Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-08-04
FAIRBANKS IS Toll
Elihu Root, Chairman, Makes
Notification Address.
THINKS EX-SENATOR DAVIS TOO OIL
Said That Democratic Nominee Fol-
Vice President Might Not BE Able
10 Replace Parker should
. Occasion Arise.

| INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 4.-Senatoi
Charles Warren Fairbanks was off
CHILLY notified at / O'Clock ii the af
ternoon of his nomination for the vice
presidency. Brief and simple exer
cises took place on the broad veranda
Of his home in North Meridian street
Although the general public was in
vtted, it was not expected that there
would be a large crowd present, and
in fact many more gathered than had
been looked for. Hundreds of Senator
Fairbanks ~''neighbors'' crowded about
his home and cheered him as he spoke.
Elihu Root of New York, chairman OF
the notification committee, delivered
the address of notification. Mr.. Root
said in part;
Senator Fairbanks, the committee
which now waits upon you was ap-
pointed by the national convention OF
the Republican party held in Chicago
in June, and its agreeable duty Is to
notify you of your nomination as the
Republican candidate for the office OF
vice president of the United States for
the term to begin on the fourth day
of March, 1905.
1t is a great Office to which you are
called. John Adams and Thomas JEFF
ferson and George Clinton and John c..
Calhoun md Martin Van Buren, and
many others whose names are illustri-
u in the history Of our country have
filed 1t. 1t is an office of high dignity
and Immediate, ever present impor-
lance. The. credit and honor of our
country are greatly concerned in the
character and conduct g. the mar who
presides over the senate cf the United
States. that powerful and august body
of which you are already so expert
enccd. so useful and so honored a
member.
But the vice president has other
grave duties of imperative obligation.
When the people elect a president un-
der 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 a 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 burden of the presidency If
occasion requires, carries with it the
duty to be always ready to continue
umbroken the policies which the people
have intrusted to thee administration
for execution.
Our opponents of the Democratic
party have signally failed in this re-
spect. They have nominated as their
candidate for the vice presidency an
excellent gentleman who was born dur
ing the presidency of James Monroe
and who before the 4th of March next
will be in the eighty-second year of his
age. Before the next administration is
ended he will be approaching his
~elghty-sixth birthday. 1t Is no dispar-
agement Of this gentleman, for whom,
/ believe, we all have the highest re-
spect, to say that he shares the COM
mon lot Of mortals and that the cleo
ton of any man of such great age
would furnish nc safeguard to the
American people against the disaster
which would ensue upon the death of n
president with a successor not compe-
tent to perform the duties Of the presi-
dental office.
In your election, on the other hand,
this chief requirement will be fully
met. In the full strength of middle life
you are prepared for the ~exhausting
duties of the presidency. Your success
full and distinguished career, the abil-
ity and probity with which you have
already discharged the duties of high
office, the universal respect and esteem
of the people of InSiana, who have de-
lighted to honor you. the attachment
of hosts of friends throughout the I'm
ion, all assure us that you have the
character and the ability to govern
wisely and strongly should you become
president.
In accepting the nomination Senator
Fairbanks said in part:
II thank you for the very generous
terms in which you have conveyed the
official notification Of my nomination
for vice president of the United States.
The unsolicited and unanimous nomi-
nation by the Republican party is u,
call to duty which I am pleased to
obey. l accept the commission which
you bring wi<h a profound sense of the
dignity and responsibilities Of the ex-
allied position for which ! have been
nominated. My utmost endeavor will
be to discharge in full measure the
| trust if the action Of the convention
shall meet the approval of the Ameri-
can people"