Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.
 Va, Aug. 17.-Henry c. Davis was form l ally notified that he is the Democratic nominee for vice president of the
 United States on the lawn in front of
 the White Sulphur Springs hotel here.
 Representative John Sharp Williams
 of Mississippi, chairman Of the notia-
 cation committee of the national Dem
 ocrat1c convention, made the announce
 ment to the nominee as follows:
 .'Wo have been appointed by a most
 notable convention as a committee to
 notify you of your nomination by the
 Democracy as their choice for vice
 president of the United States. We
 desire to express the pleasure we feel
 in having been selected to perform this
 duty and our confidence in you, your
 faithfulness, honesty and wisdom. The
 people see in you one of the best prod
 ucts of the best period of American in-
 stitutions, a period whose salient char
 acteristics were local self government.
 individuality, equal opportunity and
 freedom, freedom to work, freedom to
 buy and sell, freedom to compete in in
 dustrial life, resulting in self depend
 ence, freedom to develop as ones own
 trained and we'll managed industrial
 servant of another. They see in you what Oliver Wendell Holmes said is a
 rare thing, ia self made man who is yet not proud of his maker
 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 brothers little boys, standing by, said, Uncle
 John. he must be a mighty big goose if he hasn't heard of it already Tn a certain way the notification with which we are charged is perfunctory and unnecessary, and yet it is well to maintain by some degree of formality that respectable observance which is due to great events. The nomination by a great party to the great office to which we call you, the vice presidency, carrying with 1t the duty of presiding over the senate of the United States and the possibility Of succession to the presidency, is a great event"
 MT. Davis, in accepting the nomina- tion, discussed the political situation briefly. He said:
 "The official notification which you bring of my nomination for the vice presidency of the United States by the national Democracy gives me feeling of the sincerest gratitude to my party for the honor conferred. At the same time it brings to me deep sense of my responsibility to my party as can- didate and to my country in case of my eleetiCn.
 : Ind 1t, therefore, a great pleasure, g&Apding here upon the borderland of thA two VfSanias, to receive and ac- cept the ces1nisss1n you bear and to send greetings through you to the De mocracy of the entire country Is it not significant of closer and truer brotherhood among us that for the first time since the civil war a nomi- nee on the national ticket has been taken from that section of our com mon country that lies south of Mason and DixOn's line--a happy recognition of the ohliteration Of all sectional diff ferences which led to and followed that unhappy gtruggle7
 In the campaign preceding the last election much stross was laid by Re publican speakers upon the prosperous condition of the country, and fore bodfngs were heard of the Ill. results, especially to the laborlng man, which would follow any change in the po- ndoal complexion of the government. It is true that the times then were good, but 1t is no less fact that, l while there has been no change in l the party in power, many of the evils l have come under Repub- l lican rule.
 Tn the language of our platform, | The rights of labor are certainly no | Jess vested, no less sacred and no less | than the rights of capital l The tiEno is opportune to emphasize | the truth Of this utterance. The most | sacred right of property is the right to possess and own oneself and the labor Of one's own hands, capital itself being but stored up labor. For years I | worked in the ranks as a wage earner, and know what it is to earn my liv- Ing in the sweat of my brow I have always believed, and my convictions came from the hard school of expert snca, that, measured by the character of work he does and the cost Of living, | ! man is entitled to full compensation r For his services. My experience as wage earner and my association with abor have alike taught me the value If Democratic principles, for in them he humblest has the strongest security ! Tor individual right and the highest stimulus to that independenc of spirit md love of self help which produce he finest characters and form the base If the best possible government.
 -Four years ago factories, mills, hines and furnaces were in active op- .ration, unable to supply the demand, put now many are closed, and those hat are open are being operated with 'educed force on short hours. Then wages were high, labor was scarce, md there was work for all Now work is scarce, many wage earners and wages reduced. The apprehension which now prevails in business circles and the present unsat- sfactory industrial conditions of the | S~.n |