Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-08-31

you should be elected vice president it
will be one of your duties as sort of
heir apparent to the crown to train
yourself and influence your chief
Judge Parker-in the way of usurping
the functions of the other departments
of the government. Your opportunity
will not be as great as that of the presi-
dent himself, but as president of the
senate, you may have some OPP
portunity.
In conclusion, sir, pray for war-no-
body can tell what great things war will
end in when once begun. 1t might result
in making of your chief the first EN-
peror and lord protector of the western
hemisphere
Remember above all things that our
chief duty as citizens, but especially as
rulers, is not to be 'weaklings' or cow
ards A weakling, sir, is strangely
domesticated animal who listens before
he acts and who weighs evidence before
he decides, who modestly venerates
greatness-in others, who actually pre-
fers piping times of peace to the
! 'pomp and circumstances of glorious
! war Weaklings are men who fear the
! strenuous life, the only national life
that is really worth the living'-the life
| of crown-colony conquest the life mill
tant, in word. We are getting to be as
people, your committee is glad to say,
splendidly military. A flag, brass band
and choice collection of epaulets. es-
corting secretary of war to and from
the depot in Washington when he au-
gustly leaves or arrives. appeal to the
higher flights of our patriotic magma
ton as nothing else does or can.
Assails Speech of Root.
1T has been pleasure to us to 90 our
duty, to notify you of your nomination.
This has been pleasure, notwithstand-
ing the fact that you had already been
in manner notified by Eiihu Root, who,
while pretendedly notifying Senator
Fairbanks, could not set his mind off'n
you, as the darkies say. and whose
speech consisted principally in saying,
Go to, thou are an old man. and in be-
moaning the fact that you might posi-
bly, die before you got to be president
So might he for that matter.
I'm further comment Nlpon Elihu
Roots notification of your nomination
Will hazard the remark, in reply to one
OF exceeding good taste on his part. that
1t is better to run the risk of mourning
as in due course of the flesh we all must,
physical inability than to have been
born with that peculiar metal inability
for any possible task in life which con-
sists of taking ourselves too seriously
and nobody else with respect of rever-
ence.'
Davis Reply to Williams.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee: 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
election.
"A spirit of determination to succeed
in the campaign before us appears to
pervade the rank and file of our party in
| all sections of the country Of that rank
and file I have for many years been q
member and have at all times devoted
lieving that success to be for the coun-
try's good. Unexpectedly called as ]
am now to the forefront, l am impelled
to an acceptance of the obligation by a
! sense of gratitude to my fellow workers
and the hope that it may be able the
better to assist in restoring to power
that party whose principles and past
history guarantee safe. wise. econom-
ical and constitutional administration
of the government.
Il find 1t, therefore, a great pleasure.
| standing here upon the borderland of
! the two Virginias. to receive and accent
the commission you bear and to send
greetings through you to the democracy
| of the entire country. 1t is not signif-
| cant of closer and truer brotherhood
among us that for the first time since
] the civil war a nominee on the national
ticket has been taken from that Sec
ton OF our common country that lies
south of Mason and Dixon's line-a hap
by recognition of the obliteration of all
| sectional differences which led to and
followed that unhappy struggle?
! Declares Himself for Gold.
| AS an Introductory to the few remarks
shall make desire to say that heart
lily indorse the platform upon which !
have been nominated and, with the con-
vention and its nominee for president.
regard the present monetary standard
| OF value as irrevocably established.
I'm the campaign preceding the last
! election much stress was laid by repub-
lican speakers upon the prosperous con-
dition Of the country and forebodines
were heard of the i'll results. especially
| to the laboring man, which would follow
any change in the political complexion
Of the government.
1T is true that the times then were
good. but it is no less a fact that. while
there has been no change in the party
in power. many of the evils prophesied
have come under republican rule. Four
| years ago factories. mills, mines and f,IrA