with
which we are charged is perfunctory
and unnecessary. and yet it well to
maintain by some degree Of formality,
that respectful observance which is
due to great events. The nomination
by great party to the great Office
to which we call you, the vice-presi-
dency, carrying with it the duty Of
presiding over the Senate of the
United States and the possibility Of
succession to the Presidency is great
event.
GAS soon as I learned that / was,
by resolution of the convention, to be
the mouthpiece of the committee for
the performance of this pleasant task,
[ began to look about me in order to
see how the duty had been performed
by others. / found from recent per-
formances of similar character in
the Republican camp that for Motif
cation speech a historical essay is al
together the proper thing. absolutely
n eessary for the emergency. We
shall therefore entitle our notification
address: A Brief Historical Disqui-
sition upon Some of the Blunders Of
our Ancestors as Viewed from the
Standpoint of the Wisdom of Repub-
lican Statesmen who have Embraced
the Strenuous life.
"The first of these consisted in dis
eliminating against the red mantle
Image Of God in Cherry-on account
of the race and color and previous
condition:
Informing the President of his
nomination by the Republican party
to succeed himself, Mr.. Cannon said:
by blood, by inheritance. by educa-
ton and by practice, we are self
governing people, Are we to believe
that Mr.. Cannon meant to intimate
that nobody was of self-governing ca
pacity unless by blood, education or
successful practice? If so, it is feared
that he is getting back to our ancest-
ors' blunder and may incur the danger
of receiving the appreciation Of some
of those beknighted creatures known
as Southern Democrats.
"The next great blunder in our
early history consisted in their taking
up arms against King George and his
forces, when the latter were actuated
as they themselves confessed. only by
the kindest designs Of 'benevolentlv
assimilating' to themselves our re-
sources and our opportunities. You
sir. who have Republican son-in-
law and therefore, possess culture by
affinity at least, will hardly believe
that our ancestors were stupid enough
to fight against the principle. which
we so frankly recognize in the Philip
pines, viz: that it is perfectly right,
self-evidently proper, for a flag to
cover and emblemize two entirely diff
ferent sorts of government, one for
'at home protecting indi-
vidual. civil and political liberty and
pretending to furnish full and equal
for industrial develop
ment and another for other in the
colonies absolute and discretionary
IN It's character and avowedly limit
ing industrial development there by
the necessities Of commercial exploita-
ton for the benefit of the home mer-
chant and the 'home' manufacturer.
"Sir, there is hope for the Repub-
lie as long as it continues to move for
ward in the tried ways of the Old
World, divorcing itself from outgrown
American landmarks. That we are
moving and divorcing there is no
doubt. Standing now in the dawn of