Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-08-31
wrll.AMs AND DAVIS SPEAK.
Candidate Reptile. to Notification Ad.

Representative John Sharp Williams
Of Mississippi. chairman of the notifica-
ton committee of the st. Louis conven-
ton, delivered the address notifying Hen
ry Gassaway Davis that lie Is the nomi-
nee OF the Democratic party for Vice
President of the United States Mr..
Williams said: II found from recent per-
f6rmances of similar character in the
Republican camp that for notification
speech historical essay is altogether the
proper thing, absolutely necessary for
the emergency. We shall, therefore, en-
title our notification address, A Brief
Historical Disquistion upon Some of the
Blunders of Our Ancestors us Viewed
from the Standpoint of the Wisdom Of
Republican Statesmen, Who Have En-
byaced the Strenuous Life"
Mr.. Williams then reviewed the blum
ders of the country's rulers from the bar
ring out of the Indians from the suffrage
by New England settlers to the Indianola
postoffice dispute on the color question.
After scoring President Rooseyelt's pol
Icy of militnrism he got to the subject
in hand and said;
ut has been pleasure to us to do our
duty, to notify you of your nomination.
the fact that you had already been in a
manner notified by the Hon. Elihu Root,
who, while pretentlcdly notifying Sena-
tor Fairbanks, could not get his mind
Off you,' as the darkies say, and whose
speech consisted principally in saying,
Go to, thou art an old man and in be-
moaning the fact that you might possibly
die before you got to be President So
might he, for that matter.
That would be bad enough, but not
as bad as case know of-the case Of
man who was once elected Vice Presi-
dent and who, becoming President later.
'tickled the ears Of the groundlings,' but
made the judicious grieve.' Mr.. Root
forgot that Democratic Presidents are
never killed and that they never die
while holding Office, although some OF
them do so afterward.
In further comment upon the Hon.
Elihu Roots notification of your nominal
ton, will hazard the remark in reply
to one of exceedingly bad taste on his
part, that it is better to run tho risk Of
mourning, as In due course of the flesh
we all must, physical inability than to
have been born with that peculiar mental
inability for any possible task in life.
which consists in taking ourselves too
seriously and nobody else with respect or
reverence.
In real conclusion, Mr.. Davis, it is a
sincere pleasure indeed to know and to be
able to help to place in high position a
man Of your character and sense and
modesty, man who, as the result OF a
17life Of confluence, temperance, self-con-
tainment and useful and honest industry,
presents picture, in virile though nd
vanced age, of mems sana in corpore sano
which Is delight to the eye, satisfac-
| ton to the soul and was taught by wise
ancients to be the slmmum bonum Of
individual earthly existence"
Davis Speech of Acceptance.
In accepting the nomination Mr.. Davis
said:
Unexpectedly called as am now to
the forefront, am impelled to an accept.
ance Of the obligation by a sense of graf
itude to my fellow workers and the hope
that may be able the better to assist in
restoring to power that party whose prin.
ciples and past history guarantee safe
| wise, economical and constitutional adj
ministration of the government. 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
1 value as irrevocably established.
In the campaign preceding the last
election much stress was laid by Repub.
lican speakers upon the prosperous condi
ton Of the country and forebodings were
heard Of the i'll results, especially to the
4 laboring man, which would follow any
change in the political complexion of the
government.
1T is true that the times then were
good, but 1t is no less fact that, while
there has been no change in the party Ii
power, many of the evils prophesied have
come under Republican rule. -Four years
ago factories, mills, mines and furnaces
were in active operation, unable to suppl.
the demand, but now many are closed
and those that are open are being op
Grated with reduced force on short hours
1 Then wages were high. labor wa.
scarce and there was work for ALL Now
work is scarce, many wage-earners un
employed and wages reduced. The ap
ness circles and the present unsatisfac
seem to demand political change.
| Liz CVoI VI government NdS idEkely
increased under Republican rule. TIL,
expenditures per capita for the last year.
respectively of the administrations Civ
en-, taken from the reports of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, were us follows
.In 1860, under Buchanan. $2O1; ii
1893, under Harrison, $5.77; in 1897
under Cleveland, 1910; in 1901, unde
Mckinley. 1856; in 1904, under Roose
yelt, $7.1O.
With candidate whose personalit,
appeals to the good sense and SCUM,
judgment Of the American people, plat
form whose principles are for the great
est good to the greatest number and a re
4 united party earnest for the restoration
OF good and economical government, W
should succeed and the principles Of tn
Democracy again triumph.
II beg my countrymen, as they valu
their liberty, to guard with great car
the sacred right Of local self-governmen
and to watch with a jealous eye the ter
dency Of the times to centralize power j
the hands of the few"
He "Put Out" the Light.
When Plus Whallen, of Springfield
KY, came to the Fifth Avenue Hote
he saw his first ncandescent light
says Louisville paper. But he eylnt
ed no great surprise. 1t was. not unit
he went to his room, where the bel
hoy had already switched the curren
that he noticed that there was n
opening in the circular globe.
He blew upon 1t gently, and wa
encouraged rather than disheartene
to find that it didn't blow back. BIZ
the encouragement turned to ange
when stronger Whit produced n
result whatever. Mr.. Whallen ha
strong lungs, and he did his best, hi
indignation increasing with each e
fort.
TO his great relief he noticed thu
the string by which the strange ligl
was suspended contained loop
shorten 1t. The light hung over IL
dresser. Mr.. Whallen let out the loo
and mfr 4he light in the ton drawer