Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-08-11

Following was the address of Elihu
Root, formally notifying senator Fair
banks of his nomination, at lndianap-
oils:
Senator Fairbanks: The committee
which now waits upon you was appoint
ed by the national convention of the re-
publican party, held at Chicago in June.
and its agreeable duty is to notify yon
of your nomination as the republican
candidate for the Office of vice president
uf the United States for the term to be-
sin on the 4th day of March, 1905.
I'VE give you formal notice of that
domination with assurance of the undi-
Vided and hearty support of the great
party which has executed the peoples
will in the government of this country
for the better part of the last half cen
tury The nomination comes to you in
accordance with the best methods and
practices of representative government.
It was the result of long and earnest
consideration and discussion by the
members of the convention. It was not
the chance product of an excited hour
and it was not upon the demand of any
powerful influence--political or other
MISUNDERSTANDING the Judgment of the
delegates. 1t was not made for the pur-
pose of conciliating possible malcon-
tents or of swelling the campaign fund
of the party. No bargains or intrigues
contributed to it, No suppressions of
the truth or misleading of the conven-
tion as to your principles and opinions
were necessary to bring it about. 1t was
the deliberate, informed and intelligent
judgment of the delegates from every
state and territory, and it was thei-
unanimous judgment.
Called to Great Office.
1T is great Office to which you are
called. John Adams and Thomas JEFF
ferson and George Clinton and John c.
Calhoun and Martin Van Buren and
many others whose names are ilustri-
GUS in the history of our country have
filled it. 1t is an Office of high dignity
and immediate. ever-present impor-
tance. The credit and honor of our
country are greatly concerned in the
character and conduct of the man who
presides over the senate of the United
States, of which you are already so ex-
perienced, so useful and so honored a
member.
But the vice president has other
grave duties of imperative obligation
When the people elect a president under
our political system, they do not merely
select the man for the office; they give
their approval to certain controlling
principles and policies of government;
and the administration of which the vice
president is part is bound to give effect
to these principles and policies. The
primary duty of the vice president to be
always ready to take up the burdens Of
the presidency if occasion requires car
ries with it the duty TO be always ready
to continue unbroken the policies which
the people have intrusted TO the admin
istratiOn for execution. For the due per-
formance of this duty the vice president
should be familiar with the conduct of
affairs by the administration as it pro-
ceeds, part of its counsels. and imbued
with knowledge of its labors. its per-
pleXities and its motives. that can come
only from intimate association and con-
fidence and sympathy.
To often it has happened that after
excited contests for the presidential
nomination the candidate for vice presi-
dent has been selected from the de-
feated faction for the purpose of appeas-
ing their resentment. and that after
election he has remained antagonistic
in spirit and a stranger to the counsels
OF the president whom he may be called
upon to succeed. Happily. we are now
in no such case. The people would fain
see again such relations of sympathy
ard loyal helpfulness for the public good
as existed between President Mckinley
and Vice President Hobart. and the per-
sonal relations between President
Roosevelt and yourself your mutual es-
TEEN and good understanding assure us
that these happy conditions will come
again after the 4th day of next March.
We count upon your wisdom and expert
ence and loyal aid as an element of ever
present strength in the coming admins
tration.
Many Presidents Die in Office.
'As to the supreme responsibility OF
the vice presidency in case of succession
to the presidency, we shall all pray. and
no one more earnestly than yourself
that it may not come to you. But we
are not at liberty to ignore the possibil-
ity that it may come. Sad and bitter ex-
perience admonishes us that provision
for succession to the presidency is nc
idle form. OF the last IL presidents
elected by the people of the United
States, five-nearly one-half-have died
in office and have been succeeded by vice
presidents. A serious obligation rests
upon the political parties which select
the candidates between whom the people
| must choose to see toit that they nom
mate men for this possible succession
Failed to Hear Her.