The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-28
ROOSEvELT'S RESPONSE TO
 SPEECH OF NOTIFICATION

Oyster Bay. July 2z-President Roose- velts response today to the notification remarks made by Speaker Cannon was as follows:
 MT. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Noti-
 fication Committee:
 I am deeply sensible of the high honor conferred upon me by the representatives of the republican party assembled in con- vention, and 1 accept the nomination for the presidency with solemn realization of the obligations l assume. l heartily approve the declaration of principles which the republican national convention has adopted, and at some future day I shall communicate to you, MT. Chair man, more at length and in detail a formal written acceptance of the nomina- tion.
 Three years ago 1 became president be- cause of the death of my lamented pre- decessor. I then stated that 1t was my purpose to carry out his principles and policies for the honor and the interest of the country To the best of my ability I have kept the promise thus made. If next November my countrymen confirm at the polls the action of the convention you represent, I shall, under Providence, continue to work with an eye single to the welfare of all our people.
 A party is of worth only in so far as it promotes the national interest. and every official, high or low, can serve his party best by rendering to the people the best service of which he Is capable. Ef- fective government comes only as the result of the loyal cooperation of many different persons. The members of a legislative majority, the officers in the various departments of the administra- tion, and the legislative and executive branches as towards each other, must work together with subordination of self to the common end of successful govern ment. We who have been entrusted with power as public servants during the past seven years of administration and legislation now come before the people content to be judged by our record of achievement. In the years that have gone by we have made the deed square with the word and if we are continued in power we shall unswervingly follow out the great lines of public policy which the republican party has already laid down; a public policy to which we are giving, and shall give, a united, and therefore an efficient, support.
 Are More Fortunate.
 m all or InlS we are more IOrIunaIt than our opponents, who now appeal fol confidence on the ground, which some ex press and some seek to have confidential ly understood, that If triumphant the! may be trusted to prove false to ever! principle which in the last eight year they have laid down as vital, and to leav undisturbed those very acts of the ad ministration because of which they asl that the administration itself be driver from power Seemingly their present at titude as to their past record is tha some of them were mistaken and other insincere. We make our appeal in wholly different spirit. We are not con strained to keep silent on any vital ques | ton; we are divided on no vital ques | tion; our policy Is continuous, and Is tn ] same for all sections and localities Ther | Is nothing experimental about the gov | ernment we ask the people to continu
 in power, for our performance In tn l past, our proved governmental eff l cheney, is a guarantee as to our prom l ises for the future. Our opponents, eithe openly or secretly according to their sev | eral temperaments, now ask the peopl | to trust their present promises in con | sideration of the fact that they inten, | to treat their past promises as null ant 1 void We know our own minds and ", I have kept of the same mind for a suffi | cient length of time to give to our policy coherence and sanity. In such a funda. mental matter as the enforcement of tho law we do not have to depend upor promises, but merely to ask that oul record be taken as an earnest of what we shall continue to do. In dealing wltf the great organizations known as trusts we do not have to explain why the laws were not enforced, but to point out that they actually have been enforced and that legislation has been enacted to increase the effectiveness of their enforcement We do not have to propose to turn the rascals out" for we have shown in very deed that whenever by diligent investi- | gation a public official can be found who | has betrayed his trust he will be pun. ished to the full extent of the law with. | out regard to whether he was appointed under a republican or a democratic ad. | ministration. This is the efficient way | to turn the rascals out and to keeI | them out and 1t has the merit of sheer. 1 ity. Moreover the betrayals of trust In
 the last seven years have been insignih-
 cant in number when compared with the
 extent of the public service. Never has | the administration of the government been on a cleaner and higher level; never
 has the public work of the nation beer done more honestly and efficiently. l Unwlse to Change.
 Assuredly it is unwise to change tn,