Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-26
WILLIAMS AND DAVIS SPEAK.
Candidate Replies to Notification Ad-
dress of Committee Chairman.

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ton. delivered the address notifying Hen
w ,Gassaway Davis that he is the nomi-
nee Of the Democratic party for vice
President of the United States. Mr..
! Williams said: II found from recent per-
formances of a similar character in the
Republican camp that for a notification
speech historical essay is altogether the
proper thing, absolutely necessary for
The emergency. We SHALL therefore, en-
] title our notification address, : Brief
Historical Disouisition upon Some of the
| Blunders Of Our Ancestors as viewed
from the Standpoint of the Wisdom Of
Republican Statesmen, Who Have Enl-
braced 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
postofflce dispute on the color question.
After scoring President Roosevelts pol
icy Of militarism he got to the subject
in hand and said:
st has been a pleasure to us to DO our
| duty, to notify you of your nomination.
This has been pleasure Notwithstanding
the fact that you had already been in
manner notified by the Hon. Elihu Root,
who, while pretendedly notifying Sena-
tor Fairbanks, could not get his mind
Dff'n you, as the darkies say, and whose
speech consisted principally in saying,
| Go to, thou art an old man and III be-
! moaning the fact that you might possibly
die before you got to be President. 80
might he, for that matter.
"That would be bad enough, but not
| as bad as a case know of-the case Of
| a man who was once elected Vice Presi-
dent and who, becoming President later,
'tickled the ears Of the groundlings, but
made the judcious grieye. 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 the 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, a man who, as the result of
life of confluence, temperance, self-con-
tainment and useful and honest industry,
presents a picture, in virile though ad-
vanced age, of mems sana in corpore sano
which is a delight to the eye, Il satisfac-
ton to the soul and was taught by wise
ancients to be the summum bonum of
individual earthly existence"
Davis Speech of Acceptance.
In accepting the nomination Mr.. Davis
said:
Unexpectedly called as l am now to
| the forefront, | am impelled to an accept
ance of the obligation by 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 Il safe,
wise, economical and constitutional adj
ministration of the government. | heart
lily indorse the platform upon which l
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 condo
ton of the country and forebodngs We're
heard Of the i'll results, especially to the
laboring man, which would follow any
change in the political complexion of the
| government
''It is true that the times then We're
good, but it is no less a fact that, while
there has been no change in the party in
IL
come under Republican rule. Four years
ago factories, mills, mines and furnaces
were in active operation unable to supply
| the demand, but now many are closed.
and those that are open are being OPP
Grated with reduced force on short hours.
Then wages We're high labor was
scarce and there was work for all. Now
work is scarce, many wage-earners IN
| employed and wages reduced. The APP
| prehension which now prevails in bust
ness circles and the present unsatisfac
tory industrial conditions of the country
seem to demand political change
The cost Of government has largely
increased under Republican rule The
expenditures per capita for the last years
respectively of the administrations Civ
| en-, taken from the reports Of the See
rotary of the Treasury, were rs follows:
In 1860, under Buchanan, $2.0f: in
1893, under Harrison, $5.T7: in 1897,
under Cleveland, $40; in 1901, under
Mckinley, $3.50; in 1904, under Roose-
welt, $40.
With candidate whose personality
| appeals to the good sense and sound
| Judgment of the American people, 4 plat
form whose principles are for the great
| est good to the greatest number and a re-
| united party earnest for the restoration
OF good and economical government we
should succeed and the principles of the
| Democracy again triumph.
| Il beg my countrymen, as they value
| their liberty, to guard with great care
the sacred right of local self-goyernment
| and to watch with q ienlouS eye the ton.